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Bernie2
Hmm!
Yes done lots of high spec stuff myself.
But that is not the bulk of Plumbing work, you are talking niche market not mass market. And niche markets have always been good, if you can get the work. The problem is out of a major cities housing stock of say 10,00 houses about 8,000 will probably be HA or council.
And they usually want rock bottom prices.
By the sheer number of houses owned by HA's, landlords, council's and money available to them, that is probably the area most Plumbers will be working in and companies competing in. The private market has always been good if you can build the clientèle and that can take years.
Even the Pimlico Plumbers pick the plumb jobs.
Its not so much the rich niche market its more about competing and giving quality in the cheap end, where most companies will probably find themselves operating, in other words its mostly Primark not Harrods.
Must admit I did like high spec jobs, plenty of time with quality not quantity the operative word. The thing is, they are not the bread and butter work of most companies and the markets that the new guys will probably be going into. Its about how to survive in a low price competitive cut throat industry and still turn out quality work.
Yes done lots of high spec stuff myself.
But that is not the bulk of Plumbing work, you are talking niche market not mass market. And niche markets have always been good, if you can get the work. The problem is out of a major cities housing stock of say 10,00 houses about 8,000 will probably be HA or council.
And they usually want rock bottom prices.
By the sheer number of houses owned by HA's, landlords, council's and money available to them, that is probably the area most Plumbers will be working in and companies competing in. The private market has always been good if you can build the clientèle and that can take years.
Even the Pimlico Plumbers pick the plumb jobs.
Its not so much the rich niche market its more about competing and giving quality in the cheap end, where most companies will probably find themselves operating, in other words its mostly Primark not Harrods.
Must admit I did like high spec jobs, plenty of time with quality not quantity the operative word. The thing is, they are not the bread and butter work of most companies and the markets that the new guys will probably be going into. Its about how to survive in a low price competitive cut throat industry and still turn out quality work.
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