[Chris R]

I have recently completed what is now my single biggest earning days work in 15 years cc. £900 for 1 days work   - 2 men and machines- 8am to 8.pm. Call centre type offices, I was expecting it to take 2 days, chuffed to finish in 1  
Whats been your best earner ?
(Not counting stain protection treatment)
Chris

[strakercleaning]

£795.22.
1 man and one machine.
8am to 3pm.
Turned into 6 monthly clean now, office building 12 lift lobbies

[Shaun_Ashmore]

At Xmas regularly do the big 1 at least 2 days of the month usually £700 based on 6 days, it kills my back though!

Shaun

[Dave Parry]

£ 760 curtains and carpets. 10.00 to 16.00hrs.

[Dynafoam]

This year (April), one two-seater sofa made in 1760, £800 + £530 for travelling time + ferry tickets + diesel.

I had to drive to Germany to do the job though - round trip with clean took about 26 very tiring hours.

Prior to that the same sofa was cleaned in England -£800 for 13hrs cleaning.

Also did a smoke damaged tapestry in Belgium a few years ago. It was an insurance job that took about 36 hours to clean @ £1700 (10% of insured value) - so I suppose a days' worth of that would be about £864.00.

My very first BIG days' work netted £120.17s.6d in 1967, I spent most of it on a shinny new van  

John.

[Dynafoam]

Chris S,

Was that the one earlier this year when you had been in bed, ill, the previous two days?

If so, it was worth getting up for  

John.

[strakercleaning]

JB, That was the one and it brought the colour back to my cheeks. No one in the building and had key control of 1 lift. Literally vacuumed, sprayed and brushed, put bits back into lift and pulled out machine to rinse. Dropped one floor and repeated 11 times. Had 3 plants to move in whole job.
Two floors had lines from builders taping boards down and i removed with Solutions, where one other company had sent in 2 men on two weekends running who could not get out. I cleared those 2 floors along with 10 others on my own in a day.
Actually looking forward to return visit, now the worst has been dealt with.
Have a job booked in which is 4 Bedrooms, Lounge and HSL which totals £923...............empty of furniture but it is like one corner of a castle with the biggest spiral staircase i have seen. OOOOOOOOOOO my back

[Ivar_Haglund]

100 thousand kroner



IVAR

[adl]

£1950.00 a ceiling had leaked in a big furniyure superstore had 10 leather suites to wipe over and 112.5m2 of carpets to clean, 150.00 per suite and £4.00 per m2 for carpets it was a week last friday arrived at 11 and finished at 4 the suites were only spot damaged so i took the liberty of doing what insurance companys do to us charge a fortune for nowt!

[woodman]

Hi Dave

were you instructed by the insurance company or the store?

Trevor

[adl]

The Store

[woodman]

and I assume that you have been paid, then thats all well and good  and a nice little earner

Had the insurance company instructed and you'd have invoiced at that amount your bill would have sat on the loss adjusters desk for a couple of months before he queried it then asked you to reduce it send another  and sit on it for another couple of months before payment :

Yes, I been there, seen it, done it

[adl]

I learnt that one very quick we had the same thing last july at a fire damaged property, invoiced at end of july paid at end of october, its funny coz im sure i paid my insurance premium late once and they threatened to cancel my policy! one rule for one and one for another springs to mind
regards dave adl

[The Great One]

Hi

£715.00 for 4 hours work in June.

Hotel 290m of carpets in high taffic area.

7am-11am with a offered coffee break with gourmet coffee and danish supplied.

Sweet as!

Regards

Martin

[Dynafoam]

Chris,

Beware spiral staircases  

I had a job for The Crown Commissioners years ago that involved a narrow stone spiral staircase to the upper floor of a 4-storey building.

The machine stayed on the ground but I made many journeys back and forth. It was not my back or feet that suffered most, it was my elbows. Most of the skin was left on the rough-plastered walls as I ran up and down carrying blowers etc.

[Dennis]

We call those lighthouses in these parts.  

[strakercleaning]

JB.........May borrow my sons skateboarding elbow pads  
5 foot in width so even i should be able to move about without touching the sides

[Len Gribble]

A rug 40ft X 20ft £2200 7am to 4 pm 2 bucket boys £80 each would I do it again NO!

Len

[Phil Marlor]

John,

When you go on your German trip why dont you stay a couple of nights.

Make it into a weekend break with your wife, dont know why you rush home straight after.

Phil.

ps I would love a job like that

[Len Gribble]

Phil

Take the wife?  They don’t know how to vacuum, also ask them to drive to take the strain; do pigs will fly?

If I suggest this to wife this first word what shops are there and how much can I spend?

Len