[Small but perfectley formed]

30-40p per panel more like

[deeege]

30-40p per panel more like

So the £1120 per day for 2 men would appear to be waaaay out, I thought so.

[telfordwindowclnr]

im local but not for me,cant think of any firm i know round here thatd do it either - actually i can, that bloomin rogue who worked for me and crashed my van, yeh, hes a bad morals type but hed slog his guts out  do decent job ,long as he got paid allrite. mess up the payment and hed put an axe thru the panels

  pm me if you want him

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll give him a miss! 

[telfordwindowclnr]

30-40p per panel more like

Hi mate. Are you in the area for this job?

[Small but perfectley formed]

No but if you get any within 50 miles Sheffield would be interested

[Ste M]

Steve, unless you have had loads of e-mails with what you consider to be the right price then why not be a bit more open and give a ballpark figure for how much you want to pay and also how long it should take roughly? At the moment all you seem to my (in my. Opinion) is create a auction an highest bidder wins, the thing is everyone is going in as high as possible as they don't want to be caught out due to not knowing how long it's going to take   

Just put the rough time and price up and then I'm sure you,ll get a much more positive response

[telfordwindowclnr]

Steve, unless you have had loads of e-mails with what you consider to be the right price then why not be a bit more open and give a ballpark figure for how much you want to pay and also how long it should take roughly? At the moment all you seem to my (in my. Opinion) is create a auction an highest bidder wins, the thing is everyone is going in as high as possible as they don't want to be caught out due to not knowing how long it's going to take   

Just put the rough time and price up and then I'm sure you,ll get a much more positive response

I won't do that, because as you say, I'm getting loads of emails. The response is very positive. I appreciate your suggestion though. Thank you. 

[telfordwindowclnr]

No but if you get any within 50 miles Sheffield would be interested

There is a good possibility in the next 6 months that we will be getting about 30 schools in your area from one of our current contracts. If you drop me an email through my spc site with the areas you can cover, I will keep your details on file. Look out for future threads also. 

[deeege]

Call me a cynic but I have a few questions. Feel free to answer or completely ignore as you wish Steve.

Why are you not cleaning these large jobs yourself? Distance? Manpower?

Is it in the public domain any company that have 'won' one of these contracts from you? If not then why not?

Tell me to mind my own business, that's fine, but to me it looks a lot like you could be using the more expensive quotes to compare less favourably against your own in order to secure the jobs for yourself.

[James archell]

30-40p per panel more like

That's desperate if that's the case. 

[Ste M]

Call me a cynic but I have a few questions. Feel free to answer or completely ignore as you wish Steve.

Why are you not cleaning these large jobs yourself? Distance? Manpower?

Is it in the public domain any company that have 'won' one of these contracts from you? If not then why not?

Tell me to mind my own business, that's fine, but to me it looks a lot like you could be using the more expensive quotes to compare less favourably against your own in order to secure the jobs for yourself.

Another member on here called archer does e same. Comes on every so many months and asks for people to e-mail day rates and what they can do. I know loads of people have given him this info yet no-one has ever got any work? Suspicious?  or simply just finding out local companies prices so he can use this info for his own good?

[ben M]

30-40p per panel more like

That's desperate if that's the case. 

+1
completely ridiculous this price!

[Alex Wingrove]

I guess that's why the people who get the job are the ones with experience.

You cant look at this like its a domestic property with 20 panels on the roof. For that you need to charge £2-3 per panel. Because its take time to get there, unload the van, clean them, pack away etc.

With 1000 panels you can drastically lower your price because you are stacking the work.

In the grand scheme of things I guess its best that you guys who are moaning don't get the job, simply because you don't have the experience.

Alex

[Frankybadboy]

how long would you except to take for a job this size.?

[Alex Wingrove]

Probably 4 hours

[easy clean]

No chance!!!!!!!!

960 / 4 = 240 panels per hour

4 a minute every minute for 4 hours, good luck!

[deeege]

Probably 4 hours

You couldn't even wet them all in 4 hours, nevermind clean them.

[ben M]

Probably 4 hours

clearly, you don't have the experience!!!!

[telfordwindowclnr]

Call me a cynic but I have a few questions. Feel free to answer or completely ignore as you wish Steve.

Why are you not cleaning these large jobs yourself? Distance? Manpower?

Is it in the public domain any company that have 'won' one of these contracts from you? If not then why not?

Tell me to mind my own business, that's fine, but to me it looks a lot like you could be using the more expensive quotes to compare less favourably against your own in order to secure the jobs for yourself.

I will answer the questions, I have nothing to hide. I am not cleaning SOME of these jobs myself due to distance mainly. I am in the midlands, so am well placed for lots of these sites, but not the ones in the south east or north east. I can cover the south west sites.
But man power does come into it. We are sorting a site with 17,000 panels on and another for 12,000. Plus we have other lines to our work. I would love to clean every single panel on every site in this single contract, but can't.

Why are companies that we currently deal with not in the public domain? That is their choice. I have said that I am happy for them to say who they are, but if they choose not to, that is up to them. I am also happy if they don't want to say who they are.

ALL sites that I have asked quotes for we have already secured. This is not a mission for me to guess prices. I did the number crunching years ago and I know I am where I need to be.

I hope this answers your questions and those of some of the other cynics there may be out there.

[telfordwindowclnr]

I guess that's why the people who get the job are the ones with experience.

You cant look at this like its a domestic property with 20 panels on the roof. For that you need to charge £2-3 per panel. Because its take time to get there, unload the van, clean them, pack away etc.

With 1000 panels you can drastically lower your price because you are stacking the work.

In the grand scheme of things I guess its best that you guys who are moaning don't get the job, simply because you don't have the experience.

Alex

I agree with all of the above Alex. We can soon sift through those who can and those who can't.