Terms and Conditions
Quotes
All quotes of labour are valid for 90 calendar days from date of quote, thereafter, I reserve the right to re-quote based on up to date labour fees and materials costs.
All quotes for materials costs are currently only valid for 30 calendar days from date of quote, this is due to the continued rising costs of materials, owed to the effects of brexit, coupled with rising fuel and energy costs. After the 30 days I reserve the right to add on any additional costs.
Once quote is accepted by you the customer, the price is binding, regardless of the time raken to complete the works. Any additional work or adjustments that you the csutoner request, will be chargeable
Labour Prices
First hour £60
each half hour thereafter £20
Half day (when quoted) £165.00
Full day (when quoted) £320.00
Parking costs
Parking charges on meter, are the responsibility of the customer, if applicable on your road/street.
These costs will be added upon completion of works, or included in deposit invoice.
If your road is permitted, and no visitor permits are available for me to display, then parking tickets(if a Warden applies one to my vehicle during my visit to work at your property), then this is also chargeable to you(the customer). As I need to be able to park within 50 metres/ or a few doors of your property, so as to access tools etc.
Deposits and Cancellations
No job with materials costing more than £20 in total, will comence, until at least costs for all materials required, are paid for prior to starting the job/work.
I might request a holding deposit, when booking my services more than 2 weeks in advance and, if job is more than £150 in value.
Minimum £60 of labour total quoted or 10% of labour total, whichveer is greater!
A materials deposit will invoiced to you at least 1 working day prior to start date of works, this is required to be paid before works can commence.
Materials may need to be paid for further in advance, if there is a lead-time on certain materials.
Deposits are refundable, but subject to an admin charge of £30.00. This is to cover my time to process the refund, raise a receipt, communication time, and readjust my calendar to fill the gap/move jobs around etc.
If job is fully cancelled, (and no new date is requested) less than 2 calendar days before work is to commence, whether a deposit has been raised prior to this or not, then an admin charge/cancellation fee of £30.00 will still be chargeable, and must be paid within 5 calendar days. After this time, if not paid in full, then interest and charges will be applied as shown in 'paying invoices' terms below.
All charges and fees as shown above will deducted from any works totals, if work commences!
Agreement
By accepting the price of the quote given to you, by myself,for the works set-out, you are agreeing to the terms given above and therefore entering a legally binding contract. Failure to read this prior to accepting my quote still enters you in to a legally binding contract with myself, the works and the terms and conditions. As you (the customer) are solely responsible for reading the T's and C's, as requested at the foot of all my quotes.
Acceptance must be in writing format(email or text format only).
Fees
Customer is responsible for covering any parking costs, if required at your address, unless you have visitor permits. This applies both for visiting to gather information for a quotation, as well as during the period I am undertaking the works.
Paying Invoices
Please pay via BACS or Cash only!
Cheque payments will incur a charge of £15. This is to cover my business bank transaction fee of £5 for cheque payments and to cover my costs for travelling to the bank.
I ask that all my invoices for domestic works are to be paid within 5 calendar days of date invoice is sent.
And/or that you notify me, within 24 hours of receiving invoice, as to what date to expect payment from you on/by(I willaccpet a max of 30 calendar days from date of invoice for payment to be made to me within, but ONLY if I have a reply from you inside the 5 calendar window, stipulating so). Should I receive neither a reply back to give me a date for payment,nor payemnt of invoice itself within the 5 calendar days, then interest and charges will start be applied as set out in next paragraph below.
I am a sole trader and chasing up outstanding invoices costs me time and money, so I have set this out to help stipulate what's expected once works are completed, and to cover some of my costs/time should I need to chase up payments.
If an invoice is outstanding after 5 calendar days, then I will charge interest(backdated) as follows.
Days 1-30 (day 1 being date of invoice) 3.75% + a £15 admin fee to be added to invoice total,
Then each calendar day payment is late, chargeable as below.
Calendar days 31 - 37 payment is overdue £5 per calendar day+ daily interest.
Calendar days 38 - 44 payment is overdue £10 per calendar day + daily interest.
Any additional calendar day thereafter will incur £15 per calendar day + daily interest.
Once invoice is outstanding by more than 60 calendar days, I will begin proceedings for court action to recoup my losse, interest, charges and other costs.
Wording/Meanings/Terminology
fFixings. Refers to screws, rawlplugs, hollow wall anchors, nails, pins and any other type of fastening hardware.
Materials. Refers to anything such as timber, sealants, adhesives, fillers, paints, sheetboards, handles, locks, latches, hinges. And anything other than is listed in the fixings/fastening terminology above.
Labour. Refers to my time for undertaking the work that is outlined in the description. It does not include any cost for materials, fixings, parking costs etc. Just my time.
Any other wording or terminology that is used in my quotes/emails, that you are not sure of it's meaning, please do ask me to clarify this.
All prices will have 10% discount applied for customer's who are an OAP, Disabled, special needs, or Inferm.
Costs for ordering or collection of materials on behalf of customer
My time to order or collect materials will be charged as set out below.
Where materials or parts are required during a job and, not quoted for, a small fee(minimum of £20) will added to cover my time to travel there and back. Up to a maximum of £45.00 per collection. Per online order it is £20 per order.
Terms and conditions last revised: 15/12/22