The million dollar question? (Most profitable work)

[Jim Goodenough]

Morning all,

Here goes, the million dollar question....?

What is the most profitable work in this business (I'm not GS, so gas work is out)? My experience is largely domestic.

Any suggestions / advice welcome

 

[hammers4spanner]

Drippy taps imho in out and quick money , if I could get 6 of those a day it's ££££s

 

[Welder]

When I started doing 'little' service works in 1999 I turned over just shy of £100k in my first year.

We have a model. We reckon, travel management permitting, on min 10 tap jobs a day with the kit. So tween 6-800 a day if you did that amount.

 

[Harvest Fields]

I like taps that drip and new cartridges (Plumbing)

Boiler servicing (gas)

I have to write gas as it is my bread and butter.

 

[Best]

Has to be gas work.
New bathroom installs also good money, - that is why every other trade and non trade are doing them.
I rarely make decent money fixing dripping taps and it would usually be my worst paying job.

 

[hammers4spanner]

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

 

[Harvest Fields]

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

Don’t have that issue. Not on facebook

 

[WaterTight]

Dripping taps are fine when everything goes by the book which is probably no more than 70% of the time. Valve won't come out on one side, try so hard tap comes loose needs tightening, bolts rusty, too much crap in cupboard, tap is cheap and nasty so seating so bad new washer no good, get the ceramic discs out only to find they aren't standard or the old handles don't fit on the new valves and the customer doesn't want new handles and blah de blah.

Changing the tap is a better job imo because there is more room to make more money on the parts, it barely takes any longer and it will work first time every time.

 

[Old Account]

Has to be gas work.
New bathroom installs also good money, - that is why every other trade and non trade are doing them.
I rarely make decent money fixing dripping taps and it would usually be my worst paying job.

I have to disagree, I do not think that bathrooms make any money whatsoever. No one will actually pay what you want to earn in a week or two. Wouldn’t you make more money when doing 3/4 boilers in two weeks?

 

[WaterTight]

I've thought it through. The most profitable jobs are the ones where you charge the most money.