Plumbing maintenance work only

[armyash]

Who here makes a living carrying out maintenance work only?

i know when money has to be made most of us would be prepared to do pretty much anything but who gets by replacing siphons, stopcocks etc?

hard to do I imagine but I know some guys who hate any type of install work.

 

[lame plumber]

not enough call for plumbing installs and maintenance down here to earn a living

 

[woodsy]

Agree that I dont think most people can survive on maintenance for the domestic customer only as generally a lot of my maintenance is either for the older end or after have a go heroes, but good for filling part of the odd day in. Maintenance for most other commercial housing etc generally on fixed price ( generally poor as well )

 

[armyash]

So for those guys who don't do any gas work, do you have to rely on bathroom and kitchen fitting? Or where do you earn your money?

 

[Chalked]

Hate maintainance.
Installs only for me

 

[armyash]

Hate maintainance.
Installs only for me

What do you do? Bathrooms?

 

[Dotty]

Maintenance only for me but then my works all commercial.

 

[dave1]

I do a lot of domestic maintenance.

 

[hammers4spanner]

i do quite a bit of the small silly stuff no one else wants , 50 quid a time , easy money usually

 

[JCplumb]

I can tick by nicely on maintenance but it's hard to get enough of them in a week to make decent money.
If I can get a decent bathroom in every 2-3 weeks I'm happy doing half days on maintenance the rest of the time.
Don't know what the going rate is round the country but here it's about £60 to change a syphon or fill valve, so you could make a grand a week (before business/running costs) doing 4 syphons a day. The trick is finding a way to get 4 syphon jobs a day for 5 days a week, I still haven't perfected that trick...

 

[thereisawizza]

I think even "easy" maintenance would get boring after a while! A good mixture is what you need

 

[hammers4spanner]

I think even "easy" maintenance would get boring after a while! A good mixture is what you need

I would disagree as leave house late and home early

 

[Millsy 82]

If I could get 5 boiler services or breakdowns a day I would be happy. Easy money and only half a day.

 

[hammers4spanner]

You can't do 5 boiler services in half a day lol

 

[thereisawizza]

Are we talking services or BG services?

 

[PlumbersMate]

When I first set up on my own few years ago I managed to live off maintenance only. Only things I installed were taps/showers etc wasn't making a killing but for someone just starting out £500 roughly per week was ok

 

[markfxy]

Mostly new builds and the occasional bathroom for me I like maintenance work it's just the customers I don't like:83:

 

[Millsy 82]

You can't do 5 boiler services in half a day lol

Yeah you can easily.

It's installing a boiler in a day that I can't do lol.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yeah you can easily.

It's installing a boiler in a day that I can't do lol.

what full burner out and clean, new inhb and all the normal stuff

 

[Millsy 82]

Inhb?

If the burner needs to come out not a problem, 3/4 hr most boilers. So as long as not too much driving I between easy.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Inhb?

If the burner needs to come out not a problem, 3/4 hr most boilers. So as long as not too much driving I between easy.

inhibitor

and hows 3/4 hours on one boiler do 5 in half a day ?

 

[Millsy 82]

Well done by 1 which to me is half a day.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Well done by 1 which to me is half a day.

? my math maybe wrong but 4x5 = 20hours

 

[Millsy 82]

Three quarters of an hour lol. If I could charge enough to justify spending 4 hours servicing a boiler I'd be happy.

 

[rpm]

You can't do 5 boiler services in half a day lol

I was doing a sani service the other month and the BG lad serviced the boiler in 35 minutes of which 5 minutes of that was paperwork and I swear he used no more than 4 different tools.