Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dazmond on March 19, 2020, 04:38:50 pm
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ill start.....
number of jobs lost or skipped......none
number of jobs gained.....2........(£20 8 weekly domestic/£30 8 weekly commercial)both by recommendation
obviously this will change drastically i expect over the next 6 months.....
some good news for me today is the 5 large childrens homes i clean are staying open(council run),no closures whatsoever so ill just carry on cleaning as normal....its a fair few hundred quid so its not a job id like to lose really.......
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Bit early isn’t it? People only started losing their jobs day before yesterday.
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Far to early to even guess what’ll happen Daz
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Bit early isn’t it? People only started losing their jobs day before yesterday.
gotta start somewhere dave.......hopefully this will end up being the longest thread in CIU history over the coming months...
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Lost none. I have also posted on my facebook page about expected delays and my clients have my back 👍
I have picked up several pressure washing jobs, soft washing jobs and 3 new window customers as well.
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Bloody soft wash and pressure washing lol,they are not regular repeat jobs they are like one offs.
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Bit early isn’t it? People only started losing their jobs day before yesterday.
gotta start somewhere dave.......hopefully this will end up being the longest thread in CIU history over the coming months...
Why would you hope a thread, regarding something that could potentially devastate someone business, becomes the longest thread in CIU history?
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Bloody soft wash and pressure washing lol,they are not regular repeat jobs they are like one offs.
And what's wrong with that??
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Theres too many new topics about Corona virus already on the board that are all similar if you ask me ::)roll
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You aren’t gonna get big jobs like that coming in left right and centre my comments are regarding regular window cleaning work that should be ongoing.
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Theres too many new topics about Corona virus already on the board that are all similar if you ask me ::)roll
Do you reckon it's spreading?
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Bit early isn’t it? People only started losing their jobs day before yesterday.
gotta start somewhere dave.......hopefully this will end up being the longest thread in CIU history over the coming months...
Why would you hope a thread, regarding something that could potentially devastate someone business, becomes the longest thread in CIU history?
itll give us something to do while our businesses goes down the pan......... ;D
if you read the title its about jobs gained as well,not just lost.....im genuinely interested in other peoples businesses as well....
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Bloody soft wash and pressure washing lol,they are not regular repeat jobs they are like one offs.
its still work though....and it pays much better than just windows and all in one lump sum to......good on him.....
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I’d rather someone was giving me £100 a month for the foreseeable rather than 4-£500 once and then maybe never again.
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Glad it’s going well for some. We do all commercial and have had £2000 a month worth of contracts suspended since yesterday morning. That works out around 16 contracts of varying sizes. Bad times. It’s been one call after another, mostly since schools were announced to be closing. Worst part is these were mostly hotels and bars. Rest we do are shops, probably all soon to follow.
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We’d all prefer £100 every month but a lump sum job of £400 had benefits the £100 jib never posseses.
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I’d rather someone was giving me £100 a month for the foreseeable rather than 4-£500 once and then maybe never again.
Lost none. I have also posted on my facebook page about expected delays and my clients have my back 👍
I have picked up several pressure washing jobs, soft washing jobs and 3 new window customers as well.
In that week (well four days) im earning my months take on windows, so if the window cleaning doesnt happen then financially speaking my family is ok.
However, it is very unlikely that I will loose any work yet, because the vast majority is that work which you despise. Four weekly at manageable financial costs for people! ;D unlike those big jobs you have at over £80 a pop which might be stretching it for some and so I can see your concern. Thankfully the majority of us 4 wkly bunch will be ok 😁👍
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One of my franchisees had 6 walk up's yesterday.
This week we've gained about 20-30 new customers at a guess.
2 have postponed.
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So much rejoicing here , I am sorry to be the grim reaper but the shat hasn’t even started to hit the fan yet .
My best case scenario is that my custies get through this and I can pick up where I left off
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I’ve had one completely cancel so far due to her work suffering because of the virus. I have a feeling more will cancel next week as it’s getting crazier by the day.
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This is it really, the truth is, we dont know the full impact yet. All anybody knows is the immediate future and beyond that, its guess work. However, currently the vast majority on here are saying they are healthy enough to work and they still have work to do. So thats a good thing at the moment.
Its nice to have some good news rather than read how little toilet paper there is in shops etc etc etc
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So much rejoicing here , I am sorry to be the grim reaper but the shat hasn’t even started to hit the fan yet .
My best case scenario is that my custies get through this and I can pick up where I left off
thats why i started this thread...itll be interesting to see how we all get on over the next 3 or 4 months......
