Pikey - if yu recon 8 hours - my local stealer charges £85 an hour - so thats about £680 plus £70 for the xmember - thats about £750. which ties up with the OP. Cept no-one pays stealer prices if they can avoid it!!!
Wadebridge.....on my tod and I am really at a loss as to how they have come to this amount......
tis very easy - 200 fer parts and consumables - 8 hours work even at 50 squid an hour is another 400 (and that's a cheap rate) - bit of fiddle factor time and profit plus the VAT soon makes it nigh on 800
Bit of a trip, but Chris at Trevecca LR charges £28.50 per hour and he's a good welder - just a bit moody at times.
I'll drop yer home if you take it to him and pick you up and take you back when it's done.
Aye but that's me on me own and I'm a below average self taught chappy not some time served or experienced welder.
£200 for a crossmember & a roll of wire?? Where the fook do yu shop??
i bet the average bloke who does ANY DIY work is MUCH more productive than any "experienced" mechanic, technician or whatever they call them this week - when you do work for yourself you dint stand leaning on yer shiny tool box for 15 minutes outta every hour looking at the job, plus there's another 10 minutes per hour drinking yer brew - plus there's your hour tea break (which i usually more like 2 hours)
so out of a mechanics 8h day, for which you the customer will be charged for 8 hours, there's going to be less than 4 productive hours
Ere Trewy - wot about that guy that stuffed his disco into a tree - was having probs with his kids being bullied - he cud weld - couldnt he?
e's on FB most eves...OI CC we know yer there!!!Capn Chaos
He's down in Helston - even further away.
He's out of circulation at the moment - family problems.
cheeky git when i was still working in a garage (i'm a C&G qualified mechanic) i worked fookin hard i used to get at least 7 hrs good work in a day allowing for an hours lunch
i bet the average bloke who does ANY DIY work is MUCH more productive than any "experienced" mechanic, technician or whatever they call them this week - when you do work for yourself you dint stand leaning on yer shiny tool box for 15 minutes outta every hour looking at the job, plus there's another 10 minutes per hour drinking yer brew - plus there's your hour tea break (which i usually more like 2 hours)
so out of a mechanics 8h day, for which you the customer will be charged for 8 hours, there's going to be less than 4 productive hours
Dunno what garages you go to but ****ing hell they must be bad! Fair enough.... I ain't been round many garages however the one i work at we have a 20min tea break at 10:30 and then at 1 we have an hour lunch. No other tea brakes, no leaning on the toolbox for 15 mins out of every hour, don't spend 10 mins drinking tea either..
As i said... The garages you either go to are either crap or main stealers... Which is the same thing....
am sure there's exceptions, but when there's an hourly rate involved there's no incentive to work hard, unless your a small one man band who's got a line of work ready to be doing - would be interesting to see the breakdown of that quote she was given
make yer whole comment a bit pointless, in the real world paying for 8 hour works really doesnt mean you'll be getting 8 hours of work