1/4/2009
3:05:56 AM 

I posted this on another flooring site and I thought it might have made a bit more of what I was trying to get at earlier.
Layers and other Tradesmen are very good at what they do but the business side lets them down. I was talking to a friend of mine, who is in the flooring game as well, in the States on Xmas Day and mentioned this to Selva and he agreed as well.
What I found happened to me along with a lot of other layers I know here as well was in a way we had it that easy, (good money) when things were going well. It became that that has only gone up 10 cents so why worry. The trouble was that all those lots of 10 cents
became real big dollars over the year that we just let go. When
petrol went up the retailer I contract to responded that it only cost you 10 cents more to go to a job so how do you lift that up on the yardage rate? Everything that I have had done for me like fixing the car, getting the plumbing fixed, getting food was going up but we
never lifted our prices because it was only 10 cents here and 10
cents there. every time a plumber or lawn mowing man etc came to my
place he charged more to cover their cost increases.
Aren't us flooring guys stupid? Good at doing our job But no good at
> money