Blimey @scottish cleaning service you reinvest plenty of money in your work. Fair play to you.
Probably the best investment I have done is advertising. Spent another grand this week advertising for a year on Checkatrade tradespeople leaflets that get posted through the doors by the post office. As I'm the only one doing roof cleans and pvc cleans I know I will be very busy from now on. Received a gutter clear last night which is 10 miles away and will do it off the ladder with my gutter pro tool and the bucket hooked onto a ladder limb. ?
Sounds like a nightmare to me....I'd hate doing all that other work.....but we re all different.....
@scottish cleaning serviceFair play to you mate. I’m not at that stage/affordability yet but there is a local window cleaner to me who is on checkatrade. Loads of people questioned him about going on there as a window cleaner (rather than a plumber or builder etc) but he gets a lot of work from it and some quite big local contracts as the companies use it for finding all of their tradesmen when they need work doing. £1000 seems a lot on paper but it’s less than £20 a week overall for a year so if it gets you more work than that every week, and brings in a few new regular customers then well worth it.
I never understood why they never brought out a double sided one so you don't need to change over when in the middle of a gutter. I decided to make my own and stick it on a Purdy painting pole, everyone questions where I bought it from and I say B&Q, well I got the 18mm ply from there. ?
Aye, a broker in London wanted me to come down to Colchester and setup my business because they couldn't get reliable tradespeople. He said I would have made a mint as most folk commute to London. The reason I can do most things is because I have spent a fortune on courses. Best course I did for cleaning was Michael Conways Softwash course but I also have, 17th edition electrical, electrical smart meter course, Gas course, working at heights, and courses in the Fire Service, being a time served Joiner helps. Anyhow, my customer said I missed a window last week, see if you can spot it? She must think my name is Percy Thrower, not sure if its ivy or whisteria but I'm going to purchase a good pair of pruners for next clean. ?
How could anyone do this, that's like having a nut that tightens and loosens clockwise
Then end up selling it like your last one ? you still baffle me now someone asks you to do one job like then mention of a tree cutting down and you put a deposit on a 3k wood chipper. ?
And of course I presume you can live off your pension, so you can afford to invest in new gear from your business earnings, which will also cut your tax bill too.
Everything I make gets reinvested so under the tax threshold last two years. This year will be different unless I buy a new van. I guess. Only thing left to buy is a 6.2m tower which I will be ordering next week unless a customer fails to pay me. Lost a customer today and not sure why but it means I don't have to move my van when I do all the rest next to him. I can see him coming back in the future but not sure if I would have it back. ?
I would say it's nice, but the issue is he could be liable for a tax investigation spending up to 2-3k plus and beyond on certain things without the client base/work to warrant that investment, GrippaTank system 4-5k and multiple poles with around 100 window cleaning jobs, 2k scaff tower for one job having previously bought and sold one spending 2k on a woodchipper but only cut down a neighbours small tree in HMRC eyes this could be seen as tax avoidance
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