Yeah i'm the same bud when busy, To be honest busy for me is 3 to 4 weeks in font of me...No one else will wait past that unless repeat customers., So lose work when busy. But i'm finding at the moment the jobs i'm looking at people don't want it start for 2 to 3 weeks now. So it's the other way round.
Always amazes me when plasterers say there booked up for 6 months at a time, maybe on site work but i find that hard to believe on domestics...One of my mates who was a plasterer used to say was booked up for 12 months all the time and always busy, till i seen his wife one time and she said he was at home most of the time with nothing on....Lol ****