FWL_Engineer said:
Funky, initialy main stream electrical install merchandise, however I intend to move it into Van sales and leasing within about 6 months hopefully.
I will always be open to product suggestions, I have a few ideas, but I want to concebrate on the main stream first.
Makes sense... one thing I can tell you from a personal perspective though, is that I've spent about 3 months looking for the "right" bits that I want for my house (hence reason for finding the forum in the first place) and I've noticed a distinct lack of "suitability" where products are concerned. e.g. an integrated socket that combines networking, TV, phone, Sat & phono in anything other than white... (thankyou for helping me out on that one, btw, but still searching for same in antiqued chrome... lol)
Maybe apply your obvious consultative approah to the way that you "do business" in terms of sales...
Potentially offer a "house pack" service... selling everything you would need for X job based on the end users preferences and sourcing it all, selling it as a job lot... not sure how feasible it would be, but I'm sure a bloke with your savvy might be able to work some kind of package together...
I suppose, in essence, what I'm saying is there seems to be a lack of that which might be considered to be "specialist" orientated suppliers offering good advice. For instance, one of the things that I'm quite keen on in the rewire that I'm about to undertake is to wire in future possibilities... e.g. CAT6, home audio, etc. When I've approached electricians for quotes to do the job, I only ever get quoted for the electrical side (is this fear I wonder??) At the same time, I've been looking into the whole x10 / CBus home automation scene, as it seems like common sense to integrate the systems that we pay seperately for, and again... apart from techy types, the market is not explored.
Sorry for the witter, but this is something that I've noticed about the great british public (oooh, controversy), but we do tend to make do and mend instead of asking ourselves... why can't I have a bit of techinical excellence in my own home? Your post about the Novel Shower proved how interested "people" are in a) excellence & b)genious... and yet it was a solution that is so simple (and probably cheaper) than the options available "normally"...
In terms of products, you should do a shower kit as part of your line up too... basically replicate the gear you went out to fix... put me down for one...
Again, apologies for the ramble...
