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  • any plumbers here? @konastab01 ?

    what materials might a plumber need other than copper pipes/junctions and TRVs to fit a bunch of radiators? Being charged £90 for materials and just curious to know what those might be.

  • Consumables?—solder, flux, sanding cloth, mask. Feed the parking meter?

    Hard to make that come to £90. Perhaps ask for itemised bill?

  • Was the system drained down? A load of inhibitor would add up quickly.

  • Copper adds up or is that 90 on top?

  • Hard to guess depends on the job, is it copper tails dropping under the floor? How many rads.

    Fittings and pipe aren't cheap anymore needs more info. Although you could have asked me to give you a price ;)

    Another thing a lot of folk forget is they think they should be getting material at cost price, gotta gave mark up on everything even if its a little. Dont go down morrisons and get annoyed as they are making money on the stuff on the shelfs as someone said in here a while ago im not paying them extra for just going to get it. I had someone 18 months ago that thought the price I was quoting for material was too much so supplied everything but in the end he ended up paying more in labour as he fucked up with the material and I was sitting about with my finger up my arse because of his penny pinching.

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