[M.Acorn]

Used to live in Gt ayton ! Bradleys  Terrace on way out of village,on left,just behind where the garage used to be.

3 jobs Monday,£400 + but all through agency so payment 28 days
Tue day off
Wed 1st job £140,2nd job £116.00
Thur 1st £168,2nd £230
Fri 1st £60 2nd £250
Sat postponed until Monday £140 and £65 so far

[David Rogers]

One thing I would say is that it genuinely is not all about money for me.   I entered the industry after taking voluntary redundancy as an IT Project Manager earning £80k a year.  In my first year as a c&u cleaner I think I earned £11k,..... and it was the best year of my life!

I rarely like more than 2-3 jobs in a day.  It's a lifestyle choice.  I have a detached home that I love with a very low mortgage (thanks to the redundancy lumper) and basically, if I earn £20k in a year, all my bills are paid, theres food on the table, a cheap hpliday and life is good.   Of course, £20k is NOT by business target, I'm just saying that that's my comfort income.   I aim to make around £30k a year.  This gives me a good lifestyle and the work/life balance that I came into this game to achieve.

I have no desire to earn £700 a day unless of course it could be done be doing 2 x jobs, fairly local about 2-3 hours each !   

[Neil Williams]

3 jobs Monday,£400 + but all through agency so payment 28 days
Tue day off
Wed 1st job £140,2nd job £116.00
Thur 1st £168,2nd £230
Fri 1st £60 2nd £250

So over a 5 day week that's £1364 averaging £272.80
Over the working days you have booked (4) that's an average of £341
Someway short of the £700

Now if the figures above are the normal for yourself then you won't need to be vat registered BUT if you're going to say this is a 'quiet week' then you will easily fall into the requirement for registering for vat.
So which one is it?

[M.Acorn]

Wish it was like that all the time Neil !! No that was a good week,next week is looking good also though,needs to carry on like this,and i am a long way off being vat reg

[robert meldrum]

So a little exageration Mark

As a matter of interest...............I was reading some stat's yesterday, and the highest average earners in the UK are, as you'd expect in the South East, but surprisingly, that region is only 10% higher than Scotland. The lowest by some considerable margin is Wales.

[David Rogers]

Anyone remember the infamous Harry Enfield character.... LOADSAMONEY!   He should have been a carpet cleaner if some of these figures are to be believed.   

The best day I've done has been £500 and that was a single commercial job in a call centre.   (single operator as always, 9.5 hour day).   I just cannot see anyone on their own consistantly claiming their daily rate is £700..... but each to their own.

Thanks for the suggestions and comments re: the cleaning of the coaches, I've prepared a quotation based on £220 per vehicle and I will 2 coaches per day (even if it means a 10 hour day).  As I have 10 x coaches to do, this work is worth £2,200 and will be done in 5 days.   That's a week I'll be very happy with financially although I'm under no illusion it'll be hard graft!

Cheers

[robert meldrum]

David

Amtech UK used to supply a ceiling tile cleaner and a cleaner for office type dividers that MIGHT be suitable for the roofs

Also, as Gary mentioned, using a dry foam can be a lot quicker when you know how..................

[richy27]

david bit of topic bt looked at your site see you are wool safe approved is it worth it or not

[Ian Gourlay]

I know the £100 an hour guys will po ho me


I clean coaches take 3hrs  I can do two a day

Are you worth £500 a day

[David Rogers]

david bit of topic bt looked at your site see you are wool safe approved is it worth it or not

Hi Richard, my WS certification came with my HOST training. If you get trained by a major Woolsafe Certified training body, you'll usually get the certification after the training.   I couldn't say whether it's worth it as a seperate investment / endorsement.  I wouldn't of thought so, on it's own. But it does look quite good on a website / flyers etc.

Regards,

David

[clinton]

Think they do the woolsafe aprove for the texatherm system if i remember rightly

Nice one ian the 100 pound an hour guys

[David Rogers]

Yes, most of the dry and VLM equipment makers have Woolsafe Approval.   Host, Envirodri, Dry Fusion and Thermadry do, and quite possibly Texa as well.

[clinton]

Thats it david did forget as i had mine years ago..old age yaay

[cleanability]

Well I've made a visit again to this site to be wound up again. It can very misleading for newbies to hear various claims from some of the clowns on here. Here we are, this somes it up. This from the same chap on the same post. First " My god,where in the country are you ?
My day rate is £700 !! And i have got that consistently" then a little later its changed to  " I have only done about a weeks worth of £700 days in the 6 years i have been running".  My advice to anyone visiting this site is to at least take a sack load salt with everything said  or better still believe nobody.

Chris

[Joe H]

 

You just get used to it.

[derek west]

wound up

don't worry, be happy, woooooooo wooo wooo woooo wooo wooooo wwooo wo woo woooowaaawoooooooooo

[Mike Halliday]

from what i can remember i have never earned £700 in one day from carpet cleaning, I don't think I've even hit £600....... and i like to think I run a successful business.


if I hit £250-£300 I class it as a great day, but were some on here do earn the odd £700 in a day  my earnings are very consistent throughout the year so I would guess it put me on Parr with the big daily earners

[cleanability]

Same here Mike. £300 is a great day for me.

Chris

[David Rogers]

It's how you earn the figure too, not just the figure itself 

I don't want to bleed from the ears, on my own, working a huge job that should really have been done by 2-3 people, to get the sort of money that 2-3 would realistically earn.

There's a big work/life balance in it for me.   I get immense satisfaction earning £180 in a day that comes from 2 x relatively easy £90 quid jobs that took me a total 4 or 5 hours. 

[cleanability]

Yep I'm with you Dave. Couldnt agree more.

Chris