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Smurf

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2017, 05:20:11 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.

As mentioned previously who in there right mind would works their soaks off sub contracting for the likes of ss for pittance before any overheads are taken out.

Susan Dean (1stclean)

  • Posts: 2064
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #41 on: March 01, 2017, 07:18:20 pm »
We used to do a lot but a certain person who used to come on hear does have a lot of contacts and gets a lot of work he only pays 18 pence a panel so it's not financial viable, also its mind numbing to do several weeks on one large site , on some of the ones we did access was difficult with a van as the roads were very rutted , generally we only do smaller jobs now and domestic as I didn't feel it was worth the hassle on some roof mounts on farms they can be really filthy and take a lot longer to clean , I don't think it will be to long before all these big sites are cleaned using tractors with cleaning machines mounted on them we have dozens of large solar farms where I am and I've started seeing them used more instead of poling them by hand , best way to do it as far as Ime concerned , personally I would suggest forget this type of work and build up a decent window round , regular cleans , easy work , good money solar panel cleaning as it's done now is a dying business, although ss wouldn't agree as he's trying to sell it as a franchise and make a quick buck with it
  this is the way the world works , ive just posted a box via. d.p.d. at the cost of 19 pounds the guy who will deliver it at the other end in his own van ect ect ect will only get 1.05p of it hes only doing what 99% of of them do

Smurf

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #42 on: March 01, 2017, 07:49:06 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

Susan Dean (1stclean)

  • Posts: 2064
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #43 on: March 01, 2017, 08:05:11 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #44 on: March 02, 2017, 08:30:32 am »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

So why do you need subby work then if you have plenty of your own?

Bungle

  • Posts: 2549
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #45 on: March 02, 2017, 05:55:29 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

So why do you need subby work then if you have plenty of your own?

Damn good question.
We look at them, they look through them.

Susan Dean (1stclean)

  • Posts: 2064
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #46 on: March 02, 2017, 06:15:11 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

So why do you need subby work then if you have plenty of your own?
because if I have one of my vans a street away why not go into to the next street and earn extra £ while ones guys doing the job the other guy can leaft the street , besides that we like to try new things and we can write a few costs off the vat and tax when trying them

֍Winp®oClean֍

  • Posts: 1767
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #47 on: March 02, 2017, 06:20:20 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

So why do you need subby work then if you have plenty of your own?
because if I have one of my vans a street away why not go into to the next street and earn extra £ while ones guys doing the job the other guy can leaft the street , besides that we like to try new things and we can write a few costs off the vat and tax when trying them

Do those guys split the van in half?
Comfortably Numb!

Bungle

  • Posts: 2549
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #48 on: March 02, 2017, 06:35:03 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

So why do you need subby work then if you have plenty of your own?
besides that we like to try new things and we can write a few costs off the vat and tax when trying them

Like what Susie?
We look at them, they look through them.

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #49 on: March 02, 2017, 08:16:39 pm »
Susan do you still take on subbie work for ss?

yes we make it  works for us , we have our own solar sites  we clean  so we cant do the bigger jobs for him as we don't have the time

So why do you need subby work then if you have plenty of your own?
because if I have one of my vans a street away why not go into to the next street and earn extra £ while ones guys doing the job the other guy can leaft the street , besides that we like to try new things and we can write a few costs off the vat and tax when trying them

Eh??

֍Winp®oClean֍

  • Posts: 1767
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #50 on: March 02, 2017, 08:20:01 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D better than the telly this place at times!! ;D ;D
Comfortably Numb!

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #51 on: March 03, 2017, 08:34:56 am »
;D ;D ;D better than the telly this place at times!! ;D ;D

Hilarious isnt it. Especially the ones doing the boasting getting caught out  ;D

"Writing a few costs off" is the new "paperwork ".  ::)roll

Dave Willis

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #52 on: March 03, 2017, 11:06:08 am »
Paperwork for me today.

Tosh

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #53 on: March 03, 2017, 11:10:35 am »
Do those guys split the van in half?

It's the brain that's been split in half.
*A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE - THE SHORT STORY* 'Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.'

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #54 on: March 03, 2017, 11:28:37 am »
Paperwork for me today.

All day I hope  ;D

֍Winp®oClean֍

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #55 on: March 03, 2017, 11:36:47 am »
Paperwork for me today.

"Record" day?
Comfortably Numb!

tlwcs

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Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #56 on: March 03, 2017, 11:38:42 am »
Paperwork for me today.
Heated chair?

Dave Willis

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #57 on: March 03, 2017, 12:29:34 pm »
I haven't worked all week but I've done really well, £60 an hour most days.

andyM

  • Posts: 6100
Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #58 on: March 03, 2017, 12:58:52 pm »
Anyone up for an Office Chair race?
One of the Plebs

Re: Solar panel cleaning
« Reply #59 on: March 03, 2017, 01:18:51 pm »
Anyone up for an Office Chair race?

I would love to, but unfortunately I'm doing paperwork all day 😓