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Sounds like you should go back on the books mate
we renew the kitchen and bathroomYou lost me with doing 3 kitchens and every job gets a new bathroom. Also think I can see the point about the good joiner being harder to replace tbh.
Thing to look at is if there main work is kitchens etc a decent kitchen fitter is worth their weight in gold.
If you look at customers (especially round me) they would think nothing of spending 15k on a kitchen but would pass out if you want to charge them £60 for a boiler service and if you want to charge them 2k for a boiler swap they look at you like you just took a dump on their carpet and rubbed it in with their rampant rabbit.
I'm not saying it's right it is unfortunately supply and demand and like it or not decent plumbers are easier to find than decent kitchen fitters. were not talking carpenters now as I could get you a dozen carpenters and maybe 1 would do a job worth 10+k
... Give me 5 ball valves to change in a day and would earn same money here ...
Couple of points:
This guys boss is making money out of him.
So anyone self employed, who is not charging at least the rates they would charge if they sent an employee to do the works, should have a major rethink about their charge out rates.
This guy is getting paid with all the benefits + van and diesel.
Do you think his boss is giving that away for free?
Secondly: Big jobs v small jobs
Everything is beneficial and profitable if priced correctly.
Larger jobs need more allowances for everything. Labour & materials.
Start pricing jobs like you have employees doing the work for you. Start realising that you have to make profits on top of what you pay your employees including all the add ons, holidays, sick days and so on.
If you work for yourself and only charge what you would make as an employee, you may as well be empolyed by someone who is going to make money out of you
Now ask me how to run a business, to work out how much my van costs to run each month etc etc and we're not taught that so it is a learning experience.
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