Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: julianbiggs on November 19, 2011, 04:04:05 pm
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Hi chaps..We recently purchased a gutter vac and have been using it for gutter cleaning ( obviously ). Its a brilliant piece of kit and does a great job. Once weve done the 11 gutter cleans which we have stacked up to do next week and the week after we were thinking of possibly getting a flyer made up advertising it for hire ?
Has anyone else done this and if so what do they charge to hire it out by day / 2 day / weekend rates ?
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Julian,
Where are you based ? I'd be interested in renting as I would like to buy one, but need convincing about the performance.
Rob.
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southwell, Nottinghamshire.
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southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Therein lies the problem. Cheshire to Southwell to collect ... and back. Then Cheshire to Southwell to return ... and back. Well over 400 miles so £50 in fuel and a day lost. OK, you might find some willing takers nearby but I wouldn't think a lot at the moment.
The other problem with ladderless gutter cleaning is that it involves a pole and usually quite a heavy and unwieldy one. It requires both strength and common sense. Most of us have the stregth and have acquired the common sense through using it - there are no training courses that I know of. But as soon as you start hiring you are giving the (costly) equipment to someone who has probably never used it. Windows, parked cars and children's heads are all at risk especially in the hands of someone who just wants it once and is planning to return it. If they do damage with it could they turn round to you and accuse you of not having shown them how to use it properly? Is there any insurance necessary with hiring equipment?
After the number of cleans I have done I now feel qualified to judge any situation I may face in ladderless. But the first 5 cleans I did were free of charge on mine and my neighbours/friends houses just to get the feel of the equipment. I lost a good few pounds in sweat doing them - I've never been so nervous. Personally I would be just as nervous about hiring my kit out, both for how it would come back and for what damage could be caused.
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Yes I've sucked up a few childrens heads since owning one. ???
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If you hire it out,are you not doing yourself out of profit ..?-you will get more by providing the whole service-also you would have to take the time to show somebody how to use it and then possible you would need different type of insurance policy and pat testing of equipment
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Yes I've sucked up a few childrens heads since owning one. ???
You know what I mean Hydro ;D I'm talking about hitting someone on the head when you bring the pole down. If you hire the kit out to Dad so he can do the family home the chances are he'll have his kids 'helping' him and a 20ft aluminium pole is tricky to handle if you're not used to it >>> DANGER (in my book)