My parents should have named me Thomas as there are certain things I would need to see with my own eyes before I
would believe them, 32 three bed semis all cleaned to a decent standard by one person in a working day would be one of them.
Plus as I was nearly crucified on here for daring to suggest that an employee should be able to do the same as the business owner
what target would they be hitting 40 a day.
Sean, your welcome to pop up and come out for a day, in Scotland with my lads (sons).
We don't scrimp on quality, we do all windows, doors, frames and sills using Trad.
My lads are capable of doing 30 houses a day each day in day out, this can take them anywhere from 5 hours to 8 hours a day to complete, depending on their mood for the day and the compactness of the round, oh and we are talking £5 houses here.
Their daily target is £150 each of which we go 50/50 and they meet their own running cost, which are minimal as we ditched the van a year ago and now walk round, it is amazing how much time is saved due to not having to load/unload van several times a day.
And if you do come you can compare my standards of work against the local big boy, who expects his crew to do a minimum of 50 houses at £4/£4.50 using wfp each a day (KS Cleaning May know who I am referring to here), the standard of their work is so poor that the trad lads in the area have taken well over 1000 jobs of this team, simply because they are under pressure to perform and reach targets so corners and whole windows get cut.
Am I happy with my £75 a day I get from my lads ? Yes
Are they happy earning £75 a day? Yes
These figures will son be £90 a day as I am in process of upping prices to £6
OR they can drop their daily target to 25 jobs to get same money.