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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Daria Taylor on January 06, 2010, 10:30:06 pm

Title: good start to a new year?
Post by: Daria Taylor on January 06, 2010, 10:30:06 pm
Just though I will ask if you guys are having a good start to the wonderful New Year. We not had a bad start I must say.

I'm hoping this year will be exceptionally good, that’s why today I dedicated my day to enrolling on all the available courses for new year etc to improve my skills especially " cold calling" course I hope may be very useful.

dash t
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Colin Day on January 06, 2010, 10:50:19 pm
Started back yesterday, off today and 5 jobs booked in for the rest of the week.... I hope it's a sign of things to come :)
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Neil Williams on January 06, 2010, 11:14:02 pm
Enquiries have been coming in which is a step in the right direction compared to pre xmas.
Could have done without the snow though.
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Doctor Carpet (Ret'd) on January 06, 2010, 11:34:24 pm
A wonderful start thank you.

Not held a wand in my hand since before Christmas. It's lovely getting up late in the mornings as well.

Lots of bookings coming in. The only downside.....


....at some point I'll have to actually start cleaning them. :D
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: dave123 on January 07, 2010, 08:50:26 am
Not good at all here . Van needs £600 of work done to it to pass MOT.,vacs went one week after the other before xmas  £400. Got one job booked for saturday. Mind you snow hasn't helped either . No-one wants their carpets cleaned in this weather .  :'(
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: colin thomas on January 07, 2010, 09:04:34 am
excuse the pun but i'm snowed under with work, trouble is i can't get out there to do it, i'm truck-mounted and can't get up icy hills,

colin   >:(
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Colin Day on January 07, 2010, 09:23:24 am
That's 2 jobs postponed today.... Fortunately the customer's are very understanding!!!
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: SteveAllan on January 07, 2010, 09:24:27 am
Not good here in Northants, not one phone call this week, hopefully its the bloody weather and people have other things on their minds.
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Colin Day on January 07, 2010, 09:34:57 am
Not good here in Northants, not one phone call this week, hopefully its the bloody weather and people have other things on their minds.

That's exactly what it'll be Steve.... I need to order oven cleaning products but I'm not going to bother until I know it can be delivered.... So from a consumer's point of view, I'm not expecting things to be normal and that's probably how your/our prospects are thinking :)

If you think about it though, providing you can get about on foot, if you go round delivering leaflets today people might appreciate some post and most of them will be in...... Ever the optimist ;D
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: SteveAllan on January 07, 2010, 09:40:23 am
Thats true Colin good idea, just gonna get some porridge down me then go and post some cards. Already printed off 30 reminder letters to get in the post as well from my database so hopefully will get some bookings from that.
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus) on January 07, 2010, 09:42:38 am
Got plenty of very lucrative work on ................... but I cant get out of my bloody lane to go and do it - very frustrating !!




Steve
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: richy27 on January 07, 2010, 09:45:16 am
same as steve got plenty on but cant get to it.  Had a little flurry of enquiries on mon tue but quiet since then
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Joe H on January 07, 2010, 10:18:07 am
My window cleaner has just come around!
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: robert meldrum on January 07, 2010, 10:23:53 am
Amazed to hear so many are inundated with work..................especially with the weather your getting in the South.

Joe

Did he fall off his ladder !
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: SteveAllan on January 07, 2010, 10:26:47 am
He must be mad lol, water must be freezing on the windys
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Colin Day on January 07, 2010, 10:45:33 am
Amazed to hear so many are inundated with work..................especially with the weather your getting in the South.

Joe

Did he fall off his ladder !

Hoefully he'll have a WFP and some anti freeze ;D
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: robert meldrum on January 07, 2010, 11:21:39 am
Saw an advert last year about hot water window cleaning. Might be the answer!
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Joe H on January 07, 2010, 11:29:28 am
Actually they are still trad.
Not much water put on the windows but they have come up clean.
Had someone at the bottom holding the ladder.
Wont catch me up a ladder - not even on a summers day.  :D
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Daria Taylor on January 07, 2010, 12:03:50 pm
i think our window cleaner forgot about us all together, his not been for about 8 weeks, but saying this next door window cleaner been on christmas eve and weather was'n much different to what it is now, felt really sorry for him as he didnt look too happy.

dash t
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: Colin Day on January 07, 2010, 12:06:17 pm
Saw an advert last year about hot water window cleaning. Might be the answer!

I'd be worried about thermal shock..... I'll stick to working indoors I think ;D
Title: Re: good start to a new year?
Post by: M.Acorn on January 07, 2010, 12:57:40 pm
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Wont catch me up a ladder - not even on a summers day.

Got a mate who is a windy cleaner,and a mentalist ! He reg works up 3 and 4 story places on ladders,not even the people building them go up that high,have done the odd day with him,and i won`t go that high either,don`t mind normal house height,used to have to climb a 12 foot wall on the assult course at Waterbeach barraks.
Have worked with him in the past and the water was freezing on the windows,before you could blade it off ! And he still only gets through on flipping skrim a day  ::)

And very quiet here,got about £600 worth upcoming,just waiting for dates,only done a couple of jobs this week,and phone dead  :(