damianch wrote: » Thank god GPs on call don't work that way! But in fairness , as I mentioned earlier, thats why I think getting to know someone local is the best bet. You can presume he isn't going to charge you for the 1 hour travel there, the 10mins looking at the washing machine, and the 1 hour drive home. I know if I call my GP out on a house call it will be 80 euro no matter what and think thats standard in Ireland. But in general if you ring a plumber , no one seems to have a clue. It can vary from in my case €25 to diagnose something to presumably €100 plus .
corner of hells wrote: » You could always call a GP out and see if he could fix your dishwasher.
Conservatory wrote: » If plumbers worked that way it’d be called price fixing and the plumbers would get into trouble.
kneemos wrote: » If a lad has to travel a bit maybe a small call out charge is justified. Most of them don't. Given the number of suckers in this thread no wonder they get away with murder.
kneemos wrote: » justified.
corner of hells wrote: » I'm an electrician and when I worked for a contractor he charged by the hour from where I was working if I got a call out. So if I left a site and it took me two hours to get to the breakdown he charge two hours before I did anything.Then his hourly rate and materials if any. He got lots of call outs because he was providing a top class service , guaranteed and insured. His call out rate was 65euros , irregardless of what I did.
Chewbacca wrote: » For what you just described. A cup of tea and a fun sized Twix. €100? Get bent fcukers. Ya cant be paying €100 for a lad to tell you what you already knew aaaand then the cost of a new one. Realistically, any decent bloke should take €25 max.
kneemos wrote: » If a lad drives five or ten minutes from job to job and collects a call out charge for each one it's taking the piss. Most folk call their local guy so travel is limited.
SEPT 23 1989 wrote: You would want to see the invoices for industrial machinery mishaps
Chewbacca wrote: » Calm your tits guy. Is that a rhetorical question? Has to be, otherwise it's a stupid question. Um, in the OP's example. If you think your washing machine is fcuked but still get a guy to check in the hope its economical to fix it but it turns out, he is of the same opinion. Then he charges you €100. How much time and labour went into the call out? Not €100 worth anyway for "a minute or two".
Chewbacca wrote: Not €100 worth anyway for "a minute or two".
Chewbacca wrote: » I'm not disputing that. So, €100 is a fair price for "a minute or two" of a call out?
corner of hells wrote: Are you talking about a minute or two looking at a washing machine and not considering he may have spent a hour driving , left another job etc
Chewbacca wrote: » Im just commenting on the OP's example. We are getting into "what if" territory here to justify the OP's figure of €100. A bogey washing machine would not warrant me dragging a lad an hour away for a non emergency. IF I was stupid enough to ring a chap an hour away, taking up his time and knowing he had to drive back another hour, €100 would be reasonable. Thats a 2 hour drive and an experienced consultation. Id have no issue with that. In my own experience of ringing trades, Id ring a local lad and he gives me a time that suits him to turn up. If he came from around the corner on his way home at a time that suited him, popped in and had a cup of tea, spent less than 2 minutes looking at the washing machine, told me it would be cheaper to buy a new one then stuck his paw out for €100....nah. Do we know how far the OP's guy travelled? Do we know if he missed other jobs? Do we know how much time he really spent there? In summary. If you call a guy, he travels for over an hour, misses a job, tries to fix it but assesses it wouldnt be cost effective then yeah €100 is acceptable However, if he came from 10 minutes away, as a nixer, did fup all, decided it would be easier to get a new one instead of fixing it and charged €100. Well thats bollox. But, my point and your point dont mean anything unless the OP answers the questions above.
[Deleted User] wrote: » Now if the education policy of this state, and the Hyacinth Bucket notions of so many people, could give as much dignity to the concept of trades, craftsmanship and skilled workmanship as they give to university education our society would benefit enormously from it. Where's pride in workmanship? I've just finished gutting and renovating my entire house so this is raw. There's a massive dearth of skilled tradespeople in Ireland in 2018 - and no end to the number of chancers, cowboys and arrant buckos. And the tax evasion from tradespeople is unfúcking real. It is the norm. It's all cash in the hand until it gets to a certain level and they say "I better put some of it through the books" and then back to cash in the hand. And you're paying these cúnts cash from your income which is mostly taxed at 50% and they smile and say "Nothing like cold, hard cash". Bring on the bust! And because we have no culture today of skills being nurtured/sufficient number of skilled tradesmen, you have very few options but to pay him as he wants. We, the Irish consumer, are the ones to suffer. Meanwhile loads of people leave universities with useless degrees but "social status". Crazy.
greencap wrote: » even the pizza/chipper guy gets a few quid for the bother. and all he does is ring the bell and hand you a bag/box. are you honestly going to call someone who did 4 years training, and then spends some time examining something quite complex, absolutely nothing? can we agree that based on the law of pizza there should be at least some transfer of money.
corner of hells wrote: » Is there pineapple on the pizza ?
