Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Plankton on January 10, 2018, 09:12:02 pm
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I used to travel around 30 miles which took around 45mins-1hour. Sold the majority of my work to five different people over the last 3 years and now looking to buy a round but so I'm interested to know what folks consider to be a reasonable distance to travel.
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For some lucrative commercial we travel 180 miles , but generally don’t go more than 25 miles for most work
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Residential.....6 mile radius maybe
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6.5 mile is my furthest just now and anything in decent areas that's been coming up is 20-35 miles away.
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All mine is within about 5 miles or so.
However im looking further affield this year as ive exhausted all the decent areas nearby.
I would probably travel up to 45 mins for the right work, but i dont think ill go that far
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Furthest away work is 12 miles, 90% of my work is within a 2 mile radius of my house.
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most of my work is 5 miles away but some its 10-15 miles.
id say no more than 15 miles.....any longer distances and your day just gets eaten up with driving,traffic jams,etc.not to mention diesel costs and wear and tear on the van.
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My furthest work is 25 miles away.
It's a straight run, steady 60mph all the way so it blows the cobwebs away and it's a decent day's work too.
John
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I've recently moved from the center of my round, everything was previously in a 7 mile radius. My furthest work is now 12 miles away.
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For some lucrative commercial we travel 180 miles , but generally don’t go more than 25 miles for most work
180 miles?blimey......no work would be worth travelling that far for(for me).your fuel bill must be massive(with having a diesel heater as well).
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I think the answer to that is it depends if you can make enough profit.
Years back i had a large contract with Total before they went back to france and sold thier operations in the uk.
I used to start at 5:00 AM in central london and work my way down to Portsmouth and Chichester cleaning every shop window on the way inside and out till midnight. It was a long day, and a lot of traveling but I'd end up with a sizeable wedge of £20 notes by the end of that day. That lasted 4 years before Gerald Robson purchased the business back from total and sold off the individual stores.
As one of my spin off from one of those stores in Farnham i built up a seperate window cleaning roud there too and used to travel from woking to farnham. I ended up with quite a large amount of work there in the end but traffic was becoming a major issue so i sold that work off to a member on this forum.
Now i am just concentrating on work that i can get started on in less than 20mins.
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12 miles.
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For some lucrative commercial we travel 180 miles , but generally don’t go more than 25 miles for most work
180 miles?blimey......no work would be worth travelling that far for(for me).your fuel bill must be massive(with having a diesel heater as well).
Believe me it is worth it as I said very lucrative job but sadly only 2 days 8 times a year
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Did 360ish miles the other day. Paid very well.
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Misread the question. How far would I travel. Anywhere if the deal was right. At present 12 miles but if (say) I had an all day job paying about £400 plus I would happily drive an hour each way to get there so 40 - 60 miles in that case.
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I doubt I will consistently work over £160 on windows, £120 then a break then a little bit more, now and then have a look on here then look at the latest Dembele £££'s... Any more and it seems like hard work.
I would need to take someone on to hit 400 on windows and work an extra couple of hours a day! Even then I doubt it would be consistent.