[John Kelly]

£175 for half a days work. Its the least you should expect. You will never get that day in day out but its what you should be aspiring too. Even if you got this everyday for 5 days a week and 48 weeks of the year it only amounts to £84000. Sounds a lot doesn't it, but it would only just take you above the vat threshold.
Take off all your overhead, (the marketing costs to achieve this would be very high) set aside for vehicle and equipment renewals and you are left with just a bit more than the average wage. For running your own business you deserve that at least.

[*Hector*]

what is the VAT threshold again??

[John Milnes]

I think it's 69

[*Hector*]

 

[JandS]

The thing is people don't give a damn about your advertising, tax,
marketing, holiday pay etc they just see you on £300+ a day and
think whoa.
They would probably relate to fuel and materials but after that.
I know my outgoings last year worked out at just about £125 per
working week and I bet that is way low for some on here.

Mark, you mention them paying all that rent to pay the landlords
mortgage......the thing is they have no choice about that they do
about having cleaning done.

John

[M.Acorn]

Mark, you mention them paying all that rent to pay the landlords
mortgage......the thing is they have no choice about that they do
about having cleaning done

I come highly recommended by the agent they are renting off though, so do they risk getting someone cheap in, who may or may not do a decent job, at the risk of the agent not being happy and then possibly have to pay to have them done properly by me.
It's happened before, tenant has tried to get mr cheap to come back out to do a proper job and they didn't want to know.
All my work comes with a free return visit, where I will clean whatever it is for free again, if there are any problems, I always over qualify with customer, so I don't get called back, well about 3 times in 8 years, which in the grand scheme of things is not too bad

[mark_roberts]

£125 a week.  Are you sure your calculators working.

Assuming your full time working 4-5 days a week every week.

Mark

[Neil Jones]

£125 a week seems cheap to me and I hardly advertise

[Craigp]

£125 a week is only £6,000 per year over 48 working weeks.

My Fuel bill last year was £4,500 so I think you got that wrong somewhere, unless you ride a bicycle to jobs, use dry foam with a bucket and sponge and get all your work word of mouth 

[Craigp]

I said most people would.

I think its cheap, Im sure if I quoted that my my prospective client would think so too. 

[JandS]

Working 4 - 5 days a week.
How many miles a week you do for that kind of fuel
bill?
Some days I can do 3 jobs and do less than 10 miles.
Rarely do more than 20 miles in a day.
Work wise 80/90 miles a week so 2 gallons of diesel
£15 max.
Stick another fiver on for going to quotes so £20 max
a week for work.

John

[JandS]

Works out more like £145 per week.
Worked the figures out over a 52 week period
but only actually worked 45 weeks.
I like 3 weeks on my jollies in Summer..

[Carpet Dawg]

Yeah, i'm slightly agreeing with John on the expense front. I do a fair amount of work and I spend around £40 a week on diesal. 52 weeks x £40 = £2080 a year. Thats working 6 days a week and the odd quote on sundays too.

Thats driving a swb transit van.

Alot of guys on here must cover a very large area.

Suppose doing home quotes also doesn't help the fuel bill.