Does anyone charge a fee for going out to measure up for a job ?

[Fekin]

Title says it all really.

I had a call the other week asking if I was able to go round and measure up and give her a price for tiling a kitchen floor, so I said "of course, when would you like me to call round etc", agreed a time then she asked "do you charge for coming out" and I said no with a laugh.... then asked her if she'd been told by anyone else that they would charge her to come out and have a look at the job and she said yes, 2 different tilers said they charged for this, so she didn't get them to come out.

So, does anyone on here charge for going out to price up a job ?

 

[tiler burden]

no, i dont charge for quotations...

i do charge for insurance quotes!!! £20 for a typed quote.. and i reduce the call out fee if i get the job..reason being is, it cuts out the r's holes who are after a quote to claim on there insurance..if there genuine, then there usually ok

 

[poynton phil]

No i dont charge, be a bit cheeky i think.

 

[White Room]

Never charged for looking at job, just have a look on my home

 

[Fekin]

One thing I have never figured out is how do plumbers get away with.. and why do we all pay for their "call out" charge for fixing something ?

Now I can understand a call out fee if you phone a plumber out of hours because you have water pouring through the roof, but not when you just have a problem with the boiler that you happily waited 3 days for them to come round to fix.
Imagin someone wanting a splashback tiling, quoting say £150, then giving them the bill...

Tiling £150
Call out charge £50

Last time they tried it on me they got the labour charge and unit price and was told to vacate the house.

 

[DHTiling]

NOPE!!!!!!!!!....never.

 

[CJ]

Nope.....not me

 

[TilingLogistics]

I do but they get it refunded if they engage me to do the job and I suppose what I do is slightly different to you guys. But never charged for tiling quotes.

Kev

 

[Gazzer]

Depends how far the job was. As a rule no i dont but there have been times that i have been asked to see jobs a long way from home and they have paid. These jobs are generally organisations or companies etc and they are not really spending their own money.
Yes i charge for insurance quotes as for the same reasons as above in a previous post.

 

[faithhealer]

Wouldn't dream of it. Went to look at a shower problem once and this old lady said how much do I want for just looking at it. Wouldn't take anything and a few monthe later got a £1000 bathroom job off her. (Her previous bathroom took a plumber/tiler 11 days to do and left this lady and her disabled husband without water for three days at one time!)

 

[Sean Kelly]

It's a 'No' from me too. 'Call for a free estimate' is on my card, but some people still ask.

 

[GazTech]

Nope never charged. It's part of the service....Gaz

 

[eyebeetiling]

I've never charged either, but if you have had a bit of extra expense to do a quote just add it into the quote itself and hope that you get the work.

 

[CLAYS TILES]

no, i dont charge for quotations...
but the way our favorite goverment is going we may have to start just to keep up with fuel costs!

 

[IvegotsTILE]

No but sometimes wish I did when you do a quote 20 miles away.