An opportunity for the Medway Handyman...

[tim....]

ITYF those people who have tried it, don't find it quite that easy :-(

tim

[geoff]

"Hello dear, I'm here to half do a job which you can nag day and night for me to finish while I sit in front of the TV, fart, and drink your beer"

[Gib Bogle]

Alberta Hunter, My Handy Man

[Bob Eager]

He bilocates...

[The Medway Handyman]

Yes I know :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

All the ME postcodes

>>> I'm not the only one operating in the area,

True. Seems too small an area IME.

[The Medway Handyman]

Currently doing a job in the ME8 postcode :-)

I'm having breakfast with him shortly :-)

[David WE Roberts]

It did occur to me that if I decided to 'hire a hubby' my wife might wonder about my gender orientation :-)

[David WE Roberts]

...and the problem with this strategy is?

[Man at B&Q]

They also do servicing...

MBQ

[Tim Watts]

David WE Roberts wibbled on Thursday 01 July 2010 10:28

You're just about to supply services and some bloke jumps out from behind the sofa shouting "Shtop! Shtop!" ?

[John Rumm]

No offence Dave, but he sure seems to have lowered his standards for dishing out the free shags!

[Lino expert]

genews:yeNWn.125535$Hs4.11725@hurricane...

Never! They switched off the oven, broke the mould and served peanuts out of it.

[ARWadsworth]

Cheeky sod.

Bloody good breakfast though. You don't think I would miss an opportunity to visit the Medway towns and not meet up with TMH for a breakfast did you?

Actually ME8 looked a bit sparce on the cafe options, so is there anyone here knows of a good cafe in ME8 for the rest of the team still stuck down there?

We had to meet in ME1 for a proper breakfast.

Cheers

Adam

[Tim Watts]

ARWadsworth wibbled on Thursday 01 July 2010 17:40

No, but there's an Axminster's somewhere round there...

[Dave Liquorice]

Define "too small an area". Round here you'd be looking at something around 1000 square miles (15 to 20 miles radius) to get to 7,500 households.

I agree that 7,500 households doesn't seem enough to support a handy man business, even if you only have to travel a mile or two for each job. A 40 miles round trip would take a sizeable chunk of ones fee...

[The Medway Handyman]

I meant 'small' as in number of households. The Medway Towns has a pop of

250,000 in an area of 190 sq km. Penrith by comparison has 180,000 pop in 400 sq km.

Due to the population density, my yearly mileage is only around 8,000 miles and even that ranks as my largest single business expense when all is taken into acount. I take your point about travel - I wonder if Hire a Hubby have?

[The Medway Handyman]

Whoops! Sorry! That data was for Penrith, New South Wales! Bloody Wikipedia!

You get the point though....

I'll get me coat.

[<me9]

Penrith, Cumberland had a population of 11000 when I lived there. And about

40 pubs, only 4 being worth drinking in. All the rest were Dutton's.

Population may have grown a little since it was put in Cumbria.

[Dave Liquorice]

something

Yeah, I guessed that but throught I'd throw in the physical area thing as well. The densly populated SE tends to forget that there are some parts of the country that are not wall to wall housing with the odd small green bit. Some is wall to wall green bit with the odd house. B-)

Penrith, Cumbria is a *huge* place compared to here. Wikipedia puts the population at 14,756, seven times bigger than the entire population of Alston Moor.

Probably not, why would they care? They are selling the franchise not the final service, how any franchisee manages their business costs is up to them...