What do you think??

[Miss Star]

A friend has just phoned me to say that there is a beauty room for rent for £5.00 an hour.

I have never heard of a room being rented out like this, has anyone got any experience of this kind of arrangement?

Thanks

 

[ch4rli3]

What???? This sounds like desperate measures if you ask me!!!

I'd get in there quick if I were you! £5 per hour!

 

[Northern Nails]

Thats £200 for the week isn't it?? 40hr shift 5 days a week.

 

[angelina221]

Depends if you have to pay for a set amount of hours or if you can pick the hours you work.
If you worked a 40 hour week then as the previous poster said, that's £200 a week.
If you can get your bookings altogether and you only have to pay for the hours that you work, then that would be a better idea.
It really does depend on location. Have you already got a client base? How much passing trade will you get from this location? Will you have to do your own advertising and take your own bookings?
£200 may sound a lot but if you are in a great location with lots of clients and passing trade, then £200 might sound really good.
The last 2 hours at work tonight was filled with a microdermbrasion and some waxing and took £100. If i had to pay £10 for rent out of this then it doesn't seem like a bad hourly rate does it? Obviously you will have to go along and ask lots of questions and then decide

 

[champagne]

Hmm depends if you are going to have to be sitting about in between clients....could prove expensive ..... be careful x

If you are offering high end treatments it may work out ok x

 

[Miss Star]

Thank you for all your replies.

I believe the room is in a private place, not on a high street, so there will be no passing trade.

I'm going to have to really think about it.

 

[Debbies Gellies]

If there is no passing trade and you cant be seen you might as well use your home.

 

[tingle]

Don't do it unless you are the only therapist working in that room!

I have done this and it is a nightmare

The person who owned the clinic that the room was in allocated the room space. I had to share the time with other "professionals" or other therapists.

The thing that put me off in the end was that there ended up being a clash of therapies where there was about 3 of us doing say reflexology and it was a toss up who actually got the clients.

There was a lot of waiting around and I didnt feel that my stuff was safe including my client records etc. as we were all sharing the same room. I also didnt feel happy using the room with other peoples stuff in there. (Its different if I knock my own candle holder and smash it or leave wax on the couch cover if you know what i mean)

I just didn't like the set up as it just felt like a free for all.

tbh if they are renting it by the hour I wouldnt think that you would be the only therapist in there.

That was just my experience and yes it did work out that it was great as i only paid for what hours I used but it just wasnt for me.

hth

Lisa

 

[persianista]

I sometimes use the hourly charge method for holistic therapists using a room on an ad-hoc basis. For example, if our reflexologist has a booking, she comes and uses a room for an hour and pays a fiver. She doesn't pay for downtime, only when she needs it. Gives her a salon base without a permanent overhead. Gives us another treatment to offer without a permanent overhead. We always have a room available, so it works ok.