Help please! Is 4000 properties enough for wheelie bin cleaning service?

[Rossco78]

Hi. Thinking about starting a new wheelie bin washing business, there are 4000 properties in my town. Can anyone advise if that is enough houses to make a good round.

 

[Duncs]

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

 

[Rossco78]

i,ve been watching a guy in my town father and son set up £3 a pop these guys are doing greatbut 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]

missed that rosso

 

[Rossco78]

Thanks for reply Duncs nobody in town doing it and most people have couple of bins.

 

[Duncs]

the guys only clean the general waste bins [ gray ) the blue bins for paper waste dont get cleaned

I always thought great idea

 

[Rossco78]

the guys only clean the general waste bins [ gray ) the blue bins for paper waste dont get cleanedI always thought great idea

Cheers for help Duncs good point. Think wheelie bin cleaning/window cleaning would be a safer bet.

 

[Declan Mc]

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.

 

[Green Pro Clean Ltd]

@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.

 

[Declan Mc]

@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.

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]

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.

 

[Rossco78]

Thanks everyone for comments

 

[dasslr1]

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 .

 

[peter rogers]

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

 

[Tuffers]

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.