Electricians day core drilling and tray !!

Electricians day installing tray and core drilling holes.

[@BrynvanNuissenburg]

00:01 🕖 The workday starts at 7:00 AM. 00:31 💡 Job involves installing spotlights and fixing a lighting fault in a porch. 01:25 🔧 Cutting 700 trays for cable management, using a jigsaw and conduit. 02:58 🔌 Planning to pass 16 cables through drilled holes, sealing them afterward. 03:53 📏 Working with existing tray for cable routing, planning cable runs.

[@markpunt9638]

Fascinating - thanks for sharing. You clearly like the commercial work. It wouldn’t be for me I have to say.I’d be happier helping Mrs Miggings😂

[@mxslick50]

Light fittings 700, labour 1000, (fault finding time included) so 1700 plus VAT. Just talking the lighting job.

[@peterwest7855]

Minimum labour plus overheads at £1000, plus (materials x 1.25) . That is how I would have estimated it for a project budget when still working. However, would have added 30% to allow the bean counters to shave the project and justified their "contribution".

[@Mc674bo]

To long retired to estimate a price , but have done similar jobs to the one your doing . Working alongside air conditioning guys , it was always difficult to get an answer to how many amps the units would actually take . Which would often result in us over sizing the cables , just wondering if you have had a similar experience . Kind regards to you both

[@Cjrelectrical]

No they are very good at giving me the correct information.

[@danf6491]

£200 materials £250 labour inc 1hours fault find while apprentice is marking and cutting the holes for lights. Then depends if it pg tips or yorkshire tea on the final bill

[@paulhammond7489]

Materials GBP1100, labour GBP1,500, total 2600 excluding VAT. That would include identifying the fault on the 2 extension lights, but exclude repairing the fault unless the repair took less than an hour and GBP50 in materials.

[@Cjrelectrical]

This is a joke right?

[@paulhammond7489]

@@Cjrelectrical No joke, just a guess, to see how close I could get. I guess I'm way off?

[@Cjrelectrical]

Yeah materials are around £125 and 6 hours of Labour

[@paulhammond7489]

@@Cjrelectrical Putting the labour to one side, my estimate on the materials was more than 10 times higher than I expected for 11 spotlights (with mark-up) wow... I guess if I was a sparky, I would see very few contracts :)

[@LoftechUK]

Where is my bloody calculator 😂

[@gordonbuttle272]

Is James doing an apprentiship?

[@Cjrelectrical]

Not anymore

[@strummer6642]

3 spots in porch, should be straightforward, allow an hour, £200 incl materials and fittings. Tripping £100. 8 spots, £500. Material £200. Labour £500, Total £1500 plus VAT

[@Cjrelectrical]

8 spot lights £500 wow

[@strummer6642]

Yea I know, but there's money to be made in downlights@@Cjrelectrical

[@garethhodson3896]

£600 + vat

[@lewis94uk]

£750 materials and labour but thats only 3 hours for fault finding

[@supersparks9466]

About 18 grand ,I’m not a charity

[@shibby7153]

200 materials 500 labour £700 and a pack of biscuits

[@tmyersf4]

£750

[@lewistempleman9752]

£50, let me no

[@Cjrelectrical]

Please come and do the job for me I can get you loads of work 👍