[DanielWelford]

I am beginning to do more and more commercial work, some of which is regular rather than one offs.

A friend suggested that I should try to tie the regular work into some type of contract to avoid them being poached by some unruly competitor.

Anyone doing anything like this, and if so would they be prepared to provide me with a sample of the same? I was going to speak to a solicitor and get it done properly, but was quoted £140 an hr, which is too rich for me.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Mark@Eco-Powerclean]

Daniel, if you're starting to get some lucrative contracts which seem to be possibles for ongoing work (lucky sod), why not invest some of that money into ensuring that you correctly tie them to long term deals. I assume you're talking about maintenance programmes?

These contracts may turn out to be big bucks, so would you not be prepared to pay the equivalent of, say, one of those commercial jobs to ensure you have a solid set of T&Cs? I know I would.

£140 p/h sounds a lot, but if your solicitor's worth his salt, he'll already have a standard set of service industry T&Cs and will just need to tweak them a bit for your own business. I'd be surprised if he needed to work more than a couple of hours on them.

[Len Gribble]

Daniel

Think your post should go on the general cleaning and see how it fairs there! What I will say all contracts can be cancelled with the required notification.

Len