[Kinver_Clean]

The old pattern of work over the year has gone. When I started in 1985 you could tell which week it was by the work coming in. Not any more, I have as much work in Jan as any other month. All to the good.

The other point is that you must ask where the enquiry came from. Then you can adjust your ads to suit, knocking the ones that have stopped working and pushing the ones that do.

I am now running down as I have had enough and get my pension.

Good luck.

Trevor

[murky]

Cheap leather suites at £350.00.

Regards

Murky

[matt jones]

Hi Martin,

I am coming up to my 4th year is business that is EOT & CC. I only have advertised in YP (not anymore) and direct mail.


What does EOT stand for?

matt

[carpetguy]

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[matt jones]

ah cheers carpet guy. EOT i suppose he means general cleaning cause he put AND c/c

[The Great One]

Hi

I can answer that myself.

Yes I do general cleaning and I am also a carpet cleaner. EOT although it can be sporadic, is a good earner

Monday £200
tuesday £240
Wednesday £205
Thurday£145
Friday £770

There are some carpets within those prices.

Regards

Martin

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I was talking to a window fitter yesterday I was asking him about upvc doors and how easy they were to fit as I was interested in a fitting franchise I had seen, we got on to the tricky bit of earnings and he said that he charges £300 labour for half a day.

Do you price like this? I think the days are gone when you should be pricing to make £150-200 there's nothing left for a rainy day, brakage, sickness or days off!

Shaun

[Art]

Hi

I can answer that myself.

Yes I do general cleaning and I am also a carpet cleaner. EOT although it can be sporadic, is a good earner

Monday £200
tuesday £240
Wednesday £205
Thurday£145
Friday £770

There are some carpets within those prices.

Regards

Martin

Martin, was that you working on your own?

Arthur

[matt jones]

Cheers Martin, You must be loaded lol. How do you go about pricing for general cleaning if you don't mind me asking?
regards
matt

[The Great One]

Hi

Thats this week, so I am on Wednesday.

Yes I am on my own and I am in the middle of student season.

Come October it will go very quiet again but at the moment I have having to turn work away, which I don't like doing.

EOT is dirty, hard work, with Student EOT feeling like just a step above trauma cleaning, with what they leave behind. Stains on the carpets as you can imagine are a nightmare.

Problem with all of us of course is that you can end up being owed loads and the bills are still coming in regular, LA's can take a month to pay, whereas regular CC you get paid there & then (usually)

Regards

Martin

[Ian Gourlay]

Martin

What did you do on Friday to earn £77O?

Shaun, I did have  a qoute from a plumber who wanted £350 a day

[The Great One]

Hi

It's a 5 bed/ 5 bath £1 million pound house.

Full clean & carpets with windows inside & out (courtesy of Ross)

I have a 6 bed, 4 storey £2.45 million, house coming up (once the banks have reposessed, which can take upto 3 months)

Full clean, no carpets with Windows (Ross again) which I have got at £1200.

Once you are established in EOT ( a tough market) it can be a good earner but like anything it can take time.

Regards

Martin

[Neil Williams]

It has taken 6 years to reach this stage.
Carpet cleaning side £30k
Window cleaning side £60k
Office cleaning side £15k

My advice: Use the smaller earnings side to promote the more specialised carpet cleaning side. the window cleaning is also more regular/guarenteed income.

[Art]

Neil, do you have staff or is that what you do on your own?

Arthur

[Neil Williams]

I do all the carpet cleaning but up until last week I had 2 guys on the window cleaning side (got rid of 1 now!). If it's a buisy day I may take one of the window cleaners off to help me with the prep work.
As it is I am now in the process of franchising the window cleaning side because it is too expensive to have full time staff on the books.
There is 1 girl who does the office cleaning side.