50 quid an hour

03/09/2008 by Stuart White.

I took our second car to an auto electrician this week. He fixed the fault within the hour - it was a fairly simple job for him to do. The cost of his service? £51 for an hour’s work plus VAT. Total cost £60

I recently had to pay a call out charge on the central heating boiler - again a very easy job for the service engineer to fix and minimum call out charge of £66 inc VAT applied. He was gone within 30  minutes.

Now whilst this last example is extreme - trade rates of around 50 quid an hour - for skilled services seem to be normal in Herts.

Surely Domestic Energy Assessment has to be priced around about the same?

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