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Hi Folks,
I am new to the forum although been in the cleaning industry for - it seems like more than one lifetime !! At present i work for a national company handling mostly retail contracts,you know the type. Win a block of stores,hire at minimum wage do enough to stop the client moaning to much and just try to hold on. I want to do more than this - so i am looking at trying it on my own, have looked at a contract thats cleaning about 12 stairwells and lifts in apartment complex (5 floors each/12blocks). 75% carpeted 25% vinyl,bog standard lifts - minimal s/steel. There is also the possibility of quoting for the ground work - really cutting about 2 acres of lawn,a bit of shrubbery and weedkiller where necessary. Both jobs done just once a month. I reckon that it would take 2 people 2 days (32hrs) to do the work. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated. ie prices,written spec,if my estimate is on the same planet as the work,
thanks in advance,
Ron
Oh - the work is in a select area of a large city

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Thought there might be some comments,if nothing else about my present line of work which although in my experience is pretty well par for the course for the larger companies is not the way we would like the industry to run. I think i have been with these companies for to long and have become very cynical.
it is refreshing to read posts from people who care about what they are doing - its not "just a job".
Unfortunately i have a mortgage to pay so it a necessary evil but one i am not happy with.But . . it is "safe". .  after a fashion and there seems to be an unlimited amount of competition when u look at the self employed catagory.