Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Doug Holloway on April 20, 2011, 07:51:21 am
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Hi Guys
I just wondered how far you travel to clean carpets.
I did 150 miles yesterday!
Cheers
Doug
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From here to Crystal palace probably about the same distance as you doug.
The reason,did 2 flats in Cambridge for a guy,who was so impressed,he booked me for 2 in London,and also paid me to travel there..
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i'd travel absolutely anywhere as long as the job ticket made it worth it.
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Morning Doug i hope all is going well down your way.I as most guys will travel almost any distance if the price is right but prefer just down the road for cash.As you know i cover Oxford which is about 30 miles away but i do get some interesting clients and good price work there so the £12 diesel costs there/back can be factored in.Regards Alan(swindon)
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Swindon also has a lot of competition and lots or truckmount outfits too
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I would travel too if the price was worth it.
Do travel about 12 miles max around here..
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Try to work in 15 mile radius, but do travel further if its for customers that have moved to other areas or referralls if the ticket is good enough.
Mark
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I tend to keep it as local as possible but as with most of us, if the price is right I'll work anywhere!( Apart from a nudist hotel Richard BF!) ;D
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Bit like Clinton and Mark.
Typical day tomorrow, 3 jobs with a round trip
of less than 10 miles.
Unusually today am going to Knaresborough
at 3pm, a round trip of about 70 miles, just
about all motorway though.
Guy converted a 4 storey mill round here to
flats and I do his EOT carpet cleans.
Was going this morning but one of vacs went
about 4.30 yesterday afternoon so taken it in
this morning for fixing.
John
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We travel 40 miles north, 30 east and west, and 70 south into Lancashire,
they are mostly for our office cleaning contracts,
like most will travel for the right price.
70 miles this far North only takes an hour on M6, not like
the congested roads of the South.
Andrew
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On a job at moment sixty miles from home in the middle of nowhere. And guess what
Machine playing up, it's the power flite (not new one previous one) and keeps cutting out. Me thinks it's the float inside the recovery tank that's got dirty and sticking and causing it to switch off. So I needs to clean it with garden hose but can't at the moment cos the hotel has no water(: the joys. Only arrived on the job and got the whole hotel to do and the rest is murphys law. Manger said water back on at 2:00 that's now so let's see!!!
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I was asked this week to go to northern Italy to clean some carpets that locals had ruined.
When I have a moment I will post the pictures. They are the worst I have ever seen.
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Hi Guys
Ive done 90 so far today, 10 more to go.
Tommorow 40, friday 0
Cheers
Doug
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Always try to stay within a 30 mile radius but if the price is right will travel further
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I was once told that the public prefer to use local people,so never advertise my services outside a certain limit.I live in Bury and dont advertise in Bolton which is only 5 miles.Im often asked to advertise in Bolton publications but always turn it down.I have always thought that Bolton people would choose a Bolton CC ahead of me.
Would you agree with this?
The odd time I have ventured into Cheshire to do jobs from recommendations.
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Had to take my passport yesterday when I went 35 miles to clean and protect 3 sofas in a lovely part of Nottinghamshire called Gingley on the hill it was like Midsomer with a duck crossing across the country lane.
Shaun
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Wayne 5 miles is nothing, i would put a 15 mile radius for advertising matters and watch your business grow mate.
Jands, next time your machine needs servicing give me a ring i will half Wakefield Floorcare prices and do it the same day.
Mark
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I focus mainly on the Bury Metropolitan Borough area which is about 12 miles north to south and 8 miles west to east.
I have always had the impressioin that trying to get into other areas such as Bolton/Rochdale/Manchester would be difficult due to the reasons of people wanting local trademen to work for them.I dont think it helps in that respect in that my business has a location name in the title.
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Wayne I would spread your area and you'll be able to get more of 'your style' customers, just think how many carpet cleaners will venture into your area that live elsewhere you have to even things up a little.
Shaun
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Have you noticed a sort of Sod's Law?
The further away from home, the more likelyhood of you forgetting something vital or having a breakdown?
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I was asked this week to go to northern Italy to clean some carpets that locals had ruined.
When I have a moment I will post the pictures. They are the worst I have ever seen.
Which part of northen Italy? I have family in Turin and Milan. The rest live in the south of Italy.
Not many carpets over there, mainly hard flooring.
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i used to be in a franchise and we went to ireland for a week to clean cinemas, don't know what the round milage was but it was a fair bit. also went to welsh wales for 5 days to clean a holiday camp, that was good, slept in a chalet and only left the camp to get a beer (or three) in the evenings,
colin
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I have customers eighty miles from me and at all points in between. As others have said too, I will travel anywhere if the job pays.
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We advertise a 25 mile radius but in reality its more like 40.
As everyone else says if the price is right theres no limit.
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Which part of northen Italy? I have family in Turin and Milan. The rest live in the south of Italy.
It was a super yacht belonging to an international diamond trader. Local guys had used Formula 90 with disastrous effect on cotton carpets. They charged 3000 euros for the privilege and did the work in a day. 1-200 grands worth of damage. Whoops!!!
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La Spezia
I was asked this week to go to northern Italy to clean some carpets that locals had ruined.
When I have a moment I will post the pictures. They are the worst I have ever seen.
Which part of northen Italy? I have family in Turin and Milan. The rest live in the south of Italy.
Not many carpets over there, mainly hard flooring.
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Mark
Cheers for that.
Just been raped I think by Wakefield Floorcare.
Does £289 for replacing one vac motor seem
excessive. Includes "the dreaded"
John