When The Wife

[Stefan Palokangas]

 

You said 2hours onsite time, your wife said 210, now you know your hourly rate

 

Yes she is the business head and to be honest i'm not, so i will get her more involved.

[Stefan Palokangas]

Women always know best.... Don't under sell yourself.

Sounds like you got a good lady behind you.

 

 

Yes she is good on that sort of things, she had a company running with her ex husband and she understand that sort of things. I'm a hard worker and i don't see the extra you need to take to grow at times.

[eggsarascal]

Takes over !

 

 

Was out pricing a job today and it was a stump in the front garden 40cm wide, climb some steps put some boards down to protect the ground.

in the back garden been a hedge with 4 stumps reaching 30cm, and 20 small ones, i reckon the time involved in total is 2 hours.

 

I say to the Lady i get back with the price i will think about it on the way home, i get the better half to phone up with the price "she is very polite and social compared to me" i tell her 100 £...

 

She comes back to me says i told her 210 £ and she accepted it.

 

????????

 

She told me i'm under pricing all my jobs and it have to come to an end !!!

 

Two hours on site takes up half a day in reality, so half a day man and a machine like yours (20k's worth?) needs to be closer to £300 imo. Works out at £75/hour. Take off depreciation, running costs of machine and vehicle/ trailer and your wage...... Don't leave a massive amount!

 

Forgot to mention insurance.

[Mull]

Two hours on site takes up half a day in reality, so half a day man and a machine like yours (20k's worth?) needs to be closer to £300 imo. Works out at £75/hour. Take off depreciation, running costs of machine and vehicle/ trailer and your wage...... Don't leave a massive amount!

 

Forgot to mention insurance.

 

 

Yep, when you put it like that Eggs it makes you think.....

[Stefan Palokangas]

Two hours on site takes up half a day in reality, so half a day man and a machine like yours (20k's worth?) needs to be closer to £300 imo. Works out at £75/hour. Take off depreciation, running costs of machine and vehicle/ trailer and your wage...... Don't leave a massive amount!

 

Forgot to mention insurance.

 

Yes you are correct... I will work hard to get my weakness sorted out, honestly i'm thinking like this... Well this customer have a work and she is meeting this and that amount of people and she will leave word of me, and that will lead to this and that, and the common sense person in the house hold says, she/he will say she paid this and that so next will expect same payment so you get yourself in to underpriced routine.

 

I feel things is starting to kick off so i must get myself sorted out.

[peatff]

has she got a sister?

 

Yes but if you have to ask you can't afford her

[skyhuck]

Give them a price on the spot, more likely to get a yes. What's to think about?

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Takes over !

 

 

Was out pricing a job today and it was a stump in the front garden 40cm wide, climb some steps put some boards down to protect the ground.

in the back garden been a hedge with 4 stumps reaching 30cm, and 20 small ones, i reckon the time involved in total is 2 hours.

 

I say to the Lady i get back with the price i will think about it on the way home, i get the better half to phone up with the price "she is very polite and social compared to me" i tell her 100 £...

 

She comes back to me says i told her 210 £ and she accepted it.

 

????????

 

She told me i'm under pricing all my jobs and it have to come to an end !!!

 

PMSL:lol: not just my Mrs then!

[sloth]

I only went self employed in 2011, I really undervalued my time at first too. Within 6 months my day rate (for surveys, reports etc) went from £180 plus travel/map costs etc to £275. Fast forward to now and I aim for 360 plus any extras like os maps or travel if it's more than 45ish mins away. I don't always quite get that, giving leeway for bigger jobs or those tricky ones that overrun a bit. I've lost a couple of my earlier clients due to the increase, but most have said they thought I was cheap and used me again anyway. As you go on you realise that what seems ok at first on paper just doesn't cover the real costs of working! On top of the obvious tools, insurance, advertising, tax, vehicles etc. there's days off, unexpected repairs, holiday pay, quiet times, reinvestment, pension, book keeping, quoting, research, the list goes on and on!

[bobh]

PMSL:lol: not just my Mrs then!

 

Hi Tony

I've just been searching for powdered turquoise to do a few inlays but I'm struggling to find any.

Have you got a link to where you get yours?