Clean It Up
UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bevldavies on December 16, 2005, 08:32:23 am
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Hello, I am a newbie to this site and am in the process of starting a domestic cleaning business.
Just want to make sure I am not forgetting anything really!
I live in an area with lots of second homes and wealthy retired people to I am planning to target these as my customers. I am going to be charging £10 per hour and offering regular cleaning and occasional cleaning (i.e. when second homeowners return)
I have printed flyers, advertised in the Local Rag (local monthly magazine) and put notices up in local shops. Advertised on Yell.com, leaflet dropping at the weekend and have a websire in progress.
I have set up a seperate bank account, have public liability insurance ready to go. I am going to work on my own to start with and see how it goes.
Any suggestions as to what I may have forgotten?
Thanks :)
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£10 an hour is very cheap. In reality once vehicle serviceing charges, tax, insurance, petrol, consumables, uniform, Accountan fees etc have come off you will be down to about £6/7 pound an hour and this could be earned far easyer as an employee than a self employed person with the overheads and time entailed.
I would say a minimum wage for aself employed person should be 100 per day.
Paul