Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: edd on December 20, 2006, 10:04:26 pm
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i love my thermopure and the nice warm water with nice hot hoses to hold when its cold like today who else is glad they have one but wished they had not payed quite as much?
Anyway not really complaining just glad we are making some money
happy Xmas everyone xxx V8Edd
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how much is a thermopure ?
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Ditto, what a difference it makes! Do you leave the engine running when you have the hot water running through??
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no engine on !! ::) ::)
the van and system cost £12 a day
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thats £84 a week
How many years is that for ?
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HOW DO I PUT A PIC ON HERE
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no engine on !! ::) ::)
the van and system cost £12 a day
Ha ha, sorry is that yes the engine is running, or no it isnt?
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NO ENGINE ON UM OFF TURNED OFF KEYS NOT IN AND LOCKED ok! :o :o
£28000 in total for five years its all good because im ok but if i knew then what i know now i would have built my own and maybe i will next year i have made quite a few modifications to my machine and now it so much more efficient like adding 25 ltr vessel of resin instead of the colour change one and so on
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Ha ha, cool! I was told by a bod at ionic its best to leave it running, so thats what i have been doing! I will turn it off now you have said that!
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£84 times 260 weeks = a bit less than you said
roughly £21000
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i think maybe we are talking on cross paths im sorry do you mean the heater burner or the van engine . i heat the water in the morning for a couple of hours then i leave it off for the rest of the day unless it needs a warm up
sorry its 613 monthly just looked it up
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thats £20 a day !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh, i thought they meant leave the van engine running!! Whoops, ha ha, dum s**t i am!! So van engine off, and the heater burner on for a few hours, then thats hot enough for the rest of the day??
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£84 times 260 weeks = a bit less than you said
roughly £21000
My unger gloves were much cheaper than that ;)
Andy
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So it's Rueben who's happy as a pig ;D ;D
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wtf unger gloves my arse THE point is ok £20 a day but we are over doubling are takings daily so £20 a day is nothing , i mean just look how pro we look with the van the work load has more than quadrupled i have no more cold fingers or sore knees and the wife knows i wont fell off a ladder!!.Everywhere we go customers come and have a look some we take on some not , just pick and chose the easy ones life is good happy xmas
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I do believe that this is the way the industry will move in time but like most things in life everyone develops at their own speed.
How long ago was it that people were looking at postings on this forum about WFP with disbelief. Jason Ruggles was literally the only domestic window cleaner I had ever heard of who was cleaning domestic properties with a WFP and its only a couple of years ago.
If cold water WFP is first generation then thermo systems are Gen 2.
I'm offf to the garage to look for my old camping stove.
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THE point is ok £20 a day but we are over doubling are takings daily so £20 a day is nothing , i mean just look how pro we look with the van the work load has more than quadrupled.
V8edd,
Sorry if I sound sceptical, but you've got yourself a Thermopure and you're saying your turnover has doubled and your workload has quadrupled.
I find that difficult to believe that has happened from just getting the kit you've got, even if it is top-notch.
You must've done something more. What was it?
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1) You're promoting Ionics
2) Imagine how much more benefit £28000 would have been if it had been invested in advertising your business and purchasing a second hand van and a less expensive wfp system.
3) 5 years comittment to Ionics, so what happens if you lose a lot of work/take ill or something?
Not saying you made the wrong choice, the thermo is a good system, you've got a good van etc.
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What is the running costs of this system?
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If you work 20 full days a month the system is costing £30.65 a day.
Is thier VAT to be added to that?
Your happy with it, and thats the main point, When I had an Ioincs Demo at my house whilst deciding what system to get, I was impressed with the warm hose,it was a bitterly cold day on the demo and I felt I was in a Twilight zone for 1/2 an hour holding that hose.
In the real frosty weather at least you wont have to worry about the water freezing in the hose.
Nel.
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like i said i know that now ..NO way would i recommend buying a ready made system to anyone BUT for an idiot like me who new nothing about wfp it worked.
IN fact it worked so well that we have definatly doubled our takings daily this is how we did it .
First get rid of all the houses under £10 then all the difficult houses the ones you know that take to long?? and we all have them ;)then when any new customers ask
we just add a couple quid on it works for us .We just cant do any more so just keep on getting rid of all rubbish and the houses where the hose get stuck under things the most >:( >:( >:( >:(
I saw the best system for value for money the other day
ibc tank £60
gaps water treatment ro kit £970
2 pumps £170
di
some hose
battery
get the idea ? i will probably do it myself next year
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v8edd you're happy? That's what counts.
:)
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OH im happy dude so is my son
happy times to all and squeaky!
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IN fact it worked so well that we have definatly doubled our takings daily this is how we did it .
First get rid of all the houses under £10 then all the difficult houses the ones you know that take to long?? and we all have them ;)then when any new customers ask
we just add a couple quid on it works for us .We just cant do any more so just keep on getting rid of all rubbish and the houses where the hose get stuck under things the most
V8edd,
So your increase in turnover and workload really had nothing to do with buying an Ionics system? It sounds to me like it just boiled down to plain old hard-nosed good-business sense and you.
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Can we get back to talking about money for a minute.
(1) Is the £84 plus VAT ?
(2) How much to buy one outright and not on the payments?
(3) Who else makes HW systems and how do prices compare?