[neilm]

hi there, i'm researching into how i could start up a driveway cleaning business. i'm not sure what equipment i would need as a basic. any help would be helpfull

thenks , neil.

[Len Gribble]

Neil

May get my knuckles wrap an other forum has a pressure washing section, lots of info

http://www.another forum.co.uk/?board=pclngforum

Express cleaning supplies sell P/W’s

Don’t go for the domestic looking ones meaning electric!

Len

[neilm]

i've been researching alot on the tinternet.... and found out alot of interesting things and professional equipment.( not cheap is it!!!) .

[Len Gribble]

This has been modified very very sad!


Neil

Try this one http://www.another forum.co.uk/ and look under pressure washing.

Cut and paste and stick an s on the end of pro

Pro gear will never be cheap, but there are ways to make it cheaper, http://www.merrillfoxenterprises.com/ don’t forget to ask for a big discount from UK suppliers as most of the gear is imported and the $ price = £ price.

Don’t forget you are competing with the DIY owner, would love to tell the story of my next-door neighbour, but tend too waffle
   
Len

[carloso]

come on len , tell us the story , dont keep us danglin

cheers

[S C Solutions]

i would be intersted to know how you will advertise as i tried this years ago when i first started and found that leaflet drop just didn't work. deliverd 10,000 leaflets and and got just three jobs. i quickly realised that you cant make a decent living from just cleaning patios and driveways. i looked at the bigger picture and started cleaning concrete floors in warehouses and brick block car parks. much more profitable.

[Len Gribble]

Carloso

What I meant by waffle that was the neighbour, anyway wife kept on at me about cleaning our block paving drive, yeh yeh I do it Saturday when I get home, she must of told the neighbours, on arriving home he was out there with his dinky toy, so I rigged up my equipment within an hour and half and two cups of coffee, I was finished cleaning at 5pm, he had only cleaned if you could call it that! About a third of his drive (crazy paving same size area as me), any way at 6pm I asked him to stop as the constant noise was getting to me, which he did, at 9am he was out there again, we cleared off to a garden centre got back about 12.30 he was still at it, wife says way don’t you lend him your equipment, my reply he will drive all the way to Essex and pay the tolls just to get £3 of a tyre, tolls cost him £2 savings £1 and it’s a company car.

There has to be a moral here some where

Len

[neilm]

i will start off by doing jobs for family and friends (paid of course) and just let it go word by mouth. i'm also putting an advert in the local freebie paper which is full of adverts and works well. i'm not just going to do driveways and patios!!! i will also be doing gutter cleaning, upv frame cleaning and windows.

i already have 10 gutter cleaning jobs lined up.

[james44]

What are you cleaning the window frames with

[neilm]

cleaning frames with a unger microwipe cloth and using upvc cleaner if needed on stains.

[cleanAdrive]

Where in the country are you neilm

[S C Solutions]

i dont want to put you off but a word of warning, if your are using a pressure washer gun and not a flat surface floor cleaner then remember that when you are cleaning the floors the windows and everything in the vacinity gets splattered with dirt also. you can find flat surface cleaner machines at www.tech-clean.co.uk this is were i bought my first machine.

[neilm]

i'm in sidiothorpe, north lincolnshire. dont worry i've already looked into buying a FSC from tech-clean also with the pressure washer.

[ann james]

Has any one had deallings with nixons. They sell  pressure washers and flat surface cleaners  ask about  there return policy first???

[goodhand]

hi

i am thinking of branching in to patio/driveway cleaning also, 

what are people's responces on the tech-clean cleaners?

i was also going to deploy leaflets but 10,000 leaflets  and only three job's has depressed me!

matt