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Jamie Thomas

  • Posts: 180
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2017, 09:37:54 pm »
I clean them the same as a Connie roof. Use a soft brush. I only clean domestic panels and I only do them if asked.

Bungle

  • Posts: 2549
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2017, 09:58:21 pm »

What will SS do if nobody subs for him?

Send his Office girls out to do them?

 ;D
We look at them, they look through them.

Bungle

  • Posts: 2549
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2017, 09:59:38 pm »
I cleaned 200 today. Took six hours.

What will SS do if nobody subs for him?

Good job you didn't get 18p a panel then, or did you?
We look at them, they look through them.

֍Winp®oClean֍

  • Posts: 1767
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2017, 10:54:30 pm »
I got offered work by SS but already earn more on my own windows so turned it down as it wasn't viable. For the difficulty involved with the job I would have wanted Three times the price I was offered!
Comfortably Numb!

Og

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2017, 06:51:16 am »
I cleaned 200 today. Took six hours.

What will SS do if nobody subs for him?

Good job you didn't get 18p a panel then, or did you?

Hell no!  Off to finish them shortly.
Not heard from Steve for nearly a year. I admire his ambition but people won't work for peanuts. Especially if they can do an easy day on the glass for a couple hundred quid.

Tosh

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2017, 06:55:28 am »
We had a couple of phone calls from him or some bod who works out of his larder last year. About the same job on one occasion, I don’t think they’d realised they made that mistake but they were obviously struggling to get someone to do their work for them.

The price for a I think it was a 12 panel rooftop array was £30 as I remember it.  If you had no work I guess it wouldn’t seem too bad, its money isn’t it, but when your stacked out in the summer why would you do that and line someone elses pocket?
*A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE - THE SHORT STORY* 'Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.'

Smurf

  • Posts: 8538
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2017, 12:30:31 pm »
I'm now thinking ss is not going to keep any franchises for very long either.
I did chuckle at his profile pic. http://cleansolar.solutions/meet-the-team

So it's true you can get a shock from cleaning solar panels after all. lol

Tosh

  • Posts: 2964
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2017, 02:33:15 pm »
Nooooo! That's my new profile pic.
*A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE - THE SHORT STORY* 'Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.'

Shrek

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #28 on: February 28, 2017, 02:45:37 pm »
Wow that must take ages to do his hair in the morning..... glad I'm a skinhead no messing about

Dave Willis

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #29 on: February 28, 2017, 04:05:32 pm »
They supply a bird proofing service. Might interest Dazmond.

AuRavelling79

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #30 on: February 28, 2017, 10:31:45 pm »
I thought that pic was a joke! Like Slacky had photoshopped it or something but I looked on the website and it really is him! Unbelievable hair and 'tache.

The "office girls" look pleasant enough mind.
It's a game of three halves!

G Griffin

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2017, 11:02:24 pm »
I only clean domestic panels and I only do them if asked.
Yeah, it's better to wait to be asked first.
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NWH

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2017, 11:10:45 pm »
15-18p a panel lol I did 12 last week 4ft square and charged £60 she was made up with that once a year,took a while the first time as they have oak trees near by so they were dirty. It took me 20 minutes - half hour with hot water,18p lol 😂

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2017, 11:54:33 pm »
15-18p a panel lol I did 12 last week 4ft square and charged £60 she was made up with that once a year,took a while the first time as they have oak trees near by so they were dirty. It took me 20 minutes - half hour with hot water,18p lol 😂

Lol

Smurf

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #34 on: March 01, 2017, 12:30:10 am »
15-18p a panel lol I did 12 last week 4ft square and charged £60 she was made up with that once a year,took a while the first time as they have oak trees near by so they were dirty. It took me 20 minutes - half hour with hot water,18p lol 😂

That's a wee bit better than having to clean 334 filthy panels in a middle of a field for the same amount. That's hoping  you don't get stuck in the mud too. lol

Jamie Thomas

  • Posts: 180
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #35 on: March 01, 2017, 08:06:00 am »
I wouldn't want to loose the T shirt have to clean a solar farm to replace it.

֍Winp®oClean֍

  • Posts: 1767
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #36 on: March 01, 2017, 08:19:48 am »
15-18p a panel lol I did 12 last week 4ft square and charged £60 she was made up with that once a year,took a while the first time as they have oak trees near by so they were dirty. It took me 20 minutes - half hour with hot water,18p lol 😂

Have you reduced your prices?
Comfortably Numb!

cgh window cleaning

  • Posts: 555
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2017, 11:39:59 am »
A window cleaner near me  went on one of his courses.
He was telling me the course consist of a telephone conference  and you dial in and do it on your computer.
He said if the job requires access eqipment then he is supposed to cover the cost then claim it back.

It seems like a way of giving you subbies a health and safety induction and tool box talk and charging them for the privallige then giving them work for stupid money.

To be honest the man is a genius no wounder his smiling so much in his picture

Smurf

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2017, 12:05:04 pm »
Never the less I'm thinking it will come back to bite him in the bum if he continues to rip wanaby subbies off.
No matter how much work he can generate without looking after his subbies it will reach a point where no one will want to work for him. Then he will be totally screwed. lol

NWH

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #39 on: March 01, 2017, 01:38:53 pm »
To sustain a business just doing solar panels you would need loads and loads of jobs day in day out the ones I've done all want it doing yearly,I'm not fussed about doing them I'll only do them if they ask I don't try to promote it tbh.