I have known a few, A1 joiners who have gone bust, shame this video was not around for them. One of them did not know anything about VAT and he got caught for a couple of years worth, with no hope of invoicing the customers to get the missing VAT back.
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Not to be controversial or anything, but joiners are ducking worthless to a homeowner unless...
Not to be controversial or anything, but joiners are ducking worthless to a homeowner unless...
A) They are a mechanically incompetent arse who should not be allowed out in public without a helmet and a carer.
B) They are severely physically disabled (I say severely as I know at least one lower body paralysed person who still does most of his own joinery.)
C) They are so wealthy/their own time is so valuable to them that they would not think twice about paying a tradesman properly.
If you want your domestic joinery business to be a success I'd recommend targeting option C as your customer base!
Not sure you are correct. There are millions who are not practically minded who use joiners or odd job men all the time. I have several friends who make a nice living out of being a joiner - one who makes probably more money than 99% on this forum knocking together kitchens, bedrooms and study custom cabinets https://armstrongjordan.co.uk/ I also know a fine cabinet maker who ends up doing basic joinery as that what everyone wants and he keeps raising prices but still they come. He is in rural Norfolk as well not anywhere exotic.
Just because you (and me for that matter) can and in my case enjoy, home joinery/woodwork does not mean everyone else can.
It needn't be joinery of course, any business that requires the rent of small premises, a van, some tools etc. If it's only a van and the garage at home then some of the costs drop obviously
Not to be controversial or anything, but joiners are ducking worthless to a homeowner unless...
A) They are a mechanically incompetent arse who should not be allowed out in public without a helmet and a carer.
B) They are severely physically disabled (I say severely as I know at least one lower body paralysed person who still does most of his own joinery.)
C) They are so wealthy/their own time is so valuable to them that they would not think twice about paying a tradesman properly.
If you want your domestic joinery business to be a success I'd recommend targeting option C as your customer base!
The big change to self employed or contractors will be when IR35 is rolled out to the private sector in April.
I know a few extremely talented artists who were making good money 10 years ago (one is a now cabinet maker/joiner funnily enough) who have faced a collapsing market for their work despite all the right connections-those £2k commissions have got so far apart you cant make a living above min wage. Then there's the undercutting, you can send a photo of a subject and a photo of the artist's style to a painting farm in china/hong kong and get the work done for a tenth of the uk rate.Absolutely, any business that fails to target customers that will pay a price that enables them to make a profit will fail. Artists are the absolute worst at this, I have regular 'conversations' with a friend who is an award winning wildlife artist about this; to the effect that networking exclusively with unemployed environmental activists is not a good plan for someone trying to sell works that take 100s or 1000s of hours and that she needs to build connections with the sort of tweed wearing people she doesn't like very much because they are the people who will drop a few grand on a painting of a stag or a commission of their dog/horse etc. etc.
Not to be controversial or anything, but joiners are ducking worthless to a homeowner unless...
A) They are a mechanically incompetent arse who should not be allowed out in public without a helmet and a carer.
B) They are severely physically disabled (I say severely as I know at least one lower body paralysed person who still does most of his own joinery.)
C) They are so wealthy/their own time is so valuable to them that they would not think twice about paying a tradesman properly.
If you want your domestic joinery business to be a success I'd recommend targeting option C as your customer base!
I’m a bit fan of his videos - well made and interesting if you’re into woodwork.