[darren clarke]

no please explain?

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

work = money , money pays yr bills
helps u to live etc what im saying is
its a means to an end if yr passing a store
some one cant cover why not clean it

[lyndy]

I don't get it,thought the idea is to make as much profit as poss,so keep driving past the store and do a house or 2 for double the money

[boldy1304]

i dont understand how these guys manage to keep these contracts as the homebase next door to the said pets at home has not been cleaned for the last 6 months that i know of as i keep having a look every week the same bird poo mark and spider egg sacks everywere ive tried to get it the manager is not impressed but says he has no say in it. a friend who works quite high up in homebase got me the departments address who deals with this to write to i did with no reply 

[Smudger]

The reason they keep them is the fact they are national - basically no one cares - you may get a local manager complain to the head office, but the office whallah doesn't want the aggro so sits on it rather than actually get off their ar$e and do the job they are paid for.
Or like our local library which might get cleaned once a year the staff just get used to the state of the windows.

if a custy of mine is correct contracts over £70k have to be tied up in lots of legal paperwork, making sure all parties get a fair crack at quoting etc...  ( this is defo for local government ) so a small guy cant cover everything as he does not have the backup so a large company comes in to take the work only to sub it out

Darran

[darren clarke]

i remember looking at a contract for something and the companys turn over had to be 3 times the size of the contract that was available,  so it was left to big boys only

i priced a job the other week on a development, and the bloke was looking for a painter and decorator, to redo all the windows on this estate the last time it was done cost them £44,000, and the bloke was maoning that he couldnt find any one i cornwall to take it on

[Moderator David@stives]

That is one of my stores cleaned every 6 weeks, same as the other 20 we do, never had one complaint in the 6 months we've had them.

You can only ever get to various windows each time we visit due to displays, pallets etc in front of the windows, we clean to the spec given and by the budget given. You don't spend 2 hours doing a £15 clean

I am thinking of upping my marketing activities in liskeard to replace any lost work, maybe follow the  local window cleaners around, pointing out all there imperfections to the building owners

[boldy1304]

That is one of my stores cleaned every 6 weeks, same as the other 20 we do, never had one complaint in the 6 months we've had them.

You can only ever get to various windows each time we visit due to displays, pallets etc in front of the windows, we clean to the spec given and by the budget given. You don't spend 2 hours doing a £15 clean

I am thinking of upping my marketing activities in liskeard to replace any lost work, maybe follow the  local window cleaners around, pointing out all there imperfections to the building owners

shows how much the manager there knows then he said it was a company up in the midlands that do it as and when although that was about 8 months ago now

[Moderator David@stives]

Remember the managers have the final say in signing the work off, if the manager doesn't sign then no pay.

If there not happy with the work they won't sign, even if they do sign you can still into trouble when they do an cleaning audit

[G Griffin]

Gotta take the ruff with the smooth. Probably a reducktion in their budgiet.
Look for leads elsewhere.

[tacky]

boldy when did u here about losing contract .its just that on wensday morning i was doing my 3 shops next door to a .pets at home store .which another windie does .he asks me did i want to buy it off him as 3 miles travel at 7 .30 in morning is to early for him .after your post i smell a rat .or not

[j.v. price ltd]

One good thing about retail works is they can be done from about 6am and need to be done by 8 before you can start residential and they still have to be done, no matter what so no excuse and no can you leave it this time.

We have one high street that we have 27 shops on all done in 3 hours = £320 its all about volume

[Dean Taberner]

One good thing about retail works is they can be done from about 6am and need to be done by 8 before you can start residential and they still have to be done, no matter what so no excuse and no can you leave it this time.

We have one high street that we have 27 shops on all done in 3 hours = £320 its all about volume

rain or shine too when a lot of guys are on here sitting at hpme commenting on threads about the rain and snow

[boldy1304]

boldy when did u here about losing contract .its just that on wensday morning i was doing my 3 shops next door to a .pets at home store .which another windie does .he asks me did i want to buy it off him as 3 miles travel at 7 .30 in morning is to early for him .after your post i smell a rat .or not

manager told me on friday and i did it weekly so i only spoke to her the week before so they must have found out this week

[darren clarke]

so has dave morris took the store of you boldy?

[weetot]

The quickest way to solve this problem is dont make yourself available for subcontract. If you do you are just part of the  problem.Some times dig our own graves.

I agree, but theres always some ladder-monkeys out there who will work for peanuts.

[tacky]

thanks i ll pop over n talk to manager see if he told previous windie about them been taking over .one good thing i havnt cleaned them yet or handed any money over .

[suds window service]

That is one of my stores cleaned every 6 weeks, same as the other 20 we do, never had one complaint in the 6 months we've had them.

You can only ever get to various windows each time we visit due to displays, pallets etc in front of the windows, we clean to the spec given and by the budget given. You don't spend 2 hours doing a £15 clean

these are wise words indeed

[boldy1304]

so has dave morris took the store of you boldy?

no hes on about the homebase next door i tried to get it about 8 months ago as it was minging he says he dos it and has for 6 months fair play i dont go for stuff if i know they have a windy like i say 8 months ago it was minging

[darren clarke]

ok, miss read threads