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very true steve, some one could also turn up In your area,sign written van & tops & dramatically undercut you.this is the way its going.dog eat dog & all that!!!
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I mostly clean houses that are owned by very rich people. We are reliable and good, so rich people aren't interested in some doughnut offering to do it for a couple of quid less. I've never had a problemvery true steve, some one could also turn up In your area,sign written van & tops & dramatically undercut you.this is the way its going.dog eat dog & all that!!!
Yeh, I suppose your bound to get some unscrupulous windows trying there luckwell done im on about the average joe window cleaner trying to make ends meat??
In my postcode there are 18'000 houses alone, there must be at least 15 window cleaners I see around from swank vans to fiesta with ladder on that is still some 1200 houses per window cleaner, that is 60 cleans per day based on a 20 day month.
First you got full timers like me, I do 20 per day, can manage 30 at a haul and I have just around 500 customers (and yes that's solo with some part time help from Mrs Green) then you got at least 3 old boys, 80ish that still potter along perhaps 10 per day keeping their game going as retirement does not suit. then perhaps 5 more like me perhaps with a helper so that leaves 7 window cleaners, these are the tattered old estate cars, part timing it when the weather suits, that brag about not needing to do too much as they get this benefit and that.
Then there's the window cleaner sitting in the pub, every pub has one, 'I had the biggest round in the world, had 500 lads working full time, used to do Buckingham Palace, the Taj Mahal and NASA used to have us do the windows on the Shuttles as well as 1000'00000 council houses per month' ho hum
its all about the money-people with money don't like to part with money.
But on a serious note I am in Nottingham. We have a rather sizable round and the wife has a domestic cleaning business as well and we also do a lot of builders and end of tenancy work.
However we have been formulating our next 5 year plan so we are going back to Asia in September next year for six weeks so I will be selling the business before we go and when we come back we are relocating to south London.
Gonna target the areas where you get at least one parking ticket per day but the value of the jobs makes that look like pay and display up here.
It is all mentality, I come to London every couple of months to visit friends go past houses saying, 'wow they must pay the window cleaner a few quid!'
Well to be honest I am tired of the same old run of the mill homes up here, hoping to find a bit more of a challenge there next year.
All I can picture now is Barbra Windsor stood at the van yelling 'Dave! You missed the bl@@dy top corners again!'
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