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mark2788

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Just wondered how most people got the shops they do? There's a few window cleaner around me who have alot of the shops bit I've seen them.and they are ****, leave water everywhere etc has anyone done a professional looking letter for example to try and get these shops or business offices etc?

 
Just wondered how most people got the shops they do? There's a few window cleaner around me who have alot of the shops bit I've seen them.and they are ****, leave water everywhere etc has anyone done a professional looking letter for example to try and get these shops or business offices etc?
Hate doing shops! A customer of mine asked me if I could clean the wins shop she works at in a busy town. Parking is a ball ache and they want it doing inside and out. They have a big display of wine in the window, I feel a Frank moment might happen if I take that one on. My advice is if you've got loads of shops together then great, if you have one or two dotted about, they are a PITA.

 
I'm sure @Green posted something on here recently regarding this subject if you have a look through the posts

 
Definitely don't do what i did in blockbuster a few years ago

I was doing the inside just before they opened and was standing on one of those round step thingies

Stepped off it straight into my bucket emptying the complete contents onto the floor

Luckily it was the tiled bit near the entrance not the carpeted bit

 
Definitely don't do what i did in blockbuster a few years agoI was doing the inside just before they opened and was standing on one of those round step thingies

Stepped off it straight into my bucket emptying the complete contents onto the floor

Luckily it was the tiled bit near the entrance not the carpeted bit
I did it few years back with 10l paint bucket

 
I can't be bothered with shops now. The ones I canvassed near to me hadall had window cleaners before charging pennies, so it just wasnt worth the hassle/time.

 
Worst accident I had was when I was on a plastering job. I was mixing up a large bucket of plaster when the electric tripped. I left my mixer hanging out of the bucket and went to see what the problem was. I found the breaker box and confidently through the switch up. What I didn't realise is that I had locked on the mixer switch and it was on full power, it threw 30ltrs of skim plaster all over the front lawn and ripped the cable out of my mixer. The place looked like a scene out of 'War of the Worlds'.

 
Just wondered how most people got the shops they do? There's a few window cleaner around me who have alot of the shops bit I've seen them.and they are ****, leave water everywhere etc has anyone done a professional looking letter for example to try and get these shops or business offices etc?
i can remember when i first started [7 yrs ago] i was really jealous of a local windie who only does shops in my town.he looked busy and drove an old but not too old 4x4 - as time went on i got a few shops myself, mainly so i could say iv been there got the t shirt. i wasnt really the rival to Mr. 4x4 and im glad . i then saw that hes a struggler, not happy, bitter perhaps -know id never swap places with him .

the plain truth is shops are a losers game, low money and never getting paid properly ,if thats what you like,best you get on the books of the nationals,interserve,Arl ,mitie ,etc theyre always on the lookout for newbies

The decent money is all in residential in my experience .

 
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Residential and proper commercial (big offices and units) not shops imo is where the money is

 
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