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Is £450 to change a basin waste a fair price… or has the trade gone too far?

This week on Off The Job Overtime, Pete and Keiran dive into one of the biggest debates affecting the trade industry right now: call-out charges, pricing jobs and where you draw the line between charging your worth and looking after your customers. After hearing about a homeowner being charged £450 for a simple plumbing repair, the conversation quickly turns into a debate every self-employed tradesperson will have an opinion on.

Along the way, the lads also chat about:

• Fair call-out charges for plumbers, gas engineers and tradespeople
• Should you charge elderly customers less?
• The true value of a tradesperson's time
• Pricing jobs with confidence
• Customer service vs making a profit
• Stories and opinions sent in by the Off The Job community
• Running, work-life balance and switching off outside of work
• Plenty of tradie banter and honest conversations

Whether you're a plumber, gas engineer, electrician, builder, carpenter, roofer, painter & decorator or running your own trade business, this episode is guaranteed to get you thinking and probably arguing in the comments too.

👇 We want to hear from you:

Would you charge £450 for that job, or was it too much? What's your standard call-out charge?

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⚠️ Warning: Contains adult humour and strong language. Tradesmen banter ahead.

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