Quite right, to many people now do not know the cost in running their business, when a bill comes in ,they just think they will work a few late nights or weekends to cover it,(or the miss’s can) the work is not available and they get into trouble, instead of working out all out goings and budgeting over the year period, not only business expenses but also personal expences,you should know what you have to make to cover all your costs, so you can plan ahead for what type of holiday or car ,ect you can get
Any way Back to the taps, think there is a age thing here also, the younger plumbers tend to think of nice modern taps, with plastic back nuts, nice isolation points and flexi hoses, the older plumbers think of brass backing nuts, caked in paint and putty, threads twice as long, lugs on taps top stop the turning in basin or bath, so you cannot twist from above, getting a hernia trying to undo bath taps, lead and copper wastes, yeh, the good old days
How you can just quote over phone, do not know, it can take 1 hr or 1 day, you can give a rough estimateits.No good saying, some you loose,(this will happen naturally, without you adding to any lose from bad practices)some you win, as the prices given above give no room for loosing and you cannot play numbers game anyway, as surely you do not replace enough tap sets, once you loose on a job that’s it, you have made a loss, no good saying will make it up on next job, although people do, all you are doing is making the next job you do less profitable at best
Another thing I have noticed, is small businesses do not look after the pennies any more unless they really, really have to, I hear only cost an extra £10,bill comes to £98.34 and they say £90 or £95 will do, it will not, I am not tight and my family say to me how come you will spend 15mins getting the extra couple of quid from a customer or getting materials a few quid cheaper being really tight and then when we are out as a family you hand cash out no problem, like jackal and hide
But I point out if I only take £5 extra a day, say on a average year will make an extra £1300 at least profit, put that in your back pocket and you can afford to get that play station 9 or were ever we are now
If you have just finished a job for £5000 profit, you still what that £40 profit from the next one, you do not what to turn the £5000 profit job into a £4980 profit job coz £20 gone to help some punter have new bath and basin taps fitted, who you may never see again
IMHO
