u/SuperTuberEddie

My house is on the end of this terrace and the road to the left of the picture is a nice “cul-de-sac” so all the parking along the road is often open. Sometimes I can park right outside my back gate where my charger is (where the cable leads), sometimes I have to park 1 or two cars down and the 7.5m was just a bit short.

I decided to buy a new cable from EVExtras and went with the motto “you can never have too much, but you can have too little” so I used that logic to go from a 15m to a 25m cable 😂

At least now I can almost charge anywhere on the street.

At least now I know I can always charge the van before work if I need to.

I promise this isn’t an advertisement and I’m sure some people won’t believe that, but I just bought this book after hearing the lads that made it on a podcast and it’s completely opened my eyes to how I’ve been pricing jobs wrong ever since I started my own business.

I’m not an electrician, and nothing in this book is specific to electricians (despite the title haha) and can be interchained with any trade, which works for me because I’m a plumber/heating engineer, but I never realised how bad a standard day rate is when running a business versus when you’re just a subcontractor. I guess it seems obvious when you say it out loud, but it never occurred to me until reading this book. I guess that’s because I’m not a businessman and never had any business education in my life.

Anyway, it gives a very good guideline how to calculate your business running costs and what profits are meant for, crucially how to price correctly so that you’re not pricing unfairly and so that your quote you send out you know are fair and it should relieve a lot of the stress knowing that your price is 100% spot on. As I said, I just finished reading it so I’ll have to see how it really works out for me stress wise, but just thinking about it makes me feel more confident now that I’ve worked out my running costs and margins correctly.

Anyway, I thought I would share in case any of my fellow plumbers or heating engineers were sort of guessing their prices and as a result not really going anywhere.