Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: joe34 on August 02, 2018, 06:08:49 pm
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Just looking through my planner and some of my window cleaning work is a month out of date, due to squeezing in other jobs. my customers are use to it as I dont lose any through this just wondered out of curiosity if anyone eles runs this behind sometimes or just me
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nope......all my work gets done on time....the only time im late is when im on holiday/sick/week off etc....
then i just move ALL my work forward 7 days(or whatever) and carry on my schedule a week late ON ALL MY WORK.....
i NEVER miss jobs out until their next due unless their having building work done etc......
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Yes.
I'm starting to get behind. Some are as much as 3 weeks late.
I'm always flat out busy this time of year with a student lettings agency pre booking eot's ( my winter fund ;)) plus trucks just failed mot and needs a few things sorting ( just what I didn't need >:(). As long as I'm busy and earning I don't let it worry me. I usually manage to catch up within a couple of weeks by tweaking things a little and doing a couple of extra long days or a Saturday.
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I'm finally back on track with my work. I like it scheduled and apart from the odd new work which is 8swkly, the majority is 4 weekly and I don't like it being out of sync because I like my long wknd off.
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NO weekend working.....
NO end of tenancy cleans.....
NO long days.......
if you try and keep your work up to date theres less dirt to clean off too....... 8)
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Always fashionably late on domestic round.
always bang on time for commercial.
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I do carpet cleaning and soft washing aswell so sometimes jobs come up that I can't turn down even if i am 3 weeks behind
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
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cant never remember being on time ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I'm always behind...always have been ;D
Some of my work is 6 weeks or more late...i run 6wk and 12 weekly.
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Been behind for almost a year now.
I don't know why I bother calling my round 4 weekly because it's not anymore. It's 5 weekly if you are lucky and if you are not lucky then it's longer....
I'm cleaning work from 20th July tomorrow so it's not all that bad atm
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I’m usually bang on time these days but you can’t beat 2 or 3 days of backlog during the school holidays, due to parking not being as easy as normal it gives you other places to go instead
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Being a bit behind is good, it gives you options and means you'll be never be short of work. However too much behind is stressfull.
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
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Agree with dazmond.
The amount of threads about poor payers etc etc is quite silly if ones are doing themselves out of money by running late.
If it's down to a large round either take on a worker or loose the dross n keep the best. But shooting yourself in the wallet down to whatever reasons for constantly running late doesn't make sense
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
When he's got a full round he'll realise. ;D
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
That’s true.
It’s just money left on the table that you could have earned, but haven’t. It’s a different way to look at it really.
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
ive never had a full round since i was 100%trad! ;D
if your stacked out with work and your always way behind schedule then your also cleaning work thats dirtier than it needs to be.....
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
When he's got a full round he'll realise. ;D
ill never have a "full round" again..... ;D
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NO end of tenancy cleans.....
There's some easy money to be made with these if you stick a cheeky little quote in.
I do a fair few of them (we've an army barracks up the road). £50 for an officers house; takes two of us about 15 minutes. £35 for a soldier's quarter; could take 10 minutes, but we drag it out to 15 minutes. ;D
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Never late with my rounds.
Always on time.
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
When he's got a full round he'll realise. ;D
ill never have a "full round" again..... ;D
You’re losing out then. A highly inefficient way of running a cleaning business.
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NO end of tenancy cleans.....
There's some easy money to be made with these if you stick a cheeky little quote in.
I do a fair few of them (we've an army barracks up the road). £50 for an officers house; takes two of us about 15 minutes. £35 for a soldier's quarter; could take 10 minutes, but we drag it out to 15 minutes. ;D
Exactly ! and its all extra income that I save up year on year as an emergency fund.
I'd hate to be so organised and regimental with my round. It would bore the hell out of me doing the same thing week in / week out.
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If your customers are used to your schedule and know you'll turn up (eventually) then no problems.
Window cleaners stress about schedules, customers rarely! Although I do have a couple of 'Hard to please merchants' most are not that bothered.
To set your mind at rest my whole round is 2 monthly minimum and currently cleaning Friday 18th May - bit behind but Hey Ho! No calls or texts asking where I am. Apart from the ones I've sacked anyway.
Regards
Glenn
I lose money if I get behind schedule.....that's what I'm mainly concerned about not the customers! ;D
Daz, you always say that, it’s not true though. If you’ve more work than you can get round on schedule but still do your target earnings you’ve not lost anything. You’ve just more work than you can handle.
When he's got a full round he'll realise. ;D
ill never have a "full round" again..... ;D
You’re losing out then. A highly inefficient way of running a cleaning business.
nope its not.....its a lifestyle business to me window cleaning.......basically part time hours for full time earnings...nothing more,nothing less....