Best earning job

[helpsy]

What has been your best earning job?

 

[gasmanrob]

Doorman.

but in the trade blocked drains used to offer me the best return on investment

 

[Chalked]

Years back an architect who I fell out with, paid for an invoice, then after I refused to work for him again, his secretary paid the same invoice again £2200.

Obviously i I told them arty:

 

[julesverne]

I begrudgingly was asked to quote to fit a howdens kitchen after fitting a boiler for a custard. I didnt really want to do it so added 4 grand for labour into the quote . Was a bit happier about doing after they accepted the quote for 4 days work.

 

[newcastle phill]

Doorman.

Earn some tasty clunge

 

[Ray Stafford]

What has been your best earning job?

Barman in a club/expensive knocking shop

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Cleaning job with my dad in 1985. £5 for a Sunday morning.

 

[Rickster123]

Vaillant 824 for vaillant 824 boiler swap. £500 notes in two hours and they made me a bacon roll!

 

[Rickster123]

Barman in a club/expensive knocking shop

I knew I'd seen you before!

 

[newcastle phill]

Vaillant 824 for vaillant 824 boiler swap. £500 notes in two hours and they made me a bacon roll!

Sod the money

 

[Rickster123]

Sod the money

Its always nice to eat decent food when the oportunity arises!

 

[brum]

£175 per hour to replace big 6 clear panels on factory roof in birmingham me and my buddy went in on a Saturday while factory shut and replaced 4 no sheets took us 4 hours on dodgy asbestos roof relying on rusty j bolts to stop ladders sliding off roof onto pointed wrought ironed fencing we did earn our £700 each and were slightly cheaper than another crowd who were going to use scaffold this was in 1991 so was good dough then..brum

 

[kay-jay]

An alcohic once paid me 750 to remove bog bath and basin and runher to the off licence at 8am [emoji38]

 

[brum]

An alcohic once paid me 750 to remove bog bath and basin and runher to the off licence at 8am [emoji38]

had to check your location kay jay only cos when I was in the day had to refit a bathroom suite in solihull for a raving alkie who did not know why here bathroom suite was on her front garden..brum

 

[Ermintrude]

Had some brilliant ones . Best was insurance surveys or COFO. £200 in and out in 3 mins. 20 photographs cap gas push for on cold and away. Was blatant landlords were on the fiddle - boiler jig and rad brackets were always unscrewed and removed but house flooded

 

[REDSAW]

Cleaning job with my dad in 1985. £5 for a Sunday morning.

priceless ..............

 

[REDSAW]

Years back an architect who I fell out with, paid for an invoice, then after I refused to work for him again, his secretary paid the same invoice again £2200.

Obviously i I told them arty:

had quite a few but this happened to me but the local housing trust who didnt stick to my terms at 14 days or +15% per week untill paid. took them 8 weeks after 4 reminders then the donkey accountant paid me again to the sum of £1700. that was 8 years ago so i think i am clear by now.lol

 

[PlumbersMate]

Not highest amount but probably highest per hour. 4 blocked urinals at local gym, charged around £1200 and paid my mate £75 to do it, didn't even take him an hour

 

[brum]

Not highest amount but probably highest per hour. 4 blocked urinals at local gym, charged around £1200 and paid my mate £75 to do it, didn't even take him an hour

How do you sleep at night you jammie git..brum

 

[kay-jay]

How do you sleep at night you jammie git..brum

On a matress stuffed with fifties.....[emoji3]

 

[helpsy]

Not highest amount but probably highest per hour. 4 blocked urinals at local gym, charged around £1200 and paid my mate £75 to do it, didn't even take him an hour

Now that's taking the pish!!!

 

[quality]

I changed the pump assembly on a vailant ecotec and missed the 2 on the invoice and lost £54 plus 2 hours

 

[PlumbersMate]

On a matress stuffed with fifties.....[emoji3]

Haha no back trouble for me!
I milked the *******s for everything I could they are council run and it actually annoyed me how they didn't even look at my invoices they just **** money up the wall. Easily had 10k worth of work in a year, recommended a full repipe of one of the gyms as it was blocked up and scaled up everywhere, about 2 months work I reckon.

they said they'd look it at the following year, 2 months later there was another firm in there doing it, big commercial firm no idea what they charged but I've never heard back since, reckon I could of bought a new van cash with what I would have made on that. was good while it lasted they even offered me full time job books in for 20k per year with van etc

 

[stevetheplumber]

went to work with another plumber to help him out for the day got rear ended by a drunk and got 3.5k insurance was back home before 12 didnt even get the tools out the van

 

[Millsy 82]

Best earning jobs have been a couple of cash jobs over the year.

1 the woman was a pain in the rear had to do the job after 7 as she was working and wouldn't do it a Saturday morning as that would interrupt her lie in. Replace stopcock and repair dripping tap- £290 I was there for 15 minutes (I didn't want anymore work off her and thought I would scare her off. Didn't work though as I was back a month later swapping a shower)

A mate was removing a big solid fuel boiler with a combi £500 cash just to help shift the boiler and patch up the flue. I even said that's too much for what I have done he just said I priced for it so have it! I wasn't going to argue twice.