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Electrical work price guide

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  • 04-03-2014 2:42pm
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    robinod180
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭


    Does anyone have a rough guide to pricing electrical installation work and how much to charge for certifying the work or where I could find this out??
    I have a price I use for fault finding work and small jobs but my pricing bigger jobs is all over the place.


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    Peterdalkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Peterdalkey


    Assuming that you have an reasonable hourly charge out rate and you sell on the materials at RRSP ( keeping the trade discount as a margin for yourself ) So the only area that could to be causing a problem is your ability to correctly estimate the amount of time involved in the job being quoted and or the bill of materials.


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    robinod180
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭robinod180


    Peterdalkey wrote: »
    Assuming that you have an reasonable hourly charge out rate and you sell on the materials at RRSP ( keeping the trade discount as a margin for yourself ) So the only area that could to be causing a problem is your ability to correctly estimate the amount of time involved in the job being quoted and or the bill of materials.

    I have the reasonable hourly charge and I always use the trade discount as my markup on sale of materials so your correct by saying I have the problem with the correct time estimation in my quotes.


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    Peterdalkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭Peterdalkey


    robinod180 wrote: »
    I have the reasonable hourly charge and I always use the trade discount as my markup on sale of materials so your correct by saying I have the problem with the correct time estimation in my quotes.

    OK, so you either incorrectly estimate the standard time required for a set of tasks or your are unable to perform them within the alloted/estimated time. You have not given enough information to establish which is the case!

    Are you too cheap or too expensive? or is it simply a matter that you dont have enough knowledge to estimate jobs correctly, in which case there is little to be learned on here other than to advise you to get some more training/education in this specific area


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