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Originally Posted by papa smurf
my mum needed a plumber yesterday [broken pipe ] first quote £800 for first hour followed by £400 for every extra half hour , a mate did it for £50 and that included £30 for parts .
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So called 'emergency plumbers' charge what they can get away with, especially when they know they're dealing with someone who's elderly or likely to be panicking whilst not even knowing how to turn the water off. It's outrageous. Watchdog filmed on of these scumbag companies the other week - they were charging hundreds to do basic stuff like change a water tank ball valve when all that the researchers had done is bend the ball valve arm a little so the water level was raised and it overflowed. Total, utter scumbags.