[drive surgeon]

has anyone noticed a dramatic turn in work coming in due to the credit crunch?    i have noticed a bit less work,  also the weather. its like winter all year round now! 

[hotsteam]

Yes & Yes Regards Hotsteam

[steve_doyle]

definately slowed down.


If it would just rain!

[kelly acs]

I'm hoping to take advantage of the credit crunch and put my over priced competitors out of business! lol!

[hotsteam]

What do you call over priced ?      Regards Hotsteam

[drive surgeon]

put a good few domestic quotes out this week, not heard anything back, hope i have not been to dear as we are living in hard times at present/

[Ian Rochester]

We're getting the exact opposite with pressure washing, normally we'll only do 4-5 jobs a month pressure washing.

So far this month I've got 12 booked in to be done, varying in size from 30m2 to over 500m2, block paving and flags.

[drive surgeon]

ok for some hey!  ha, glad your busy,  you do much leafleting?

[Lesley J]

definately slowed down.


If it would just rain!

we have slowed down, have been asked to do some really dreadful deep cleans though, really yukky and smelly.

[drive surgeon]

4 of my friends in the building trade have been laid off and others made redundant in the last week, and my birds compant have just laid 2 off who have been there for 30 years, is this the sign of things to come?/  the building guys said its going to get a lot worse they were told, its not looking good,  im sure a few pressure washing guys will have to fold their business's with no work, there have been tonnes on ebay.

[drive surgeon]

finding it quite slow at mo!  what about you?

[rob fryer]

Try to do other work,mon was carpet cleaning, tues quoting for work,wed drive cleaning job,thurs doing a shop clearance shops gone bust just paid to empty all the stuff out and bin it fri going on hols cant wait.   

[drive surgeon]

well in rob, i like to take my hols in winter too, im going early feb before the spring 

[Chris Galloway]

put a good few domestic quotes out this week, not heard anything back, hope i have not been to dear as we are living in hard times at present/

Dont forget to follow them up.

They can tell you why they haven;t replied then. Or perhaps they have just forgot? You dont know unless you find out.

[Selectcleaning]

We have not had any customers cancel, and are getting similar number of request for residential cleaning, business / office seems slower and the people we are talking to seem to be more sensitive to price. I hope this helps.


Cherie

[Lesley J]

we have had 2 cancellations this week, but have been asked to do 2 new ones, still getting very mucky ones, I think we are getting the ones no one else wants.. Lesley

[garyj]

Still getting enquiries for commercial but they seem to be looking for the cheapest quotes possible and I think some will use this as an excuse to get rid of cleaners they are not happy with.

Companies are taking longer to pay.

[drive surgeon]

i know im still owed from july!

[mark.laycock1@ntlw]

i wouldnt left that to go that far with money own.

[d s cleaning]

As for a downturn in work I am picking up contracts and am as busy as ever but some of my larger clients are so slow to pay. though I have covered myself in a way as all contracts taken out in last 12-18 months state when and max % that it will go up normally every 12 months so if they want to be slow then I am more likely to put it up as much as I can allthough this may result in the loss of some work, but isnt it funny how the biggest companies are the worst payers one hotel told me it would be three months before I got paid and if they didnt get the bill buy the 5th then it would be four months I priced high but did not get the work well good luck whoever is doing it. As for the weather I love this weather the valeting is still coming in fast and they all pay straight away just how I like it