Setting up as the village bike mechanic, tool sharpener etc.

[Globalti]

Some of you know that I am building a house in the country with a big warm well-lit workshop.

Once we've settled in I plan to offer bike repairs and servicing, tool sharpening and simple vasectomies and other stuff to villagers, just to keep me busy.

Has anybody ever done this?

 

[dan_bo]

Vasectomised a villager? No.

No chance.

 

[Slioch]

There's a few in my village that should have had a vasectomy, judging by their feral offspring's behaviour.

 

[Globalti]

Gents hair cutting? S'easy with a trimmer and a comb.

 

[vickster]

Don’t forget to get indemnity insurance whatever you choose 👍

 

[Mrs M]

Some of you know that I am building a house in the country with a big warm well-lit workshop.

Once we've settled in I plan to offer bike repairs and servicing, tool sharpening and simple vasectomies and other stuff to villagers, just to keep me busy.

Has anybody ever done this?

Never done anything like this.
Happy to see you planning ahead.
Best wishes.
xx

 

[Globalti]

I won't be charging any money, just beer.

 

[Cymro74]

It depends on scale. If you are doing odd jobs (e.g. once a month) for a few quid or pints that will be fine. If you do it more often you get into questions of planning permission, tax, insurance etc

 

[Houthakker]

Never carried out a vasectomy, but its got to be easier than finding the damn squeak on my bike.
Good luck with it.

 

[Globalti]

I was thinking of just having a kettle, a beer fridge and some comfy chairs with a coffee table covered in cycling books and magazines. Maybe also a TV for cycling.

 

[ColinJ]

If you could stand having random strangers stopping by, how about sticking a yurt at the far end of your garden and running a part-time outdoor cycling/walking B&B?

I'm interested in knowing if 'vasectomies' was an auto-correction, and if so, what was it supposed to say?!

 

[DCLane]

Two thoughts:

1. It's good to see you're considering what to do when you're settling in. I can see you being busy during the summer periods with people on the NCN7.

2. Make sure you've got idemnity insurance just in case. It's highly unlikely it'll be needed but is worthwhile; from memory SWMBO pays £20 a year just in case her advice kills someone as a Dietitian. She never has as far as I know, but ...

 

[bikingdad90]

She never has as far as I know, but ...

How long does she have to maintain if for after she stops giving advice? Just thinking in the professional tax and accounting world you can be sued at a later date for misguided advice at a previous point in time.

 

[DCLane]

How long does she have to maintain if for after she stops giving advice? Just thinking in the professional tax and accounting world you can be sued at a later date for misguided advice at a previous point in time.

It should be just for the time period in which she's operating and seeing patients. As a Dietitian she's mostly NHS but is also freelance and a Nutritionist with the insurance being for her private work. My understanding from the t&c's is litigation at a later date is OK if she's insured for when she saw the patient / gave training or advice.

 

[Globalti]

And if you only charge for parts?