Funny enough i do see where dry is coming from, when i first started working for myself i thought as an 'employed' person thinks, i used to quote for a job over the 'phone, give a price, get there and the room might have been smaller than i thought, i would knock off some money, a few times i would say something like, i've only been here an hour, i can't charge you £75, let's make it £50 thinking that £50 was great when i was used to earning about £15 an hour in my previous industry. then it dawned on me that out of that £50 i had to pay, chemicals, diesel, petrol, insurance, vat, tax accountant etc etc. i was actually not earning much at all. i soon learnt that you have to charge a realistic fee to earn a realistic living, my thoughts now are that whatever the client is prepared to pay then to them, that is a good price, if you say £100 for a dining room and they are happy with that, so be it, if they think that's a good price, everyone is happy. having said that, i do try to keep my prices on the average side so that i get loads of referals and a customer isn't afraid to have me back a couple of times a year instead of just once every 2 years because of my high price.
colin
