So much for going down the plumbing route

[Xena]

I know I'd charge at least that for a half day's work to include materials and who's to say programmers are more valuable than plumbers other than the market?

Vote with your free market feet and decline to engage the fellow. If you cannot find anyone to do it for less, put up with a f*cked carpet.

[boredsenseless]

I know I'd charge at least that for a half day's work to include materials and who's to say programmers are more valuable than plumbers other than the market?

Vote with your free market feet and decline to engage the fellow. If you cannot find anyone to do it for less, put up with a f*cked carpet.

Or do it yourself

[Xena]

Or do it yourself

Or claim on your insurance.

[AtW]

Vote with your free market feet and decline to engage the fellow. If you cannot find anyone to do it for less, put up with a f*cked carpet.

Its not the point - the point is that a very small job that can't take more than 3 hours was priced at £200, thus doing two such jobs a day one can achieve £400, of which materials can't possibly be more than £50 - lets not forget its 3 sq meters.

Conclusion is therefore these low tech local jobs (no need to travel far) priced very nicely.

[The Master]

Compared to what I earn it seems fair for a Mr Fixit to charge £200 for a half day job including materials, travel, sundry expenses, etc. He probably won't be able to get a job for the other half of the day so may be operating a "no job less than one day" quoting policy to discourage timewasters.

Why not claim on your insurance?

[AlfredJPruffock]

Well as a former and now occasional Piano Tuner I charged 60 pounds for a piano tuning and that can take from 45 minutes to an 75 depending on the pianos tuning pins stablity, frequency of tuning etc .

If people can tune the piano for themselves they are welcome to try, that is if they care to invest the money for the correct tools and of course dont mind if they damage the piano tuning pins or worse,the piano soundboard, as novices all to often do.

Notwithstanding the fact that it does take quite a considerable time to learn the tuning harmonic theory etc , and tune lots of pianos before one can really do an accurate tuning.


Meanwhile, as I continue my Fatwa against the Plumbing Sector here is a very useful link from the Independent on how to fix those basic plumbing problems and save yourself a few Zlotys in the process.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...icle339397.ece

[AtW]

Why not claim on your insurance?

I am not paying, its not my issue, I merely commented on it as the price exceeded expectation for 3 sq meter utility room.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I am not paying, its not my issue, I merely commented on it as the price exceeded expectation for 3 sq meter utility room.

AtW

The point is here that only people with insurance would cough up this kind of money.

Otherwise,providing you are able bodied, nobody would contemplate spending this kind of money on such a simple task.

However if you are spending the money of an insurer ...

[AtW]

The point is here that only people with insurance would cough up this kind of money.

Are you joking or what? This insurance is like magic bullet - when I had some stuff stolen from me the police seems to have assumed I just wanted police reference to claim it on insurance, ffs the job of police is to catch criminals not to take easy route of penpushers!

In this case high rip off charges by those merchants result in high insurance premiums - so YOU who pay anyway, especially with car insurance.

[The Master]

The point is here that only people with insurance would cough up this kind of money.

Quite. Only some sort of paraplegic couldn't manage to replace the flooring in a 2 x 1.5 metre room themselves.