Late night emergency call out charge??

[hedgesparrow]

i was going to say 1.5 your normal hourly rate. or double hourly rate.

i did a job for my old company had a printer to fix on the island on a saturday. was charged £220 for first hour then £75 per 15mins after.

took a hour and a half to get to site then back plus my time on site.

was charged £750 also knew some guys in IT who got asked to monitor servers when it went from 1999 to 2000 started 11pm finished 5am next day

did not do a thing just watched the box all night each paid £2k for a nights work

[tarzan]

£100 night time call out + £150 ph for a 3 man crew.

 

£150 * 1.5 = £ 250 + £100 =£350 + vat total £410

 

 

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[Hollyharrytaz]

£100 night time call out + £150 ph for a 3 man crew.

 

£150 * 1.5 = £ 250 + £100 =£350 + vat total £410

 

 

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That sounds much better

[tarzan]

£2k per person? I run one of the best firms in the south east and i don't even charge that for emergency work

 

 

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[testcricket01]

im glad some people are charging good rates by the sounds of it. we turn up to each job with 40/50 grands worth of kit day in day out that all needs to be paid for, dont no why some people are so shocked to hear some of the prices. in todays money what can you get today for £1000 not alot.

[tarzan]

Don't get me wrong but £1000 per person thats steep. I had one of my men out in the rubber duck that day with the wind and that made me £1900 that day and thats £67000 machine. But iam all ways got work and maybe its because i am cheep and good.

 

 

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[testcricket01]

Don't get me wrong but £1000 per person thats steep. I had one of my men out in the rubber duck that day with the wind and that made me £1900 that day and thats £67000 machine. But iam all ways got work and maybe its because i am cheep and good.

 

 

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Ive never said thousand pounds i said id have charged about 400plus vat for the op on his discription that would be 2 men and chipper. It was the person who commented after me making up things saying how much that would add up to. You dont get alot for thousand quid these days though. We charge fair prices and we get the work most of the time even if we are more expensive. People are willing to pay for a good service. Dont under value your selfs

[tarzan]

Sorry bro

 

 

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[theflyingscotsman]

Hello,

I value my clients and want to keep them happy.

I would consider double time plus travel at same rate to be fair.

A client is likely to view this as normal for a tradesman.

In an emergency, people pull together and a professional gesture such as not overcharging or even doing it for your normal rate for an important client 'may' pay dividends in the future.

Regards

 

Second Ty, any imp can put a silly price in but if you value your customer put a inflated but semi sensible price on it. If you put a large price on it and they ask for a break down of costs you could easy trip your self up....and hand the business to the competition.

[Hodge]

If a regular customer called me late at night with a problem like this I would if I could go and sort it out, if it was something where it would require more work IE a limb off a tree and now the tree needs to come down I would add something into that cost to cover the call out, depending how long I had been out at night. But if the call out was for someone I didn't class as a customer then I would tell them on the phone before I went out that it is £100 for the call out and £50 per hour per man to deal with whatever needed doing.