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Help please! Is 4000 properties enough for wheelie bin cleaning service?
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Duncs
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i,ve been watching a guy in my town father and son set up £3 a pop these guys are doing great
but they are the only guys in the town.
They follow the bin man and looks like they have lots of graft.Is there anyone else doing it in your town,
It only takes minutes to clean the bins if you have loads together gd coin can be made
but they are the only guys in the town.
They follow the bin man and looks like they have lots of graft.Is there anyone else doing it in your town,
It only takes minutes to clean the bins if you have loads together gd coin can be made
Duncs
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missed that rosso
Duncs
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the guys only clean the general waste bins [ gray ) the blue bins for paper waste dont get cleaned
I always thought great idea
I always thought great idea
Declan Mc
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We have 2/3 operators here doing that. Spoke to one, really cool guy, but looks like real dirty work, and struggled a bit to see the viability - custom vehicle with water blaster etc. and price seemed low enough to make you wonder about how much actual profit is in it. Think there'd be over 100,000 homes here though.
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@Declan Mc ...
Custom vehicle and water blaster?
Round here they all have standard vans with a pressure washer and 500L or 1000L water tanks. Nothing particularly custom about that.
Custom vehicle and water blaster?
Round here they all have standard vans with a pressure washer and 500L or 1000L water tanks. Nothing particularly custom about that.
Declan Mc
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Hey Green.
Perhaps 'custom' was a slight exaggeration but I haven't seen anything similar before. The bin actually gets put in the back of the van on its side, and waterblasted/cleaned. Presumably this is to prevent dirt/water going everywhere.
adamangler
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I have seen a couple with more "ghetto" setups - a couple lads in a tranny van with a pressure washer. And there's some with what look like old bin lorry's - the bin is lifted up on the back and tipped upside down and pressure washed - the run off goes straight into the back of the truck presumably into a waste tank.
Either the way the key is on the waste disposal side if things.
As for the original question surely you can work out if it's viable by multiplying cost per bin by how many you can clean in a day.
Either the way the key is on the waste disposal side if things.
As for the original question surely you can work out if it's viable by multiplying cost per bin by how many you can clean in a day.
while in school (god ,20 years ago) I did work experience with bin cleaning .think it was £1 a bin back then and the guy had lots of them to do .what I can remember the only thing that was a pain in the a** was following the bin men.
I think today bin cleaning is about £3 . but it'll be like window cleaning canvass canvass canvass. if you only get 5% of 4000
that's 200custys 200x£3=£600 you'll find you wont get them all on the same day due to bins being emptied on different days ,different days for different streets. plus you cant get rained off cleaning bins lol .
the guy I did work for used an old trailer all the waste ran through a wire mesh to catch all the rubbish and cr*p and then the water ran into the drains .it was horrible and smelly empting that thing out at the end of the week .
I think today bin cleaning is about £3 . but it'll be like window cleaning canvass canvass canvass. if you only get 5% of 4000
that's 200custys 200x£3=£600 you'll find you wont get them all on the same day due to bins being emptied on different days ,different days for different streets. plus you cant get rained off cleaning bins lol .
the guy I did work for used an old trailer all the waste ran through a wire mesh to catch all the rubbish and cr*p and then the water ran into the drains .it was horrible and smelly empting that thing out at the end of the week .
peter rogers
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Ur shud contact council first as they r clamping down on the bin washers who clean it in the street . You are mean to tip it up wash it let the was go back into the trailer or can to be filtered
The concil also pay a lot of interest as to where u are dumping the waste water at the end of day
The concil also pay a lot of interest as to where u are dumping the waste water at the end of day
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There was a bloke called Donny from an island in Scotland who used to post on here that did bin cleaning.
I'm not 100% sure but I think you need a permit to let your dirty water drain into council drains.
I thought about doing it a few years back. I didn't bother because I thought it would be too much aggro. Buying a system, collecting all the £3's and the stink. There are some firms that franchise it.
I'm not 100% sure but I think you need a permit to let your dirty water drain into council drains.
I thought about doing it a few years back. I didn't bother because I thought it would be too much aggro. Buying a system, collecting all the £3's and the stink. There are some firms that franchise it.
