He assumed I was taking the piss when I said to check the faint beeping from his keypad wasn't the the smoke alarm low battery beep....
He then sulked away, came back on different a/c & then returned on the 1st a/c
Pricing, you can ask whatever you want for a job I can help people for free, ask thousands or be some where in the middle of 3 quotes.... which is the normal feedback I get.
Normally if the customer is being quoted lots of money for a modest job, either the local conman has been round or honest people are trying their hardest not to win the work, I assume Paul experienced the later