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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: brett walker on January 14, 2007, 04:40:10 pm
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Hi everyone :)
Im thinking of starting carpet cleaning just wondered how many do carpet cleaning as well as window cleaning
Is it hard work?
regards
Brett
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I did for a while before my car got pinched with the carpet cleaner inside & found out I wasn't covered.
I found CC very hard work & didn't find it any more lucrative. Others may disagree but I never really liked doing it. Just because you have a pro bit of kit people expected you could remove all sorts of stains including ones that had been there for donkeys years.
Not for me!!
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I was thinking about CC but as the same reason above from what i've read it doesn't seem as lucrative and lets face it, its a peice of cake to clean windows, not bogged down trying to clean a really dirty carpet or sofa.
I would like to take some training coruses in it though and see what its all about before i thought of taking the plunge
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ive been window cleaning for 18 years,started carpet cleaning nearly 2 years ago its hard work carpet cleaning at the start but after 2 years things are starting to come good.The first thing is to get some training and then buy a decent machine its quite easy cleaning carpets but you need to put the time in. darren.
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I have done carpet cleaning but it was years ago.
I was thinking last year of starting it back up as an add on to my window cleaning.
But i don't have any time now ive got to much window cleaning work.
Also its harder getting work for carpet cleaning and you need constant advertising and need to put loads of leaflets out weekly.
Maybe once you have been carpet cleaning a few years you could probably do away with leafleting.
But its a lot of work and im sure i earn as much as a lot of carpet cleaners anyway without having to go mad with advertising.
Paul
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hi all
i'm the opposite i've been carpet cleaning for vthe last 3 years and i've just added wfp window cleaning to my business, i find i can earn more money carpet cleaning but customers dont want their carpets cleaning as often as windows so hopefully if i do their windows they will have me to do their carpets when they need doing
dave
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thanks guys
a friend of mine has been cleaning carpets for 20yrs and hs offered to show me the ropes and let me go out with him to learn how to do it. Ive always thought of carpet cleaning as hard work but it could be a useful add on for my business
regards
Brett
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Started out carpet cleaning then added wfp.
If i could i would clean carpets all day lots more money to be made for a lot less effot.
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the thing with carpet cleaning is u can stay at one address and earn couple hundred pounds, were with window cleaning on domestics u got to go to lot houses to earn that. but i clean carpets and hav just added water fed poles to the bizz but not for cleaning windows but cladding etc hopefully on large com buildings
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I clean windows & carpets over the year I can average 50/50 split-thats because I live in an area with low population so you have to diversify to earn a living-however I have been on the CC courses & it was worth the outlay both for the courses & equipment-CC proves a better earner I can earn as much in a morning CC as I can working all day on windows, however its nice to have a change from one to the other.
Regards Tony ;)
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ive been cleaninmg carpets for yonks now
if you do a lot of commercial window cleaning and thenm take a few course, get good gear and tell your window cleaning clients, you will get new work that you can do when its freezing or rainging.
seems like commen sense to me.
jo
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i have done both windows and carpets for 2 years now, if you are good carpets pay better but need a lot more effort to get work most of mine comes from refferels and window customers doing it properly is the way to go.I am no longer looking for domestic window cleaning customers only commercial now so i can put more effort into the carpet cleaning as it can be very satisfying
simbo
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thankyou for all your input looks like there is a fair bit of money to be made in carpet cleaning as my friend has already explained to me. Will be meeting him for a drink this saturday night and checking out his 5 carpet machines 8)
Brett
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after a fall im going to try window cleaning again, there are alot of bungalows and single storey propertys in my area and with this area being small having both carpets & windows hopfully will work out for me, there is more money in carpets but with the windows u have the monthly wages every month.
george
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I do both - what got me into it was I used to clean the windows of a carpet cleaner who used to go out at 9am and be back for dinner at 1pm with £150 plus in his pocket , me I had just done a few houses more up his street and earned about £60 :o
I tagged along with him for a while for free and he showed me the roaps as it were , and went on a few courses , got a good machine ( you need to spend aproxx £2000 on a new one) and off i went .
Ive now got a nice 50/50 split with both , I dont need to spend lots on the advertising as I have the windows to fall back on - unlike the stand alone carpet cleaners .
also the cost of the chemicals to clean the carpets etc is pretty cheap per job once you have paid for the machine. - less than resin,water etc on wfp I think .
In my view its the best thing I did to earn more money - well apart from uvpc cleaning that is ;D
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Gaza, Brett, please don't use this forum for a personal argument.
Thank you,
Trevor
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Gaza, Brett, please don't use this forum for a personal argument.
Thank you,
Trevor
Trevor, thankyou for deleting the posts as i requested
regards
Brett
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There is definitely good money in carpet and uphostery cleaning. My friend has been at it for about six years and is only really now getting established. It does take a long time and a lot of work to get started.
But the good side is he charges £75 to do a three piece suite and it tkes him an hour and a half. Fifty quid an hour, thats not bad.
The other problem is moving furniture, lots of issues around do you or don't you.
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Thanks guys for your replies definately food for thought ive something in the pipeline now ;)
regards
Brett
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£75 for a suite far too cheep should be looking at from £130 up to £200!
Theres no chance you can clean them in 1.5 hours you need to be looking at 3hrs.
Rob.
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OK, I only know what I have been told but your figures re-inforce the basic point that there is money to be made.
On the other extreme though we regularly get leaflets through our door offering carpet and upholstery cleaning at rock bottom prices. I have a leaflet in front of me offering to clean the whole house for £82 and a settee for £24. I am sure I have seen ones cheaper in the past I save the leaflets to give to my friend when I see him
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Hi All
I agree with Vince there is some people who advertise so cheap, i did carpet cleaning, had 3 machines on the go & windows, but, did mainly commercial. I felt i charged to cheap, BUT still didnt get much work, had about 10 + customers that had regular xmas work domestic, but it takes a lot of effort to keep work coming in.
I still have one machine & do i job about every 3 months, but thats it should i re-advertise or get more windows. Currently tendering for 50 + offices contracts
which will be done regular. Imay try to get the carpets some but it is far easier cleaning windows.
Gary