[kinder clean]

Mark I wish you all the best mate, I am shocked !  but I'm sure you wouldn't be doing this if you weren't sure.

Hope your legs on the mend.

Take care

Paul

[Tony Gill Carpet Smart]

Mark hope it goes well for you. Hows the leg going on ok I hope

Regards Tony

[Darren O]

Ive had a wheelie bin for about 5 years ive never been cleaned once and its not something i would ever pay for as for the smell never noticed it that much all the rubbish is put in black bags. There is a guy round the corner from me who does wheelie bin cleaning think its VIP bin cleaning it might be a franchise he put flyers out about 2 years ago to every house over 200 and to this day ive never seen him cleaning one bin and were i stay its all bought houses nice area but nobody was interested could you not still do carpet cleaning while your building up the wheelie bin cleaning good luck anyway.

[Paul Simpson]

Don't use them myself either, like Darren I don't see the point, its a bin, its gonna get dirty & smelly, if its too smelly I might pressure it once or twice in the summer months but thats it.

Having said that the guy around our way seems to do good business from it, at least 6-7 out of 10 other houses in our cul-de-sac alone use him and hes always out and about.
And he seems to cover quite an area as I see him in many other towns when I'm out doing carpets.

[daz1977]

my cousin use to work for a bloke clean bins,  the bloke made good money, lived in a nice house, but he was also bit of a wheeler dealer

[Matt Lindus]

With respect Mark, the best advice is the advice you never take.

You really need to look into starting a career and not scrape by with bin cleaning. Go to college part time and learn something worthwhile. Then get a paid job with holiday and pension.

Good luck if you do want to clean bins for a living though.

Matt 

[markpowell]

Whats the difference in cleaning bins and cleaning carpets.
I have been a successful carpet cleaner, turned over £43k last year.
Ready for a change, it will work, no competition, no overheads and no advertising to pay.
Mark

[Carpet Dawg]

Mark, sent you a wee email.

Matt, i've got to say thats quite a cheeky comment there! Whats the differance in cleaning bins than sucking on carpets? or window cleaning? etc etc

If Mark can build a successful round he'll have no advertising spend, no chemicals to buy, no risk damaging custys property and probably allround, alot less hassle!

I seen a wheelin bin cleaning buisness sell on ebay a few months ago. The owner was making £70K a year.

Tony

[chrisjohn]

Mark,as you've been cleaning carpets for a good few years now,i would imagine you've got a massive customer database.Im sure you will be able to tap into your 'former' carpet cleaning customers,and make a good go of it.Good Luck!!

[clinton]

Am sure mark can build up his new business.

Got to agree what he said no competition no spending lots of money on advertising and competing with the cheap guys.

Think if i was starting c cleaning now i would find it very hard to get my set up off the ground.

Seems to be to many people setting up in  carpet cleaning and go for a year or so ten realise they will be better of getting a job :

[DanielWelford]

Theres a wheelie bin firm by me with 5 vans going. So gotta be some demand!

Did consider it myself, but just haven't got the time to run both.

Good luck Mark.

Dan

[Colin Day]

We used to have our bin cleaned every month up in Cumbria (They haven'y got wheelie bins where we live in Cornwall :)

For the money it was worthwhile, especially at summer. It cost us a £2.50 a month if I remember rightly and we paid via direct debit!

Good luck with it and as for the doubters on here, well you know as well as anyone, that there are a lot of people out there who put cleanliness of their carpets, oven, windows, cars and wheelie bins etc etc on a very low list of priorities..... Dirty sods as they are known in the business

[Jim_77]

I seen a wheelin bin cleaning buisness sell on ebay a few months ago. The owner was making £70K a year.

Presuming a price of £1.50 per bin, that works out as:

48,000 bins a year
1,000 bins a week (48 working weeks a year)
200 bins a day (5 day week)
28.5 bins per hour (6 working hours a day)

Or in real world terms, you've got to clean one bin every 2 minutes from the minute you start working until the minute you stop, every day.

Not sure what to make of those figures

[Tony Gill Carpet Smart]

Jimm you need to get out more mate 

Tony

[markpowell]

£1.50 per bin

[JandS]

Jim

They do mine and 2 neighbours at the same time and it takes them no more than 2 minutes to do all 3.
Watched them with idle curiousity a couple of times.
Think they charge £1.60, will ask wife when she gets in.

John

[JandS]

Also they can't clean the bins till they have been emptied.
Our area gets emptied around 1.30 ish so they can't come round before then.
What happens to the bins that get emptied at 4pm in Winter.
Do they go round cleaning in dark?

[Dennis]

£2.50 - £3.00 a time according to this business for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wheelie-Bin-Cleaning-Business-Established_W0QQitemZ170440920279QQcmdZ

[Jim_77]

£1.50 per bin

Well fill us in then Mark, I'm curious!  Is that too high/low?

Thinking about it, recycling must have been the best thing to happen to the bin cleaning industry.... round here, your normal black bin gets done every 2 weeks, and on the other weeks there is a same sized grey wheelie bin for green waste, then a red box for paper etc and another blue box for cans/bottles.  So recycling day is a wheelie bin plus 2 smaller boxes, must spin a bit more revenue.

[Jim_77]

OK double the price to £3 a bin:

24,000 bins per year
500 bins a week
100 bins a day
15 bins an hour

one every 4 minutes