Website for carpenters, with the hourly rate and the fixed price side by side
Monday is a door that has dropped and a shelf in an alcove, and it is finished by eleven. Tuesday is the first day of a run of fitted wardrobes that will take most of a fortnight, and whoever rings on Wednesday cannot tell from your voicemail which of those two things you are.
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A day, from the first cup of tea
One trade, two entirely different sorts of job, and one handset trying to serve both.
Twenty to eight, loading the van
Today is small work: a sticking door, two sets of shelves, a bit of skirting where the plasterer got carried away. Three addresses and a fair amount of driving between them.
The phone goes while you are lifting the mitre saw in. Somebody wants to know what you charge, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on which of today's three jobs theirs resembles.
Half two, second fix
You are hanging doors and the handset is in the next room under a dust sheet. Two missed calls by the time it turns up.
One has left a voicemail about a kitchen. The other left nothing at all, and there is no way of knowing whether that was a fortnight of joinery or a shelf wanting putting up on the far side of the county.
Ten past nine, on the sofa
Two enquiries came in this evening, one at seven and one just now. Both want a rough idea of cost and when you could start.
They will get answered tomorrow, from the van, in about four lines. The one after wardrobes will already have had a proper price from somebody else, with the timber and the ironmongery written out.
Three things a joiner gets use out of
The whole difficulty is that two kinds of work share one phone. These are the parts that pull them apart.
Two ways of buying, both on the page
An hourly rate, with a half day and a full day beside it, for the work that is really a list of small things. A fixed price for the jobs done a hundred times over, like hanging an internal door or fitting a loft hatch. Quoted for anything built to a drawing.
People pick the right one before they ring, which is the entire reason for putting it up there.
Timber, ironmongery and days, written out
A run of alcove units is a materials list and a number of days on site, and putting both in front of the customer is what separates you from a message with a total in it. Every row carries its own quantity and figure.
Approval happens on the quote's own page. If they would rather have it painted than oiled, that is one row altered and sent out again.
The enquiry that lands at seven in the evening
A short form, an address, and a box where the job gets described in the customer's own words. It is waiting at the end of the day instead of being a missed call with no name against it.
Because they had to write it down, you can tell a morning of shelves from a fortnight of joinery without ringing back to find out.
A joiner's list on the page
Your rates and your wording. What the list does is make the difference between a day's work and a built piece obvious before anybody picks up a phone.
Splitting the list into small works and fitted joinery lets each carry its own rates and its own photographs.
What carpenters ask
Yes. The rate sits on the small works service while wardrobes and kitchens are marked as quoted. Anybody reading the list can see straight away which of the two their job is.
You type what the job is, but it stays as rows: quantity, description, figure. The total adds itself up, and what goes out is a page rather than a document that has to be opened first.
By e-mail, the moment somebody fills the form in. It carries what they wrote, the address and a number, so ringing back is a call about the job rather than a call to establish what the job is.
Yes, when your own Stripe account is connected. The customer approves the quote and pays on that same page, and the money goes to your bank rather than through us on the way.
Not a problem, but it is not searchable in the same way. Describe the work and it gets drafted into pages of its own on your domain, and the photographs move across as you go.
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More trades
- RoofersThe roof survey as the bookable way in.
- Tilers and bathroom fittersPackage prices per bathroom size, with a start date.
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- Groundworks and excavationSite visits booked, machine hours on the quote.
- LocksmithsCallout price and hours at the top.
- Solar installersThe roof survey as the first bookable step.
- All trades
Get the joinery on a page
Describe the work you take on, from doors to fitted kitchens, or point at what you have now, and you get a draft with your rates, your quote rows and a form people can use of an evening.
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