Clean It Up
Market Place => Used Equipment For Sale/Wanted => Topic started by: Scoop on December 20, 2011, 07:35:03 pm
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESTABLISHED-WHEELIE-BIN-CLEANING-BUSINESS-/190616797036?pt=UK_B_I_Business_for_Sale_CV&hash=item2c61a57f6c
Unless I've read it wrong this looks like an absolute bargain for someone in the North West. £6k (be surprised if anyone bids against you) and over £2.5k a month in established turnover.
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we had a leaflet though the door offering wheelie bin cleaning first clean free, didn't read anymore than that.
but i don't see it needing done that often, and at £2.50 a go you must work some to earn anything
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most houses have 3-4 bins now days. sounds like a spot on earner. id look ionto it if wasnt doing the windows.
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I had a customer tell me about 15 years so ago that bin cleaning was going to be the new thing to do, the latest thing that was coming from some country or another but I couldn't see how it could catch on at the time, more fool me! A friend then started doing it after I mentioned it to him. He was employing people within a couple of years and he doesn't work now, doesn't need to. Does paperwork etc but that's about it. He has some brilliant trailers that he hooks the bins up to (2 at a time) and they do the cleaning, all the workers do is give them a quick wipe dry and stick a next clean due label on. He was charging £3 a bin 10-15 years ago and when he came into my street he did 9 bins in 20 mins and that was b4 he had the trailers so he did it with a pressure washer etc. I timed him from when he came into the street to when he left. if you have a lot of bins on one street the £return is fantastic as 1 person collects the bins together and returns them, the other cleans them. An established round can make a heck of a lot more than a window round. You don't have the same freedom though as you have to work hard and follow the dustmen, work whatever the weather etc. If the eBay ad is all that it seems to be, it seems a real bargain.
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We added bin cleaning to our business in March of this year, bought a round of 1200 houses from a lad who didn't have any get up and go (his father set him up with it), complete with a trailer, pressure washer, etc.
It's a good little business, we now have nearly 1800 bins that are done over a 10 day period (general waste bins that are emptied fortnightly, we clean them every 4 weeks) Charge £3.00 per clean.
The round itself is worth the £6K (though we paid a LOT less for ours ;D ) The pressure washers and other bits and pieces are probably worth around £1K, the trailer would cost you at least another £1000 to get built, van and jeep old but still going.