Benefits

[Tidy Max]

As with any specialism there's ups and downs! Most of the time i hate being domestic but there is definitely money to be made.

I have gone through a couple of years of basically price honing, i feel i am now at a point where my prices are right to ween off the customers i don't want and keep the ones i do. My main issue is getting the work in but that is entirely my own fault for having no marketing in place!

As for the main benefits everyone who knows me is always surprised at how multi skilled i am. I think most of my mates think all we do is sit and strip cable and terminate sockets. The fact i can plaster, paint, lay carpets amongst building anything out of unistrut, conduit, trunking, then doing the majority of work to my vehicle and also running the business side of things!

I am often jealous of other trades such as plasters and carpet fitters though, whos material list you can count on one hand! Such a simple life!

 

[Adam W]

As with any specialism there's ups and downs! Most of the time i hate being domestic but there is definitely money to be made.

I have gone through a couple of years of basically price honing, i feel i am now at a point where my prices are right to ween off the customers i don't want and keep the ones i do. My main issue is getting the work in but that is entirely my own fault for having no marketing in place!

As for the main benefits everyone who knows me is always surprised at how multi skilled i am. I think most of my mates think all we do is sit and strip cable and terminate sockets. The fact i can plaster, paint, lay carpets amongst building anything out of unistrut, conduit, trunking, then doing the majority of work to my vehicle and also running the business side of things!

I am often jealous of other trades such as plasters and carpet fitters though, whos material list you can count on one hand! Such a simple life!

I could post a really negative reply to that, but I've learned a lot of other skills since I've been an electrician.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Benefits?


1. Being able to send your leccy meter on "holiday"


2. Meeting other trades such as plumbers & heating engineers who can pull you out of the clarts when you -----up an Underfloor Heating job.

 

[Tidy Max]

I could post a really negative reply to that, but I've learned a lot of other skills since I've been an electrician.

Why what was wrong with it??

 

[Geordie Spark]

I could post a really negative reply to that, but I've learned a lot of other skills since I've been an electrician.

Good lad ...... you just know it makes sense not to pi$$ the plumber off!

 

[GMES]

I only do Industrial/ commercial and like to think we are still held in very high regard by people within that sector, 2 of my favourite quotes from people I encounter within the factories are;
1= how the hell do you know where all those wires go
2= I will have a go at most things but won't touch electrics it scares the hell out of me
Sadly for the domestic lads, they may not get the same respect purely because there are that many Electrical Trainee out there I think people think that domestic is a doddle, which it's not if you're doing the high end properties.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I chose being an electrician, because I don't like working in offices, don't like crawling around under cars and it pays more than being a mechanic.