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Do You Clean Garage Doors As Standard ?

i do it as standard regardless /emoticons/smile.png i think its the way forward /emoticons/smile.png

 
I've done the odd garage door at times. I initially did a few off my own bat to see how long it takes to do them properly on average. I would say that in my experience it takes around 5 minutes and may even take a little longer sometimes.

If you did a complementary garage door with each house you cleaned and you clean 15 houses a day, your 5 minutes each starts to mount up to 75 minutes per day 'wasted' - time you could better spend on doing a couple of extra houses.

You may think you are doing the customer a service, but you are actually doing yourself a dis-service in my experience. Firstly, only one of the customers I did the garage door experiment for thanked me, and that person was my brother in law. Most won't even acknowledge the clean, probably scared they will be charged extra for it.

I put the brush over the front fascias of a couple of bungalows next door to each other every 6 months or so. I took about 2 minutes and as these were end of day cleans - night shift worker, it didn't matter if it cost me an extra 5 minutes.

I have now past that work onto my son in law and the one lady cancelled as SIL didn't clean the fascias.

Now I won't do a thing that isn't part of the clean. If they want it, they pay extra for it.

 
I've done the odd garage door at times. I initially did a few off my own bat to see how long it takes to do them properly on average. I would say that in my experience it takes around 5 minutes and may even take a little longer sometimes.
If you did a complementary garage door with each house you cleaned and you clean 15 houses a day, your 5 minutes each starts to mount up to 75 minutes per day 'wasted' - time you could better spend on doing a couple of extra houses.

You may think you are doing the customer a service, but you are actually doing yourself a dis-service in my experience. Firstly, only one of the customers I did the garage door experiment for thanked me, and that person was my brother in law. Most won't even acknowledge the clean, probably scared they will be charged extra for it.

I put the brush over the front fascias of a couple of bungalows next door to each other every 6 months or so. I took about 2 minutes and as these were end of day cleans - night shift worker, it didn't matter if it cost me an extra 5 minutes.

I have now past that work onto my son in law and the one lady cancelled as SIL didn't clean the fascias.

Now I won't do a thing that isn't part of the clean. If they want it, they pay extra for it.
Point taken

 
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