Hows work load

[stan794]

How you finding things a the minute work wise? Busy? Just ticking over here, lost out on 3 quotes this week for CU changes to the local cheapo doing them for £200 all in. Looking forward to the Xmas break mind you

 

[Doomed]

Busiest we have been for years, stacked out till end of March at least.

 

[TJ Anderson]

How you finding things a the minute work wise? Busy? Just ticking over here, lost out on 3 quotes this week for CU changes to the local cheapo doing them for £200 all in. Looking forward to the Xmas break mind you

Out of interest does he include test, EIC and notification for that, because if not ,that is expensive. I would happily work for 2 hours for £150. Cheapos Method Statement: Buy DB £50, Swap DB, switch on, stays on (hopefully), Extract £200 from victim, C U L8R .

 

[Englishman]

Actually doing alright work wise over the last few months. I'm employed anyway so the work is purely supplementary but it's been decent. Got a decent size job waiting for my back to get better at the moment, probably something that I'll end up doing early January.

£200 for a new cu is just bloody horrific.

 

[Dave OCD]

I'm flat out but often lose 'potentially' good jobs because the customer can't or won't wait 2 or 3 weeks ,usually bad planning on their part. But who are these tradesmen who can start the next day, there seem to be a few around ??

 

[ferg]

I'm doing O.K. booked out til the end of Jan beginning of Feb.

As above customers have to wait but most are happy to do so.

I do sometimes lose out to cheaper quotes.

The way I look at it is if I'm not working for them I'm working for someone else at a better rate.

I have a fairly standard response for those kinds of clients.

" If you think they are going to do the same job and provide the same service then take it, I would. "

 

[uksparks]

Busiest we have been for years, stacked out till end of March at least.

I am not suggesting you are stretching the truth, but what sort of jobs are they you have booked in? As in my experience nobody is ever prepared to wait more than a couple of weeks or so for the majority of work.

like I say, I don't doubt you but find it hard to believe that you have electrical work booked in that far in advance.

 

[Guest77]

I am not suggesting you are stretching the truth, but what sort of jobs are they you have booked in? As in my experience nobody is ever prepared to wait more than a couple of weeks or so for the majority of work.

like us at u don't doubt you but find it hard to believe that you have electrical work booked in that far in advance.

I have had a years work ahead of me before, if he works for builders and they have a large project going them 3 months is nowt really.

 

[uksparks]

I'm flat out but often lose 'potentially' good jobs because the customer can't or won't wait 2 or 3 weeks ,usually bad planning on their part. But who are these tradesmen who can start the next day, there seem to be a few around ??

I'm usually booked up for two to three weeks in advance most of the time, im rarely free at the drop of a hat, I do try to leave a slot every week for desperate people.

 

[Dave OCD]

Well if someone just wants a CU upgrade for example or they have building work in the planning stages it's perfectly feasible to have a job booked to start in a month or even three months time to coordinate with builders etc.

 

[uksparks]

I have had a years work ahead of me before, if he works for builders and they have a large project going them 3 months is nowt really.

I suppose so, I didn't really give much thought to builders as you would never catch me working for one, I suppose that's possible.

 

[Guest77]

I suppose so, I didn't really give much thought to builders as you would never catch me working for one, I suppose that's possible.

Very Sensible, they nearly broke me in the past, not so much financially but the way they run jobs and the stress it can cause, you will do well to avoid them.

 

[uksparks]

Well if someone just wants a CU upgrade for example or they have building work in the planning stages it's perfectly feasible to have a job booked to start in a month or even three months time to coordinate with builders etc.

So many people leave things until the very last minute most of the time and expect you to start yesterday. I have a lot of jobs in the pipe line but nothing booked in more than a couple of weeks at present.

 

[Dave OCD]

I'm usually booked up for two to three weeks in advance most of the time, im rarely free at the drop of a hat, I do try to leave a slot every week for desperate people.

I'll try and make the time for people with a genuinely urgent problem and often end up working Saturdays to try and please everybody, even worked this morning. But last week I got properly moaned at because I couldn't turn up on the day of delivery to fit a new oven - when I suggested they get someone else they decided to wait 2 days for me.

 

[uksparks]

I pick and choose my jobs, anything that is going to be problematic I walk away from, builders I avoid.

i only do a 4 day week.

I try try to limit my work to nice jobs that I enjoy and are not stressful and I enjoy. I have turned down two fuse box changes last month just because they are going to be a total pig and one of them, all the light fittings are the 12v type on high up ceilings, all the light switches are those flat plate Schneider dimmers plastered into the wall and won't move, plus the board needs moving from the alley to the inside.

i prefer a less stressful life.