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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Pope vader on July 23, 2011, 02:39:17 pm

Title: britannias
Post by: Pope vader on July 23, 2011, 02:39:17 pm

just heard these are getting done by mitie in the next few months,  some more work lost for people

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: weetot on July 23, 2011, 03:26:03 pm

Its goona get worse! ;D

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: mlscontractcleaner on July 23, 2011, 03:41:10 pm

Mitie must be the worst cleaning company around if the idiot who cleans my local Coop store is anything to go by.

We have been asked countless times by the manageress to clean the windows due to someone important visiting and the Mitie man not calling for ages. I saw him yesterday and he claimed that he has 53 stores to look after each month, less than 2 per day!!!!!

When he'd left the shop even the young lad serving mentioned how poope the windows looked.

The manageress has said constantly that she'd give us the contract at the drop of a hat but her hands are tied.

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: Pope vader on July 23, 2011, 03:47:46 pm

the are 2 parts to mitie  1 is meant to be crap  the guy who does ours turns up at 6 pm in his little van brushes up and leaves

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: johnd on July 23, 2011, 04:36:31 pm

Brittanias was a national contract anyway Nationwide Window Cleaning had them but lost them a few month ago they did there HQ in Leek Staffordshire.

Mitie also sub out a lot of there work like the job ctrs they sub national to Nationwide also.

If Mitie are poor you want to see ISS standards

It seems everything is going national these days

Ladbrokes is going national also :-\

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: Rob_Mac on July 23, 2011, 04:49:46 pm

I cleaned the head offices of Britannia Building Society in Leek, for four years. It is right on my doorstep. I had a cracking relationship with the management & the chief exec commented on more than one occassion how well the windows looked.

I lost it to the monkeys that are cleaning the branches.

I went in there late last year to see if there was anything we could help them with and the windows were shocking.

Fortunately we have moved onwards and upwards!

Rob ;D

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on July 23, 2011, 05:18:14 pm

is there any point trying to get commercial jobs nowa days?

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: Pope vader on July 23, 2011, 05:31:20 pm

yea, get all your qual, tender for everything going and then trry and sub it all out,  but a lot of companys are handing out the tenders and not allow them to be subbed out,  that is why mitie have partners and not subbies

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on July 23, 2011, 05:49:37 pm

Quote from: doley on July 23, 2011, 05:31:20 pm

yea, get all your qual, tender for everything going and then trry and sub it all out,  but a lot of companys are handing out the tenders and not allow them to be subbed out,  that is why mitie have partners and not subbies

what qualifcations do i need mate? and how do you go about tendering? sorry ive never done commercial and industrial before!

thanks mate

GB

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: Pope vader on July 23, 2011, 06:02:25 pm

its h and s ones and safecontractor   CHAS  NVQ   IPAF

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: windiewasher on July 23, 2011, 09:13:04 pm

I've got none of these and have picked up big contracts with big companys.

Quote from: doley on July 23, 2011, 06:02:25 pm

its h and s ones and safecontractor   CHAS  NVQ   IPAF

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: Pope vader on July 23, 2011, 09:23:59 pm

true doctor, i aint got any and i have commercial work,  but i think he wanted national contracts and you need them for them

Title: Re: britannias
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on July 23, 2011, 09:31:35 pm

oh right, i'll look into those! thanks alot doley!

GB