Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dazmond on March 17, 2011, 06:33:56 pm
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i have a lot of customers on 4 weekly but a lot of the time its more like 5 weekly.only exception is the odd summer month where ill be bang on time.
ive worked out im losing out on roughly 5 grand a year by getting behind. :o :o :o
ok really bad weather and holidays all get us behind but im seriously gonna try and get round on time.it probably works out about 3 grand more even with holidays and bad weather!
what about you guys?
dazmond
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I thought you worked to live.
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i have a lot of customers on 4 weekly but a lot of the time its more like 5 weekly.only exception is the odd summer month where ill be bang on time.
ive worked out im losing out on roughly 5 grand a year by getting behind. :o :o :o
ok really bad weather and holidays all get us behind but im seriously gonna try and get round on time.it probably works out about 3 grand more even with holidays and bad weather!
what about you guys?
dazmond
I did the same thing as that a few weeks ago when the weather was bad; scarey isn't it; missing out on the price of a good holiday just because you're late. :-[
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Matt's got a point Daz, some you hit on time, some you don't. If you lose a few quid or a couple of K a year, will it kill you? You're one of the guys on here that actually enjoys this malarky since you went WFP. Chill mate !! ;)
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Since I went WFP, I always think 4 weeks is too soon, it comes round too quick for me. The glass is always still clean for a start and I got the impression some would rather I waited until there was at least some dirt on their windows to actually clean off. Took on some more work and now I go mostly 6 weekly and sometimes it can be seven, no one ever seems to notice to be honest. Money wise, I never seem to notice either. I look at my wallet and it is always big and fat these days so I just mosey on down the same road.
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i tend to leave mine 5 weeks as i got fed up of hearing is it due again already even had some try to cancel saying it was to soon (even though they chose 4 weekly)
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how do you guys who clean fortnightly go on?i used to have quite a few fortnightly customers(about 10 years ago now!)now 4 weekly seems almost too often!!
i agree wfp certainly keeps the windows looking cleaner!maybe its time to actively leaflet and canvass more work.i could probably fit another 3 days a month in quite comfortably.
new work is mainly 8 weekly as customers usually gasp at the price but dont mind paying if its on a longer frequency.
i think this is the way forward for my business now im mainly wfp.
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4 wkly bang on! to the day! no poop!
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iv got just a few 2 weekly left and the only way you can keep these customers nowadays with prices of everything so high is to be cheap,dont think you will get many 3 bed semis at £10 every 2 weeks
i changed my round last summer from 4 weekly to 5 weekly as i was getting sick of the 'has it been a month already' since doing this iv had none say this,and windows are still clean
im considering when i cant fit anymore in to my 5 weeks to start slowly introducing the 10 weekly at a 50% extra
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On the nail - 4 weeks same day and more or less same time - custy's love it !
the only reason to be late is heavy rain but have always caught them up within 5 working days.
Darran
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iv got just a few 2 weekly left and the only way you can keep these customers nowadays with prices of everything so high is to be cheap,dont think you will get many 3 bed semis at £10 every 2 weeks
i changed my round last summer from 4 weekly to 5 weekly as i was getting sick of the 'has it been a month already' since doing this iv had none say this,and windows are still clean
im considering when i cant fit anymore in to my 5 weeks to start slowly introducing the 10 weekly at a 50% extra
cant see many stokies going for this m8 ;)
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iv got plenty of custys who wouldnt mind me turning up every 10 weeks,but its getting the 50% extra coin off them thats the problem
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Not usually - between 4 weeks and a calendar month for me. But my "two monthly" I'll sometimes do at 7 and a half to 8 weeks and get away with it.
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horses for courses - i've got people can't go to the golf course in the morning unless their windows are clean, others couldn't care and wonder why i'm still coming. Funny old world
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its not that hard. your keep all the old girls that want there windows clean every 4 weeks. and the others that say, o has it been a week already and u think u might loose. moove them to a 8 week clean there for your gonna be in there street anyway so you just clean them by monthly. f*** all that 6 weeks 7 weeks 2 weeks. its to hard to sort out. then there well happy because youve just cut there bill in half. but then the trick is to stagger your 8 weekly cleans in the same area. hope this helps and makes sence. and sorry about the spelling. fosters intake tonight dat off tomorrow
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MY 2 weekly whinge if iam late so i try to keep em bang usually just cleaning glass thats still clean ;D