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Funnily enough I have just been reading the Daily Mail and just read this, which kind of proves my point....

There's lots of huffing and puffing in the construction industry at the moment about kick starting it off with new build projects, new towns on both brown and green belt sites, until they stop talking about and start implementing these projects the construction industry will remain dead as a Dodo. It will only work though if they are building affordable housing for everyone not the select few luxury apartments that are beyond the general publics wage packet and on top of that you then need to get the banks to start offering mortgages, without them lending with a reasonable deposit there is no point in even digging the foundations let alone hanging a front door.....

It effects it massively, many people will put of doing major refurbishment projects simply because they have no idea as to if their jobs are safe or not. One thing I have learned over the last couple of years, it makes no different what size of house or how many cars you see parked on someones drive, it just means they have bigger debts and more to lose than the average guy in the street.
Secondly the general public public have no idea of what raw materials cost, they will Google say the cost of a boiler, but they won't Google the sundries that put it all together and make it work. So I may well be asked to quote for a heating installation, the customer having done his/her research knows the price of the the boiler, say

Bit up and down really, lots of factors involved, Olympics, school holidays, summer season even down to a few customers selling up and leaving London altogether. I have enough contract work to tick over comfortably. The last 10 days have been relatively quiet, but the previous 6 weeks it was constant every day, which only ends up getting to you in the end anyway. Now that summer is nearly over I expect things to start picking back up again. I'll only start worrying if interest rates start rising as I think that will be the nail in the coffin that kills everyones business...

I can not really say one way or the other whether it is better or worse, as I don't really take much notice of company logo's. The only logo I take any notice of, is the one with the crown in a circle!

I would not have noticed had it not been in the press

Someones creaming a lot of profit on distributers because their not earning

Norwich Union insurance company were better (only 8 hours) on a 0870 number, needed to make a claim on the car would they answer the phone, would they heck. Then called their freephone sales line to purchase insurance within 2 or 3 rings they had answered. I really laid into the poor operator who answered and eventually hung up on me I did send them the telephone bill, which after a lot of argueing they paid up. Never renewed my insurance with them again though..

Leaflet distributers seem to be earning good money.....

Over 4 hours to a well known popular boiler manufacturers technical / customer support line. When the phone eventually was answered, it was done so by a subsidary company who said they couldn't help. I use this as an example to customers when choosing a new boiler and advise them to do the telephone test, if the phone isn't answered within a few rings and you are actually speaking to someone then the product overall is pretty much useless.