Manners

[Flintstone]

I had one 2 weeks ago, it riled me up as I went out of my way to get there, I had to wait about an hour when i would have normally been on my way home.
Full bathroom all in plaster, all be it badly done. Floor plyd in 6mm
Another small room, he had already tiled floor onto chipboard, no primer or flexi adhesive or anything like that. Gave him the quote for tiling and boarding the floor, which was about 1000 in total, he took a deep breathe, and said, 'thousand pound just for tiling' that sounds a lot.
Needles to say I didn't hear back. Probably get some crank multi trader to finish his bathrooms and tile on his 6mm nailed ply.
I knew when I pulled up, could tell from the house, and he had about 3 different jobs.
But you can't always judge a book by its cover, some common looking and sounding chap accosted me outside my house saying he wants his bathroom floor doing. I went with it, pulled up at his house later that week in a rough area, I almost just drove off but I went with it, quoted him, pretty high as I wasn't bothered, and he said yep straight away, did the job, paid the same day, nice chap.

 

[Flintstone]

Sometimes Aston, you can go to look at a job and your talking through it like it's all nailed on and they are happy as owt, all good. You give the quote, that seems ok, then you don't here another word.

 

[Aston]

Sometimes Aston, you can go to look at a job and your talking through it like it's all nailed on and they are happy as owt, all good. You give the quote, that seems ok, then you don't here another word.

I know you do mate, we've all been there, i'm just trying to give you some other angles that I know will work that's all mate ;0)

 

[Flintstone]

I've spent years of being very very obliging

 

[hmtiling]

I don't have the time or inclination to convince anyone that my price is fair or their prep is wrong. I've been busy for as long as I've been self employed and doing it right for what I consider to be the right price is all that matters. I've tried expanding, but I found all I was doing was holding peoples hands and worrying about the **** ups they could make and ruin my hard earned reputation.

 

[Aston]

I don't have the time or inclination to convince anyone that my price is fair or their prep is wrong. I've been busy for as long as I've been self employed and doing it right for what I consider to be the right price is all that matters. I've tried expanding, but I found all I was doing was holding peoples hands and worrying about the **** ups they could make and ruin my hard earned reputation.

So let me ask you this
if you did have the time, would you have the inclination??

Lets say you got very ill and were off work for a year. All your work dried up and your local builders had to use another tiler, would you then start going after the work? or just sit back and wait for everybody to remember how good you used to be and start begging you to do their tiling again..

 

[widler]

you can never tell by a quick phone call....
you think you can but you can't be 100% sure...
all as you have done is spent a couple of minutes quickly assessing them and formed a judgment without any real exploration...Sales companies get rid of people like that in a heart beat and whether you like it or not, sales is part of your job.

when a person asks for a cheap quote, it doesn't always mean, that's all ive got to spend, it can also translate to please don't rip me off.

if a person says, ''i want it doing next week'' and you are busy, maybe they will wait for you?? maybe the guy they used instead of you makes a right mess and then they call you back and say they'll wait for you and pay you what ever it takes.

If you took the extra time and effort to go to every job and give them the reassurance or whatever it is they are looking for, you would be surprised at how many much more money you would make..You could even think about expanding (God for bid 😵

its all about a certain attitude. i bet you any money you like, if it was january and we had another recession like 2008, you'd be round to every call you got??

the answer is complacency or your maxed out
I have been there too and I know the difference between when i'm really on top of my game and when I think I am??

I'm on about face to face you can sniff them out Aston, not by the phone mate
And I agree , we have to be friendly , I'm the friendliest bloke in the world , I will talk to anyone anywhere and usually like most people and visa versa
BUT ,there is a lot of utter poss tots in this world , and we can be as friendly as a prostitute on ecstasy with them but we will never hear from them again

 

[Aston]

I'm on about face to face you can sniff them out Aston, not by the phone mate
And I agree , we have to be friendly , I'm the friendliest bloke in the world , I will talk to anyone anywhere and usually like most people and visa versa
BUT ,there is a lot of utter poss tots in this world , and we can be as friendly as a prostitute on ecstasy with them but we will never hear from them again

bloody hell your on form tonight craig, bernard manning would be proud of you with some of these 1 liners lol
are you looking forward to kell brook v ggg

 

[widler]

Ha ha , 🙂
Yes mate, even contemplated going , but my mates fighting for the welter British title in Cardiff, against Bradley skeete in October so we are going there

 

[hmtiling]

So let me ask you this
if you did have the time, would you have the inclination??

Lets say you got very ill and were off work for a year. All your work dried up and your local builders had to use another tiler, would you then start going after the work? or just sit back and wait for everybody to remember how good you used to be and start begging you to do their tiling again..

Tbh no. Not when I'm knocking work back every week.
We could talk hypothetically all night but if that did happen of course my attitude would change. Wouldn't anyone's?