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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ascjim on June 30, 2009, 08:22:56 pm

Title: The big step!
Post by: ascjim on June 30, 2009, 08:22:56 pm

Hi all,

Ive been using the fourms for a few years and now i think its time.

Ive been window cleaning for 2 years, working for a big company. I have been using both methods of window cleaning tad and reach and wash up to 60 feet and so on. I have made a saturday round that makes me £100 per month and now i want to add more and spend more time on it.

There is a job opening at a shop at the end of the summer that i would be working 3 days a week. These 3 days would pay for my rent and bills but nothing else. I would like to use the other 2 - 3 days doing my round. But i really need more work.

Should i risk it and go for it? Or build up my round abit more and wait?

How does the TAX system work? and how much would i pay in tax?

Any tips on getting some more job would be great.

Any help plz James

Title: Re: The big step!
Post by: NWH on June 30, 2009, 08:29:22 pm

I would keep your job and build slowly until you can earn as much in a weekend as you can doing your day job during the week,at the moment the way things are i would hang on to your job and as soon as things show signs of picking up go for it and don`t look back.Another way you could do it would be to keep your eye out for a round coming up for sale or aproach a WC that looks like he`s nearing retirment,they can be the best rounds to get your hands on once they`ve been tweeked.

Title: Re: The big step!
Post by: Tosh on June 30, 2009, 10:29:48 pm

James,

If you haven't a family depending on you, go for it.  Take the shop job and go 'balls out' to get enough window cleaning customers to make it work for you.

You've got the 'hands on' experience; you're probably more experienced than many of us, since you've worked at 60 feet.  You know what Winters are like; you're going into this thing with your eyes wide open (apart from knowing what your cash flow will be like).  And so what if you end up eating Aldis baked beans for a few months on end?

But if you've got a family who rely on you to feed them, then you've got to be more conservative.

Title: Re: The big step!
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on July 01, 2009, 08:04:10 pm

Was going to add my piece... but Tosh summed it up there. I had the family and did it, bloody hard work to make enough from the start, but if you go out and knock knock knock you will get there.