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Wet Days
What does everyone in this business do on continous wet days when they can't get outside for work.What about the winter months.I have often thought of being like a ski instructor and having two jobs-one for summer and one for winter.Anyone want me to teach skiing?!
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Pro DesignerPermalink Reply by Jackson's Landscape Design on -
Every given opportunity i will update my package ie, risk assessments for mortar and screeds or catch up with labeling and itemising product ranges, e mails, tools in for servicing, sketching, suck information from the vast range of plants books, continue teaching myself vectorworks, bring forward consultations (with a little help from my clients)etc etc, constantly seeking to improve my practice
Cant offer any help with the skiing situation, but i could offer help with a steady snorkel dive in the warm waters off Bridgetown, Barbados
Good Luck
Kerry
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Permalink Reply by claudia de yong on -
Now that sounds better.Barbados is somewhere I am very fond of.Been going there for 20 years. Anyway, dreaming aside, I agree it is a time to catch up on all the things one doesn' t have time to do when working.
Kerry Jackson said:Every given opportunity i will update my package ie, risk assessments for mortar and screeds or catch up with labeling and itemising product ranges, e mails, tools in for servicing, sketching, suck information from the vast range of plants books, continue teaching myself vectorworks, bring forward consultations (with a little help from my clients)etc etc, constantly seeking to improve my practice
Cant offer any help with the skiing situation, but i could offer help with a steady snorkel dive in the warm waters off Bridgetown, Barbados
Good Luck
Kerry
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Permalink Reply by Mark on -
At the start of last week things were that bad I decorated the up stairs hall way (2 years in the waiting !) I tend to just juggle stuff about and work as much as I can when I can, so weekends are used etc..
I have lost more days this year than last though...ah well that's weather for you ;-)
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Permalink Reply by ian on -
ive been really very quiet cos of the snow and bad weather, i was also thinking going to austria every year as im a keen skier, might be somthing to look into being a ski instructor, dunno if ud make much money though, prob more for the fun of it! im off skiing on the 20th whowwwwwwwwwwww
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Graeme @ BGS on -
The last few weeks have been fairly disappointing and frustrating as we have been unable to start on a number of jobs mainly due to H&S concerns and the bad weather. This has been the quietest February that I can recall.
However all has not been lost as the work can stack up if only our cash flow could as well!
Been busy getting the back office side of the business sorted and preparing for the start of the season. Actually this has been ongoing since mid December and has really paid dividends for generating a lot of work for 2009.
Using the “free time” to network particularly on the commercial side of the business and hopefully we will get more work over the next few months.
I am concerned with the vast amount of coffee that I am consuming and beginning to wonder if this is the reason I can’t sleep.
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Permalink Reply by Empire Garden Services on -
I alway clean and service my Tools, and any maintenance to our own house!
lway prefer to be workin tho! I hate snow now
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Permalink Reply by Susan Gallagher on -
We work all year round, rain, hail or snow. The guys get kitted with the best gear right down to wooly socks and thermal gloves, and we have a canopy to do wortar work in the rain - no excuse for not working !
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Graeme @ BGS on -
Us southerns are all too soft! :-)
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Permalink Reply by Susan Gallagher on
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yes there's alimit in below freezing temperatures, but so far we always find something to do.
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Permalink Reply by John on
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We also plod on through regardless of the weather, again we have good quality waterproof equipment. It is too easy to pack in when it starts to rain, if everyone knows the score then they can cope with working through a whole day of rain. There are always jobs that can be done in the garden in foul weather, the trick is to keep these jobs back throughout the year. It also helps to have a wide spectrum of skills, dry stone walling can be done in all weathers, as can hedge laying.
I have climbed around the trees of Berlin in blizzards and pushed snow off the tops of pines with a broom, felled eighty foot high trees onto frozen moats around castles. And just the other day I moved three tons of walling stones down fights of steps into a back garden ready for a landscaping project during a whole day of torrential rain. None of them pleasant at all, but it helped working in a team with everyone suffering and laughing together, and you get to complain about the weather all day long!
I soon realised when I set up the business that large gardens give you a lot more scope for finding winter work. Try to agree with the customer during the summer that certain projects will be mutually beneficial for both parties if undertaken during the winter months. Keep an eye out for areas of the gardens that can be developed or revamped. Save those that can be undertaken in bad weather. People are usually happy if after the winter months they have something new to look forward to in the garden the following spring. If you keep them happy during the growing season, then they usually repay you during the winter months, by agreeing to the suggested projects. Roll on spring !!
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Permalink Reply by cornwall garden landscaping on -
hi wrking in bad weather is realy depenant on the wrk thats on done loads of great planting in wet weather but snow is a different ball game altogther i did one time cutt a clints grass with 5 inch of snow on top not very proffesnal but the clints always right so they say............ roger rj landscape
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Graeme @ BGS on -
Looks like milder weather is arriving for next week and might even see some sunny spells. Hopefully the end of the severe weather and we can all get out working.
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