Clean It Up
Market Place => Used Equipment For Sale/Wanted => Topic started by: edwin on March 24, 2007, 08:13:27 pm
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V reg VW Transporter (white). Unsign-written. Fitted with an electrically heated oven cleaning tank to rear. Assorted chemicals available for immediate start up of this lucrative business. Van in good general order. New front tyres, six-month's MOT. 161,000 well-maintained and regularly serviced. Very reliable. Offers around £2200.
Call 020 8467 7372 / 07743 899641
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Any pics ?
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what sort of hourly rate can you achieve oven cleaning and are people willing to pay for this service.
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Yes, of course you would like some pictures. I quickly put this ad on last night, not knowing what sort of response I would get. If you give me your email address I will email you pics of the inside and the outside within the next 48 hours. Any other questions then just give me a call.
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Hello Trevor,
Thank you for your enquiry. I set up the Oven Cleaning Service after looking at a couple of franchises, thinking I could probably do better going it alone, and I believe that to be true. It's the same as with the carpet cleaning, in so far as you have to advertise to your market. The work is definitely there and it isn't difficult to find - it's easier to find than carpet cleaning beacuse not as many people are offering the service - and I got a lot of repeat work without ever having to contact my clients again - they simply called me back when their oven got dirty. I offered them the usual guarantees - that if they weren't happy they didn't have to pay, but everyone was absolutely delighted with the job I did. It's dirty work, but it does complement carpet cleaning very well and in terms of rates of pay I charged £45 for a single oven, £55 for a double, ranges from £75 and I could do two to four jobs a day. If fully booked, you could easily do £200+. However, saying that, the company I trained with, based near Guildford, had operatives doing double that easily.
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I agree completely.
We have Ovenclean come to us twice a year, he does a brill job for £40.00 though it does take him an hour and a half because we talk about business.
I have to say I do mostly carpet and upholstery with a bit of general for letting agents. I allways tell them to get a pro in for the ovens.
I think its a brill add on for some one, though I would charge twice as much as they charge, £40.00 for that mucky old job. No way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Edwin,
Do you still have your oven cleaning van for sale?
Graham