Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: stracey on May 11, 2010, 06:31:33 pm
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Any you guys lost your morrisons contract?
Got letter this week that they have a general cleaning company from newcastle
to clean 120 sites in the north.
Does anyone know who this company is?
We lost 7 site in south yorkshire :-\
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isnt uk commercial cleaning from that area
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yep lost mine; maybe wrong on this but i think the company cleans other retail outlets
so is geard up to handle big contracts :(
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We heard something about Morrisons using one company to clean all their stores. Maybe it has finally happened.
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the new company i think is http://www.c-technortheast.co.uk/window_cleaning.html saw them doing our local morrisons the other week. they do all kinds of cleaning by the looks of it.
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No its not, its 'Lees general cleaning' allegedly.
They are from South Shields, cos they took mine after 26 years of windowcleaning, its probably the biggest and longest serving job ive done.
Get the violins out. ???
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done mine for 5 yrs now they wont get half the money back used to do a mid week shop
when i finished ;D ;D
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Then again, Morrisons to be fair did offer me to choose out of 811 stores to price for.
I priced a few, and even dropped the price by £12 on the one i do and still lost it, maybe my company just aint big enough for them, though had no complaints in over quater of a century.
'More reason to not shop at Morrisons' ;D
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No its not, its 'Lees general cleaning' allegedly.
They are from South Shields, cos they took mine after 26 years of windowcleaning, its probably the biggest and longest serving job ive done.
Get the violins out. ???
yea seen them about. they also clean a lot of the offices around the old ici in the boro.....badly like all the other big firms seem too. but at the end of the day it comes down to a balance sheet read by someone who,s never even looked at the windows that they,ve been cleaning...lol
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Then again, Morrisons to be fair did offer me to choose out of 811 stores to price for.
I priced a few, and even dropped the price by £12 on the one i do and still lost it, maybe my company just aint big enough for them, though had no complaints in over quater of a century.
'More reason to not shop at Morrisons' ;D
What was you charging
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Then again, Morrisons to be fair did offer me to choose out of 811 stores to price for.
I priced a few, and even dropped the price by £12 on the one i do and still lost it, maybe my company just aint big enough for them, though had no complaints in over quater of a century.
'More reason to not shop at Morrisons' ;D
What was you charging
Anything between £30 and £45 per store. Thats in and out. ???
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Then again, Morrisons to be fair did offer me to choose out of 811 stores to price for.
I priced a few, and even dropped the price by £12 on the one i do and still lost it, maybe my company just aint big enough for them, though had no complaints in over quater of a century.
'More reason to not shop at Morrisons' ;D
What was you charging
Anything between £30 and £45 per store. Thats in and out. ???
The new firm will probably be doing it for a tenner a store!!
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i know of a company who was short listed to tender for it,he asked he for some prices on stores a few months back.there based in telford so dont know if they got it.
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Then again, Morrisons to be fair did offer me to choose out of 811 stores to price for.
I priced a few, and even dropped the price by £12 on the one i do and still lost it, maybe my company just aint big enough for them, though had no complaints in over quater of a century.
'More reason to not shop at Morrisons' ;D
What was you charging
Anything between £30 and £45 per store. Thats in and out. ???
How often was that?
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Weekly.
I used to 4 a week back in the 80's and nineties and money seemed no object.
But that was when it was Presto and 'Safeway'mainly.
Obviously due to recession and generally getting rid of deadwood over the last 2 years it had to happen.
Mind you, if there are 2 staff sorting out all those invoices from hundreds of little companies, as opposed to 1 invoice with 100 stores on, its not rocket science if there not saving on the pricing of windowcleaning, they can certainly let one of the admin team go and save money there. :-\
Regards
iwitot (finance and commerce director for large supermarket chain)
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I bet they`ve got Richard Hammond and Nick Hancock doing them.
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wait till they get to clean them some managers are ok ;others ::)
the one i cleaned couldnt be done wfp it leaked in to much ;D
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I bet they`ve got Richard Hammond and Nick Hancock doing them.
Yeh and Alan whats his name?....footballer bloke.. ;D
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wait till they get to clean them some managers are ok ;others ::)
the one i cleaned couldnt be done wfp it leaked in to much ;D
Yes i agree. Some releif managers were a nightmare, though always got on well with the usual store managers.
It was worse when head office lost the pink an yellow copy of the engineers worksheet, then they make you go back to store to get another one signed. The relief manager was like " sorry who are you? what company you from? did you clean the windows on such an such a date?"
Even though youve been cleaning that store , when they were still filling their nappies.
I think i'll go back to doing domestic work.
But then the way things have been going on the commercial side........................I aint got a choice :(
Get them violins out again ;D
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I bet they`ve got Richard Hammond and Nick Hancock doing them.
Yeh and Alan whats his name?....footballer bloke.. ;D
Hansen :)
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We've just lost the one in Alnwick to "Lees Cleaning" I've heard that they have priced every store at £30/clean!!
I spent a day going around all the ones from Berwick to the Tyne and priced them up, some of them are huge and if they are doing it for £30 then they are welcome to it.
Our local Morrisons manager is a complete pain, we can be stood there for 30 minutes waiting to get the engineers sheet signed and every week we get the comment:
"Are you not going to dry them off?"
"Er, no it's pure water, read your H & S policy we're not allowed to use ladders or steps anymore!!!!"
I'm quite friendly with one of the store supervisors there so I'll keep in touch with her to see how they're doing.
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Yes, and some think that all contract work is a licence to print money, you get more loyalty from most domestics or smaller contracts
idealrob
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Lost Morrisons but just picked up an £1800 post build exterior window clean of a new building that's due to open on 1st August.........swings and roundabouts!!! ;D
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Down here in the southwest "Exeter" Morrisions employ there own in house team of cleaners who also clean the windows
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Parkgate,store,Rotherham,its,a,mess
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Then again, Morrisons to be fair did offer me to choose out of 811 stores to price for.
I priced a few, and even dropped the price by £12 on the one i do and still lost it, maybe my company just aint big enough for them, though had no complaints in over quater of a century.
'More reason to not shop at Morrisons' ;D
What was you charging
Anything between £30 and £45 per store. Thats in and out. ???
The new firm will probably be doing it for a tenner a store!!
We went past Morrison's the the other day and a company called Anlaby is doing it and they are from Bradford.. hope this helps