Planning for winter

I’m not really interested in the typical stuff people are doing for winter. I.e. snow removal, Christmas lights, etc. But I am interested in keeping about 4 people busy part time through the winter as well as covering my lease. So if I do decide to do Christmas lights I’d like to start marketing now. I.e. adding a page to the website. Adding it to a July email newsletter, etc.

But if I don’t have to I’d really rather not. What are some of you doing for winters that isn’t the path of least resistance I guess I’d say?

I’m waiting till my birthday on June 30th. That’s halfway point of the year and i don’t feel bad about the Christmas lights still strung across the gutters because it’s almost Christmas. Gutter cleaning makes payroll and rent for me in the winter

Im in Va… we dont get crazy snow, but seems the cycle here now is a pretty good chance of a 6” storm durng winter, and possibly a second smaller one.

Some of the landscaping ppl have plows, and whatnot… i bought a snowblower few years ago, onyl do driveways and sidewalks. Made $2k in 2 days and was tickled to death.

If its isnt storm enough for my time winter means HUNTING SEASON.

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I didn’t mean I was working. Lol. I meant other people are. I’m off from Thanksgiving to March.

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Oh sorry, forgot you had minions.

Preach it my brethren!

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This might not be the answer you looking for.
My last landscaper gave me this idea.
He will came as needed, to do all, seeding, planting, trimming, all, you name it.
His price was fair, but high.
So he would do this, he will brake all his work that my house needed, for the year, and he will divided by 12.
I will pay him monthly even when he did not need to come, during winter.
He will use the money he got from all his clients when he was vacationing in cancun and scuba diving in the Bahamas, and what not.
He also has teaches scuba diving in the Virgin Islands.
This is what I do with my regular clients that have mansions, decks, and what not.
That’s how I am able to spread my revenue all year long, and take 3 weeks off PW to watch the World Cup.
My other business all my clients are on a schedule, and I do the same, specially when they want deep spring cleaning ( I split it in 4 months payments)

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What about roasting Chesnuts?

All i know is @squidskc was coming to visit this winter and never showed up. Something about a covergirl shoot and eyeliner contract

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Use that leased space as an under the table poker room! $2 per hand take. Have the workers serve drinks and popcorn! I’d come!

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Record the soccer playoff stuff and watch it over the winter. With the volume off. And the tv off.

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That’s funny! I don’t care who you are!

Moving to the deep south…

I’m hoping to drop snow removal after one more winter. It’s a nice change of pace and keeps some money coming in, but every winter seems worse than the last. We get icy, crappy accumulation that’s difficult to remove, and storms that promise to yield big snowfalls but then fizzle into sleet and freezing rain. I use snowblowers, so you can imagine how much that sucks.

My plan is to just budget better and live off savings for the winter. We already set aside a pretty good amount, as we can’t rely 100% on the snow removal to pay our bills every winter. So it’s just a matter of being a little more diligent and finding some more enjoyable ways to keep busy.

If I had employees, I think I would try and do the same thing. Hold back enough pay so that I could give them a weekly salary (a bit reduced from when they’re working for it, but still enough to cover their needs).

Everyone goes on about how lucrative this business is, so it shouldn’t be that hard.

  • You want to keep labor to about 30% gross.
  • Depending on location, a good technician should produce around $100k-150k in a year of power washing.
  • So his yearly salary can hit $30k-$45k
  • working from the lower figure, if you get 30 busy weeks, you could give him around $670/wk in salary and bonuses for that part of the year, and then a salary of ~$450/wk for the other 22 weeks.
  • I think most guys would probably get a part time job to supplement their winter income, but would be more than happy to leave it in spring when they know they have this kind of arrangement in place for them.
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numbers are about the same for me. Lead guys make 18 an hour, workers 16. Lead guys are guaranteed 40 hours in the winter whether we work or not. Others get 32 hours. We usually lose about 4 weeks in the winter of making profit but they come in a couple hours st least every day to tinker.

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You should have them apply rust converter and paint stuff in the winter

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I really don’t have anything rusty and paint doesn’t make money:) I make some grills and thinker. Busy work. I keep them busy at our church for a few days sprucing up and fixing stuff.

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I bought a pressure washer sandblaster. Everyone says it sucks on smaller machines, but I watched a couple independently made videos and it looks like it works great!

I’m gonna try it on the F250. My insurance doesn’t cover sand blasting so I don’t intend to add it to my list of services, but I think it’ll be cool if it works.

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