I nearly fell over!

[Fred]

I've put a nail in a copper pie in my house. I called my mate! Who has only been plumbing a few years. He comes around, and only what's £125....discounted, because I'm a mate and I do his tiling work, what the hell are plumbers on? I only earn £150 a day, minus tax etc in London. Have I chosen the wrong career?

 

[Gazzer]

No you have chosen wrong mate !

 

[doug boardley]

Jeez!!!! as Neale says,,,wrong mate imo:mad2:

 

[White Room]

Find a new plumber, mates rates:yikes:

 

[Ajax123]

I would come and fix it for £100 provided you switch off the apwater and drain the pipe then expose the pipe so I can get at it to cut out the bit that has the nail in it (5 minutes) cut a new peice of pipe (I have some scraps in my workshop (maybe 10 minutes given that I will probably need a cup of tea by then) and then wire wool the ends of the pipes prior to adding flux and two Yorkshire straight connectors (also have these kicking about and this would take maybe another five or ten minutes) another cup of tea followed by refill the system and check for leaks ...... Maybe an hour all in.... There you go £25 saving.... You could take the mrs out for a nice Chinese for that

 

[peteablard]

I put a screw through a pipe over a year ago which only started to leak a couple of weeks ago. £2 for a push fit straight coupler and a couple of hours work......job done

 

[John Benton]

I think the difference here is the fact that when you put a nail through a pipe the amount of damage it can potentially cause is horrendous, and the plumbers know it. You can't just say 'oh I'll get it done next payday'. Whereas with a broken tile it doesn't matter - fill it with silicon, it doesn't matter because it won't get any worse than a broken tile.

I stopped working with a plumber because of his charges. I subbed to him and he put the quote in for the whole job and was always asking me to drop my price so we could get the job. I had no idea what he was actually charging the customer and there was VAT on top as well. I had enough and told him to find someone else he could mug!!!!

 

[Perry]

Fred don't think his a mate mates do it for nowt you do mates favours and repay them with favours put your prices up for him and say it made me think when I had that leak I needed to put my price up to account for it happening again I didn't know it would cost so much

 

[MARBLE_TONY]

I would of shown him to your bike and told him to get on it! Got my mate here who's a plumber (been watching the footy with a few cold one's) and he said he would of done it for a pint now that's mates rate! :8:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I'am sure that if he had done it for nothing, you would have given him £20 for a drink!
But £125-00 - who needs mates like that!

 

[Andy Allen]

im in the wrong job, perhaps i could be a call out tiler, to fix that tile thats just fell off,.......'be there in 30mins love',.....£70 call out, £30 materials..(im using bal)...£25 labour...(took 10 mins so have to round it up to an hour)....

 

[nybor62]

with mates like that you dont need enemies, tell him to do one

 

[EverDon Tiling]

i'm always doing jobs like that for free to my mates even the odd kitchen backsplash and floors if there simple day jobs, in return they help me out when i need help that's what mates are for.

 

[charlie1]

It's a decent baker you need, he will be able to make you a new pie at a fraction of the cost! In all seriousness, your "mate" is having a laugh! I only have half a dozen real friends, we do work for each other for nothing but usually give each other a few beers!

 

[cam_low]

I'll only touch a copper pie with a nice jug of flux to go over the top

 

[AliGage]

For £125.00 someone could teach you how to do it yourself. I would of done it for a pint or two! :8:

 

[Muse2k8]

£125 squids! Jeezo. I need to up my prices!

 

[IvegotsTILE]

I did that a year ago and my mate came and did it for £35. he drained the whole system did it all properly checked it all and interrupted the job he was on.
I tiled his bathroom floor this morning and did it a bit cheaper but he still gave me an extra £20 for a tip.....I find this is the best way to treat each other,earn enough to keep you happy but still alot cheaper than usual.

 

[AMtek]

not really the same thing but my uncle had a fire at his house end of november last year, all bedrooms downstairs gutted, kitchen severely smoke and heat damage, a real mess. Me and the lad went round the next day to have a look and lend a hand with the start of the clear up. Found out a few days later he didn't have insurance and xmas was a month away. I called a plumber mate of mine who sourced a new boiler for buttons (don't ask) and put it in for the price of materials, called a sparky i know and he sorted all the electrics for cost of materials. Me and the lad found a new kitchen and bathroom suite for next to nothing (again, don't ask), begged plaster from the local builders merchants for nothing and re plastered the whole downstairs and the kitchen, re fitted and tiled the bathroom, fitted 3 new windows, fitted and tiled the kitchen, fitted all the radiators, door casings, doors, skirting boards etc, laminated the whole ground floor and painted. It took nearly 4 weeks of 15hr days but he was back in the house for xmas and we saved him a fortune on mats and labour. How much did we charge for this? not a penny. It was his own fault for not having insurance but even so, it was the least we could do

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

awesome stuff my new mate :lol:

 

[John Benton]

not really the same thing but my uncle had a fire at his house end of november last year, all bedrooms downstairs gutted, kitchen severely smoke and heat damage, a real mess. Me and the lad went round the next day to have a look and lend a hand with the start of the clear up. Found out a few days later he didn't have insurance and xmas was a month away. I called a plumber mate of mine who sourced a new boiler for buttons (don't ask) and put it in for the price of materials, called a sparky i know and he sorted all the electrics for cost of materials. Me and the lad found a new kitchen and bathroom suite for next to nothing (again, don't ask), begged plaster from the local builders merchants for nothing and re plastered the whole downstairs and the kitchen, re fitted and tiled the bathroom, fitted 3 new windows, fitted and tiled the kitchen, fitted all the radiators, door casings, doors, skirting boards etc, laminated the whole ground floor and painted. It took nearly 4 weeks of 15hr days but he was back in the house for xmas and we saved him a fortune on mats and labour. How much did we charge for this? not a penny. It was his own fault for not having insurance but even so, it was the least we could do

I'll move to Cumbria and burn my house down :lol:

 

[AMtek]

i'm constantly giving customers freebies! whether its an extra box of tiles to finish a back splash off properly, chrome trim instead of white, upvc sills etc. Quite a lot of the time they give me a tip to cover the extras, but i hate leaving a job knowing that an extra few quid could have really made a top job. i'm too soft!!

 

[Muse2k8]

i'm constantly giving customers freebies! whether its an extra box of tiles to finish a back splash off properly, chrome trim instead of white, upvc sills etc. Quite a lot of the time they give me a tip to cover the extras, but i hate leaving a job knowing that an extra few quid could have really made a top job. i'm too soft!!

At the end of the day that few extra quid you spent could mean they tell others to use you. Pros and cons