[Dave_Lee]

We hear comments about this all the time, but what do you think of as being busy, for you?
Some may think doing more jobs than average in a week, as a busy week. Others will measure it by the volume of takings, or profit.
For me, I don't want to kill myself these days as I get my state pension in four months time, so I consider myself generally busy if I gross £1,500 in a week and very busy if it goes over £2,000 all domestic.
Depending on the jobs but sometimes this comes through just 5 jobs or as many as 20.
However I look to the takings not the number of jobs.
What about you, and no porkies!
Dave.

[Mike Halliday]

normal for me is  8.30 -  3pm mon-fri and 8-30-1pm on Saturday.

 If I'm working any later than 3pm or a Saturday afternoon then i consider myself busy

[Carpet Dawg]

more than the odd late finish through the week. Which usualy means bigger or more jobs which inturn means bigger takings.

So same as you Dave.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

.....when you get to Monday morning and you find that you've already got a week of "average" takings booked in.

And then the phone doesn't stop ringing!

And every enquiry says "yes" to your phone estimate.

So you just have to find time to do those jobs that can't wait till next week and which are too profitable to miss out on OR you really want to do (and which are usually very profitable) OR regular/important clients whose needs you just know you can't disappoint( and are very profitable.)

Or all three of those reasons at the same time!

Rog

[wynne jones]

Busy is when things at home don't get done that should and weeks just role into each other. You feel tired most of the time, ache all over and you feel like you are constantly down the bank paying money in all the time.

[Matt Seymour]

Busy to me at the moment would be one job!

I don't have a single job booked in at the moment.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

...... and you feel like you are constantly down the bank paying money in all the time.

Wynne
What you really mean is:

When you are so busy you can't find the time to get to the bank to pay in all that lovely lolly

Rog

[markpowell]

Nearlly booked up for xmas now, every morning booked except 1 and about 5 afternoons to fill, all saturdays fully booked all day and having Sundays off, so i see that as busy, glad the snow has come and slowed the phones down, only lost 1 day working with the bad weather. I cant remember any November as manic as this year.
Mark

[wynne jones]

...... and you feel like you are constantly down the bank paying money in all the time.

Wynne
What you really mean is:

When you are so busy you can't find the time to get to the bank to pay in all that lovely lolly

Rog

There are some things you find time for and some things have to wait, as I keep telling the current Mrs.

[dave123]

For me Mark it was October that was manic . This snow hasn't helped had to rearrange my jobs in London and just keep the local ones , otherwise been ticking over .


Dave123

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

What do I call busy ?

Well not this week that's for sure. I haven't left the house since Monday and have postponed nearly a thousand pounds worth of work, which will have to be re-booked between now and xmas.

As busy as I have been in the last 6 months, I have never felt that I was running at full capacity. But then again I don't wish to work 10 hours a day.

If I start at 8.30am and have earned £ 200-300 by 3pm by doing 1 or 2 jobs, then I will happily go home or do a survey on the way home.

Having said that, I will have to do longer hours in the run up to xmas in order to fit everything in - well at least I hope that is the case, the phone has stopped ringing since the snow came.

[robert meldrum]

Mark...............It's actually December !

I'd have to go back a number years to when I advertised and would have regarded 4-5 jobs daily to be reasonably busy but more like 6-7 to be really busy.
That was two people working as a team and maintaining a steady momentum throughout the cleaning.
That was NOT Gold Level cleaning but still giving excellent value to clients many of whom continued to use us and recommend us to others.
Nowadays, working differently 2 jobs per day for me is busy..........sometimes totally knackering, but it's all I can handle and I really hate to admit that.

[derek west]

4 jobs and a quote today for me.

living room and small kitchen £60
bedroom living room £75
quote, nailed. doing it next thursday.
maccies

now on to do

hall stairs landing £60
6 dining chairs £60.
be home for half 3

i'd call that steady, easily done but filling the day. and pretty much the norm for me.

[Steve. Taylor]

Working 8 to 4 mon to fri and earning more than £200 a day is busy for me

[Vernon Purcell]

Busy for me is 150 jobs a week