[Joff Buss]

Good job you escaped or your wooden nose would have gone up too. 

it would have still caught on fire in the next town

[CLEANCARE WC]

wasnt there a lad on here a few years ago, who claimed to be making thousands a week and had a few vans on the road,  and some one went to his house and he live with his mum and drove a escort van

lol would love to see that

[AS Window Cleaning]

How many idiots and billy-bull-pooters can gather in one place

Welcome!  it looks like one more has joined the crowd!! 

[William McCafferty]

Why people always look at the daily figures makes me smile, on some jobs if you price it up right and with easy access its possible to go over the £1000 barrier, I have many times, but there are the other days when you are at home looking out of the window at the 10 foot snow drifts or thunder and lightning storms, these days you earn .00.

I would rather look at the monthly figures.

That's nothing I make £2000 a day............................................................................ and that's before I wake up.

Did I say I do that all the time, NO

It has happened on a few occasions and hopefully on more to come, if you want to call me liar, say so and I can show you the jobs involved

William don't fan the flames, let thewm have thier own thoughts, whens your next holiday and where you going this time?   

I'm off to the USA on xmas day for just over 2 weeks, then hopefully if we have bad weather in Febuary its The Gambia again.

How you keeping Ian?

[Window Washers]

window washers listen up, i dont employ others, but if i did i would employ them on a self employed basis simple as that, and i would not want or expect them to in heavy rain, there are safety reasons here to. when it is raining i do  not sit looking out of window thinking how much money i am losing ,and who said anything about not working because its cold.this is for the idiot obviously

lol, safety you get wet, give me a break you dont like getting wet thats cool, just dont dress it up, I did listen up   and thank you for making me Laugh your a top guy  

[Richard iSparkle]

as for richard speech you wont last mate unless you change your attitude and working practices.

if you speed through your work at a very fast rate and charge top dollar you ll lose work.customers are not stupid!work at a brisk pace yes but make sure you do a good job!!

hi dazmond,

to be fair to me, you don't know what the quality of our work is like. you are assuming that because we are fast we arent very good.

 i agree that customers are not stupid, and i know that if the quality of our service is not there that they will leave us.  in fact when we got a new guy working, his cleans were not good enough and we got a fair number of complaints about him.  our customers will let us know if they aren't happy by either calling in, or by cancelling.  the truth is that this doesn't happen a lot so i can only assume that they are happy.  they are also happy to pay the price.  £10 min is not too much for many people nowadays.  it is about £2.50 week which is less than a pint.  working at the speed i do i have had one complaint in the past month, and none the previous month. 

our custies like the service we offer.  the service is a lot more than just the quality of the cleans, but also the full customer service, and ease of the whole experience. 

[Pope vader]

hi richard,  what pole brush fan/pencils are you using

[roundbuilder]

lol dazmond u sound  jelous of richard. if you sort your prices out daz n stop all the crappy 3-5 pound houses you do or at least put them up surely with a full compact round you would earn a lot more and hit day takings a lot higher than you do???

[steve rix]

lol dazmond u sound  jelous of richard. if you sort your prices out daz n stop all the crappy 3-5 pound houses you do or at least put them up surely with a full compact round you would earn a lot more and hit day takings a lot higher than you do???

I think daz has been doing this for quite a while and reeding his posts he seems to have his head screwed on the right way. People could do a lot worse than listen to his advice (except about trad!!!)

[roundbuilder]

lol dazmond u sound  jelous of richard. if you sort your prices out daz n stop all the crappy 3-5 pound houses you do or at least put them up surely with a full compact round you would earn a lot more and hit day takings a lot higher than you do???

I think daz has been doing this for quite a while and reeding his posts he seems to have his head screwed on the right way. People could do a lot worse than listen to his advice (except about trad!!!)

agreed to an extent. i also have been doing it for a long time and make it a rule to keep with the times by putting prices up. daz said had an estate with 30 odd houses but all underpriced at 3-5 pounders. if they were all at 10 pound he also would be hitting higher day rates like richard does??.

