Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Doug Holloway on May 22, 2010, 04:57:01 pm
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Hi Guys
A poll to see how we are managing in the recession.
Cheers
Doug
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Good for me,next week got a couple of spaces,in the afternoons,and week after also looking healthy.It`s also helping me to push up prices,as i am not skint,so feel much more confident,and have more of a take it or leave it attitude,example,doing a small 2 bed on Friday £165
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good for me :) even tho i had three cancleation this week! One tomorrow which was a £250 :( and lost my wallet with 150 in it >:(
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although this is only my 20th month trading. i can only compare this year against last but for the 1 st 5 months of 2010 i have doubled turnover from 2009
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Best year ( financial upto april) in 20 yrs last year for me . I thinks its purely because Whitby is still booming so most work is holiday trade related . Bookings for b &b 's is apparently slower so far this year so who knows. Still draw the same modest wage so that money stays in business to cover unforseen occurrence that could befall us all .
Mike
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Fairly busy, slightly down on last year, but May's been manic and June's looking good to, most work comming in is friends of current customers.
Dave
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If we're talking about what's on the board at present then it's ok
But overall since 1st January it's poor compared to previous years.
I've been in this business for 10 years and for the previous 9 years things tend to run between slightly busy to slightly quiet, in other words steady with the odd manic moment. This year it's been running DEAD......flat out.....DEAD....flat out etc.
Previous years I made a point of no working Saturdays but this year I've been doing them to counteract the dead days during the week.
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Same here Neil.
John
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Just having a look at the results, I wonder if there is a geographical reason, not sure how you could find out ???
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absolute poope only 1 job booked in for this week :( :(
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2009/10 is 20% down on 2008/09.
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Hi
So far this year I have been well up but has recently gone dead, didn't help I had to fork out an extra grand this month and didn't work for the whole of April.
Regards
Martin 8)
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up 100% on last year but that doesn't mean i'm doing well. away 3 days this coming week and fully booked for thurs fri, just need to keep the last 2 weeks going as theyve been brill but thats easier said than done.
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Guess it's like anything - if you started yesterday and did zilch - then after cleaning a broom cupboard today - you're ahead of your game. If you've been at it for a hundred years, you'll find that things are becoming tougher.
Recession for the last year plus!- and struggling?. You haven't seen anything yet.
You'll find ca half a million public sector workers appearing on the unemployment register & the knock-on effect in the private sector will have an effect on your business.
It all depends on your client mix. If you deal mainly with one end of the spectrum - you won't have any problems with maintaining or increasing your turnover. If however the bulk of your business comes from the other half of the spectrum - don't plan to put your name down for a new 'Roller'
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New roller ;D
My client base is what i call the john lewis customer and always has been.
Also thankfully i have a lot of commercial clients who have not cut back( as yet ;D).
Have had a good may and think it will be good in june hopefully...
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absolute poope only 1 job booked in for this week :( :(
Hey Bennymon, give blackberry a bell they need to spell gallery right on your nav bar!
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Even worse just spotted this one ::)
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For myself it's hard to say out here in oz its from July to end of June. From July till end of Febuary it was up about 20% but then got ill so haven't work for 4 months just starting again now. I think it would of been up but didn't work so will never know. The work for the next couple of weeks is booked to what I want to work so looking good again, but until I come back working 5 full days aweek its still hard to say.
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Hi Guys
Interesting poll which suggests that allowing for positive thinking that most are coping quite well but a number are in trouble.
Hopefully the market will pick up into June which is traditional but I do believe we are in for tough trading conditions for another 2 years or so.
It's important to look at your costs and most of all don't fall for the 'can you take on more work' calls of which I had several last week, which are only ever likely to reduce your bank balance.
Cheers
Doug
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Well today my first job cancelled,after i drove there and called to see what was going on,was going to text and check yesterday,as i was thinking he might do this.Oh sorry mate,one of my relatives did it,and i thought i called you over the weekend and said don`t come !
And another reg custy,who called me on Fri eve to book for June,has postponed me,last time i cleaned for her she rearranged me about 4 times,ahhhh
So got some spaces now this week,but if it`s like this outside then i am not too bothered
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My phone's steady now it was quiet then went busy now steady, it's my bowels that aren't as I went to a BBQ yesterday and I have to keep popping home to see a man about a dog luckily the jobs today are all local! computer is always in in our house so I type this from the little boys room ;D
Shaun
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Shaun sounds like your right in the sh*t hope things clean up & clear up soon you wouldnt want a long run of it. ;D
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Sounds like Shaun is being driven round the bend! ;D
Probably he's a bit flushed by now!! ;D ;D
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Shaun I know you said you were trying to have a clear out but I didn't think you meant like that!
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Need some Ultrapac to get rid of all of that carbon in me!
Bloody toilet humour!!
Shaun
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;D ;D
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My turnover for May will be about £400 up on May last year.
However the average job ticket has dropped from £100 to £90 - people not spending as much, but thankfully still spending.
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Ha, thats funny Joe, i've just posted on another thread that average job prices have soared!
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my job average last year was 92 and this year its 106 i think? not checked for a few weeks.
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2 jobs this week total 6 hours. got ads in local press and leaflets out
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This is the truth. After checking on performance this year to date compared with last year I am 25% down on job numbers and takings. Never had a drop like that in the 30 years in this business. I always do better in the second part of the year so here's looking to June onwards.
Dave.
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This is the truth. After checking on performance this year to date compared with last year I am 25% down on job numbers and takings. Never had a drop like that in the 30 years in this business. I always do better in the second part of the year so here's looking to June onwards.
Dave.
Thats quite a drop Dave, do you just put it down to the resession.
I was down 3k in Jan, but seem to have got it back, and up a few hundred quid.
Andrew
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People are shopping around for the best prices as well an some are maybe keeping money back in these uncertain times..Will drop off from next week when the football starts i think ..
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Be interesting to know whether its geoghraphic ie north / south divide etc.
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May quieter than usuall but June looking good already got a few good bookings already.
Mark
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This is the truth. After checking on performance this year to date compared with last year I am 25% down on job numbers and takings. Never had a drop like that in the 30 years in this business. I always do better in the second part of the year so here's looking to June onwards.
Dave.
Thats quite a drop Dave, do you just put it down to the resession.
I was down 3k in Jan, but seem to have got it back, and up a few hundred quid.
Andrew
Not sure Andrew, I am still telling myself it's the weather. Things have picked up the last couple of weeks, but it's not flowing along like it should. The fact that YP got my telephone wrong this year wont help, but to what extent who knows.
Dave.
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I cant comprehend how quickly things change, been good last few weeks,
worked most of this weekend, now have an empty diary, except hard floor and a few carpets next week, and a pub booked for last week in September.
You just cant predict it at the moment, thankfully i have a lot of contract cleaning monthly.
Andrew
ps, spending quality time with my 5 week old bucket boy :)
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effin mental at the mo, but i'm sure this post will be the kiss of death ;D
hard floors are slowly coming in, slate and tile and grout today, 2 quotes for carpet and hardfloor mix tomorrow,
ps... still not fully booked though, don't think i ever will be.