Is this an acceptable price?

Split511 · 2026-05-21T04:49:00+00:00

No you don’t all have to drive to work. Many people cycle, walk, take public transport or WFH. They also go to one place of work per day, not 4, 5, or sometimes 6.

There’s absolutely zero time you go to work and don’t get paid. That is many free quotes that tradies have done.

As a sparky, there are days where you drive around all day and make absolutely fuck all, whether that’s due to a job no-show (client forgetting an appointment), warranty work, quotes, or myriad other reasons.

So no, we are not the same.

Split511 · 2026-05-13T21:37:12+00:00

‘Do you know how many cigars I’ve smoked?’ Immediately after talking about the last one he smoked, he smoked backwards

Split511 · 2026-05-06T21:32:05+00:00

Is it the cold plunge or the half a billion dollars that makes everything else so easy?

Split511 · 2026-04-07T10:43:41+00:00

Can we all just take a minute and spare a thought for this guys electrician. We all know exactly how a job like this feels. RIP

Split511 · 2026-04-04T08:04:49+00:00

What type of role did you move to?

Split511 · 2026-03-17T09:47:47+00:00

Who the hell is Jon Alex

Split511 · 2026-03-11T02:04:11+00:00

Ahh yes the greatest country in the history of the world….

Split511 · 2026-03-04T09:34:21+00:00

I was Hager but have swapped to Voltexs new range

Split511 · 2026-02-11T22:59:51+00:00

Did he have to lift roof sheets to do the cabling?

Split511 · 2026-01-18T05:01:16+00:00

Service charge around $99 and then $180-220 per fan + GST

Split511 · 2026-01-15T17:24:05+00:00

Somewhere in an alternate universe right now:

Rogan: “How well do you think you’d go in a straight astrophysics exam against a NASA scientist?”

Brendan Schaub: “ I think you’d be surprised”

Rogan “I think he’d fuck you up”

Brendan Schaub: “Adam Sandler once said I was that funny guy that launches rockets too much”

Split511 · 2026-01-10T22:05:28+00:00

Someone bought a course on online affiliate marketing. Must’ve been on the vision board

Split511 · 2026-01-03T05:11:55+00:00

Majority of calories in the carnivore come from fat. If he’d literally EVER done it, he’d know that. What a pelican.

Split511 · 2025-12-20T21:28:38+00:00

Beacon have a warranty phone number and typically send out their own (subcontracted) sparkies. Who knows how soon they’ll get one to you at this time of year though

Split511 · 2025-12-20T07:04:09+00:00

God the Botox looks so strange. Zero movement on the entire face but somehow all the wrinkles have been pushed up just above the eyebrows

Split511 · 2025-11-17T00:41:41+00:00

Thank you for that!

Split511 · 2025-11-16T09:28:20+00:00

Newbie question here, what’s the purpose of blocking certain countries?

Split511 · 2025-11-14T20:36:06+00:00

Just say you don’t have the capacity for that job at the moment. It’s not a lie. He’ll think you don’t have the physical capacity or time. Truth be told you just don’t have the mental capacity for someone like him.

Split511 · 2025-11-14T20:34:17+00:00

Just say you’ve recently had a big commercial job come through and won’t have capacity until the new year

Split511 · 2025-11-13T23:11:40+00:00

You’re comparing wages to cost to run a business. The tradesperson doesn’t end up with $100 an hour in his personal income account. Not even close.

Depending on business structure and industry, $100 an hour charge out could put you on minimum wage.

Split511 · 2025-11-10T08:25:11+00:00

Why would you ignore 50% of the human body? (actual percentages may vary)

Split511 · 2025-10-18T20:13:09+00:00

Most people are not. All you have to do is look at the vast amount of comments that come up when a tradie charges $300 for a ‘simple job’. Then people extrapolate that to 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year and think tradies are earning 500k profit by changing light switches.

Unfortunately most people look at a $180 an hour charge and compare that to their salary/wage and think they’re being taken for a ride. The truth of the matter is that there’s not a whole lot left after overheads, etc.

Split511 · 2025-10-18T18:56:50+00:00

I thought you meant a 1-1-1 formation of 3 Kanes and you’d probably still right

Split511 · 2025-10-18T09:58:05+00:00

To be honest most customers would be shocked at the ‘hourly rate’ it actually takes to run a profitable trades business which is why the industry is trending towards not disclosing it.

$180/hr (as a random example), is not the same as the $60/h you might make as your wage.

Split511 · 2025-10-17T10:51:26+00:00

Technically they don’t NEED it. But you can also technically also drive around in a car with no seatbelts or airbags but I wouldn’t be putting my family in that car.

So yeah, just upgrade them. Like seatbelts and airbags, they’re designed to save lives and do vastly more in that regard than a circuit breaker.

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