What's covered in a mobile callout
A mobile callout covers anything we can lay an arc down on at the customer's site within a half-day window. Liam or Declan arrives in the van, sets down a fire-blanket, throws the gennie on the kerb, and gets stuck in. Most jobs wrap in an hour to ninety minutes. The €120 callout covers the van, the gennie, leads, gas, and the first hour of arc time — €85 per hour after that, in fifteen-minute blocks.
- €120 flat callout — first hour of arc work included
- Verbal estimate on the phone for anything we've seen before (which is most of it)
- Written quote on the bonnet of the van before the visor comes down
- Consumables on board: 3.2mm 7018 rods, 0.8mm MIG wire, 100A gouging carbons, anti-spatter
- Fire blanket, kerb-cone, drip tray, safe-clean process — no swarf left on the footpath
- Twelve-month workmanship guarantee on every seam
Typical mobile jobs
The list below is roughly ordered by how often the phone rings about each one. None of these on their own would justify dragging a job back to the workshop — mobile is the only way they get done.
- Snapped gate hinge plate — re-cut, re-aligned, re-welded, packed if the post has shifted
- Sagging side-gate frame — diagonal brace welded across, hinge re-shimmed
- Fire-escape stringer / tread re-attachment — to engineer's spec where load-bearing
- Handrail brackets pulled out of brickwork — re-anchored with resin and new welded saddle plate
- Balustrade re-welds — broken kerbside railings after a car kiss, residential and commercial
- Bollard repairs — bent, pulled, snapped at base; fresh weld to a base-plate where the original is gone
- Skip-truck and tipper-frame repairs — visiting yards in Coolock and Finglas
- Brewery rail / vessel-bracket re-weld — site visits to north-side micro-breweries
CRW pre-test repairs
Commercial vehicle road-worthiness (CRW) tests pick up on weld failures around chassis, ladder-frame, exhaust mount and step-rail brackets. A failed test means a re-test fee and your driver off the road; we can usually have you back on the road inside the day.
- Pre-test inspection at the workshop or on-site — verbal verdict in five minutes
- Chassis crack repair with butt-strap reinforcement to original spec
- Exhaust mount and bracket re-weld — common HGV failure point
- Step / handrail / mudflap-bracket re-weld — common on tippers and skip-loaders
- Tow-bar and rear-bar repair on goods and recovery vehicles
We don't do crash-damage cosmetic body work — if a panel needs hammering and filling, that's a panel-beater's job. We weld the steel structure underneath.
What's in the van
People ask. The rig is heavier than you'd expect — generator, gas, leads, consumables, full PPE, plus a small workbench and clamp set. It means we can handle 90% of mobile jobs without a return trip to the workshop.
- Welder — Kemppi Master M205 inverter, 200A DC, dual-process MIG / MMA
- Generator — Honda EU22i 5kVA inverter genset, clean sine wave, runs the welder + grinder simultaneously
- Gas — Argoshield Universal 7L bottle for MIG, Argon 2L for stainless work
- Grinders — Bosch 125mm angle grinder, Makita 230mm for heavy cut
- Leads & cables — 16mm² leads on a drum, 25m extension
- PPE — auto-darkening hood, FR coverall, leather sleeves, gauntlets, full kerb-side fire-blanket
- Consumables — 3.2mm 7018 rods, 0.8mm and 1.0mm MIG wire, 1.6mm TIG filler, anti-spatter, marker
What it costs
One callout rate, one hourly rate. VAT at 23% is added on the totals shown on the written quote and invoice.
- Mobile callout: €120 flat — includes first hour of arc work
- Hourly after the first hour: €85 per hour, fifteen-minute blocks
- Steel and consumables: trade-merchant receipt + 12% handling (we show the receipt taped to the invoice)
- Out-of-hours weekday (after 5:30pm) or Saturday afternoon: quoted on the phone, never on a fixed multiplier
- Sunday emergency: ring the mobile (087 412 8830) — limited to fire-escape, commercial gate that won't close, brewery vessel
No fuel surcharge, no congestion-charge surcharge, no "weekend van loading" fee. The €120 is the €120.
What we don't do on a mobile call
This list keeps us efficient. If you ring with one of these we'll point you at the right trade.
- Gas-line work (RGI) — domestic or commercial. Not our trade.
- Crash-damage cosmetic panel-beating — we weld the structural steel, not the dent
- Cast-iron welding on heritage drainage — different process; we sub to a foundry
- Aluminium TIG on-site — bring it to the workshop, contamination risk is too high in the kerbside environment
- Roof-line work above two storeys without a MEWP — needs a scissor-lift, which is a separate hire
Related services
Sometimes a mobile call turns into a fabrication job once we're on site (the old gate is past saving, the railing has rotted right out). We'll flag it before the visor comes down and re-quote.
- Custom Fabrication — new gates, railings, balustrades made to drawing in the workshop
- Structural Repair — RSJ retrofit and beam splice to engineer's spec
- Stainless & Aluminium — workshop TIG for food-grade and decorative work