Although tomorrow and Friday it's all commercial work we do fit in a few 'richer' customers as they're on route and they pay well so they get 5 star treatment.
The 4 I have just phoned said not tomorrow because of the weather.
With regards the extra cost of wfp? I keep accurate records and since we've been using wfp (as well as trad) our profits have increased by 23% for the first 4 months of this year compared to last year and that is excluding 14 jobs worth £900 a month that could not be done with trad methods.
Overall, for the same time last year our work is up 8% and that's with ditching quiet a number of small, time consuming work.
Our wfp costs for the first 4 months was £156 and the extra diesel I estimate at £80. Trad equipment for the same period was £139.
Wfp as an expense was 9% of our running costs and trad stuff was 7%.
So as far as I'm concerned and the bottom line, profit - which is all I concern myself about, there is no question that wfp more than pays for itself and in terms of efficiency of time and money spent, for us it returns a much larger profit pro rata than trad methods.
It can also be used for some commercial work on days when trad style is out the question and the quality of finish doesn't matter that much because of either high winds and salt, or rain.
It's also more hassle and a real pain in the backside and there is one jobs I hate doing every evening, filling up those rotten tanks. Just as I hate the complaints about it from some customers.
Cheers
