How is work going..? (update 2)...

[Tony73]

just back from work :hurray:


took me 3 hours. Client didn't want waterproof walls. Did it any way (had Ardex kit in my van)

 

[marky]

Have the mosaics got enough cover on the back for the adhesive,just a thought as deano had a big prob with something like this.

 

[Tony73]

yeh i know , Deano tiles were covered by mesh almost 100% :lol:. these have plenty contact with adhesive

 

[marky]

Nice one the job looks good,and hats off to you for tanking the walls even though they did not want it peace of mind,springs to mind i would of done the same thing.

 

[Tony73]

client does't know about tanking, they are abroad :lol:

 

[kilty55]

ticking over fine atm....smaller jobs this year i have noticed but still work none the less

 

[EverDon Tiling]

Things are all good half way through a large bathroom refurb been a nightmare so far tho think its gonna cost me more than the customer. Got a phone call of one of my regular clients he just bought another club and I've got all the toilets then gonna try and take a couple of months off if i can our babys due soon and want to be around to help other half and welcome our little man into the world.

 

[marky]

I have no work as not on the tools at the moment had to go back into PAYE 2 years ago has work was hard,the thing is i am missing it, i did do a job 2 days ago some extra tiling in a kitchen i did 2 years ago and just slipped right back into it we no probs.

 

[Muse2k8]

Getting enough through to pay the bills but no big jobs. Having to offer a handyman service to keep work coming in lol. Quite enjoy doing random bits though.

client does't know about tanking, they are abroad :lol:

Lol why didn't the customer want waterproofing? They planning on not using the shower?

 

[garybadger]

March and April where hectic. 2 days off and that was working weekends as well.
Starting to see it slowing down now though, hope to get a few big jobs in shortly.
Actually just lost out on 2 jobs by being undercut. Not even close in price, but blown completely out the water.
1 off them was a bathroom for a builder I do work for. Client wanted, underfloor heating, wet floor, as well. There was the tanking off the wet area, self level the floor once the underfloor heating mat was stuck down, 20m2 porcelain on the walls, 5m2 travertine mosaic on the floor. Guy undercut my price by HALF the £££.

 

[macten]

Never known it this bad for me personally, getting undercut on 90% of the few jobs that trickle through.
Just had a call for a bathroom and I'm looking at that tomorrow. Really need the work so I am going to have to price it keen.
Hate to have to do that but needs must and all that.. saving grace is it's local.

 

[Muse2k8]

Business phone has gone off quite a few times today... Either trying to sell me something or looking for a job

 

[Dan]

Unlucky mate. At least you know you're phone's working.

 

[Muse2k8]

Haha that's true

 

[Dan]

Are you here anywhere? https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tiler+in+Edinburgh

Get a listing on freeindex, that ranks number 2. So you'll get some calls / website hits from that I guess.

Then register for your free google places listing, so you get listed with the other tilers in the map things there.
www.google.co.uk/places - it's free.

 

[Tony73]

Getting enough through to pay the bills but no big jobs. Having to offer a handyman service to keep work coming in lol. Quite enjoy doing random bits though.



Lol why didn't the customer want waterproofing? They planning on not using the shower?

well bathroom is in basement, so nobody to flood below :lol:
. but they could flood themselfs, so i did it

 

[Muse2k8]

I currently use Adwords but find I'm getting shown plenty in the top 5 (past my budget today already) but the work turn around is just not converting... Hence why I'm updating sites etc too. Will try your suggestions too.

 

[Muse2k8]

Added details on Google Places and Freeindex Bathroom Fitter in Edinburgh (UK) - Lothian & Borders Property Services and Ive had to consider dropping the adwords thing. I mean my daily budget is set at £10 and yesterday alone I got charged £22.07 for 36 clicks but then all the calls I got were pain in the bum ones anyway

 

[swanman]

HUNKY DORY

At the mo

 

[Dan]

Added details on Google Places and Freeindex Bathroom Fitter in Edinburgh (UK) - Lothian & Borders Property Services and Ive had to consider dropping the adwords thing. I mean my daily budget is set at £10 and yesterday alone I got charged £22.07 for 36 clicks but then all the calls I got were pain in the bum ones anyway

Adwords wouldn't work too well for a tiler mate to be honest. Good for online shops and whatnot. But not most types of tradesmen.

You can customise the Adwords quite a lot so that you're not paying much per click for long-tail search terms (ones not so primary therefore competitive) so instead of "Tiler in Edinburgh" try "wall tiler in edinburg" and "floor tiler in edinburgh" and use the cancel out thing so that you don't show at all for "tiler in edinburgh" and you should find you don't hit your daily budget so quickly because your term is much less competitive.

You'll still get the same sort of actual calls though I think.

I'd optimise your own website and get on google places and get climbing the freeindex listing page by getting more reviews etc. Send some reviews to your google places page too as that can help get you climb the list of tilers next to the map on Google.co.uk.

 

[Muse2k8]

Going to try that out. Definitely would be cheaper too lol. Once again today has involved sales calls grrrr.

 

[Dan]

Use the cancelling out feature more so than the words you want to show for. Play around with it a lot and you can get a lot of 2p CPC instead of 80p ones for example. And they can be a lot more targetted too.

So a "Tiler in Edinburgh" you might be showing when people are searching "Roof Tiler in Edinburgh" so you want to use the cancel out feature for the word "Roof" so you never show for that.

I used to be very good at optimising adwords but it's changed quite a lot since I paid any big bucks for it per month. Only had a couple of free £50 vouchers I've thrashed on random stuff from time to time.

 

[appletiler]

booked up for about 6 weeks. will have to start moaning soon. ha.

 

[demi34]

Very busy at moment all domestic work around Essex and London

 

[Muse2k8]

Think half my battle is moving up from the borders working for my dads company which is busy to trying to setup in Edinburgh which is literally teeming with tradesmen and "tradesmen"