Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: creggan on October 15, 2009, 08:10:28 pm
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just being talking to 2 window cleaners today and like myself they are feeling the pinch.1 of them has lost nearly 40% of his run due to recession.even his weekly shop fronts are asking for fortnightly now. is this just our experience?
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sorry to say but no problems here
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Same as Stan but hes only trad.
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sorry to say but no problems here
Yes you do and it`s called being trad only ;D ;D ;D
PK
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busier than ever
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Still going strong here to.
Evening LJ, how are you?
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sorry to say but no problems here
Yes you do and it`s called being trad only ;D ;D ;D
PK
i dont think so ;D ;D ;D
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sorry to say but no problems here
Yes you do and it`s called being trad only ;D ;D ;D
PK
i dont think so ;D ;D ;D
Think again dinosaur ;D ;D ;D ;D
PK
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No recession here business is thriving, picking up between 5 - 8 jobs a week. Just picked up ethel austins today.
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maybe its only ireland,unemployment at 15% and cost of living is stupid anyway
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Still going strong here to.
Evening LJ, how are you?
alright mate
just gonna post a question about 2 reels off 1 pump
(sorry to hijack thread ::))
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Are we talking domestic customers here? If so, is it in an area recently hit by a local mass redundancy?
TBH i've found that as long as people are working, they've still got to get their housework done. If they didnt like doing it / weren't able to do it before, i doubt very much the thought of saving a bit of money is incentive enough. Especially in window cleaning? I pay £30 a quarter for mine and it would take a lot for me to give that up.
Do you think prehaps the 'reccession' is an excuse to ditch a window cleaner they don't like much? ???
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sorry to say but no problems here
Yes you do and it`s called being trad only ;D ;D ;D
PK
i dont think so ;D ;D ;D
Think again dinosaur ;D ;D ;D ;D
PK
the type of work i clean i would run rings around you ;D ;D
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40% is a massive hit...must be a local firm/industry that has died...
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Are we talking domestic customers here? If so, is it in an area recently hit by a local mass redundancy?
TBH i've found that as long as people are working, they've still got to get their housework done. If they didnt like doing it / weren't able to do it before, i doubt very much the thought of saving a bit of money is incentive enough. Especially in window cleaning? I pay £30 a quarter for mine and it would take a lot for me to give that up.
Do you think prehaps the 'reccession' is an excuse to ditch a window cleaner they don't like much? ???
thats what we all said.many did lose jobs as its alot of builders,plumbers,etc in my catchment area
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40% is a massive hit...must be a local firm/industry that has died...
the whole economy is in freefall,and i'm not joking.1 local factory cut 60 jobs this week in a small town of 4000. the other 100 on 3 day week
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You'll have to start spreading your net a little wider...sorry to hear about your area's problems.
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Flat out for me - turned two away again today and picked up four without trying so will have to start dumping very quickly.
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No problems here; just picked up The Mortgage Shop, The Complex Pub, Noah's Ark Childcare Centres - we already had three of them and picked up the fourth, Hoppy's Sports Shop, a shop called Wow and eleven new domestic customers in the past week alone ;D.
To loose 40% of his business I really do reckon he must have been doing something very wrong. Maybe he was too expensive, making it easy for other window cleaners to undercut his prices ??? ??? ???
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Lost builders cleans and show houses new build homes new building sight not selling houses the foremen is now cleaning them till things pick up this is in north/west england
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Hi Creggan ,what part of Ireland are you working in as here in Cork there seems to be a shortage of domestic window cleaners especially with the hot wfp which people love the look of being used on their property,cheers Liam.
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what recession??
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sea sent payment today and ill need to get fob to you tomorrow.
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no worrys mate
i am in marple all day from 7.30 am till same time pm
Could drop it at mine??
Or i meet you ??
going bed now, text me, or i will ring u in morning
cheers pal
sean
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havent noticed anything,havent lost no customers in last 3 years well 3 only through death this year,ive icked up around about 100 min
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was losing work late 08 and early 2009 but since then it's non stop
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Can anyone really say they have not lost a single customer in 3 years...I would love to know that secret.
Dave.
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david what builders do you mean
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lost 40pound a month in the last 6months due to recession, on the other hand gaind just over 400pound a month in the last 6months, based in n.ireland, all work gained by recommendation or people approaching me only.
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The only work I have lost is commercial.
Debenhams cut the budget by 60% so cut back the work they have done.
Had a barratts shoes that's gone
Clarks down from three cleans to 1 a week.
Plus a few other trimmed down jobs, it's stopped now though, hopefully.
I think often people have a number of shops and when they all look for lower prices some will probably find them.
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Still going strong better then last year
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Hi Creggan ,what part of Ireland are you working in as here in Cork there seems to be a shortage of domestic window cleaners especially with the hot wfp which people love the look of being used on their property,cheers Liam.
liam i am around dundalk.complete collapse,2 of us using trad last year.only have a couple of days for the lad this year
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My dad lost €15k of work annually over the past few months in Cork. Nearly all of it was for small businesses who are now feeling the pinch. He's now targeting residential work for the first time in 20 years!
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ive lost the odd one due to them losing their jobs,moving etc and 1 or 2 have gone for 2 monthly instead of monthly but still picking up new custys most weeks.im domestic only and TRAD.Ithink the commercial WCs are losing big chunks of income.more money but a blow if u lose a couple of contracts.ill stay residential ;) ;) ;)