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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark311069 on July 12, 2010, 05:48:21 pm

Title: currys/halfords
Post by: mark311069 on July 12, 2010, 05:48:21 pm
does anybody clean halford or currys stores. if so are they done by a national company.
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: DaveG on July 12, 2010, 05:50:39 pm
Ive just done a builders clean on a currys/pcworld refurb... the new  manager is going to find out whether nationals do it or not and let me know ...
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Dave Willis on July 12, 2010, 05:53:54 pm
I've done one in the past and got paid from the till.
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: mark311069 on July 12, 2010, 07:25:35 pm
a window cleaner pal of mine used to clean our local currys and get paid from the till but they have stopped it after being told to by head office. this makes me think that a national company will be taking over. 
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Moderator David@stives on July 12, 2010, 07:32:58 pm
I do the Comets in the Southwest, they are national. I expect Currys would be the same.
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: mci services on July 12, 2010, 07:44:18 pm
my brother lost currys a few months ago when head office told them to stop as a national had it
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: darren clarke on July 12, 2010, 07:50:17 pm
the halfords near me is done by a bloke who gets paid out of the till
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: mci services on July 12, 2010, 07:52:24 pm
how did we get onto halfords :o
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: mark311069 on July 12, 2010, 07:58:17 pm
how did we get onto halfords :o

the clue is in the title ;D
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: mci services on July 12, 2010, 08:00:36 pm
sorry just read it again ;D :'(
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: richard jagger on July 13, 2010, 12:11:57 am
The ways I got in ,,,,,Through the front door!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: George P on July 13, 2010, 08:19:52 am
curys is national as we did them for a while
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Llaaww on July 13, 2010, 08:47:32 am
they are both a waste of space, I have worked for both here and there. Usually the shops are filthy with year old snots running down the windows. After a couple of cleans you get the standard speech, "we already have somebody who comes every month and head office say we have to  stay with them".

These shops really make me angry, they are always the dirtiest snot ridden holes in the town, and they always swear that the windows are being done.

Conclusion: somebody is on the make, putting money in their pocket and not doing the work.

rant over
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: darren clarke on July 13, 2010, 09:19:08 am
i know a bloke who use to do a few car dealerships,  and when he bought his round  he turned up in a car to do the windows and they said its ok mate we got some one, said ok and walked off,  he still gets paid for all of them and only does 1 now,   
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: bluez on July 13, 2010, 11:03:26 am
currys and pc world = initial
dont know about halfords
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: S.A.J on July 13, 2010, 12:50:58 pm
Halfords is OCS (I think)
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Mike_G on July 13, 2010, 02:10:17 pm
Currys is indeed initial. Halfords is also national I do one for a firm in Wales but i dont know if its their contract or if they sub it off another! Currys are cleaned every two weeks now but Halfords is pretty much every 4 or 5 months
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: R W C™ on July 13, 2010, 03:43:10 pm
Currys is done buy initial but the windows arent included in the contract, The reason I know this is because my neighbour is the manager of one, he gave me head office number to find out if I could get the contract to do it, they told me initial did them so I rung initial to see if I could have the subby work as the windows hadnt been done in 6 months and they told me that when they did quote and signed contracts the windows wherent included, I told neighbour this who then contacted head office who where very shocked when they reread the contract to find they had signed in believing windows where included but the contract stated otherwise  ;D
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Mike_G on July 13, 2010, 03:48:56 pm
Currys is done buy initial but the windows arent included in the contract, The reason I know this is because my neighbour is the manager of one, he gave me head office number to find out if I could get the contract to do it, they told me initial did them so I rung initial to see if I could have the subby work as the windows hadnt been done in 6 months and they told me that when they did quote and signed contracts the windows wherent included, I told neighbour this who then contacted head office who where very shocked when they reread the contract to find they had signed in believing windows where included but the contract stated otherwise  ;D

That might of been the case up til the end of May when it was upto the store managers if they wanted initial or if they had their own guy they could keep them but from June initial have taken them on once a fortnight at I think five pounds a store.
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: R W C™ on July 13, 2010, 04:09:03 pm
Currys is done buy initial but the windows arent included in the contract, The reason I know this is because my neighbour is the manager of one, he gave me head office number to find out if I could get the contract to do it, they told me initial did them so I rung initial to see if I could have the subby work as the windows hadnt been done in 6 months and they told me that when they did quote and signed contracts the windows wherent included, I told neighbour this who then contacted head office who where very shocked when they reread the contract to find they had signed in believing windows where included but the contract stated otherwise  ;D

That might of been the case up til the end of May when it was upto the store managers if they wanted initial or if they had their own guy they could keep them but from June initial have taken them on once a fortnight at I think five pounds a store.

 :o :o £5 a store, they can have it for that.
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on July 13, 2010, 04:46:50 pm
a £5 a store thats cheap i used to clean chester currys
llandudno currys wedsbury currys these were cleaned
for macellen i used to work for a company fr the wirral
who did these every week wudnt av thought a fiver
noooooooooo not for the size ov em some were huge
esp one in nottingham !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i also cleaned pc worlds
as they r sister companies
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: lovewindows on July 14, 2010, 08:52:43 pm
Local sainsburys to me external glass above 6ft minging, asked inside and spoke to the cleaning supervisor i was told that she worked for another company that worked for sainsburys and the external glass above 6ft was included in the contract on a quarterly clean although it hadn't been done for 4yrs or more, rang the cleaning companies area mgr offering my services as a subby and said no problem with travel etc ie i'd do them all, she said i'll get back to you, that was 18mths ago. went in the other week and they had been done to an appalling standard, hacks me off.
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on July 14, 2010, 08:53:52 pm
where u based love windows  ;)
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: lovewindows on July 14, 2010, 09:02:38 pm
Alright Gav , Warrington mate , it wasn't you who did the Sainsburys was it ????
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Rob_Mac on July 14, 2010, 09:16:50 pm
I did the refurb clean on the Sainsbury's at Warrington but never cleaned the windows. That was two years ago, if not more.

Rob ;D

Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: lovewindows on July 14, 2010, 09:25:40 pm
Who was it who contracted you M- Clean ?
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on July 14, 2010, 10:15:55 pm
Alright Gav , Warrington mate , it wasn't you who did the Sainsburys was it ????
no was going to say ours in wrexham
r minging to i used to clean tescos lol 8)
Title: Re: currys/halfords
Post by: Rob_Mac on July 15, 2010, 02:18:40 pm
The principal contractor.It is nothing to do with the maintenance of the stores. I work on refurb programmes, for various supermarkets. It is very much the same contractors on each different store.

The windows would have been cleaned by the contractor who looks after the internal cleaning on the Warrington refurb, inside and out. They are always done to a very high standard but I know nothing about the window cleaning ongoing after a store has been handed over to Sainsbury's.

I have a good friend and close contact, who gets me work on the Southern refurb programme and I know he has several stores that he has one or two cleaners in on a daily basis, whether they take care of the windows, again I wouldn't know.

Rob ;D