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Title: And another goes national
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on December 22, 2011, 12:54:41 pm
Toby Carvery gone national now, what big chain will be next.
Lost my one, not sure who's got them, the manager is going to find out for me as he doesn't know yet
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: best on January 01, 2012, 07:13:02 pm
boots (chemist)
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: bobplum on January 01, 2012, 10:08:58 pm
Toby Carvery gone national now, what big chain will be next.
Lost my one, not sure who's got them, the manager is going to find out for me as he doesn't know yet


i do one near chester due this week,will see when we get there ???
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on January 01, 2012, 10:44:12 pm
just sticking my nose in here but if i turned up to a job and was then told not to clean anymore (including the clean due that day) they would be getting billed appropriately for wasting my time and fuel.
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: pete albion on January 01, 2012, 11:01:00 pm
boots (chemist)

Snap! i lost a boots as well, my last clean will be on 16 of this month.
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Crystal-clear on January 02, 2012, 02:56:54 am
sorry but dont know why you guys even bother with shops its crap money  ???


i ran away from mine ages ago.



a card factory near me getting done for £7 lol... propper windy too.
they will prob go nat soon to save a few quid and sack the dude on the day.
i can see if you have a few in a row but many turn up for just 1 shop or 2
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Llaaww on January 02, 2012, 09:36:06 am
boots (chemist)

Snap! i lost a boots as well, my last clean will be on 16 of this month.

ditto
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: bumper on January 02, 2012, 10:06:37 am
Dornt worry you wll all get the chance to clean them for half what you were charging them,its sub work
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: weetot on January 02, 2012, 11:04:27 am
My mate lost 'New Look' last week!
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Dean Taberner on January 02, 2012, 11:26:07 am
sorry but dont know why you guys even bother with shops its crap money  ???


i ran away from mine ages ago.



a card factory near me getting done for £7 lol... propper windy too.
they will prob go nat soon to save a few quid and sack the dude on the day.
i can see if you have a few in a row but many turn up for just 1 shop or 2

I can see where you're going with this but we do over 300 a week all in various towns across the mids and north west,

They all add up. Even the little 4/5quiders.

Dean.
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Mike55 on January 02, 2012, 11:30:34 am
what i don't understand is why window cleaners will take on this work as subbies from nationals?  Is the rate of pay not crap in comparison to what the cleaner would earn with his own work?
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Dean Taberner on January 02, 2012, 11:34:20 am
what i don't understand is why window cleaners will take on this work as subbies from nationals?  Is the rate of pay not crap in comparison to what the cleaner would earn with his own work?


If you can get 50quid+ on each high street then you're onto a winner. They can be done in any weather, most are weekly so its regular and they only take minutes to clean. 
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Crystal-clear on January 02, 2012, 02:11:45 pm
yes dean u got the man power/subbies to handle it good it works for you.


to be honest i still wouldnt really do it because i found my self tied down to them each week , and as my work went to different areas i found my self loosing money on houses cos i had to always be at the shop for 9 am every monday when it made more sence to be in a different part of london for 9 am thus i could clean more houses the shops were good while i was expanding but its all about houses ,


i find it much easyer to clean 2 £25 houses
no messing about with undercutters shops leaving over some daft £1 less price
no messing with nats
oh and what the hell , they want an invioce for £5 lol? one of them asked me i told her if she wants a record for her tax she can pay me by cheque or online i will not be invoicing you for £5 its a joke and a waste of paper!

they just need a reality check sometimes!
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: weetot on January 02, 2012, 03:34:37 pm
what i don't understand is why window cleaners will take on this work as subbies from nationals?  Is the rate of pay not crap in comparison to what the cleaner would earn with his own work?


If you can get 50quid+ on each high street then you're onto a winner. They can be done in any weather, most are weekly so its regular and they only take minutes to clean. 

Yeh and looking at the job when they leave, you can see they have only taken a minute to do! ;D
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on January 02, 2012, 03:58:37 pm
what i don't understand is why window cleaners will take on this work as subbies from nationals?  Is the rate of pay not crap in comparison to what the cleaner would earn with his own work?


If you can get 50quid+ on each high street then you're onto a winner. They can be done in any weather, most are weekly so its regular and they only take minutes to clean. 

Yeh and looking at the job when they leave, you can see they have only taken a minute to do! ;D

you certainly aint looking
at deans work then lad  ;)
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Frankybadboy on January 02, 2012, 04:01:28 pm
no it was yours he was looking at gav :P
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: glen parva on January 02, 2012, 04:08:41 pm
we now  cover 200 shops a week
better for us than houses all low price work
 ;) ;)
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on January 02, 2012, 04:09:42 pm
no it was yours he was looking at gav :P

mine are all lovely n nice  ;) i even wipe the sills  ;D ;D
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on January 02, 2012, 04:18:11 pm
just sticking my nose in here but if i turned up to a job and was then told not to clean anymore (including the clean due that day) they would be getting billed appropriately for wasting my time and fuel.
Done the job and got paid, that was last clean. If I turned up to be told not to clean, then I too would of billed them for it
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on January 02, 2012, 04:20:44 pm
just sticking my nose in here but if i turned up to a job and was then told not to clean anymore (including the clean due that day) they would be getting billed appropriately for wasting my time and fuel.
Done the job and got paid, that was last clean. If I turned up to be told not to clean, then I too would of billed them for it

glad to hear it  :)
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on January 02, 2012, 04:22:20 pm
i can see em paying you
not ;D ;D
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: windowcleaninginessex.co.uk on January 02, 2012, 04:30:27 pm
i can see em paying you
not ;D ;D
I would of given an invioce if I turned up, if they did't pay, the bill would of gone to head office, which means the manager wouldn't of been doing his job properly by not  contacting his suppliers.

Other jobs i do, if they are booked in at a certain time and no one is there I still invoice and GET PAID. For instance most the whetherspoons pubs  I do, I will clean outsides before their turn up at 6am, if they are not there by 6.20am I go and they still get payed,  I don't have time to hang around for anyone.
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: H2GoKent on January 02, 2012, 07:52:41 pm
we now  cover 200 shops a week
better for us than houses all low price work
 ;) ;)

Right up until they fail to pay you on time or go to someone cheaper.
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: glen parva on January 02, 2012, 08:14:15 pm
we now  cover 200 shops a week
better for us than houses all low price work
 ;) ;)

Right up until they fail to pay you on time or go to someone cheaper.

we have been doing this 18 months lose some gain some payment sometimes slow but never been missed
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Crystal-clear on January 02, 2012, 08:47:09 pm
i think it only works if u got staff/subbies.

but end of the day i know one man makes more splashing and dashing houses not driving from post code to post code or street to street to trad a bunch of £5 shops then get told sorry ive gone national


ive had over 15 at one point
im not a fan of shops ! ;D

the worse thing is if monday is a right off u need to always be there or if you are working say 5 miles away u still need to be there!
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: jarvy on January 03, 2012, 04:45:23 pm
Found a cracking squeege for the subby's!!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mickey-mouse-disney-Window-Cleaner-squeege-/220887836828?pt=UK_HomeGarden_CLV_Cleaning_CA&hash=item336df0e89c
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: And another goes national
Post by: Lee Burbidge on January 03, 2012, 04:56:41 pm
Is it worth clubbing together and winning these big contracts that are Nationals as one group like a Co-Operative??