The xmas work rush.

[Dave]

Has the mad!!! i want my bathroom/kitchen etc all tiled for xmas rush started for you yet..?........

[Rich]

It is just about to, I can feel it in my bones...

[user123]

Now there's an idea.... Can I have a new kitchen please? I would love one...

[Stewart]

It started last month for me and have been turning down a couple of jobs a week for peeps who want it done before christmas. Don't have a single working day to spare and all my other days are accounted for as Fiona is going back to work.....


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[doug boardley]

have got busier with a few more enquiries coming in lately, could just do with a mild spell of good weather as I've got a 40m2 balcony to do, (somehow I can see it getting put off till spring now)

[enduro]

Only from the wife at the moment!!

[kilty55]

hasnt started for me yet

im ticking over atm with lots of small jobs as oppose to full refits etc atm
a good months work for one customer in november so i cant grumble but things seem quieter here again

[timeless john]

Is this the first thread that mentions Xmas for 2011 and is it true we only have 76 days till Xmas Eve!

If you don't work weekends that's about 50 days of work.
No doubt that's just about enough time to fit everything in!

[hillhead]

It started with me weeks ago now, I'm working on a mansion and fitting other jobs in around it.
3 days in mansion last week as I'm waiting on marble now and then tiled a bathroom on thu/fri.
All go at minute and 15 jobs in book to be all done by Christmas.
16 by tomorrow possibly too.

[Mike]

no xmas rush yet for me, i had a couple of days off last week because i was quiet (first time in 18 months) but some work's come in now so i hope it will continue

[Daz]

I've had Mrs Daz moaning that she wants the en-suite finished before Xmas (I did start it Aug 2010, though - oops!).
I've only got a few weeks spare until Xmas so I'm in no hurry for the usual rush .

Daz

[poynton phil]

Most of this year as been job to job, but the last month the phone has hardly stopped ringing book till end of nov at the moment.

[Gall.B]

Struggling to keep up, just in an hour ago!

My problem is im working between up to 6 companys

2 weeks ago I did a 8am-7pm 10pm-5am 8am-6pm 2 hours slep in between!

scared to turn business away

[whitebeam]

Struggling to keep up, just in an hour ago!

My problem is im working between up to 6 companys

2 weeks ago I did a 8am-7pm 10pm-5am 8am-6pm 2 hours slep in between!

scared to turn business away

Your pushing your luck there mate, you can't carry on like that...

[Mike]

Your pushing your luck there mate, you can't carry on like that...

yeah, no pockets in shrouds

[Gall.B]

Your pushing your luck there mate, you can't carry on like that...

Been doing it for years now I know its not good but I am one of those weirdos who loves working, then comes on here & talks about it

Going on holliday next week, will chill out then

[Dave]

Been doing it for years now I know its not good but I am one of those weirdos who loves working, then comes on here & talks about it

Going on holliday next week, will chill out then

Any where hot.. ?

[Gall.B]

Painter's Cottage, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye
Will certainly CHILL out

[Mike]

i used to go to skye often, on the old cal mac ferries, at the time they were building the bridge. i've spent a few evenings in kyle of lochalsh waiting for the first ferry in the morning

[Gall.B]

Go every October week as the Mrs gets the week off, usally go to Plockton for lunch before we cross the bridge.

Had to spend time in the pub Mike while you waited?

[Mike]

yeah a few!! i remember getting woke up early one morning by the ferry workers as the lorry was blocking the slipway so my mate jumed in the drivers seat of the lorry and swung it hard over to get on the ferry and the long overhang hit the snack van and nearly knocked it in the water, best of it was there was a woman in there at the time, i can still picture her face now

[Rich]

Its my own fault for saying that Im about to get really busy, the big job that Im booked in to start next week has just been pushed back by a week and I have nothing to bring forward to fill the gap. Grrrrrrr!! Hate Hate Hate it when that happens!

[wayno1664]

burning the work candle at both ends always ends in tears mate

[andy allen]

no christmas rush for me yet, still a bit quite, doing a 55m2 polish pors floor at the minute, couple of small jobs next week and a bit in the pipe line......but ticking over so cant grumble..

[lcjohno]

Its started going a bit mental for me here, not complaining though, loads booked in!!!

[whitebeam]

yeah, no pockets in shrouds

What does that mean, Im a southerner..

[Mike]

What does that mean, Im a southerner..

money's no good to you when your dead

[Gall.B]

money's no good to you when your dead

Dont think its at that stage.

I enjoy working & keep Contractors happy & have built up a reputation as a grafter if its impossible I bring in other guys, I do know my limits and go to Hollidays a year.

Sometimes it all comes in at once, just the way it is, sometimes your just ticking over.

When I run squads you get the occasional moan about the hours, but its always the same guy who asks for work when it goes quiet

Anyway thats me on Holliday as of tommorow night until a week on Tuesday, off to enjoy the dosh Ive earned, before I croak.

[Phil Hobson]

I think I am just about filling Feb 2012 pages, but I never count on jobs until I get my tools on them. I like to leave spaces beween big jobs, in case something interesting needs fitting in.