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Title: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: cleaning angel on August 05, 2005, 02:06:11 pm

 Hi i was wondering if anyone has any information on helpful sites on the internet regarding starting up a small cleaning business.

I have been doing some research but i am very new to this so please excuse any silly questions.
 Any help would be very helpful thank you all.  :-[

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: martin19842 on August 05, 2005, 05:08:55 pm

hi there,

first of all you need to decide what sector of the cleaning industry you want to enter, commercial, contract, domestic, daily office, carpets, windows, high access, specialist, builders, these are just a few to get you started thinking.

my advice work that bit out first, determine the market place and then resource up accordingly.

get one thing right first, rather than getting it all wrong later.

regards

martin

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: michelle warren on August 05, 2005, 07:47:41 pm

I found that the inland revenue and a local business advice centre provided valuable (free) help. Be very wary of anyone who tries to charge you for their advice!! It's worth doing the groundwork first, it may seem exciting to "get started", but there is a lot to do before you even consider your first customer. I've been running a domestic cleaning company for 2 years (and i learn something new most days!!) and i expanded into commercial a few months ago. If you have any detailled queries send me an email and i'll try to help.
Michelle

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: Ian Gourlay on August 06, 2005, 05:46:11 am

Amazon

Do a search for Cleaning Books.


They will not give you experience but might point you in correct direction

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: toptobottom on August 21, 2005, 12:14:07 am

Apologies, a little late reply but I haven't looked at this ste for ages. I have been running a domestic company for nearly a year and found a useful e book on e bay, search for domestic cleaning. It was £3 but gave me a lot of food for thought. I could or probably would have come up with the ideas myself but always useful to get it condensed.

My first recommendation would be to decide what you want to do: domestic or commercial then a cleaning company or "agency"?

Good luck
Lynne

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: blacksheep on August 21, 2005, 12:25:11 am

hi there pop down to your enterprise centre or business eye they will help with your business from start to finish also grants depending on what part of the countery your from plus no end of helpful advice from us lot good luck

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: henrya on August 21, 2005, 08:20:23 pm

Hi,
am at Hackney, East London Area.
Could you please let me know the organisations in my area here.
Thanks
Henrya

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: Jan K on August 22, 2005, 06:44:25 pm

hi henrya

yellow pages would be a good place to look.....our local enterprise agency advertises in it, and you may come across other relevant bodies that you may not have considered applying to for info and grants

Jan

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: henrya on August 22, 2005, 09:34:04 pm

Jan,
thanks for your advise.
Henrya

Title: Re: starting up a cleaning business
Post by: selectservices on August 22, 2005, 10:59:13 pm

Hi Henrya

I'm in the same boat as you, just starting up and have found the following sites useful:

http://www.cleaningindustry.org/cssa_home.asp

http://www.express-cleaning-supplies.co.uk/oos/trainingcourses/

http://www.bics.org.uk/

and this site contains quite a few useful links -

http://www.clean it upcouncil.org/members.asp#link9
 (http://www.clean it upcouncil.org/members.asp#link9)
I hope that helps you.

Cherie  :)