Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: richy27 on January 07, 2009, 01:51:18 pm
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Not much work on at moment being newbie so its on with marketting. Any one elses front room converted into storage pen for the gear mrs is goin nuts.
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All in garage but nothimg on till Friday.
I still have £650 of window cleaning work which I usually use to fill the gaps but the weather is sh*te here, cold and drizzle with a cold wind so that's out as well.
John
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A few oven cleans, a nursery and some outstanding insurance work to be completed...
The oven cleaning is taking over to be honest, I haven't even started to market it yet because the van is getting me plenty of work!
Horrible job though, but it pays the bills.... ;)
Colin...
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As newbies your doing the right thing doing more than just c cleaning :)
I used to have a small vending round so i used to collect and empty once a week as i had been only doing c cleaning for 5 years :)
Got some stuff in the garage and in shed and some new chemicals in the the kitchen spare room :)
Got my bike wrapped up too ;)
Anyone getting nagged ???
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All my gear sits in the corner of the kitchen ,bit too late now though,did have work booked for this week,but have re scheduled it for next werek now due to not being able to get the parts to fix the machine :(..Used to do oven cleaning when the wife ran a domestic cleaning business,but used to hate doing them,my bro in law once got oven cleaner all over some solid wood work tops and completly ruined them,that`s why they got me to do them,being an ex chef i was used to it.Used stuff made by a company called clover leaf,Vanquish i think,kills when you get it on skin !
Good news today though van flew through it`s mot,so one less thing to worry about now !
Wish i had a garage
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Saw an oven cleaner just before Xmas next door to where I was working.
He had a bath type thing heating water and I presume chemicals and was hand scrubbing the bits and pieces that come with an oven at the back of his van. Looked a dirty job .
What do they normally charge for a bog standard 4 hob + oven?
John
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i went in to clean carpets just after an oven clean, he was there for 3 hours and charged £50, not sure if this is the norm?.
customer was happy too.
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That will be an acid bath ! had one in the pub i worked at,very good bit of kit .I used to charge £50 but that`s going back a few years now.
Best tool i found for getting glass doors clean and most of the bottom and sides,was a window cleaners blade type thing in a holder,much better that getting nasty chemicals everywhere !
Used to do a reg 1 in cambridge,but the blokes very young son always took to much interest in what i was doing,had to tell custy several times to keep him out the way due to the chems i was using,he always came back a few mins later though,had to stop doing that one as it`s too risky having kids around those chems
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Only 3 jobs for next week :-[
Phones off the hook though,.....with advertising sales calls and the sub continent silence calls.
Nothing from my mailings as yet.
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Looks like a week of lie-ins next week with only 3 jobs booked in so far. Yippee! And plenty of time to catch up on other things nothing to do with carpet cleaning.
Keep my gear in my cellars-plenty of room down there to do rug cleaning as well.
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same here mike, phones ringing none stop with people trying to sell me advertising, got thompson coming round tomorrow at 2pm. (hey i'm bored, the wifes been ill for 3 weeks now, its someone to talk at) any one know anything about direct email, i know you can buy email business addresses off the likes of thompson and this also stops you going into there spam box, (i think) but does anyone use this form of adverting and have i got my facts, neh! inclings right?
derek
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i went in to clean carpets just after an oven clean, he was there for 3 hours and charged £50, not sure if this is the norm?.
customer was happy too.
3 Hours is probably for a right minger of an oven and £50 sounds about right... you don't have such high over heads as with carpet cleaning because the equipment is basic, to some extent. Normally an oven takes me 1-2 hours and maybe I'll pick up £45-£60, but I'm happy with that as it fills in the spaces and my wallet.... As I have previously said I only advertise on the side of the van, so the marketting costs are minimal too.
Happy Days ;D
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Got two jobs in the morn and thats it for this week,3 in for next week at the mo :)
Dont forget the weather puts people off doing thinks in the house ???
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Derek
Build your own list when you get your website sorted. I have heard bad stories about mailing list companies and can cost 50p upwards per name. OK if it's current and well targetted but can't help feeling you get a lot of dross in there.
You will need an autoresponder to manage your list easily and cope with spam filters. Not cheap, but worth it in my opinion, but early days so I'll let you know. ;)
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What's the best chemical to use to do it?
Going to have a go on my own oven.
Take it you clean the inside of the oven itself for that price.
Could be a good little sideline.
John
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i think you take the oven apart and place it into polythee bags, bit like roger koh and his fat liquering.
think so anyhoo.
derek
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Elbow grease ;)
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Got one cc clean job booked in this week and two limestone floors to clean, next week 30sqm limestone floor to lay, then following week grout re colouring job plus a few tile repair jobs...Got to tile a chess board for a guy on his patio with 600 x 600 porcelain tiles and he has oak chess pieces 2ft tall, but a bit bloody cold to work outside ;D
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Just took a job for friday morn :)
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The phone is very quiet, I've had an Xmas week this week booking in all of the customers taht couldn't get in before but next week does look bad I think I've got about 1 and half days worth all added up, this is the winter of our discontent!!