[steve rix]

Yes but by doubling the price how many would he lose? If he lost say25% it wouldn't save him 25% of his time as he would have to travel else where to get new customers. I know if i put up my prices by 100% I would lose more than half the custom

[Pope vader]

a lot of the houses dazmond probably does, aint £10 houses, as i think he has a lot of terrace work,

[roundbuilder]

Yes but by doubling the price how many would he lose? If he lost say25% it wouldn't save him 25% of his time as he would have to travel else where to get new customers. I know if i put up my prices by 100% I would lose more than half the custom

im not saying he should do a 100 percent price rise, that would be suicide. he has been doing these 16 odd years so surely should have put them up is all im stating. 10 years ago when i started most of my work was 6-8 pounders all terrace/semi work and now they are at 12-15. i only put them up 50p-a pound every few years but has kept me on track with the avarage around my way.

[steve rix]

Mick I think we are singing from the same hymn sheet! We always put our prices up by 10% every two years. I will not try and tell Daz how to run his business, he's been at it nearly as long as me, but most if not all customers will stand for that

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

dancing thats intresting what kind of dancing.

salsa!  love it    mambo to be specific...  if you're a dancer.  i used to teach when i started my first business, when i needed more money.  that and worked in starbucks

starbucks which one i clean loadsa ov em 

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

sometimes richard 400 a day in the areas
i clean aswell
no lad ive being a wc 27yrs never done 4 ton a day
so yr trying to tell me yr busier than me
wiv a hell ov a lot dearer than me nahhhhhhh
m8 we'll av to meet up like
rich im fast trad or wfp so lets ava chat  
cuz i must be doing it wrong like
even after nearly 30yrs 

[Richard iSparkle]

hi richard,  what pole brush fan/pencils are you using

hey santa!  just a gardiner CLX22 with sill brush and pencil jets.  nothing special reallly

[Richard iSparkle]

sometimes richard 400 a day in the areas
i clean aswell
no lad ive being a wc 27yrs never done 4 ton a day
so yr trying to tell me yr busier than me
wiv a hell ov a lot dearer than me nahhhhhhh
m8 we'll av to meet up like
rich im fast trad or wfp so lets ava chat  
cuz i must be doing it wrong like
even after nearly 30yrs 

we did £440 yesterday with me and my christmas helper working 8-4:10 and need to get thru £460 today...

i cant comment on your round or your prices, but remember i've been trained and coached by some very high achieving WCs so i;m benefiting from their experiences.

only doing those numbers because i;m taking a holiday over christmas

[Frankybadboy]

sometimes richard 400 a day in the areas
i clean aswell
no lad ive being a wc 27yrs never done 4 ton a day
so yr trying to tell me yr busier than me
wiv a hell ov a lot dearer than me nahhhhhhh
m8 we'll av to meet up like
rich im fast trad or wfp so lets ava chat  
cuz i must be doing it wrong like
even after nearly 30yrs 

we did £440 yesterday with me and my christmas helper working 8-4:10 and need to get thru £460 today...

i cant comment on your round or your prices, but remember i've been trained and coached by some very high achieving WCs so i;m benefiting from their experiences.

only doing those numbers because i;m taking a holiday over christmas

if you are that high trained with all that surport behind you,then why the hell does you come on here and ask question.

me think richard that you are a bit porky pie teller

[Window Washers]

sometimes richard 400 a day in the areas
i clean aswell
no lad ive being a wc 27yrs never done 4 ton a day
so yr trying to tell me yr busier than me
wiv a hell ov a lot dearer than me nahhhhhhh
m8 we'll av to meet up like
rich im fast trad or wfp so lets ava chat  
cuz i must be doing it wrong like
even after nearly 30yrs 

30 years mate can be a bad thing sometimes that does not make you faster but does mean you will have a load of bad habits picked up over the years