[Customers4u]

Hi All

We are Grantchester cleaning services,

We specialize in building and operating window cleaning rounds and can construct an entire round to your own area and requirements.

We can also beef up existing rounds

Call Paul Bass on 07862 271852

[advanced]

can you build rounds in surrey , if so i might be interested

[Customers4u]

Hello Advanced

Yes we can put one together for you in surrey,
we cover the whole country

Paul Bass

07862 271852

[dragonet]

Domestic or Commercial?

[Customers4u]

Domestic and commercial

[WavieDavie]

Hi Paul and welcome to Cleanitup - please fill in your profile, signature etc.

I'm intrigued - why would a window cleaning company build up a round and sell it to a competitor?

Any clues on the price of these rounds? Monthly turnover x ?%

Any guarantees or refunds available if it's not up to the buyer's expectations or the customers decide to go elsewhere within a certain period? Will there be a contract between buyer and seller?

Please tell us a bit more / sell us the idea of buying a ready-made round.

[pjulk]

Hi Davie

Paul Bass did pm me about the window cleaning rounds he would build up and i replied asking how much.

He said he charges double the monthly rate so if he was to get you £3000 worth of work he would charge £6000.
He also said he can get both commercial and domestic in an area you require.

He also said he guarentees the work for two months and would replace any customers lost in that time

I don't know how much his mininmum amount is i did not ask that

Paul

[WavieDavie]

Thanks Paul,

Any idea on the hourly rate you'd get for the work, what happens if it's below what you'd normally work for yourself?

[pjulk]

Sorry Davie can't help you with that although i would like to know myself.

I'm always a bit warey of buying work as especially round my way there is a lot of people charging less that me some even charging half of what i charge.
and i don't even charge as much as justin charges although i would like to but i will not get it with so many doing it so cheap.

[pjulk]

Hopefully Paul Bass will come back and tell us all

[WavieDavie]

Once I was asked by another window cleaner exactly what was I doing? This is when I'm in the process of cleaning a 1st floor window. He'd just bought a round and thought that the house I was at was one of his! I explained to him that I'd known the person from way before I ever started on the windows, I'd cleaned her previous house before she'd moved to the current one, and I'm sure she would have told me if she was even thinking of getting a new cleaner.

Turns out the poor guy bought a whole load of house numbers in addition to some real jobs. We still chat when we bump into each other, but he's a big lad and I shudder to think what happened when he caught up with the guy who sold him the round  

[pjulk]

That the sort of thing you have to be careful about.

[Customers4u]

Hello all

Was away on a long weekend,

Hope the following answers your questions

Paul

We leave the charging down to the individual window cleaner, but within reason!! ie not so overpriced that very few want the service.
 
 
A £3,000 turnover per month round, could be put together for £6,000 inc VAT, or if you are looking to beef up your round a £10 per month customer would be £20 inclusive of VAT.
 
Any customers that did,nt stay on board within the first 2 months would be replaced with new customers.
 
We can build your round exactly where you want it,
 
Paul Basspaulbass63@aol.com  
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[windakleena1]

sounds a bit "iffy" to me!

[marcinos]

hmm? what with payment then? when would you want a money for that, straight away or  lets say weekly instalments over 2 months ? if the round is ok, customers are happy, that would make sense and i d b interested

[pjulk]

So much better starting your own round.

We can also beef up existing rounds

Wouldn't have though people with even a small round would need as once you start cleaning its so easy to pick up new customers as you get quite a few ask you each week.

Paul

[AuRavelling79]

Rule 1 Canvass up your own round for best customer loyalty and house pricing

Rule 2 If you must buy work, buy from someone you trust and who has a genuine reason for selling - and who preferably has had a long relationship with his customers - and who will personally introduce you to them.
Rule 3 Beware of buying from someone who has "built" a round simply to sell as the loyalty/pricing/state of windows may be suspect.
Rule 4 Pay as you clean and retain the customers (eg monthly instalments) - a genuine seller won't mind.
Rule 5 Caveat Emptor
 

[Customers4u]

Simply because, i tried to get back on this site countless times and it kept rejecting my password.

However am back for good now,
 
Can understand your sceptisicsm malcg but we are happy with what we are doing and have never been accused of this in the real world, we also operate window cleaning rounds ourselves so we know all the pitfalls and assurances that people would require from the round building side.

Paul Bass

Gcs cambridge

[Malcal]

Hi Paul
Can you put me in touch the a customer/s who you have built a round for in the northeast.
Cheers Mal

[Customers4u]

We have built no rounds in the North East as yet
Malcal but will travel to wherever there is a need, the only rounds we have built so far have been around cambridge, cambs, St Albans and Chigwell in London

Have had interest from Clacton, Colchester, Bristol, Tamworth, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Dundee, and Swindon.

Paul Bass

GCS Cambridge