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And yet they have a clear conscience charging £2k to stick an extension lead behind some plant pots.
If they were saying “we’re going to do this job properly or not at all” you’d have a point, but it sounds a lot like they want to do a half-arsed job and charge full rate. That doesn’t indicate a healthy situation to me.
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And yet they have a clear conscience charging £2k to stick an extension lead behind some plant pots.
I mean, it’s definitely more than that. Speaking to the sparks at work everyone pretty much agreed that it was a weird and lazy dodge to not put a shed DB in.
@Airhead has given it a fair rundown IMO. The problem with electrical work is there are a million ways to make things work, and a handful of ways to do the job properly.
FWIW I did a cabin install in PVC conduit, 2 rooms with lights, and an outside light with outside switch, and an extra outside socket. Can’t remember the exact cost but it was in the region of £1200-1400. Up north that was seen on the steep side. They’d had their garage done for £600, but everything had been completely thrown in, no paperwork, cables lazily squashed into PVC trunking with no fire clips, lots of bare twin and earth cable etc.
I’m still not totally sure I didn’t overcharge (but I struggle with pricing and probably always will).I’ve attached some pictures of the cabin install to give you an idea what was involved.
NB - the overloaded double socket was in the £600 garage install. Surely it wouldn’t have been a problem to add another couple double sockets in the places where lots of stuff gets plugged in. But £600 is £600 - I think they got exactly what they paid for.
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It's also pretty clear that you're not considering all the problems with providing a caveat emptor service. If I meet you down the pub and agree to do your electrics then 2 years later your child dies because of a fault in the installation, am I going to get implicated?
No electrician wants to be lying in bed at night worrying about the dodgy wiring they've installed to save you some money that could bite them in the ass. Believe me when I tell you there is already plenty of pressure in the commercial market to cut corners.