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ajs

a big house in the country
« on: September 04, 2009, 06:43:17 pm »
well i was on my normal job yesterdeay which is emptying septic tanks... yes i know one extreme to the other..lol

anyway i went to a large house to jet some drains. now this house is totally detached in the country lets just say owned by a famous hairdresser, chatting with the gardener and he now does the windows now as the owner is doing cut backs, he told me the windows were cleaned for £240 quid. now this is not a mansion. i could not believe it....so hope for me yet. i think there was no more than 20 windows, but had a conserv

Rob_Mac

Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2009, 06:46:27 am »
AJS

Interested to pick your brains.

I am doing some car park surface drains - down in Haverhill, on a store clean.

The drains are the slit ones that have an interceptor (sump) every 15 metres, 4 inch diameter and normally we flush them through, lift the debris from the interceptor and then repeat till clear.

Next to the service yard I have got a 10 metre section between interceptors that seems to have had cement dropped down it or a sand and powder mix that has set.

Will a root cutter get through this or do I need to get something else. Not a mega problem if you don't know but I have tried to break it up with a thin steel bar we use but to no effect

Cheers

Rob ;D

Dean Taberner

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Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2009, 08:35:42 am »
well i was on my normal job yesterdeay which is emptying septic tanks... yes i know one extreme to the other..lol

anyway i went to a large house to jet some drains. now this house is totally detached in the country lets just say owned by a famous hairdresser, chatting with the gardener and he now does the windows now as the owner is doing cut backs, he told me the windows were cleaned for £240 quid. now this is not a mansion. i could not believe it....so hope for me yet. i think there was no more than 20 windows, but had a conserv

AJS

Im glad you have a "Normal job" on top of window cleaning,

Theres not alot of us on here who can say that.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Operations manager at J.V Price Ltd

http://www.thepricegroup.co.uk

Sean Dyer

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Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2009, 08:49:54 am »
Ive been asked through a friend of a friend if we would go down to warwickshire and clean a detatched house, probably similar but not a mansion...
Will be charging £300 + for 2 of us to go down because its in and out and its 4 hours driving so not much else will get down that day - if he wants us to do it it will be funny

ajs

Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2009, 09:47:07 am »
m-clean

not sure of a concrete but we do cctv surveys and when we come to a root, we would cut that section and replace, i take it we are talking 4" plastic, you can just cut the section and replace a new section, allow room for couplings.

ajs

Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2009, 09:52:04 am »
sjd09
well i got a feeling this house will be cleaned by a local firm.
mind you could be cos of who house belongs to, bieng that he famous and got his own brands boy o boy i wish i did better at school, i would not be sucking s..t for a living.

as for doing a proper job  someone above said "well done for that as alot of us cant say that.."
now i am confused, i thought all of you lot are having a great time and would not look back!
oh doughnut i am just read it again, lol not to be taken to offend anyone ;D ;D

Rob_Mac

Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2009, 09:12:19 pm »
AJS

Cutting it out is not an option. Concrete preformed/sectional. Would the root cutter approach destroy the blades or do I tell the client that it is a replacement section?

Rob ;D

Dean Taberner

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Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2009, 09:14:48 pm »
Rob,

Hows business mate?

Are you still busy busy busy?
Operations manager at J.V Price Ltd

http://www.thepricegroup.co.uk

Rob_Mac

Re: a big house in the country
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2009, 09:31:54 pm »
Yes

Stacked out at the moment, Haverhill, Beeston & the odd trip down to Epsom. Got a few days worth of work at the end of the month in Eastbourne. Handing out a lot of business cards at the moment - to the right people!!!!

I may have a very big in with some very large nursing homes in Nottinghamshire - will find out next week!!

Going to give you a call when I get a minute next week, chat about your canvassers. Want someone in to put me together an instant round.

Are you busy.

Rob ;D