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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 693 Send Message	Anne	Report	10 Nov 2006 06:41
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 693 Send Message	My neice who owns her own business, recently needed some attention on her heating system. The engineer came to have a look and gave her an estimate of £100 per hour to look at the problem. To make matters worse this is someone she actually knows. Needless to say he didn't get the work...
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	♫ D☺ver Sue	Report	10 Nov 2006 07:32
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	I sometimes think that they simply don't want the job and so price themselves out of the market. It must be nice to be earning so much that you can afford to turn work away.
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 16,538 Send Message	Dawnieher3headaches	Report	10 Nov 2006 11:37
	Blimey my old man is self employed and he doesnt earn that for a day
	Researching: Dove,Call,Trudgett,Andrews,Fossett,Milton
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	10 Nov 2006 11:50
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	£100 seems about par for the course. My son recently had to have a new pilot light assembly fitted and thats what it cost him. He had a couple of quotes one wanted more on top to fix the problem so he turned this down.