When is the least busiest time of year

[chris day]

what part of the year is the least busiest in our game , I know most people are always busy but i have only had the business for 6 months so I have not experienced a full season and the phone has been a little unusually quiet this week.

 

[ipf]

Fortunately, I am from a very posh school wot tot us to spik proper, so i will be fine

Afortunadamente, soy muy aristocratico, y Nicola puede ir follarse

Can't stand those Chinese pirates

 

[pirate]

Found out! Damn!
Look, I'm really sorry for all the spam posts on here
oh...to think it should come to this....
que puedo decir?
Lo siento, amigos...

cerveza, anyone?

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

When Nicola casts you adrift and you have to apply for admission back into civilisation the border guards will need to be able to work out your reasons for admission.

It will be like carry on up the khyber, they will stand in a line and lift the kilts to gain admission when the guards leg it!

 

[pirate]

I'll be fine, I'm Jake The Peg....Instant admission!
oh, don't you MISS him?
All those great songs we never hear on the radio anymore...
Bast**d! Depriving me of singing along to Two Little Boys...
think I'll join the Priesthood

 

[sparksburnout]

I'll be fine, I'm Jake The Peg....Instant admission!
oh, don't you MISS him?
All those great songs we never hear on the radio anymore...
Bast**d! Depriving me of singing along to Two Little Boys...
think I'll join the Priesthood

You could always try "I didn't know I loved you till I ............. and roll.
I can remember a girl called Dana when I was about 14 who had a different version of that one but she changed roll to hole. Wonder what she's doing now.

 

[pirate]

Aye, an' wiz that the same Dana as had a hit wi' "All kinds o' everythin'?"

 

[sparksburnout]

Aye, an' wiz that the same Dana as had a hit wi' "All kinds o' everythin'?"

No, put that though right out of your mind. That Dana was a decent innocent lass, not like the Dana I was referring to. She was a one woman sex education lesson was Dana, bless her. Anyway how the hell did we get round to this??

 

[pirate]

Ah dinnae ken...wiz askin' the same question!
(Erm..ye wouldnae huv yon Dana's telephone number, I suppose?)

 

[sparksburnout]

Ah dinnae ken...wiz askin' the same question!
(Erm..ye wouldnae huv yon Dana's telephone number, I suppose?)

Well, this was 45 years ago, and our Dana had a "full" figure then. She will have quite a few miles on the clock now, but I could do a bit more poking around if you are really interested, but I don't think we are going to allow sex tourists in come 2019.

 

[pirate]

Ach, thinking aboot it again...maybe ah'm too old fur "pokin'aboot"...
unless it's tae find ma Stanley knife in ma toolbag...

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Last week of December and first week of January I find is quiet, the rest of the year is fine. However, like Murdoch said, if the business has only been going 6 months you will definitely get quiet periods as you haven't built up a base yet. I experimented with different forms of advertising/rated people etc for the first year.

I've just had one of the busiest months so far and I have stuck to my guns and not booked any work in for the next 2 weeks, so I may actually get to relax! I find I had way more holiday time when I was employed, but... being self employed is far more fulfilling.

 

[Nigel]

March is usually our quiet period. The end of the FY so clients are spent out. April starts things off again.

 

[elsparko]

....know that feeling... started a 12k rewire yesterday and the builder informed me today that the plasterer is starting Monday

tell him to get the plasterer to re-arrange or the house can have whatever circuits are in by monday and thats final.

sod taking instructions from a man who piles bricks for a living

 

[Leesparkykent]

Crazy isn't it Lee ! It always seems to be our trade that gets the stress and aggravation due to lack of planning by others !
Are you going to have all your team on it now going like mad or did you just tell the builder don't be so stupid ?

tell him to get the plasterer to re-arrange or the house can have whatever circuits are in by monday and thats final.

sod taking instructions from a man who piles bricks for a living

unfortuantly mate, the man who piles bricks for a living has a lot of work.....I have 36 houses across 3 sites coming off him. The first 9 start in a few months. This rewire is for his uncle. I normally get around 75K-125k worth of work out of him a year.

 

[elsparko]

unfortuantly mate, the man who piles bricks for a living has a lot of work.....I have 36 houses across 3 sites coming off him. The first 9 start in a few months. This rewire is for his uncle. I normally get around 75K-125k worth of work out of him a year.

on one job i had a plasterer going in and patching up and plastering over my access channels through a house, even wrote next to the holes "do not patch", come back next day to begin wiring and have to rip out all the patches again, then when im doing the extension, same story, i cut out my boxes for first fix and the idiot has pushed my cables in behind the wall and filled some of the box cutouts (didnt have fast fix boxes in the van, boss was stingey on stock being kept in van)

the joiners are just as bad, youll just be getting started wiring and theyll be asking if they can put up their plasterboard, doesnt bother me if theyre standing around they should use their brains and plan ahead, ive stopped being so nice to other trades, before i would have rushed myself silly to get it done to please them, when people ask stupid questions/requests (joiners, builders, plumbers) im less inclined to go out of my way.

i dont stand around waiting for the joiners to fit their plasterboard, i go to another job till its ready, or if i was self employed id go home and come back when its ready