If you have priced your work well then you will do fine on domestic work, you don't need commercial work to make a good living.
I have plenty of drive between work, and they all pay well, most love compact work, but I get bored with that and so I enjoy moving around a lot.
And commercial work is generally harder to get hold of anyway, always stay on the lookout though as they can be very good earners when you do get them...providing you've priced them well of course!
Commercial work may give you the scope to go out and work in just about any weather condition, but if you ensure that you've told your domestic customers that only extreme weather will stop you from calling then you will be ok.
And by extreme, for me personally that means heavy, rain and high winds, light rain, drizzle and so on shouldn't be a problem for you...unless you have that horrible persistant heavy drizzle and high winds combined of course
Ian
Oh, 2 more replys while I was doing my own reply!
What you charge Lucy will depend on which part of the country you live in, for me, in the Chepstow area of South Wales, although I have a few jobs under £9.00, for the most part my prices on domestic work start there.
If a 2 bed house has georgian or leaded windows, then the price goes up, a 4 bed detached can vary enormously in size, but I'd be highly unlikely to be much under £15.00 for one.
When you have several houses on one estate, should you receive a phone call asking how much? It is easy enough to tell the potential customer that their house is going to be roughly in the region of £XXX because you'll know the houses concerned.
But otherwise always go look at the job first!
When I get a phone call, or get aproached in the street and asked 'how much?'
I tell them my minimum price for any work is (for me) about a tenner, some walk away others say can you come and have a look.
Often you get to the house and it is a total doddle to do, even for your minimum price, and the customer is more than happy to pay too!!
Ian
