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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: rg1 on November 05, 2010, 01:19:38 pm

Title: Property Management Companies
Post by: rg1 on November 05, 2010, 01:19:38 pm
Who needs them??

Quoted for a gutter clean on a block of flats a few weeks ago, approximately 78 metres of guttering. Heard today that I haven't got the job, but the quote that was accepted was for £85!! :o

I can't compete with ridiculous prices like that. ???
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: darren clarke on November 05, 2010, 01:26:07 pm
its great isnt it,

dont worry the same old excuses will come out on here,  if they put 5 lads on it, it will only take then 2 hours, so the boss will be making good money,  good half days work for one man  etc etc

i have stopped doing gutters as the prices where getting stupid,  people wanted them done for £15, and can earn more window cleaning
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on November 05, 2010, 01:30:44 pm
Wonder if its being done with a vac or ladders... Little over a pound a metre sounds very cheap.

How do you get to quote them rg1 ?

There are alot of blocks of flats by me, but nothing that says who manages them.
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: rg1 on November 05, 2010, 01:33:04 pm
Wonder if its being done with a vac or ladders... Little over a pound a metre sounds very cheap.

How do you get to quote them rg1 ?

There are alot of blocks of flats by me, but nothing that says who manages them.

They contacted me originally and were looking for a quote.
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: scud on November 05, 2010, 06:41:34 pm
  rg1, is that you on the crosser? A CRF by the looks of it?
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: rg1 on November 05, 2010, 06:53:11 pm
  rg1, is that you on the crosser? A CRF by the looks of it?

No, it's my cousin Scott Elderfield on the Par Homes Honda
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: scud on November 05, 2010, 07:08:17 pm
  Ah right, I've just sold my crossers, cant keep getting lucky and walking away from big crashes, need my bones in the place they were originally intended!

  That is until the urge takes me and i buy another one.
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: rg1 on November 05, 2010, 07:11:49 pm
  Ah right, I've just sold my crossers, cant keep getting lucky and walking away from big crashes, need my bones in the place they were originally intended!

  That is until the urge takes me and i buy another one.

Everyone has at least one big off! Then it's just the usual stuff like broken collarbones, wrists, legs etc ;)
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on November 05, 2010, 09:49:05 pm
Not broke a bone on a bike, but have ground my elbow down to the bone. Had light graves on the bone so the doc told me. Other than that my ankle now clicks after an off.

Once a biker always a biker. Don't have one at the moment, but every time I hear that noise my head goes up
Title: Re: Property Management Companies
Post by: martinsadie on November 05, 2010, 10:53:08 pm
its great isnt it,

dont worry the same old excuses will come out on here,  if they put 5 lads on it, it will only take then 2 hours, so the boss will be making good money,  good half days work for one man  etc etc

i have stopped doing gutters as the prices where getting stupid,  people wanted them done for £15, and can earn more window cleaning
i did one for £15 this week,gutter front and clean 2 windows ,£15 good job took half hour on my way home and in the rain so wouldnt have done anything else  ;D