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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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Sorry but I don't agree. If you are charging good money for your time (and I assume you are probably a £250 to £300 a day man rather than a £125 handyman) I expect you to dedicate a proportion of the time I am being charged for to ordering whatever materials are needed for the job and then not to overcharge me for them.
I have had a significant amount of work done to my house in the last few months (a 6 figure sum) and all the trades I have used have charged me cost price for the materials. And I know that because I called up the builders merchants and paid for them on my credit card.
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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.
Adding my voice to the chorus disagreeing with this. Whenever I've worked with tradespeople they've given me receipts for materials. Clearly that could be manipulated in a manner I'd be hard pressed to detect, but then again if I didn't trust them at all I wouldn't let them dismantle my house.
princeperch
NickCJ
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.