Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: boldy1304 on April 13, 2011, 07:50:23 pm
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5 newbies have knocked in the last 2 weeks all ladders and i live in 3 storey house this area is absolutley flooded with windys already spoke to them all though and wished them luck 2 of them were right misrable gits. how can you tell we have had a week of sun. 8)
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well im a newbie'ish. I say ish as I started late last year and worked through the cold and that snow!
I was not going to go full hog until I got my toes well and trully wet so only threw a grand on kit. if it works out ill put a fixed tank in the van.
I put out 1000 flyers this week and got 1 new custy, I then find out theres some young guys going around charging £6 for a semi. good job windows arnt my only and I will just keep plodding on and hopefully they will dye off first sight of the cold. just like fleas
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The window cleaners that are coming out of winter hibernation only aim turnover what they want in wages. eg if they are happy with getting an easy £50 they will work till they get that then they forget about expences. then they not insured, their equipment is rubbish; they just buy cheap. no money for expences and most these cowboys pee it up against the wall.
for newbies that are determined its hard to start off i remember canvassing areas just to be laughed off as some idiot used to charge 50p or less a window in 2006, some bloke nearly had an heart attack cos i quoted a 3 bedroom house for £8, he said the other bloke used to charge £3.
to be honest now will loads of cowboys about cleaning traditionaly, i feel more of a tradesman using the pole system, not many cowboy will buy a pole system.
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well I'm not alone then. its just today got a hard knock off a supplier just because i did not have a tank in the van.
I came home and worked out how much id spent so far and it fell to just under the grand mark, but there are all those little bits I have had and not put through the books. well a base tank system would only cost £1800 ish, whats the big deal...
I will hopefully put a fixed tank in the van but I will build my own frame etc, I got slated for this idea.
darn it I went from school into engineering and could weld before i was 17, and thats when things like tig and mig were really modern tech, I know my steels and alloys I even have my own workshop kitted with lathe, miller, finisher, horizontal and vertical band-saws, floor standing drill, polishers, mig, tig, plasma, English wheel, folder, wheeling jenny let alone all the tooling. fasteners stock, pneumatic coupling stock, materials Etc
put it all together and I have been around engineering for 29 years. so whats the big deal? anyone with a plastic card can turn around and buy frames to sell on, I think its a bit more of a person who can sit down design something in C.A.D and then go out and put it into reality.
back onto subject thanks for the support...
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Funny how this effects some areas more than others. We have had 1 flyer through the door in this last year - I know the company who posted the flyers, but have never seen them around, so presume that they didn't get much response. I've only got a couple of cleans on the estate, as 2 other windies have the area pretty much covered.
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send one around my house i need a cleaner,i sacked the last one trippy he was crap
:P ;D ;D
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make that 6. had another pair today