Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: harleyman on April 12, 2019, 07:05:31 am
-
What radious from home do you travel to your work at the moment I travel about a 2 mile radious due to the work being in small blocks of work 'I'm thinking of going a bit further a way and do a bit more canvassing.
-
Residential within 5 miles commercial within 40 miles of where we're based.
-
Iv got a 15 quidder about 18 miles away
-
10 miles but once there the van barely moves
-
10 miles but once there the van barely moves
very similar , 10 miles ,8 miles and 15.Most days I'm in one estate per day
-
5 miles for most work.....I have over 300 jobs in a 2 mile affluent area,some commercial up to 10 miles away but nothing further afield...
I do around 3000 miles a year in my van...👍
-
My furthest customers i have are around 15 miles away, i wouldn't want to travel any further then that.
-
56 miles.
-
Have been working 96 miles away for the last 2 weeks on a big one off clean.
-
regular gutter clear 140 miles away
Darran
-
I may have quite a rare collection of work, part of our work something like 600 properties in half a mile of my home.
That has been built over a good few years but works well for us.
If I had a long enough hose and powerful enough pump I wouldn't have to take the van :)
Furthest I go is 15 miles but it has to be worth while to go just like most I suppose.
Steve
-
Closest 2 miles. Farthest 12 miles.
Bulk of work 3 - 10 miles.
Van 7 years old from new on 41k.
-
300 miles.
Have quoted further, so who knows.
-
Most is 3 miles or less, some is 5 miles max.
-
My son can do his first 2 hours in a morning without moving his van off our driveway
-
I usually get my customers to fetch there houses round to mine on a morning, if they want em doing quickly, I lend em the tools and give them a 5 percent discount before letting em go, the others have to wait until I lumber from my pit around 10:00, I then let em collect there homes before 5:00(telling them to be truely grateful!!), before retiring with a few cans and Netflix waiting for tomorrows dream to start.
-
I usually get my customers to fetch there houses round to mine on a morning, if they want em doing quickly, I lend em the tools and give them a 5 percent discount before letting em go, the others have to wait until I lumber from my pit around 10:00, I then let em collect there homes before 5:00(telling them to be truely grateful!!), before retiring with a few cans and Netflix waiting for tomorrows dream to start.
You're making it difficult for yourself. Get your customers to take their windows out, bring them round to you. More room on your drive than a dozen three bed semi's waiting for collection.
-
Chatting to one of my customers who works from home!
Said to him I might give that a try.
His response "Go for it , it's great"
:-\ :-\ :-\
-
At the moment my work is within a 10 - 20 mile radius. However soon I will be travelling over 200 miles to build a round in a new area
-
I used to travel all over building a round now I reckon I don’t travel any further than 4-5 miles a day, very lucky to live in the nice side of Stockport and certainly an area so many other window cleaners travel into, I know most of the local lads and we all find it crazy how guys are travelling from other side of Manchester like Oldham or down as far as Crewe stoke or Sheffield way, they must have really poor prices or heavily worked areas near them to travel that far I presume.
I’ve found living in the area you just get more work because your a local, Ive picked up so much work just because people have said they’ve seen my van constantly in the area or I’m known around and they end up dumping the guys who aren’t local!
-
Like Rayleigh Window Cleaning Services, due to the fact I've been working in this job a long time (since 1976) mine is an unusual round.
Back then it was a job not a lot of people liked doing so it was easy to build a round and I still have some of those early customers.
Currently, about 1% of my work is 1 mile from where I live, the remaining 99% is within 1/3 mile from where I live. Using a trolley, one day's work can be done from my home without moving my car. You can imagine the ridiculously low mileage my work vehicle does. Some years I only fill it with fuel three times. Every time I refuel I have to go looking for the fuel cap because I can't remember where it is. :D
-
90 % withing 7 miles
the others are 40 mins away in a different area, simply because i got bored of my area. Its quite nice having a bit of a drive on a morning occasionally.
-
i get a nose bleed is i got to go further than 3miles ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D