Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: GB Window Cleaning on March 21, 2011, 03:42:41 pm
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after reading about windys loosing comercial & industrialwork to big companys i was wondereding if its a sign of the times?
should we start subcontracting work from the big boys maybe? and do ya think domestic will ever go this way?
GB
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na mate domestics will keep a reliable windy over a big cheese any day. lost 2 big contract last week dont want to go down that route again mate.
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na mate domestics will keep a reliable windy over a big cheese any day. lost 2 big contract last week dont want to go down that route again mate.
yeah i agree. are you phasing out commercial & industrial then?
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since the introduction of WFP the big boys have seen an opening with commercial window cleaning, when it was traditional it was very hard for them to get well trained ladder men who could cover the work but it is very easy to train someone to WFP and they can get away with paying very low rates of pay, i think that commercial window cleaning will go the same way as office cleaning which pays very low wages and also has pretty low profit margins i dont think this will effect domestis window cleaning immediately but in a few years i think ones who have been employed by these big companies and are used to working for peanuts may decide to start on their own and these are the ones that will bring prices down
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ocs were one of the bigger boys
they r now struggling for work ;D ;D ;D
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na mate domestics will keep a reliable windy over a big cheese any day. lost 2 big contract last week dont want to go down that route again mate.
yeah i agree. are you phasing out commercial & industrial then?
Definitely. The two we lost were because the offices were closing as they were centralising and no new tenants on the horizon. Were at another one today and the area manager was sniffing around trying to suss out costs. Domestics the way to go I think