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£1000.00s In fact 10s of £1000.00s

See them come and go round these parts every couple of years. One of the local nobs tried to take over one of ours. Grade. 3 dualcom, 2 visits with URN for intruder & pa much less than half of the market price. I worked out by the time he paid for the URN transfer it would have cost him £100.00 in year one just to win the work, now that's how to run a successful business.

I am an SSAIB man in an estate car

There must be something in the water down that way Chris Murphy.

One of the worst job we have on our books was fitted from scratch by Pete's error of judgment.

Haha I am just enjoying the moment as tomorrow morning it's back to the knob head customers who think fully comp cover means they don't get charged for deleting there own fob in error.

Yes our turn over is great turning that into profit is the biggest task. And then of course paying the least amount of tax on it.

Ok so weeks before I left a large national to start up I had the following in place, this was almost 10 years ago now. Car already signed up Loads of stock All of the tools, ladders etc A years wages saved up in the bank as a backup Loads of contacts potential customers I had met over the years Accountant in place Ltd company set up and ready to trade Docket books, invoice books etc printed and ready to use. I think it cost about £6k to put the above in place excluding the years wage I had saved up. Then a lot of very long hours to get things up off the ground and running and finally never give up just keep going and trying. And get approval ASAP. Would I do it again, NO WAY.

My mum and dad have a sterling 10 still running perfect after almost 20 years hardly ever serviced, doesn't make it any good though.

We have fitted 100s of Axis cameras with only one not working out of the box, some of them have now been fitted 3 years and not a single problem. Also the Axis video encoders and I/O mod's have been 100% trouble free aswell.

Died for good had to be sent back for replacement.

Yes. Still having problems with LEDs not working on certain cameras on the system. We have had 2 machines die completely.

We have had nothing but trouble with Hikvision. For now we have stopped using it.

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After spending the last few days working in Glasgow I was expecting a total nightmare. TBH what a surprise, went out in the city for a meal and a few beers and it was far from what I thought it would be. I would 100% rather work in Glasgow than London.

Press the chime button then press the button corisponding to what led's are lit. This will turn off the chime on the zones iluminated.

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Well i thaught i would report back after almost 6 years.... We now have 8 members of staff offices 5 vans/cars on the road and more work than we can cope with and i am stressed out. But on the whole things have gone very well for us but my god it has been a 24/7 job to get here and cost me a few health problems due to being over worked The problem now is keeping on top of all the audits and paper work etc, and we are owed a fortune Thats ths way it is LOL.. If you are thinking of leaving a full time job to start up on your own and intend to make it work get ready for a lot of very hard work and if like me its going to be 12/15 hour days for years... (

100% agreed peter, i am not happy unless i am in the thick of it, thats what drives me forward.

LOL I am more stressed than ever with over £70k out standing at any one point.. We have more work on than ever, 7 members of staff and looking at a new engineer in the new year. Trust me dont think its an easy ride cos its not... Thinking back 9 - 5 at Hex was a dream.. but did not get the ££ i needed. I have had shinges this last few weeks due to stress. So dont think its an easy ride, its NOT..... But on the plus side we are picking up loads of installs and most important loads of 3 year contracts