Pricing emergency work

[Will Heal]

If £50/hour works for you then fine but:

 

 

 

They will sooner or later ask someone else anyway

 

 

 

Could you fit in other work and make your normal day rate?

 

 

 

You met the tree officer, managed the formalities and ran the job, £350 seems fair enough.

 

 

To be fair I got most of another £350 job done in the morning

 

 

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[Mike Hill]

To be fair I got most of another £350 job done in the morning

 

 

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Fair has nothing to do with it.

 

My call out rate-100% over day rate for anything after business hours,they pay for the quote too,

 

Anything during business hours is charged at half the cost of the job I am on,plus 100% over day rate for the call out.This way I don't loose any money going back to the first job.

[WesD]

£100 fee for emergency plus hourly rate your happy with.

 

They can roughly figure out the price before they ring you for future call outs.

[Gray git]

£100 fee for emergency plus hourly rate your happy with.

 

They can roughly figure out the price before they ring you for future call outs.

That is probably the best answer as it covers all bases but possibly 1.5 - 1.75 x normal rate for out of hours so if it disrupts the next day as well it helps cover you and you can pay the lads more which makes them more likely to be willing to come out and do it especially if they are young, money hungry and keen, not old, rich and disheartened like eggs 😜😜

 

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[roseyweb]

One thing that tickles me a bit is when people say Emergency Call out.

 

An apple tree across a garden is not a emergency its a job that ideally needs doing soon.

 

A bus full of nuns trapped by a tree with rising tide is a emergency

 

If you sting them they will wait drive around it and someone else will do it

[aspenarb]

"Emergency" Not a licence to print money, if its daytime work its more a matter of whether the job can be squeezed in or not. If its night work you can incorporate a standard call out charge and make up the difference with the following days clean up. Most emergency work will have a loss adjuster scrutinising the invoice so its in everyone`s interest to be reasonable. Overdo it and the inevitable shitfest will ensue.

 

Bob

[devon TWiG]

You may feel £350 is fair for about half a days work , but will the client ?? assuming they know how long it took and what was involved .....

[benedmonds]

You may feel £350 is fair for about half a days work , but will the client ?? assuming they know how long it took and what was involved .....

 

You can see it now "£700 a day for a gardener..."

[eggsarascal]

That is probably the best answer as it covers all bases but possibly 1.5 - 1.75 x normal rate for out of hours so if it disrupts the next day as well it helps cover you and you can pay the lads more which makes them more likely to be willing to come out and do it especially if they are young, money hungry and keen, not old, rich and disheartened like eggs 😜😜

 

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I'm not sure the rich bit is correct.

[Laurence sls]

£50 an hour is cheap, a plumber or locksmith with some tools from B&Q will charge £70 for that. And they will charge travel time plus won't be turning up with a truck, chipper, rigging etc.

£500 half day emergency call out, we work hard, are highly skilled and work in hazardous conditions. We are owed it and are under appreciated, to many people under value our profession.