What's your diary looking like?

[Leesparkykent]

So after reading a few times that house prices are falling...what's your diary looking like? I'm busy as ever and I'm pricing new jobs every week ATM and enough work to see me through until February when I have a big newbuild contact starting.

 

[Octopus]

A4 size and grey!

 

[Leesparkykent]

A4 size and grey!

There is always one....Don't your wholesalers chuck you a diary? I get at least 3 a year from various wholesalers

 

[telectrix]

mine's black, A5, and i've lost all the tarts' telephone numbers from my 1980 diary.

 

[Leesparkykent]

mine's black, A5, and i've lost all the tarts' telephone numbers from my 1980 diary.

The old business card trick was always a winner when out on the pull lol

 

[telectrix]

in my younger days, i was never very successful on the pull.by the time i'd sussed out the willing totty. i was too pi$$ed to pull it.

 

[Leesparkykent]

in my younger days, i was never very successful on the pull.by the time i'd sussed out the willing totty. i was too pi$$ed to pull it.

Were they the 9 pint or more types?

 

[telectrix]

i usually went for the 10 pinters. less chance of a refusal.trouble was after only 10 pints i was still sober enough to reject the ugly ones.

 

[Octopus]

There is always one....Don't your wholesalers chuck you a diary? I get at least 3 a year from various wholesalers

Wholesalers tried to give me diaries BUT I like A4 1 page per view for making notes, so I buy my own.

For my day to day I use my PC calendar, which automatically syncs with my phone calendar and my iPad calendar - so I can view and make changes on any of them.

 

[telectrix]

Wholesalers tried to give me diaries BUT I like A4 1 page per view for making notes, so I buy my own.

For my day to day I use my PC calendar, which automatically syncs with my phone calendar and my iPad calendar - so I can view and make changes on any of them.

too technical for me. appointments scribbled on smoke packets. contracts of works on the back of a beer mat.

 

[SparkyChick]

Not quite taking in jobs in February like @Leesparkykent , but mine is starting to fill up at a fairly steady rate, which is great at the end of year 1

More and more is coming from word of mouth which is even better

 

[Toneyz]

too technical for me. appointments scribbled on smoke packets. contracts of works on the back of a beer mat.

What an excuse to have a smoke need the box for stationary . I bet you claim back the cost of smokes as a taxable expense as stationary Tel.

 

[telectrix]

What an excuse to have a smoke need the box for stationary . I bet you claim back the cost of smokes as a taxable expense as stationary Tel.

but of course. and the cost of the beer that goes into making the bee mat splittable.

 

[Toneyz]

Not quite taking in jobs in February like @Leesparkykent , but mine is starting to fill up at a fairly steady rate, which is great at the end of year 1

More and more is coming from word of mouth which is even better

Good to hear your doing well , I've always said you do a good job and not take the P and people start recommending you.

 

[Phil Thompson]

Definitely plenty of work out there, seems the bigger firms have picked up again and the housing sites have started to take off again, so that's leaving loads for the rest of us to do, and less competition too.

I've a cctv to sharpen my pencil on, I did price it a bit strong anyways lol ok a lot strong. Lol
Another to look at tomorrow and a rewire to look at on Friday and a plumber offered me all his work if I want it, that was just today's offerings,

 

[ferg]

I'm a one man band so I don't need much.
I've got jobs in the diary through to next year and plenty coming in to fill the gaps.

I used to worry about gaps but something always turns up.

 

[telectrix]

more gaps in my diary then there are in my front teeth.

 

[SparkyChick]

Sunday night, I was going to post this.... "Well, since I posted my original reply, I have no clue what happened, but October is pretty much full... in fact it's got so crazy, I've actually scheduled some time off "

And now "Oh carp, how do I rearrange all these jobs to accommodate recovering from a broken foot???"

Fell out of a loft yesterday morning after my ladders slipped resulting in my falling through a loft hatch. One leg is just dandy as it landed on the floor... the other landed on the ladder and so I have at least one fracture, got to go to the fracture clinic next week to find out if I have more near my ankle. Thankfully, it could have been so much worse... I avoided smashing my head, face, fingers, hands etc.

First broken bone in 45 years so I've been doing something right, but bloody typical I break it now when I'm self-employed. I hate laminate flooring, it's not the first time I've had a problem with it, it's so dam slippery!

And yowsers... my foot hurts

 

[telectrix]

with all due sympathy, but do you want to buy a parrot?

 

[SparkyChick]

A parrot?

 

[Rpa07]

A parrot?

 

[Hellmooth]

A parrot?

 

[rolyberkin]

Ouch, sounds painful! I am going solo from the 1st November so far have got plenty of PA work (I am also a sound engineer!) but no definite electrical work penciled in for the rest of 2017 apart from two current jobs I have to finish off. I have about a dozen enquiries from potential clients so need to get off my a*** and start chasing some work. That being said I do have an agreement with a local lighting company to fit their high end lights starting from 1st Nov so sitting here waiting for the phone to ring!

 

[Leesparkykent]

Just finishing off a quote now for all the M&E on a newbuild office block..50K worth of electrics, 40k worth of AC and 15K of plumbing.

 

[Wilko]

A parrot?

As in ... every pirate with a wonky leg needs a parrot (?)

 

[SparkyChick]

As in ... every pirate with a wonky leg needs a parrot (?)

Good point

 

[Rpa07]

Good point

Didn't occur to me at all and then got a 'funny' from SC because she thought I posted, repeating as a parrot does but . . . . Sorry, not that quick today! Funny moments! Sorry to hear of your ailment Sparkychick.