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Today is the first day and more importantly a monday where i havent been hammered with calls/emails/texts etc.

I got two emails, two phone calls and a text. That i can live with!

Managed to finish 2 hours early!

I had a look at my landline stats for October. I was on the phone for nearly 2 hours in october! Thats just one number!

If i could afford an admin girl i really really would!

Today has been fab!

 
Business sounds good then, so why can't you afford a admin girl?
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Business is always good for windies trev :thumbsup:

But only purple rhino has his admin girl...

 
Not expanding. Happy where I am. On my own now and fine tuning work.

I will do one off jobs that are big. But that's it at the mo.

Admin calls (customers calling about stuff) should reduce as I get all my customers on Gocardless.

 
I hear you, yes same here really, I could probbaly grow like we all can, but dunno if I want it either, getting all customers on GoCardless would be a nice thought!

 
It was a joke lol.
My round is about 500. I am on my own now. /emoticons/smile.png
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i dont know how you clean 500 thats bonkers i stuggle with 200 i must not be working hard enough !

 
Too many for me that, must be creaming in the £££! What happens when you want a 2 week holiday or your ill for a few days? Do you miss out those ones that time, as catching up must be hard going? I think between 200-300 would be my max on my own, leaving room for some nice one offs. But we all work differently and have diff goals I guess.

 
Apart from your nicely designed hose reels I can't see how anything else would make it faster lol, mine is pretty well desinged, open door, grab pole, pull hose out and plug in and go.

I think over 20 a day is achivable in a normal working day, dependant on the type of house and how close their located etc, I do alot of bigger than standard houses with big conservatories etc and windows on all 4 sides, which I think 20 plus of them a day I'd be risking quality of the job over speed, but 2/3 bed semi's windows front and back then yes easy.

But what happens when you can't work a couple of days or have a holiday, do you have somebody to cover for you? As getting behind would mean you could go out with 50 odd to do the next day to catch up and keep your customers regular, or would you miss them out?

Just curious to know how to manage a large round day to day, I set out to get to around 300 max on my own which would bring me a very nice income and leave Saturdays free for one off jobs as a nice bonus.

 
This is why I designed my van toMy spec. It's so god dam fast to work from and use.
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@Trev81 you'd be amazed. I'm always tweaking the back of my van as I am a believer that the van works for me, not the other way round.

3 bed semis, now my van is set right take less than 10 min from arrival to starting the van and driving off.

May windies like to start at 8 and finish around 2 including lunch and tea / *** breaks but if you can do the full 8 hours then no reason you can't fit in 25-30 per day if planned well.

Twice in the last year I have gotten a whole day behind so got caught up by working Saturday, but as I said that's twice out of 52 so not too bad at all.

And personally if I need a couple of weeks off I have a sub I will use and pay him 50/50 after all 50% of something is better than a kick in the nuts.

 
Agree @Green Pro Clean Ltd that 20 plus is fine for a full day but defo house dependant. I have a one day where I do 14 and 12 have connys, they take me ages to get good as many are near lots of trees and stuff and get really bad every 4 weeks! Then have one day with the same normal sized house and I am done in 3 hours.

You have seen my van on another thread I think, and I keep it very organised, I get stressed if it's messy, but can't see how grabbing a pole from the holder, plugging in hose and pulling the hose to the first window you start at been beaten in speed by much lol. Thing that slows me down too is bloody having to fight the hose around idiots that have parked cars right up by the side gates and folk that are in and come out to chat as soon as you get out the van!

 
Apart from your nicely designed hose reels I can't see how anything else would make it faster lol, mine is pretty well desinged, open door, grab pole, pull hose out and plug in and go.
Pole goes on the roof between jobs, and never goes into the van. Doors stay closed whilst working, so yesterday there was no issue with wind. No plugging, always plugged in.

I think over 20 a day is achivable in a normal working day, dependant on the type of house and how close their located etc, I do alot of bigger than standard houses with big conservatories etc and windows on all 4 sides, which I think 20 plus of them a day I'd be risking quality of the job over speed, but 2/3 bed semi's windows front and back then yes easy.

Didn't do one conservatory yesterday. Today see's me cleaning 19 houses from one van stop. So i start off, clean 19 houses, go back to van, lunch.

But what happens when you can't work a couple of days or have a holiday, do you have somebody to cover for you? As getting behind would mean you could go out with 50 odd to do the next day to catch up and keep your customers regular, or would you miss them out?

Yes i could have cover (not needed in 15 years) Well maybe a day! No i would space out the work missed over the week. I couldn't do 50 houses in a day. Well i could but i would end up having two days off after.

Just curious to know how to manage a large round day to day, I set out to get to around 300 max on my own which would bring me a very nice income and leave Saturdays free for one off jobs as a nice bonus.
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Amount of customers is irrelevant. I did one yesterday at £4 and one at £9. Turnover/profit is what is important.




The van comes as a package, i use extreme poles for everything, have certain brushes for certain jobs. Even custom made brushes.

Let me explain this....

Yesterday i did 21 houses. Every single house pays my either Online or Via Bacs. Imagine knocking at every house for payment.

" Hiya, all finished"

"How much is it"

"£12"

" Is cheque ok?"

If i did 21 houses and each customer stopped me for a minute thats 21 mins a day = 2 houses.

Go to work and work HOW long you ACTUALLY spend cleaning the glass,frames,doors. Do not include packing away the hose, getting the hose out, setting up. Just actual cleaning time. Then you can look at where you waste all your time.

Paul Dale (P dale canvassing) comes down and knocks for me. "One of the most professional setups i have ever seen Van & work"

All my new work gets a "New customer pack" When i cleaned nearly 60 new customers in a week, i got 2 phone calls asking questions.

HTH

 
All my customers pay online, a few hide cash, I never knock really, well have a couple of farms I have to knock on but thats about it. All mine get a welcome pack too, well of sort, just a letter explaining things in more detail. Changing brushes for different jobs? Well we all do that, but for window cleans apart from first cleans I use the same brush, changing over brushes would slow you down right?

But what happens when you can't work a couple of days or have a holiday, do you have somebody to cover for you? As getting behind would mean you could go out with 50 odd to do the next day to catch up and keep your customers regular, or would you miss them out?
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If the brush makes the job quicker, changing the brush is what.... 20 secs at most.

Holiday - Good question. Not had a weeks holiday since 2005. Me and my partner prefer fri - mon breaks as we are both self employed. However if i wanted two weeks in the sun i could easily find cover.

This year i had two weeks off due to an operation - took me about 12 weeks to get the round sorted.

 

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