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Now It's Not So Good To Be Green 16th June 2015 4:04 PM

Well it didn't take long for the EU ruling to have an effect Reduction of boiler installations

Have Just 16th June 2015 2:05 PM

Won approval to install a complete new heating & hot water system for 20th Century Fox @ their offices in Soho Square......... The hardest part of the job will be finding a parking space

Is anyone cool enough... 16th June 2015 12:35 AM

I've never heard of him till now, so just done a search out of curiosity and apparently he's just come out on youtube Being someone who is totally un-pc and dare I say quite proud to be.... I've moved on to another thread...

I look at it like this (no offense meant to anyone) it's my business and I want to be in total control of all aspects of it. And that includes who does what to my website, I'd never get into any kind of long term contract for seo work or consider renting websites, if I did I would no longer be in control and and it would be the seo/web designer who was running the show. That alone is high risk, if you were to go belly up overnight, I'd end up shortly following you. Whereas if I hold all the files to the website and personally hold the domains in my name, apart from a little bit of inconvenience I couldn't careless if you folded... I just transfer everything to someone else at little expense. Also for £300 per month you would probably be better of getting a build your own website and placing it on adwords.... just my thoughts.

Your idea maybe fine to those who are relatively new to running their own businesses and who want their first website up and running. But business owners soon end up learning about seo and websites whether they want to or not, simply because they have to and dare I say rather rapidly. Because sooner or later they get to realise that any results they were told they could achieve is based on a 'maybe' rather than a guarantee.......

Now It's Not So Good To Be Green 11th June 2015 12:36 AM

Interesting take though looking at the total cost, using the scaffolding analogy, which is charged at 20%. Guess it's going to be harder to police if rebates are only given for renewable work. If you need scaffolding for to fix a chimney, but claim that a solar panel needs a clean while they up are there, would that then save 15% if they brought in for related subbies and services?

Make all house building/maintenance 5%. Then I suppose where does that stop? paint, wall paper, toilet roll? 

All very confusing 

 

Been pondering over this and the answer is no, the vat rate would be 20% as you would be doing maintenance and not an installation. On an existing property the vat charged for the installation and supply of solar panels would be 5%, so the solar panels, solar pump, pipe work and all other components required to install it and make it work would be 5% vat rated. The labour cost elements and any equipment required to carry out the installation would be 20% vat rated. If you were to visit a plumbers merchant and purchase the solar panels so you could fit them yourself you would be charged 20% as the merchant would not be doing the installation. 

This is one I done 5 or 6 years ago for a school, each panel believe it or not cost £10k to purchase. The order was placed with a British boiler manufacturing company, who got a Chinese company to make it, who put it on a container ship to the USA where the hot water calorifiers were made, it then set sail for Harwich....... Where it was then impounded for a week by customs.........Now if you read all the data plates attached to all the components on this installation, you'd honestly believe that it was British.....

Now It's Not So Good To Be Green 10th June 2015 5:24 PM
Do you think Nanotechnology
 
Not me I'm just a plumber! Just so you know, when I was at school doing the 11plus exam, the teacher kindly placed me at the back of the class with a piece of balsa wood and a carving knife..... Nuff said

 

Facebook? 10th June 2015 12:05 AM

Hi Yes definitely windows 7, funny enough I did click on the new windows tab to update in July, probably even more snags will come with that update........... anyway nothing else is effected with IE other than trying to get on FB

Facebook? 9th June 2015 10:55 PM

Well just visited the microsoft website and it say's I'm on 11

Facebook? 9th June 2015 5:41 PM

Hi Andy, no from internet explorer, the computer says it's a windows 7? whatever that means Haven't had a problem over the last few years, just seems trying to get to FB from here is a problem.... everything else is fine except this site which all I get is the mobile version ever since the upgrade last year.... just weird..... Wish these site owners would stop tinkering

A Cat-astrophe? 9th June 2015 3:14 PM

Can't think why, but one of my cats decided to charge through the greenhouse yesterday, even though the door was wide open she decided to go head first through the glass and sat there looking rather dazed, not sure why she done it as the greenhouse has been there 4 years, fortunately the glass is toughened and just pings out.........