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Glad it’s going well for some. We do all commercial and have had £2000 a month worth of contracts suspended since yesterday morning. That works out around 16 contracts of varying sizes. Bad times. It’s been one call after another, mostly since schools were announced to be closing. Worst part is these were mostly hotels and bars. Rest we do are shops, probably all soon to follow.
I made that mistake once putting too many eggs in one basket, lost a big chunk of work in a short time frame, took six to twelve months to replace it. Now I make sure I have a wide variety of work for window cleaning.
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always keep a wide variety of work on your books so when you lose a few for whatever reason it doesnt hurt as much......
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Anything commercial is at risk, IMO.
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Anything commercial is at risk, IMO.
yep.....and the " always late paying" domestic jobs where you just know their gonna struggle big time........i might not even have the heart to get the money owed after some of the sad stories ive heard this week.....
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Anything commercial is at risk, IMO.
yep.....and the " always late paying" domestic jobs where you just know their gonna struggle big time........i might not even have the heart to get the money owed after some of the sad stories ive heard this week.....
Its my shop round early tomorrow. I'm starting later and checking in with them before cleaning ( all small independants ) I'm expecting most to have been hit bad. I hope to retain them and ask them to call me if and when they require cleaning for the foreseeable. I cancelled 3 domestic jobs this morning that all required access through and within their properties. They were all happy for me to have continued even though one couple were supposedly self distancing from others. It just seemed to be the responsible approach to take at the moment. I will be concentrating on the no contact or human interaction jobs for the time being. Fortunately that makes up the majority of my round and nearly all pay by bacs. I've worked out my monthly outgoings and adjusted my minimum daily/weekly targets to keep things ticking over, obviously with anything over that being a bonus. The most important thing for us is to stay afloat through this and retain our customers. Don't set the bar too high and be understanding to others financial situation, welcome them back on board if need be later if they are struggling.
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Had an e-mail from Hannover Court; I think I'm category 2 (non essential) so looks like that's on pause.
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Don't get your Hannover Court.
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doom and gloom merchants stop watching the telly all the time some of you you will have your self dead and buried in a week.keep positive
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Next week will be interesting when people literally can't work because they have to be at home looking after their kids.
It's not even started yet
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The Samaritans will be snowed under. Many parents don’t spend a week with their kids at home.
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Next week will be interesting when people literally can't work because they have to be at home looking after their kids.
It's not even started yet
Aye, that'll be me and a lot of my customers.
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Next week will be interesting when people literally can't work because they have to be at home looking after their kids.
It's not even started yet
Aye, that'll be me and a lot of my customers.
You're looking after your customers at home?
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Next week will be interesting when people literally can't work because they have to be at home looking after their kids.
It's not even started yet
Aye, that'll be me and a lot of my customers.
You're looking after your customers at home?
No, their kids ;D
I'll be the fAgin of the window cleaning world.
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Let's hurry up and get locked down I say
Houses and Gardens full of kids, worst nightmare for a window cleaner.
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Anything commercial is at risk, IMO.
I’m not expecting to lose much commercial, most of mine is regular office/apartment blocks, most of which are paid for by the service charge, which will continue to be paid, so I expect to carry on as normal.
Not expecting to lose the car showroom I do either, but we will see in due course!
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Anything commercial is at risk, IMO.
I’m not expecting to lose much commercial, most of mine is regular office/apartment blocks, most of which are paid for by the service charge, which will continue to be paid, so I expect to carry on as normal.
Not expecting to lose the car showroom I do either, but we will see in due course!
My commercial work is similar to that, will probably be put on hold for a month or two but hopefully start again. If I only lose 25% I’d be very happy.
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5k down so far. Hopefully we can keep the guys employed...
Work has pretty much stopped coming in. Should be okay for a month but then.......
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I’m starting to think how lucky I am just being a sole trader , I have lost nothing yet , not been out much this week to be fair , next week will be the game changer with kids home and job loss realised !
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I’m starting to think how lucky I am just being a sole trader , I have lost nothing yet , not been out much this week to be fair , next week will be the game changer with kids home and job loss realised !
yep me too
I haven't got a great deal of customers with kids who still go to School thankfully ;D
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I’m starting to think how lucky I am just being a sole trader , I have lost nothing yet , not been out much this week to be fair , next week will be the game changer with kids home and job loss realised !
yep me too
I haven't got a great deal of customers with kids who still go to School thankfully ;D
yep...same here....i have a lot of retired customers/successful middle aged businessmen thank God so most will keep me on i expect(unless they die of the virus obviously)......or their business implodes..
even if i lost half my workload id still be able to pay my bills and im already part time as it is.....hopefully it wont be as bad as that.....