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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 462021" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>What several of you seem to be missing is that the point I was attempting to make, (and by the looks of it failing), is to look at it from the customers perspective e.g someone may have two purchases to make; one to verify some safety critical aspects of his electrical installation the other safety critical aspects of his car. </p><p></p><p>One involves an IR tester &amp; continuity tester (may be the same meter) and few screwdrivers, (possibly a pair of pliers?) that can be carried easily in a Tesco carried bag, (tools unloaded!) involves testing a single 3 core cable and would take a competent person very little time or effort, (well under one hour unless you are grossly incompetent). The other involves far more testing equipment that cannot be carried in your hand and takes longer. </p><p></p><p>All that Mr Joe Public sees is a more complex longer task that is cheaper than what the electrician charged him for quite probably less than half hours work. At the end of the day the customers will just look even more for cheaper solutions to their problems if electricians are continually trying to charge their top rate for a very basic job.</p><p></p><p>I take it all of you objecting genuinely consider an IR and continuity test on a single cable to be a highly critical complex task? If so I think your race to the bottom has already bottomed out when it comes to competence and ability to carry out electrical work.</p><p></p><p>I have already addressed the traveling to and from the customer aspect earlier, where jobs such as the one this related to, can be scheduled into you diary when passing that way anyway to other jobs. So no additional fuel or travel times involved. However for those of you who never pass down the same road twice during the course of the average fortnight, I appreciate travel cost would be incurred, but in that case I doubt I would offer to do that job anyway. no doubt there would be some other electrician relatively local who could fit it in. </p><p></p><p>Doc H. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 462021, member: 1607"] What several of you seem to be missing is that the point I was attempting to make, (and by the looks of it failing), is to look at it from the customers perspective e.g someone may have two purchases to make; one to verify some safety critical aspects of his electrical installation the other safety critical aspects of his car. One involves an IR tester & continuity tester (may be the same meter) and few screwdrivers, (possibly a pair of pliers?) that can be carried easily in a Tesco carried bag, (tools unloaded!) involves testing a single 3 core cable and would take a competent person very little time or effort, (well under one hour unless you are grossly incompetent). The other involves far more testing equipment that cannot be carried in your hand and takes longer. All that Mr Joe Public sees is a more complex longer task that is cheaper than what the electrician charged him for quite probably less than half hours work. At the end of the day the customers will just look even more for cheaper solutions to their problems if electricians are continually trying to charge their top rate for a very basic job. I take it all of you objecting genuinely consider an IR and continuity test on a single cable to be a highly critical complex task? If so I think your race to the bottom has already bottomed out when it comes to competence and ability to carry out electrical work. I have already addressed the traveling to and from the customer aspect earlier, where jobs such as the one this related to, can be scheduled into you diary when passing that way anyway to other jobs. So no additional fuel or travel times involved. However for those of you who never pass down the same road twice during the course of the average fortnight, I appreciate travel cost would be incurred, but in that case I doubt I would offer to do that job anyway. no doubt there would be some other electrician relatively local who could fit it in. Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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