[Neil Williams]

I was surprised to see a Service Master van carrying out Water Fed Pole window cleaning on a communial block of flats today.
Have times got that tight for them? or have they always done their own window cleaning?

[Peter Sweeney]

thats odd Neil,

I saw one the other day doing the same and had the same thought.

Pete

[CATMAN]

As an ex-rainbow i believe both franchises have gone down the route of asking their franchisees to seek any commercial cleaning work. This includes window cleaning, sharps and bio-hazards, office  cleaning, builders clean, graffitti blasting. One franchisee was cleaning pizza hut of a morning and another the back of ambulances.  In effect anything that can be cleaned and they can get their fees from.

Problem was as I saw it as wafer thin margins and then giving away 11%-no thanks. I was told  that if I din't tow the line and bring in this type of work, they would turn off the insurance work. So I decided to take a hike.

A Fool & His Money Are Soon Parted, as they say

[Len Gribble]

He needs to watch out when I was with a commercial cleaning franchisee and carried out domestic and ff work they wanted there cut one big argument


Len

[jamieexpress]

I think you may find that it is a Servicemaster contract services van cleaning the windows.
We have disastor restoration residential and commercial carpet cleaing and contract services which do daily weekly cleans.



Jamie.