[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

[strakercleaning]

I would happily take my wife on such a trip.......... just may not resist temptation to leave her there

[Phil Marlor]

Len,

You need to stamp your authority on your relationship before its too late.

There's only one boss in my house, just ask Mark Betts.

Phil

ps John 13 hours to clean one Sofa

[HolmansUKLTD]

£1000 for 8 hrs work up Tower bridge

Few beers and a curry to celebrate

Nick

[HolmansUKLTD]

Just incase it sounds a bit misleading not actually up tower bridge but offices in Tower bridge :

Nick

[Dynafoam]

Phil,

Other work commitments prevented a stopover and a slight shortage of wives prevented That other suggestion. I did take a friend to help out with the driving, but he slept all the way there.

Whilst I was working, he helped himself to some of the cheap beer we had bought in Belgium on the way there - so slept all the way home  

The thirteen hour clean was due to over 300 years build-up of soot and soil, combined with unstable dyes and the extreme delicacy of the tapestry fabric. To add to the fun the padding was horsehair under wool blanket.

Jobs of this nature cannot be rushed.

John.

[Phil Marlor]

John,

So it was Len you took with you then

Phil

[Dynafoam]

Phil,

When Len and I get talking nobody sleeps  

John.

[ccs19]

£1,166.25. Started at 10am job 1, job 2 started at 2pm both jobs 1 man and machine, job 3 started at 5.30 finished at 12 midnight this needed 3 men a machine. Best day in 7 years.