Hi Ryan, just out of interest do you include photos of the boilers in your quotes or just list the name of them with warranty and prices? And when you say you send 3 quotes of different boilers is that 3 separate quotes or just 3 different options on the same quote? I heard you say you attached photos to the second customer in the video, I think it was Paul? I checked out your website and really like the quoting tool you use on there, thought it was a nice touch being able to see the boiler photo and description. I have my own heating buisness down in Torbay, Devon and only went out on my own a year ago. Found your channel brilliant. Wanting to scale my buisness bigger and be smashing the boilers with many engineers but finding it difficult to get going. Many thanks Connor

19 in a week! Top stuff I haven’t even done 19 this year🙈😂. No1 advice for getting more boilers as a one man band?

Why don't you just implement good systems and employ a management team so you aren't constantly doing busy work in the day. You never actually work on growing your business.

Do you tell Your customers what you get back for selling them new boilers to them …??? Or do you knock it of there price . your using subcontractors to keep up With your marketing push ..

13:05 downgrade lol

On my patch again. Right facing my house in Bury doing a boiler. Don't want to see you there again 😂😂😂

Great vid as usual, outstanding stuff. All staff members smiling, your doing well

Another great week for us with the boiler conversions! 👊

Very impressive. Can u do a video giving us more info on what advertising and marketing you do?

I wouldn't want you to fit me a boiler if your doing 20 in five days profit profit profit 😂

Flying 👊👊

I regularly visit the lakes, and I must admit when I have seen Plumbing vans around I think I hope they’ve got all the fittings They need great video as usual and it seems like a very good team. You have them curry nights regularly because I think it’s a good idea. Well done

Great video man! Google has gotten ridiculously expensive in Ireland too. I was one of the first on the Google Guarantee ads, I was getting around 20 calls a day with a CPC of only 1 quid. Now for every call, it's costing 10-12 quid :(

I love your videos mate, but me personally im not a fan of service plans/homecare. Ive seen youtube ads at the minute offering plans for 26p a day lol. I fell lucky as a few old boys retired round my area and i went self employed at the right time and i work in a 8 mile radius. I feel if your paying as a customer every month especially in these hard times, they dont want to pay monthly and they take a risk on hoping the boilers dont break. I feel though if you have service plans/homecare, if you properly service the boilers with 5 year full strip with new consumable parts and properly clean heating systems on installations, you will rake the benefits of these care plans as your lads will not have to go to them only once a year. If youve lads working for you thats literally going in doing probes and gos (im not implying that yous do lol) the boilers will break down more and in turn taking your lads off the important jobs and going to stupid little jobs.

Good to see you back grinding 💪

Really enjoy the videos

Those office staff are key to a successful business, I struggle so much juggling office and site work, without someone to look after office work I wouldn’t be so successful with actual work.

Have you thought about intergas? You could probably get a good relationship with them if you got in touch with your local rep. They also do remote monitoring software which you could charge at a premium

Great vid again. Drop Alpha like a stone. Awful boilers. Your staff are all fantastic as is your company. Free oap services are brilliant, wouldn’t it be great if other firms did this

Hi mate. What type of contract are your engineers on?

Great to see another video out - helps a lot for us to see how you deal with the challenges in your business

Glad to see you back great video and it’s good that you have a great team with you

Do you offer finance for boiler installs? If so who do you use?

I’m gunna build a business and then I’ll buy you a drink for not only the inspiration but also the knowledge. I’ve got 8 years on you and I’m sitting here looking up to you. God bless.

Brilliant

How much is someone worth who just replaces parts randomly ?

Awesome vid! very inspiring, thanks!

What’s the story with how you took over from your old boss? Did he hand you the business?

Great video. Can i ask what VA company you used to train to the way your company works ?

You've employed someone to take calls but how did you get the calls without marketing?

Shane Hollow

He is using a marketing team charging £5000+vat / months. I wonder if you would be able to do the same in London? I bet you wouldn't.

The problem is the amount you have to charge per day is more than the median average person takes home for a week so by putting prices up eventually just price yourself out the market and get undercut.

Hey bud, love your content. Just wanted to ask for advice, so I’m 34 and starting a plumbing and heating collage course next year. I’m currently a lorry driver and also ex military, do you think it will be hard to gain employment after I’ve gained the qualifications? You really do inspire me. Keep doing the flogs love watching them Cheers Ben

In your homecare plans, are all parts included in monthly price? How do you deal with someone singing up, 3/4 weeks later a pcb goes or expensive part?

Great Video love the transparency, I'm currently 18 months into running my mechanical and electrical contracting business. Its great to see established businesses share knowledge and experience of the sector.

All well and good in an ideal world but relative to other industries where companies spend / risk hundreds of thousands of pounds on manufacturing equipment, have fork trucks, staff and many more overheads what gives you the right to demand a nice van on finance and a £200 chunk of cash for the latest tool gimmick? And then expect the customer to fund your lavish ‘ bake off ‘ image. !!! Sorry mate I’m all for making money and earning a decent wedge but irresponsible spending on a crappy new van etc ain’t an excuse for overcharging . Mate your a plumber with a few certs that’s it , the majority of everyday people with practical skills could do your job . Then just pay to get it signed off .

Brilliant video, thank you mate. I have recently begun taking this approach too. I would also add that although it gets complex, there is an argument to suggest we should look to charge even more due to all the unbillable hours spent, especially as a one man band or a small team, quoting etc. I was just wondering how you work out your pricing for smaller jobs which have a fixed cost? Thank you again for all that you do

Can't see people in the builders trade charging that amount per day. We are all being undercut left , right & centre.

I'm a teacher. I do 7 days a week basically. Take home less than £500 per week. Monday to Friday 12 hour shifts and planning 6 hours a day weekend. I spend at least £100 per month on things to do with teaching such as markers, glue sticks etc for the children (school always runs out) Take abuse from children and parents (although love the children nonetheless and love teaching) on top of thst senior management is always on my head giving me more and more admin work!!!! Plumbers not making enough??? I'm thinking of becoming one! 😅 💰 🤑

I need to take a Luke at my prices I think

Dont know if anyone else has this issue but a major issue (at least for me) is even after a customer has agreed a price etc etc you complete the job customer is happy etc etc no problems there however they dont pay! Or at best they take 30+ days the pay up! In my area there is no chance of changing anything lkke this customers take ages to pay even for the very competitive price. If i charge anything like this I'll get no work. The building trade in my area is cut throat. Always someone willing to do it for way less. Add that to the interest free credit nearly everybody takes (strangely the better off people! ) and working for yourself is a tough game. Mind you the going rate for a trade is approx £18-£25 ph as an employee in leeds area.

McDermott Port

Great video when I was working for myself, I worked for a number of builders. Unfortunately some of these doesn’t pay on time. I would keep it going for months of the time. These are the people who cost such Such pressure on a business people not paying for services and materials delivered and fitted again well done with the video. Great to see

Very intresting and very helpfull.. ill watch it again but did you put down the profit for the buissness? Rather than just 'your personal wage' as the buissness will need to earn a profit aswell, also how much should the company make? If you earn a take home wage of say 30k should the buissness earn the same or the buissness make 10k, to build the buissness pot and be able to grow.. if that makes sense? I will re watch it as i may have missed it... but a very very intresting video.. Loving your work mate and its helping me massively!!

I pay £216 per month for my account (one man band) am I paying too much?

If you do the hours as a subbie you can get £350 a day x5 x48 weeks equals £84000 can’t see expenses being much more than £1000 a month. A lot easier than trying to charge over £500 a day