charging for downtime?

[Isaac Sadigursky]

Hi,Paul! Here is my 1/2 cent.. 
I always arranged tunings AFTER school hours.It's nice and quiet.Make
friends with custodians,they are THE BOSSES,Eventually,they will trust you
the MASTER kEY to get to the classrooms without looking for them all over
the building.I used to stay late and get home AFTER the traffic with no
problems.In emergency situations I got there at 6-6:30 A.M. and was done
BEFORE the class periods.Down time?? Doesn't exist:go to hardware store,look
at your suppliers catalog and order some parts,do some office work in the
car,re-organize your tools-lots of things to do
without getting bored. Hope,this free advice helps... Isaac
-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Paul Mulik
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:25 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: charging for downtime?

Hello list,

Here is a situation I will be facing next week (times adjusted for the sake
of simplicity).

I've been hired to tune 3 pianos at a school which is about 20 miles away.
Two of the pianos are in the same room; the third is in a different room.
Because of class schedules, the first two must be tuned between 8:00 a.m.
and 12:00 noon (no problem there), but the third one is only available after
2:00 p.m., leaving me with a two-hour gap.

Here's the question: is it reasonable to charge something for the two hours
of downtime?  I've already cut them a break on the tuning price, since there
are six pianos involved (I tuned three today, and am going back next week to
do the other three).

Thanks,
Paul Mulik, Joplin MO

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