Plumbers in Ramsgate:
24 hour Emergency Plumbing Services in Ramsgate, Kent
Alert Plumbing & Heating are trusted:
- Gas safe registered
- 24 hour emergency plumbing callout
- 27 years of experience – we’ve seen it all
- Members of the Water Industry Approved Plumbers Scheme
- Boiler replacement and repairs
- Leaks, burst or boiler breakdowns at any time of the day or night? We’re here for you
Think Plumbers in Ramsgate: Think Alert Plumbing & Heating
Why choose Alert Plumbing & Heating for your plumbing needs?
- Fast, reliable service
- All areas of domestic heating and plumbing covered
- 24 emergency plumbing callout
- Free estimates
- Competitive quotes
- All work guaranteed
Quotes & Estimates
There seems to be much confusion over these two words and below is our brief understanding of both.
An Estimate
This is essentially a guess – “I think that this heating system will cost £2800 plus VAT to install”. The problem with this is that we have never heard of someone being billed less than the original estimate and regularly hear it being higher – “I didn’t realise that the floors were concrete so I will need additional pipe work and labour so the bill is now £4000 plus VAT”. The exact wording in the Collins English Dictionary is ‘to form an approximate idea of (size, cost, etc.), calculate roughly, or to submit an approximate price for a job to a prospective client.’
A Quote/ Quotation
We previously thought that this meant fixed price but having checked in the Collins English Dictionary a quote means to state a price for goods or a job of works. But a quotation or act of quoting is an estimate of costs submitted by a contractor to a prospective client, so in essence is means the same as an estimate.
Alert Plumbing Services have always provided quotes where possible believing that we where providing a fixed price, we will now clearly state the words ‘Fixed Price’ on as many jobs where possible, but please remember adding to the job or requesting a change when works have started is additional.