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Trade & Site
home and trade services
Work that happens at somebody else’s address, booked by somebody who is already having a bad morning. These editions are set around dispatch, urgency and the difference between a job that can wait and one that cannot.
5 editions in this section, from $1,085. Set and sent inside one working day.
No. 01
HVAC Contractor
Set for the first hot week of the year.
The first hot week does not reward the best HVAC contractor; it rewards the one who answered.
An HVAC contractor's year is not a straight line. This edition is set for the first hot week, when the phone outruns the trucks, and for the maintenance-plan renewals that quietly pay for the slow months between.
$1,385
No. 02
Plumbing Company
Written around the call that cannot wait until Monday.
Water does not wait for office hours, and neither does the homeowner deciding which plumber to ring second.
A plumbing company is judged on the ninety minutes after a supply line lets go. This edition is set for the call that cannot wait until Monday, and for the repipe quote that has to survive a week of thinking.
$1,335
No. 03
Roofing Contractor
Storm work, insurance work and the long quiet quarter.
After a hailstorm the roof goes to whoever answered at two in the morning, not to whoever is best.
A roofing contractor's year is set by weather nobody can schedule. This edition is written for the fortnight after a hail event, for the adjuster who wants the supplement in writing, and for the long dry quarter in between.
$1,485
No. 04
Cleaning Company
Recurring rounds, one-off deep cleans, and the gap between.
A cancelled Thursday regular is not one lost clean; it is a hole in every Thursday after it.
A cleaning company does not lose money on the enquiry it never answered. It loses money on the Tuesday round that came apart at seven, when one client cancelled and a crew stood in a street with nowhere to be.
$1,085
No. 05
Auto Repair Shop
The bay is the constraint. Everything here protects it.
The declined work list is the best follow-up list in the shop, and almost nobody works it.
An auto repair shop does not run out of customers. It runs out of bays. Everything in this edition is built to keep a lift earning: the approval that comes back inside the hour, and the declined job that returns in spring.
$1,185
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