[tonyoliver]

My best jobs are pubs and resturants  (insert your best jobs here )
How can I keep the jobs until  when this is over
Do I
clean them for small fee or free and tell them I'll get my money back when things pick up

Wait till I'm cancelled

Carry  on as normal and if it goes pete tong take the hit lose the jobs and fight to get them back in the mad scramble to pick up work in three to six months time with all the hundreds of newby window cleaners start up and it's a sellers market yet again

What's your ideas on this ?

Don't blast the free option  or small charge idea it's a possibility if I can afford to take the hit on income
As like most I have no savings and no other income streams

[Slacky]

According to LBC radio station yesterday 30% of the population have £100 in savings or less.

I’m a millionaire by comparison. It’s heartening knowing you might not be as badly off as your head tells you.

I’ve probs got 5 or 6 months in savings to tide me over if push comes to shove.

[tonyoliver]

I am spot on £103 in bank on Monday some cash and some money owed from jobs
Council tax due and is £255 a month bills and credit card bills soon
So it's off the cliff time soon
If I don't think out of the box
It's much the same if I broke a bone or something
No different from most of us
How I am going to find the mot tax insurance on the van heaven knows

[G Griffin]

I wouldn't do commercial for nowt. Maybe do a deal if they are struggling and you want to keep them. Leave for a while or do parts of the jobs for partial payments.
Domestic, I'd try and keep on top of some houses for little or no payment. If they want their windows cleaned but can't pay at the moment type of customer. Ones that'll have you back when things pick up and ones that'll stick by you if you have some bad luck.

[Dave Willis]

Get a job as a window cleaner, they earn shed loads and only need to work part time.

[tonyoliver]

If they only knew the truth!!!
good advice for commercial and even better advice for the domestic
They tend to be bread and butter monthly jobs that pay each visit
And are working in diverse jobs as with the last crash  not all were affected but I did notice that once they left the almost never came back  the replacements are too slow to cover the losses and too many one offs mascerading as regulars
The jobs I am thinking about pay well above the others and subsidise the others we have too many chasing the same jobs down here
Keeping prices rock bottom despite what everyone on here  thinks

[dazmond]

According to LBC radio station yesterday 30% of the population have £100 in savings or less.

I’m a millionaire by comparison. It’s heartening knowing you might not be as badly off as your head tells you.

I’ve probs got 5 or 6 months in savings to tide me over if push comes to shove.

yep im the same.......i learnt a long time ago to build up a decent "emergency fund" for times like these...its took me many years to get £15k behind me......and ill do my very best not to spend a single penny of it in the next 6 months........i will be giving some money to certain crowd funding causes though....they badly need it more than ever now.......esp for the theatres,cinemas,restaurants,pubs and clubs thatll need all the help they can get over the next few months...

[jay moley]

Keep cleaning until you're asked to stop. Be understanding of the customers situation. Ring them periodically (once a month) to see if they want to resume cleaning.

No point working for free. Devalues your service in the long run. Also if you're tight for money it would be better doing another job anyway until this is all over. I hear that supermarkets will be hiring.

[dazmond]

My best jobs are pubs and resturants  (insert your best jobs here )
How can I keep the jobs until  when this is over
Do I
clean them for small fee or free and tell them I'll get my money back when things pick up

Wait till I'm cancelled

Carry  on as normal and if it goes pete tong take the hit lose the jobs and fight to get them back in the mad scramble to pick up work in three to six months time with all the hundreds of newby window cleaners start up and it's a sellers market yet again

What's your ideas on this ?

Don't blast the free option  or small charge idea it's a possibility if I can afford to take the hit on income
As like most I have no savings and no other income streams

absolutely no chance id be cleaning them for free.....in fact if you do that itll cost you money to clean them.....id try and suspend them for a couple of months if they are struggling and hope they take you back on when all this is over....

[deeege]

It’ll be pointless cleaning the pubs anyway as most seem to be closing voluntarily and will probably be forced to within a week.

I only do one pub but as it’s not part of a larger chain I’d do the clean (£80) for the equivalent in beer tokens to help them out. Saying that I’d probably do that even without the Coronavirus situation. 

[nathankaye]

It’ll be pointless cleaning the pubs anyway as most seem to be closing voluntarily and will probably be forced to within a week.

I only do one pub but as it’s not part of a larger chain I’d do the clean (£80) for the equivalent in beer tokens to help them out. Saying that I’d probably do that even without the Coronavirus situation. 

Just get bottled corona lol