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Emergency Plumber price

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  • 14-01-2013 11:06am
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    Cooperspale
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    So I had a burst bath tap at 7pm and figured that I should get it fixed it sharpish. $380 for the call out and 750$ odd for labour and new taps, have I just been had or is this pretty standard??


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    mandrake04
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    Cooperspale wrote: »
    So I had a burst bath tap at 7pm and figured that I should get it fixed it sharpish. $380 for the call out and 750$ odd for labour and new taps, have I just been had or is this pretty standard??

    Sounds like a lot but being on call is different from working 9-5, nothing worse than sitting down to your dinner and the phone goes off.

    My company charge $500 hr door-to-door after 6pm with a contract, $1100 hr door-to-door without a contract.

    If it was me I would have turned the stopcock and went to Reece tomorrow, you could have just turned on the stopcock long enough to fill your cistren and brush your teeth.


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    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,339 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Cooperspale wrote: »
    So I had a burst bath tap at 7pm and figured that I should get it fixed it sharpish. $380 for the call out and 750$ odd for labour and new taps, have I just been had or is this pretty standard??
    Sounds high tbh.
    Call out might be about right, but $750 for parts and labour look a lot to me (assuming the tap was pretty standard, not a hidden cost etc).

    Did you check rates before hand?
    mandrake04 wrote: »
    If it was me I would have turned the stopcock and went to Reece tomorrow, you could have just turned on the stopcock long enough to fill your cistren and brush your teeth.
    That's what I'd have done too. I had a shower tap break at 7pm one friday.


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