[*paul_moss]

Interesting to see what split we have.

Mine is carpet, upholstery and leather.

[terryyy100]

Mine is Carpets, Upholstery  Leather and Rugs, 

[EasycleanWindows]

Mine is window cleaning but now do as much carpet and upholstery cleaning and also patio and decking cleaning and curtain and car valeting

[jasonl]

My profits derive from 20% carpet and upholstery cleaning, 80% fire and flood work.

[The Carpet Man (1989) Ltd.]

Carpet retailing, fitting & cleaning

Cleaning being about 22% of our gross income 

[Andrew Briscoe]

carpets.curtains and upholstery since 89, also used to retail carpets, last five years moved into
contract cleaning, just setting up a eco friendly cleaning supplies to sell in my local area.
Andrew.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Cut down all other services as carpet and upholstery became more and more of my work and more profitable. Also include a little bit of leather within upholstery (but only straightforward stuff) and rugs.
I won't do car upholstery any longer. Have also ditched the patio cleaning (and as soon as I had made the decision I had a lot of enquiries). Stopped doing curtains.
I've hitched up with some general cleaners and they give me referrals and I in return give them referrals for general cleaning and curtains (one of the cleaners has a dry cleaning business).
Have done the Prochem hard floor course, a Dry-Eaze course and am about to do the IICRC 2 day carpet fitting course. It's not that I intend to do any of these things in any significant way but knowledge can be so useful in so many ways when people ring you up or you are confronted with the unexpected.

[Jeremy]

80% of my work is from Carpet & Upholstery. 80% of my profit is from Ceramic tile & Grout cleaning. This is mainly because ost of the Tile and Grout are shopping centres.

You guys with TM's should definitly get into this

See www.hydrotek.za.com

Regards
Jeremy

[Joe H]

Carpets, upholstery, leather cleaning/protection and general cleaning (domestic mostly/couple small offices)

[*paul_moss]

80% of my work is from Carpet & Upholstery. 80% of my profit is from Ceramic tile & Grout cleaning. This is mainly because ost of the Tile and Grout are shopping centres.

You guys with TM's should definitly get into this

See www.hydrotek.za.com

Regards
Jeremy

Jeremy, what head are you using on the video, and what chemical ?

[Paul Kettless]

Carpet cleaning was 18% of last year turnover, and to be honest would not still be in business if I was counting on it as a sole income.

Majority of our bus is domestic and commercial cleaning, some windows, patios etc.

[sherco]

Just starting carpet cleaning and hardfloor cleaning, but main buisness is tiling, walls and floors etc.

[heritagecleaning]

Office cleaning still 100% of the biz at present, despite doing the ncca course and buying all the carpet gear 11 monhs ago!
The trouble is that I put so many hours into the office cleaning that I never seem to have time for anything else.
So, from August, I am giving up working on Tuesdays and Thursdays totally in order to property set up in carpet cleaning. Some risk in this but hopefully it'll be a good decision in the long run

[Len Gribble]

Paul

Am and are diversifying, hopefully will have some leather wipe to bring to the ccdo, yes I know not to the standards of some

Bit of a bold statement from Jeremy (We can restore your grout lines to their original colour) if they can remember, do use a scrubber dyer.

Len 

[Alfa]

Carpet, Upholstery, Rugs cleaning and we also do after tenancy cleaning, because a letting agency give us a lot of jobs for carpet and general cleaning.

[Ian Rochester]

We have now diversified into many other aspects of cleaning, the main ones we do currently are:

Carpets, Upholstery, Rugs and Leather - 2 people
Windows, conservatories, facsias, gutters - 4 people
Offices, General, Builders cleans, End of tenancy - 5 people
Domestic Household cleaning - 2 people
Holiday Let cleaning - mainly weekend work as required
Pressure Washing - as required
Flood & Fire Work - as required

We are also currently looking at doing commercial kitchen cleaning, so if anyone has any info on this I'd be very interested.

[*paul_moss]

Ian Rochester are you goung to ccdo?

[markpowell]

60% carpet cleaning, 20% upholstery / leather and 20% rugs, seem to bee getting more rugs now than ever before.
Mark

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

its about half and half for me cleaning and renting houses however in the long trem the renting will far out perfourm any cleaning as you sit there and watch the houses go up in value for nothing 

[Ian Gourlay]

Or Fall as Credit crunch hits

But if you are very rich thats when you buy.

I have Multiple income streams