[steve doyle]

hi folks,
cleaned a drive for a customer who  ive found out has a building company,

He has asked me to meet him sat pm (so not long to research) to discuss taking over their end of build jet washing from them, it seems they are resonably large company and so could be plenty of work for me so im keen to get involved.

I was hoping someone could give me a few tips on how to approach this meeting and how to price the work, per hour and invoice or by the job, whats the norm?

thanx for the help in advance.

regards

steve

[Andy Foster]

Where are you based Steve?

[steve doyle]

hi andy,

Im in a highly cobbled area of manchester!

[Andy Foster]

Hi Steve

Just thought that if you were near Birmingham you might want to come and see one of the jobs I'm on at the moment so that you could judge from that maybe.

Building firms will not really be interested in hourly/daily rate for the main job... extras would be different but for the main site they would want a price for the job.

You will need to make sure your PL is up to scratch, they normally want a minimum of £5 million.

Health and safety policies, method statements and risk assessments are also a must and can prove to be expensive but well worth the initial investment (www.rams.org.uk are great for these).

If you can, you should get them to agree weekly payment and invoicing as they will expect 30 or even 60 days payable from the end of the month (eg - work done in April, billed at end of April, payable either end of May or even end of June). Most of them will insist on monthly instead of weekly, but it is worth offering an incentive for them to agree to this. Just make sure you don't devote all of your time to them as you will have cashflow problems in the first couple of months.

You will also need your CIS card (if you haven't got it already).


Call me if you are interested in coming down or you want any other info.
07957 982525

Andy

[steve doyle]

Thats a great help andy thanks,

this is only my second year and although im busy domestically i know its not going to last so commercial work will help me bridge those slow months.

I would definatly like to take you up on your very kind offer and come down birmingham and see how you do things.

how much longer will you be on that job andy? and i will do my best to create a free day in my diary (next week).

cheers
steve

[Andy Foster]

Hi

Good thinking to get some commercial work... it saw me through winter!!!

I will personally be on at least one of the sites for 2 days  next week, but won't know for definite which 2 until Monday.
If you call me Monday late afternoon we can have a chat and I should know what the score is by then.

I look forward to speaking to you on Monday.

Regards

Andy

[steve doyle]

Thats great andy,

will call you monday pm then and do my best to meet up with you on site in the week,

thanks alot,

regards

steve

[Andy Foster]

My pleasure Steve.

Look forward to meeting you.