Do you do your work on site or off site?

[Shane Drew]

depends on a few variables.

ideally I do it at my factory, but I’ll do it onsite if it is what the client wants. I charge more tho, to make it more attractive for them to bring it to me.

welcome to the site by the way

[David Rowland]

Hello Del and welcome.

Vehicles, 99% of the time have to be fitted inside or outside our workshops, sometimes you have to apply them dry and clean, etc or the wind/snow/thunder just gets in the way.

So what do you do at the moment? why your sudden interest in our proffession? are you looking for a new job?

[Phill Fenton]

Actually I get pig sick of people asking me to come to them to fit signs to their vehicles. If they can’t afford the time to put a vehicle off the road to get signs fitted that’s fine with me. I’ll spend my time fitting someone else’s signs instead. A favourite question is can you work at the weekend as the van is in use all week? No problem says I – if you don’t mind paying me “double time” – that usually focuses their thinking

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Phill:

A favourite question is can you work at the weekend as the van is in use all week? No problem says I

totally agree with you phil….i got to the stage when all the trades-men in my area knew i would work all weekend doing their vans…i dont mind working but i ended up working solid every weekend non-stop cause the guys knew they can work all week then just drop into ‘niks’…she’ll do it at the weekends…they go away enjoy their time and i was missing the most important thing of being self-employed…time off with the family 😀 refuse to do it now… 😉 (kids know who i am now) 😀

nik

[del]

Hay, good replys guys.

@ Dave:

Am a jobbing musician, and a ceramic tiler by trade, music isdrying up these days what with kids downloading all the time, not alot of money left in it now for session players 🙁

worked for a sign guy when i left school (making coffie mostly! lol) and getting fed up with tiling..so realy just nosing around for a bit of a change

😉

[Robert Lambie]

we do allot of vehicles, 50/50 really…
i agree with phill, its a pain at times, the weekend ones i hate, i do everything possible not to work on a weekend. that said, if its a nice customer that is wiling to pay over the odds, then maybe 😀
working at vehcile sales places can be as bad, they “always” want you fiiting outside. i just refuse point blank, if its a decent day, no wind at all i consider it but i always always say, ok but if i have comeback due to dust onder the vinyl or something blows and sticks together im blaming you, when the customer asks. this normally gets them to put their coffee down and find the keys. 😉 that said, if its a bad day and they try it on, i just say listen mate, if its not going in its fine ill have to call the customer and let them know i need to move onto another site for another job and we can book their van in another day… reality is, the customer has just foroked out £15grand on a new van from this sales guy biting his pen with one foot up on the table, im sure if he doesnt get the message the customer will make sure of it 😉

[Hugh Potter]

‘m not over keen on doing weekends, but then i still have plenty of time in the week anyways, so i guess it doesnt bother me too much at present,

90% of the time i go to the customer, if they come here i still have to do it outside anyways, only benefit of doing it at ‘home’ is that you can run to the cutter should anything go wrong !

[del]

nice replys guys, i love this sight already!!… im gona go gold after my hols next month..so that should be cool and have a real nose around 🙂

[John Harding]

Del – I fit a lot of vehicles on site, theres not many days you cant work but factor in for travel and inclement weather delays.

If youre confident its fine otherwise consider needing to take spare graphics too for mistakes, and realise you will be limited in the scale of difficulty in terms of fitting that you can realistically undertake on site, I reckon your biggest factor will be making sure you dont undercharge

john

[Lynn Normington]

we mostly fit here if it’s a regular customer we will go on site, we try not to work after lunch on satuarday but for a good customer we will, most of our customers are small (business not stature) like us and can’t afford to loose work time during the week, and as we don’t have children in the equasion time off is time off on any day.
oh and you can always guarentee when we are fitting here we acquire at least one more customer who was just passing 😀
by the way welcome

Lynn

[Richard Urquhart]

i fit loads on site mainly car showrooms for promotional work i have yet to have to go back after a mistake but I’m sure now I’m posting this i will.Its nice to site at my own work shop,heating ,no wind,etc etc

[Hugh Potter]

one thing i would love is a workshop to get a car / van into,

some of you may think i’m lucky by havin low overheads, but on those jobs where it starts to howl a gentle breeze just as you’re attempting to line up the second layer, i’d pay handsomely for a roof and doors that close,

just had a brain wave, i’m gonna sugest to the customer that i fit his graphics on the nside of the van, then i can work n the dry with no wind, can even have a radio on. sorted ! 😉