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For arguments sake lets assume it is a 3 bed semi with normal pendant lights and normal socket numbers and the house is lived in by a family of 4 people
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JRC, serious question for you.
Why if you are happy with your work and the amount you have done. Are you getting so involved in defending it? You also don't seem to accept criticism which has come you way.
Its not like we are talking to your customers about this or doing anything giving your business a bad name.
Yes I have my doubts that you have done thousands of rewires but that argument has come and gone.
I have rewired houses since the early eighties for SEC, employed on the cards , there was lots of work time limits were tight and more so if you had a lad ,your time would be reduced ,there was always a schedule in place, council surface rewires had to be done in 2 days with 2 men . I was fast , most of the other lads knew it and said so.
I can honestly say the quality of work was not as you would have liked , the pressure was allways there, you did your best , what suffered most of all was customers furniture , carpets and decoration , with more time areas could be cleared better and for work to start and the general finnish off the plastering greatly improved along with the standard of workmanship.
It was a relief to become self employed. I give more time to doing the job and the customer are much happier rather than paying top wack and trying to get out as quick as you can , and damaging their property
I think its perfectly natural to defend my business, especially when I have people trying at every opportunity to shoot it down, and all in view of the public.
You don't think that if you were doing the same job, lets say kitchen fitting , for around 10 years almost every day, you would get really fast at it while still maintaining quality?
The simple answer is that everything on here is in the public domain.
I asked for a critique of my website not my business model
Thats why, its damaging to my business and otherwise excellent reputation.
Well address those concerns to those who 'shoot it down'! Not me!
To a point, I agree, but there comes a point when you reach a fine line between good work but fast and faster work and slapdash. Like a racing driver always pushing for that faster lap! Yes he's going to keep on getting better and better and better, but one day he's going to spin off! The rate at which you may be able to knock out a house round your way, 2 days for 3 guys? We're talking either really small houses or substandard work. Round my way there ain't a hope in hell of you being able to keep an average rewire time of 2 days! Like I said, too many variables. I have no doubt you can bash out an ex council two up two down terrace, similar in size and shape to the hundreds you used to do with your previous company in two days with three lads, I probably could too, but you cannot apply those timescales to every house and every job!
How long would your rewire take if I aksed you to do a standard three bedroom semi, only the lighting system throughout was going to be a Lutron Homeworks QS system with say... 80 zones? Add to that a minimum of one data point in each room, HDMI port in 5 rooms, Sky, coax, burglar alarm, garage supply etc.... Oh, and the four external walls were made out of bungaroosh! 2-3 days my backside lol!
man you are hardwork
The simple answer is that everything on here is in the public domain. So I would say this has painted my business in a bad light. I have potential customers who could come across this and in my opinion a lot of the previous stuff was defamatory. I asked for a critique of my website not my business model.You don't agree this is potentially damaging for my business ? What if the lady who I just promised Id rewire her house in 3 days stumbles across this witchhunt? Just because some idiot in another country can't grasp that people can rewire houses quicker and better than he can, he immediately makes it known that what I do is impossible or to a **** standard ? Thats why, its damaging to my business and otherwise excellent reputation.
I would also like a question answering JRC, you talk about super sonic rewires and lightening timescales, because they are basic rewires, but what about additional circuits. For me I am with uksparks and the others, 7- 10 days sounds more realistic! is it just me that puts dedicated circuits for smoke and heat alarms, boiler, fridge freezer etc. etc. most modern houses even 2 up 2 down surely deserve the correct amount of circuits, so what I am saying is you have got to be looking at an average of 10-12 circuits for a rewire these days. I also like to put an emergency bulkhead above the cu to make life easier when everything as tripped at 10 o'clock at night.
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