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Ch4 plumbing
Re: Female Plumber Starting Own Business
Spot on advice, you sell your business not your gender, or Creed! Custards know what your about as soon as you step through the door and start talking and offering advice, get out there and start quoting see how you go.
When we started Miss Plumb, it was my mrs who started the business sfter walking away from her job in local authority. She is time served, worked in all teh different areas as yourself, and is now a building services design engineer. The thing that she found, and this goes against what people are saying, was that she didnt need to go for the stereotypical single mums or older people, she had a knack of being able to sell herself well to the customers and on average got 75% of the jobs that she priced. Her big downfall came when she did alot of work for a builder who had a contract to refurb council properties. She did 6 full systems and he paid on the dot, then she did another 10 and he paid in dribs and drabs, £100 her and £100 there. This meant she couldnt pay her merchants and had reached her limits for getting gear so as a word of warning, be careful who you work for (obviously this happens to everyone, not just female plumbers), id hate to see you fall foul as she did. Everything has worked out for the best and now she works with me designing ans specing biomass district heating systems and plantrooms.
Spot on advice, you sell your business not your gender, or Creed! Custards know what your about as soon as you step through the door and start talking and offering advice, get out there and start quoting see how you go.