BEWARE out of town customers. I recently had a plumbing job completed by Dave The Plumber. His crew did a great job and were very efficient. Happy? Not when I got the final bill. They charged me additional travel fees because their crew got caught in traffic. I agreed to pay travel + truck fee (kms). Not great off the top but all the contractors are doing it and being in Baddeck we are at their mercy. Based on the truck fee of 176kms travel time would be 2hrs (@ $145/hr plus kms at $0.95/km). When I received the invoice, they wanted to charge me $776.25 for travel (thats before even turning the water off). When I complained they said the scope of work was larger than thought. Reallyquoted labour hours were 7. Actual labour hours were 3.5 and the cost of materials was actually 50% less than estimated. Not sure how that translates to work creepage. Icing on the cake, they are threatening to take me to claims as I refuse to pay the inflated portion of travel charges ($256) and said I was lucky they didnt charge me to go to their supplier. CRAZY TOWN!
- Approximate cost of services:
- $1,300.00