How Many Weeks Ahead Are You Booked?

I am booked up to 22nd July now, I have been given a "posh" mini get away place of 5 bathrooms in various stones to start end of July just waiting for a date. Got another floor to do in august for previous customer and just quoted a big bathroom tonight and got that to try fit in end July... Can't complain as only went solo August last year but recommendations are spreading around very nicely. Same as above turning away lots of "can you do it this week or next week" jobs.. Can't have them all I guess :sunglasses: Even upgraded to having a labourer, wow what a time saver!!! 😉
 
So it's fair to say with most of you, that unless you had a cancellation for next week (and didn't have lots of small jobs booked in for when such a thing happens = smart planning) that you wouldn't be able to take anything on for quite a few weeks if not months.....?
 
So it's fair to say with most of you, that unless you had a cancellation for next week (and didn't have lots of small jobs booked in for when such a thing happens = smart planning) that you wouldn't be able to take anything on for quite a few weeks if not months.....?

That's fair to say for me at least, yeah.
I've tried collecting a few odds and ends in the way of small jobs to 'fill in!' But it never seems to work. Tried it again a month ago, took on a small porch for a repeat customer and told her it would be sometime during the week starting the..... Of May. Low behold on the Sunday gets a call from her saying, are u still coming tomorrow? I've packed the kids off so they won't get in your way! I wanted to start on the Thursday, which was during the week I'd stated. I ended up calling in sick next day and doing her porch instead! 😕
 
Fully booked till September now have projects on going that will take me into December last 3days been working away doing 13hr days.
 
At the moment I am on a job in Chiswick for 4 weeks, but I have to come off next week to go to another customer for a week. I then go back to Chiswick. I do work for a local builder and I always give him first refusal. It means I don’t do much quoting because he does it. My jobs don’t dovetail into each other which is fine for me. I’ve got a friends WC to tile, but that is my backburner job. I also have to fit in a holiday in the coming weeks. By the time the Chiswick job is done I go back to Northwood to tile a kitchen for the same builder that has me doing Chiswick. Basically I am booked for 2 months.
 

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