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MAX Carpets

  • Posts: 869
Gone slow??
« on: October 19, 2010, 09:03:11 am »
Anyone else found this. October isnt usually a quite month for us, but seems to have gone very quite. Is it only me?

Joe H

Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2010, 09:38:46 am »
Bit quiet too.
Busy selling the Prowler & van though

wayne zabel

  • Posts: 1082
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2010, 12:47:46 pm »
Glad its not just me.After a great start to full time CC I seem to have come a bit of a slump,I was putting it down to people holding on a bit to have carpets done for Xmas

MAX Carpets

  • Posts: 869
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2010, 01:21:21 pm »
I might be having the day off tomorrow..........................un-heard off for years!!!

Nick Vassilev

  • Posts: 95
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2010, 01:30:59 pm »
All round to joes soon for the party yaay.

As i say wayne a carpet cleaner is for life not just for christmas ;D

Spot on, Clinton  ;)

Matt Seymour

  • Posts: 762
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2010, 03:51:11 pm »
Very slow for me too.

Difficult for me to judge really as I haven't been going for long on my own, but it is definitely very quiet at the moment. So quiet in fact that I am thinking of taking a part time evening job.


Grant Whyte

  • Posts: 114
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2010, 04:30:19 pm »
Just been going a year, got hands full, though cc's are fewer per week than earlier in summer

Grant

colin thomas

  • Posts: 813
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2010, 04:49:38 pm »
peaks and troughs, take it easy while you can em, you and i don't usually stay quiet for long!

 ;)
colin thomas

MAX Carpets

  • Posts: 869
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2010, 06:38:28 pm »
Just had some stair ways at an apartment block book for tomorrow, £400, phew!

Colin Day

Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2010, 07:22:08 pm »
Just had some stair ways at an apartment block book for tomorrow, £400, phew!

It's a mad business isn't it?

2 weeks ago I was panicking as I had no work booked in... Last week I had my best week ever. I was glad to have a trip out to the dentist today and the rest of the day off.... Back to it tomorrow :D


Shaun_Ashmore

  • Posts: 11382
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2010, 08:14:52 pm »
I have just given 2 jobs away to a friend on the board so I must be mad/busy/lazy I bet that there's about £300+.

Shaun

Glynn

  • Posts: 1129
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2010, 08:18:55 pm »
Flat out here.
Regards
Glynn

davep

  • Posts: 2589
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2010, 08:23:42 pm »
People talk about being quiet and some busy, yet 2 jobs a day may be busy for some and 4 a day quiet for others  :D




Dave_Lee

  • Posts: 1728
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2010, 08:31:55 pm »
Could also be the location. Working the same area as Glynn, I too am flat out, but then weve both going 30+ years.
Dave.
Dave Lee, Owner of Deepclean Services
Chorley Lancs. Est 1980.
"Pay Cheap -You get Cheap - Pay a little more and get something Better."

markpowell

  • Posts: 2279
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2010, 08:35:52 pm »
Thanks for the 2 jobs Shaun, they come in at £290 booked for Friday, Fully booked this week amd most of next, last week was mayhem so not too bad this end thank god, this year though on a whole is about 30% down on the first 10 months of 2009.
Mark

Len Gribble

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Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2010, 08:50:30 pm »
Was behind a cc in Lewisham today he came of the depth of Kent (Ashford area) so some are busy  :o
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. (Sidcup Kent)

Shaun_Ashmore

  • Posts: 11382
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2010, 08:52:30 pm »
A pleasure Mark, your 30% down could be the broken legs you recieved when your missus tried to run you over earlier this year ;D

Shaun

Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)

  • Posts: 2024
Re: Gone slow??
« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2010, 10:19:09 pm »
Thought I was going slow but having reviewed last few weeks, whilst quieter than the manic weeks they were still good weeks. So have just put it down to a combination of working at a faster pace for so long that I now just finish earlier and think I've not had as much work to do and/or bigger job tickets for jobs that are relatively easy; and of course the longer you are on site the more profitable and the greater £ per quarter hour you earn you are.

Rog
Diplomacy: the art of letting other people have your way