Right, now listen up you lot!
I'm getting very bored of climbing ladders and doing the same old stuff for £100-130 a day.
I'm tired and fed up.
Luckily for me it's bungalows tomorrow.
Looks like if I'm going to carry on I'll need one of these Bogbrush things.
I can't do much about it now, as I've got no ready cash, and no van or place to make water.
However.....
Am I really going to be that much better off?
Your turnover will increase if you can find the extra work to go with your investment.
I turn down less work since I went wfp
I now work at a faster pace on upstairs windows , to say 50% faster is very optimistic, I still do ground floor windows by hand , there really is no time to be gained there unless they are georgeon , leaded etc. Lately my workload has increased ,
To sum up
groundfloor same speed ,give or take.
First floor and above definately faster , I reckon up to 50% faster.
Is it really that much less tiring?
I dont think it is less tiring, I reckon you still use the same amount of calories, but saying that I probably work longer than I ever did, whether that is due to me giving up smoking or getting less bored, I dont know.
Am I going to get annoyed with constant problems, like it seems on here?If your nature is to get annoyed easily, wfp will drive you nuts, what with the hose constantly getting looped around everything it can find, and the constant walking back to see what the hose it stuck on, especially when you only needed to get 3 foot further,.
There is a learning curve with the equipment which you will soon get over, but its worth it in the end, I had one employee who never got as stressed as me with the hose getting stuck etc, and he usually laughed at me getting constantly stressed, 18 months on i am much calmer and I now know what i am doing more with the equipment.
I need to make enough extra to pay for equipment and a van and still be better off.
It wont happen overnight , but by the very fact you have got wfp you will find extra jobs to cover it eventually, ie gutter jobs, third floor windows and all those windows which you always had to leave
I know some like Neil are going to say I'll be an overnight millionaire, but I'd be interested to hear from Ross or Dave of St.Ives, as they seem to not had a major increase in profits.
My profits are steadily creeping up now, mostly due to taking on more lucrative work, I have now got one or two big contracts which i would not have looked twice at before wfp.
Lets have some good answers, not "it's safer", I know that.
Lets not have a load of abuse either, I never said I was going to prefer the results, just the effort and the money.
Cheers, Rog. (sorry it's been a long post) To sum up
I am a lot happier since going down the wfp route , I now turnover 20% more money than i did over 12 months ago before wfp.
I use wfp on tops only now, there are too many variables to be considered if you use it on everything,
Also it is easier for the customer to accept if you use it tops only to start with, you can experiment on the odd ground floor bungalow etc, but for me a squeegie is the best all rounder for ground floor.
The reason i bought wfp was to get rid of the ladder not to get rid of the squeegie.
If i have not covered what you need to know, ask me a question
Dave