[elliott cleaning]

For the past month I have been targeting a new estate of very up market new homes, these are 4-5 bed detached homes.

I've done quite a Few quotes, but got very little work, usually I get most jobs I quote but this estate has been a complete bust.

The only difference I can see is these homes are occupied by youngish 'new money' homeowners (what some would call 'yuppies') not my usual older 50yrs+ clients.

I'm starting to think is all fur coats and no knicker, they are mortgaged up to the hilt and don't have the disposable income to pay for carpet cleaning ....unless its cheap.


Anyone else find the same?

Spot on mike  - I bet its the same nationally too.

Can't say I agree-  In London & SE I have just as many clients of the younger generation in large houses & pricey apartments who happily pay the price for professional carpet care as the older gereration.
They might not be quite as punctilious about the state of their carpets - but they do have them cleaned and are prepared to pay the going rate

[Carpet Dawg]

Same here. Depends on area maybe.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

The south east has always had richer people and far more of them okay there may be more competition but for a one man band it's rich pickings I'm fortunate I've been going for that long that I just bumble by luckily I couldn't get a mortgage for my cardboard box that I reside in.

Shaun

[SteveAllan]

its good rate if you have 2 jobs per day, every day, every week per employee and no quiet times, no marketing, no insurances, no phone bills, no paye, no tax.

How's it going Craig, ( we met on the upholstery course last year) did ya get your vw transporter sorted In the end

[John Kelly]

Shaun if we sent our products out in the type of box you reside in we'd be destitute

[CraigHaycock]

How's it going Craig, ( we met on the upholstery course last year) did ya get your vw transporter sorted In the end
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Hi Steve, good memory.  Still not sorted, infact getting worse if they dont sort it by end of march they can have the bloody thing back as ive had a enough of it, now it only does 23mpg on motorway, drove to Berlin last month and worked out only 23.6mpg steady 80 all the way. will never get another one