Database will be landing on Monday so fingers crossed, a month to go and Tenerife for me ;D
Shaun
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bet you pointed in a southerly direction when you said tenerife. ;D
derek
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Shaun
Tenerife
is that an invite to your timeshare for us all to ashmore villas :D
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Hey come on cheer up. Its the first week back at work after christmas and new year. Its always quiet for most businesses. People are peed off having to go back to work and it takes them a few weeks to get back into their stride. Also this cold weather won't be helping. Probably last thing on peoples minds at the moment is to get their carpets cleaned. It will pick up soon especially as the weather starts to warm up and we head towards spring.
This is why it is so important to get your pricing right so that you earn enough to see you over these quiet periods which you always get and always have. Too many not earning enough to weather the storm end up going out of business.
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Well said Mr K :)
I'm moderately busy this week in terms of calls and quotes, doing a fair few quotes and got a couple of nice jobs booked in over the next week or so but nowhere near what I'd like to be doing....
I still have a pile of un-filed paperwork sitting there from before Xmas so I guess I can't be that short of things to do, paperwork always gets pushed to the back!
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Just 4 jobs this week.Had a flood job today,where the settee was, the varnish from the legs had seeped into the carpet ,didn't have much joy in removing the stains though .Varnish i find is always a bugger at the best of times any suggestions guys ?
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Very quiet this week...1 job only from a regular and 1 enquiry.
Rang one of my commercial jobs yesterday (£200) every Jan...and they've put having their carpets cleaned on hold due to present economic situation...news I could have done without !
Roll on Spring !
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i'm giving january a miss i think. with all my problems and the phone quiet i may as well.
but come february... its time to kick ass and chew gum, and i'm all out of gum.
new website, SEO and a shed load of leaflets should do the trick, thank you very much. KERRRRRRRRRRCHING!!!!!!!!!!
derek
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First of the oven jobs was a right pain today, old rusty damaged oven.... Polishing a turd came to mind, I nearly packed up and told her it wasn't going to come clean. She was delighted with the end result ??? Second job, 40 minutes and done... Then the fella's dad asked if I could do his carpets and oven.
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Hi Guys
I've been pleasantly surprised how many enquiries I am getting, they are of variable quality but at least people are ringing.
Cheers
Doug
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today is the day where it seems everthing is back to normal, phones been ringing like before xmas, got 3 small jobs turned 2 big ones down.
derek
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today is the day where it seems everthing is back to normal, phones been ringing like before xmas, got 3 small jobs turned 2 big ones down.
derek
Derek why did you turn the 2 big jobs down
John
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Yeh Derek why turn down the jobs???
I thought you had your Mate working for you???
Regards
Daryl
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Got a decent week of work booked in this week am a bit suprised to be honest,2 of them are new and the rest repeat and recmds :)
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keep up john
i'm looking after my boy while the misses is still ill. she got up for an hour today so looks like shes getting there.
my boy sleeps in in the morning so can do small jobs.
daryl you old firey dog you!
my worker can't drive yet. paying for a crash course for him in summer ready for when i get my second trucky. glyns if he's still got it. (and if he'll sell it to me)
derek
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I knew you were looking after your better half but i didnt know she was that ill, hope she is better soon.
My missus had 4 days in bed over the new year with a bad dose of MAN flu ;D we both saw the new year in with a good drink......LEMSIP :(
Mind you i did think i`d gone deaf for 4 days ;D ;D ;D....Bliss
Daryl
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she was in hospital new years eve, back out and then back in again.
she has hyperemesis gravidum and i don't think a lemsip will sort it :)
like i said though, she's on the mend now so fingers crossed.
she was the same with our last child so hopefully everything will turn out ok.
derek
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i have been surprised how busy i am at the moment but to be honest as john said earlier, i would expect jan/feb to be quiet and i will expect it to go quiet for a while soon,
colin
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Colin
Thats what i thought but maybe we might keep busy.
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Sorry Derek did. t realise the wife was poorly
all the best
John
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she was in hospital new years eve, back out and then back in again.
she has hyperemesis gravidum and i don't think a lemsip will sort it :)
Hope she feels better very soon but for those who don't know what it is....
Hyperemesis gravidarum is the term used for persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
While over half of all pregnant women experience some form of morning sickness, only 1.5% to 2% suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum, a much more serious condition.
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I used to own a property in Tenerife in playa de las Americas and used to rent it out but the morgage and service and extras which the complex was good at charging wasn't making what I thought i wanted so I got rid and and what a palaver getting money out of Spain but they were good at letting me in with it!
If you know where to go to you don't get the screaming chavs but you do have to pay a bit more for some things but I'm not a drinker so I indulge in <cough> other things (the wife does drink!)
Shaun
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Hi shaun
:o
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Hellooooooo Clinton's missus
Shaun
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Shaun
;D