[jyl]

Thanks for the ideas, keep 'em coming.

It feels to me that it you have a painting, roofing, flooring company, you can get price-shopped to death. Because the projects are usually not urgent and/or discretionary, consumers will bring in company after company to bid. That's based just on my own limited residential consumer experience. I had like seven painters come bid my house. Also with two of those, seems you don't have work for a big part of the year, at least in the PNW.

The toll on your body is, I think and am hearing from you all, a big thing. Presumably if your company gets to a certain point, you're not personally squeezing into crawlspaces anymore.

Yeah I'm astonished how much HVAC companies get for what I now know to be not terribly skiiled work. And I don't think there is that much training/work experience required, compared to electricians.