The million dollar question? (Most profitable work)

[townfanjon]

I thought you'd stopped doing bathrooms John?
I do one after the other all year, mostly from existing customers local to me or their friends, then an evening/on my way home job.

Yep dont do them anymore , but with the time they take ( done properly) they pay the best IMO .

 

[townfanjon]

Really ? What are you guys charging and are you going to do the whole lot alone? What is covered in the price you give to the customers? Which materials

Some people look at bathrooms like kitchens and will pay thousands for a pro job . Not everyone can do them to the required standard though.

 

[Old Account]

Yep dont do them anymore , but with the time they take ( done properly) they pay the best IMO .

Don’t get that to be fair. How much money are you guys charging for a standard bathroom refurbishment and are you doing them alone? Don’t think it’s worth spending 10-12 days for a bathroom refurbishment

 

[townfanjon]

Don’t get that to be fair. How much money are you guys charging for a standard bathroom refurbishment and are you doing them alone? Don’t think it’s worth spending 10-12 days for a bathroom refurbishment

10 days ish x 8 hours x hourly rate , sounds ok to me mate .

 

[Old Account]

10 days ish x 8 hours x hourly rate , sounds ok to me mate .

Right. Still don’t think it’s worth the money. Tiling is a hard and not great job to be honest. It also has to be all spot on otherwise you end up having trouble

 

[king of pipes]

Bathrooms and wetrooms in the summer boiler and system upgrades in the winter .

 

[townfanjon]

Right. Still don’t think it’s worth the money. Tiling is a hard and not great job to be honest. It also has to be all spot on otherwise you end up having trouble

Lol , I am not saying its easy , its bloody hard , I have been doing it for years , its a profitable job . Do you truthfully get say , 40 chargeable hours money a week . Because I never do . You do on a bathroom, you cant keep sneaking off doing other jobs , you are there all day everyday.

 

[hammers4spanner]

I charge grand a week to do a bathroom , sub out the tiling tho .

 

[Scott_D]

I charge grand a week to do a bathroom , sub out the tiling tho .

And the tiler charges you a grand for 2 days work

 

[Welder]

I just wrote about the issues, misconceptions & plain incorrect assumptions raised here.
Then I deleted it cos I plainly have no idea

 

[king of pipes]

Worst paying jobs is anything were someone has asked for a plumber on face book.

Worst paying jobs are the ones involving family ha ha they end up costing me money ! Ha ha look at this nasty one my daughter inherited looks ok on the surface but there was hidden problems cost me well over a grand ouch !

 

[hammers4spanner]

And the tiler charges you a grand for 2 days work

I have been saying it for years on here tho when you get ' I'm leaving the army to be a plumber '
Train to be a tiler I'm actually thinking about dumping my gas to concentrate more on tiling

 

[king of pipes]

Ft I do all my own tiling but find it mind numbingly boring but I charge the same day rate to do it as i would installing a boiler . Kop

 

[SimonG]

Oil boiler installs, followed by bathrooms.

 

[Jim Goodenough]

Oil boiler installs, followed by bathrooms.

Whereabouts you in Durham Simon?