Plumbing prices and call out charge

[JayTech]

how much to plumbers charge per hour these days I’m doing my nvq and eventually want to go self employed. How much is the going rate per hour and how much is call out charge these days ?
Any help would me much appreciated

 

[Harvest Fields]

You probably will not get a solid answer here mate. Too many variants to be had.

Edit due to spelling error

 

[JayTech]

Ok thanks

 

[Riley]

Surely you’ve just asked the same question again

 

[JayTech]

Surely you’ve just asked the same question again

Oh yeh sorry I corrected it my mistake

 

[SimonG]

Enough!

 

[Rob Foster]

Call out charges vary. STD fee for 1st hour. Different rates for existing customers and new ones. Charlie Mullins outfit charge £125.00 + vat for first hour . I used to charge travelling time from time I left home Centralheatking

 

[Harvest Fields]

Call out charges vary. STD fee for 1st hour. Different rates for existing customers and new ones. Charlie Mullins outfit charge £125.00 + vat for first hour . I used to charge travelling time from time I left home Centralheatking

There is always one.

 

[Last Plumber]

It’s your decision.
You need to arrive at your own charging out rate based on overheads, wages and profit.

There are too many differences as Harvest said.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Call out charges vary. STD fee for 1st hour. Different rates for existing customers and new ones. Charlie Mullins outfit charge £125.00 + vat for first hour . I used to charge travelling time from time I left home Centralheatking

They charge over £300/h when you get real close to Christmas! My step fatehr ended up using them couple years back when I was stuck up in Brum and he'd already been ripped off by a dodgy firm he found online! Started off with just a leaking TRV, ended up with cowboys breaking his boiler followed by a £1,500 bill off Mullins, it was a very expensive drain down!

 

[JayTech]

Ok thank you all for the advise have a good weekend all

 

[Murdoch]

Where most self employed people go wrong is that they under estimate their annual overheads and over estimate in the early years the number of weeks per year they will be working ......... which is the perfect storm for being a very busy poor fool.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Where most self employed people go wrong is that they under estimate their annual overheads and over estimate in the early years the number of weeks per year they will be working ... which is the perfect storm for being a very busy poor fool.

Yep I made that mistake when I started out on my own and it was a nightmare as it then set a price expectation with repeat custom and any word of mouth jobs through them. Took me a few years to steadily rise prices up to something a bit more reasonable with my original network of clients.

Also some of it when you start can come from that fear of turning away/loosing work, but you quickly learn the hard way that its best not winning a job than winning it on a crap price!

 

[Stephen]

Hi

I'm not a plumber but my impression is that whatever your price, it will always be too much for too many people. That's life.

A suggestion was 125ph plus vat which is probably more than a neurosurgeon would earn per hour. If you figure that one out, let me know.

 

[Pickwickpick]

Hi

I'm not a plumber but my impression is that whatever your price, it will always be too much for too many people. That's life.

A suggestion was 125ph plus vat which is probably more than a neurosurgeon would earn per hour. If you figure that one out, let me know.

£125ph wasn't a suggestion, he was referring to how much Pimlico charge.