Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: david watts on February 05, 2010, 06:59:51 pm
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i had a chin wag today with a wc; and was told that all window cleaning is being taken on
by one firm and that some one had seen ten vans parked up at a place having wfp
systems fitted.
so that people living in council houses / flats will get them cleaned by one firm
seems a bit of a scare story? any body heard the same
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i had a chin wag today with a wc; and was told that all window cleaning is being taken on
by one firm and that some one had seen ten vans parked up at a place having wfp
systems fitted.
so that people living in council houses / flats will get them cleaned by one firm
seems a bit of a scare story? any body heard the same
Some tenancy agreements will include for services, and paid for through the rent. Estate management companies handle this sort of thing and put out window cleaning for tender just as anywhere else.
Any such contract has by law to be competitive, no one company can own an exclusive right to clean all a particular authorities properties.
As to having service contracts forced upon council housing tenants, that also is illegal where the tenant would otherwise have the option to do without a non essential service.
The cutting of grass on communal spaces, painting of outsides of properties etc is a necessary maintenance exercise which the housing authority has a legal obligation to provide, but again it must be by competitive tender.
Someones been pulling your p*****r.
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we have a big firm do all work at moment called conought; it changed the other year this firm
has hundreds of vans going round the harrogate area.
this is the vans seen .
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They may well have a contract to clean blocks of flats, etc. but I wouldn't worry about individual council houses - they will always have the option to employ whoever they want to clean their windows, or not, as the case may be.
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im with sqeaky on this; in that i dont do council houses ;D but schools and the rest
if a big firm took the cream contracts be a bit crap :(
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the majority of councils will only do communial windows, u never know it might be duncan from dragons den again
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we have a big firm do all work at moment called conought; it changed the other year this firm
has hundreds of vans going round the harrogate area.
this is the vans seen .
Do you mean these
http://www.connaught.plc.uk/
As far as im concerned they can have all them jobs as I dont want them,
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connaught get a lot of jobs as they will wait a few months to get paid, and councils like this
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clean for two councils in herts for many years and have never cleaned houses only hostels/oap homes/ and com areas ,most councils are changing over to housing ascosiations