How to take more holidays (without your plumbing business falling apart)
How to take more holidays (without your plumbing business falling apart) What’s stopping you from taking more holidays? Be honest. For most plumbing and heating business owners, the answer is simple: no systems. You might talk about being too busy, or say there’s never a good time. But deep down, it’s the fear that everything […]
Why every plumbing and heating business needs a specialist virtual assistant (and where to find one)
Why every plumbing and heating business needs a specialist virtual assistant (and where to find one) When you’re running a busy plumbing and heating company, time is your most valuable asset, but it’s also the one thing you never seem to have enough of. You’re quoting jobs, managing a team, answering customer calls, keeping suppliers […]
Why Payaca is becoming the go-to platform for renewable energy installers
Why Payaca is becoming the go-to platform for renewable energy installers If you’re running a plumbing, heating or renewables business in the UK and starting to expand into heat pumps, solar or EV chargers, you’ll know that juggling quotes, compliance, team scheduling, and customer communications can quickly turn into a nightmare. What if there was […]
The simple tool helping UK plumbing and heating businesses get their time back
The simple tool helping UK plumbing and heating businesses get their time back Running a plumbing or heating business means wearing many hats: engineer, manager, administrator, and sometimes even part-time IT support. And when you’re knee-deep in paperwork or chasing quotes, it’s easy to lose track of the job you want to be doing. That’s […]
How to reduce your fuel costs’
For most businesses in the plumbing and heating industry, fuel is a costly expense, but sadly, it is a necessary one. Sadly, if you’re using fuel cards & not monitoring the prices each week, it can be more costly than it needs to be. You see, fuel card companies have been leading hard-working businesses up […]
Improve Your Quotes
I have recently critiqued some quotes with the aim to spot areas that can quickly be approved upon. The businesses whose quotes I critiqued have read or listen to ‘The Quote Handbook’ already, so it felt great to see my teachings had not fallen on deaf ears. There were so many pieces from my book […]
Traffic Lights
Let’s face it, business is a struggle at the minute for any plumbing and heating firm. You might have full order books but staff could be jumping ship for pay rises in other businesses. You might have to pay recruitment fees to recruit new engineers and then there’s the cost of training them and getting […]
Paying Yourself as a Limited Company
It is often tax-efficient to trade as a limited company as opposed to a sole trader or partnership. This is because the tax rates on dividends and profit tends to be lower compared to national insurance and PAYE. A lot of people choose to trade as a limited company where they own a share of […]
Guarantees in Your Plumbing and Heating Business
Let’s face it the P&H industry is a crowded sector. There are loads of firms all competing for business. This could lead some businesses to cut prices, slack on services and offer inferior boiler or part options just to win jobs and sadly complete on price. This could be an unfortunate race to the bottom, […]
How do you Like Your Bread
Next time you fancy a sandwich and need to buy a loaf of bread, think about the multitude of options available to you. The shop to buy the loaf from (supermarket, bakery, corner shop), the size of the loaf, the freshness, the ingredients or type of loaf, the shelf life, the brand, the abundance of […]
