[Steve Sed]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

Would you? I don't do shops, but if I had a row of teraaces priced properly and someone came out of one I didn't have and offered me theirs at a fiver I would politely decline. Why would I want to drive down prices?

[Halfadaylee]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

Would you? I don't do shops, but if I had a row of teraaces priced properly and someone came out of one I didn't have and offered me theirs at a fiver I would politely decline. Why would I want to drive down prices?

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[Moderator David@stives]

Well you guys obviously know where the money is better than me, I bow down to your superior earning power.

[Steve Sed]

Well you guys obviously know where the money is better than me, I bow down to your superior earning power.

Touchy. We all make different decisions David. I can understand that you are driven to keeping your vans and people fully utilised as you are paying for them anyway, but the decisions for a sole trader working domestics will be different.

[PAUL ERITH]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

I would in fact i do and its easy work pull out up side do one bay window and the door then off i go for 5 mins work i get £5.

Im going to start on commercial next year the problem with commercial work is you have to start some where taking on one one shop at a time till you have a few shops all together.

I haven't decided if im going to go down the normal highstreet commercial route, try to get into bluewater or both

Paul

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

erith approved have some work
going in blue water

[PAUL ERITH]

erith approved have some work
going in blue water

If you need me to cover it my email is paul@erithwc.co.uk

[Tom White]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

I would in fact i do and its easy work pull out up side do one bay window and the door then off i go for 5 mins work i get £5.

Im going to start on commercial next year the problem with commercial work is you have to start some where taking on one one shop at a time till you have a few shops all together.

I haven't decided if im going to go down the normal highstreet commercial route, try to get into bluewater or both

Paul

Greggs have their insides done; it's often a pain with signage and stuff in the way; you have to get their early before they load up the windows with pasties for the fat masses.

They were done twice a week also.

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

erith approved have some work
going in blue water

If you need me to cover it my email is paul@erithwc.co.uk

not sure what the work is and im sure john is away for xmas
he was telling me bout blue water yesterday though 

[Moderator David@stives]

We do domestics and commercial.

So I think I am qualified to comment, funny how people assume I clean retail to keep my guys busy

I do it for profit if it doesn't add up we don't do it. It's all windows

In one town we have about 50 shops of varying prices, all clean by lunchtime, just one guy, cheapest job is a chain spoke about here

Gav

I know what the job is I think I found someone for him

[roundbuilder]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

I would in fact i do and its easy work pull out up side do one bay window and the door then off i go for 5 mins work i get £5.

Im going to start on commercial next year the problem with commercial work is you have to start some where taking on one one shop at a time till you have a few shops all together.

I haven't decided if im going to go down the normal highstreet commercial route, try to get into bluewater or both

Paul

It isnt 5 mins work for £5 though. If you was asked to do a shop in dartford for £5 it would take you 20 mins to get there add that to setting up time, doing the job and packing away and the time it takes to get to your next job could lead upto 40mins to an hour all for £5.?
No thanks.

[PAUL ERITH]

We do domestics and commercial.

So I think I am qualified to comment, funny how people assume I clean retail to keep my guys busy

I do it for profit if it doesn't add up we don't do it. It's all windows

In one town we have about 50 shops of varying prices, all clean by lunchtime, just one guy, cheapest job is a chain spoke about here

Gav

I know what the job is I think I found someone for him

I'm sure i could learn loads from you and others on here but we all have to start some where mate the amount of times i have lost out on commercial because i don't go near the high street enough if your already their working you've got a better chance of getting the job.

Plus on the residential side most of my work was one house on its own now i have loads more on the same streets

Paul

[roundbuilder]

We do domestics and commercial.

So I think I am qualified to comment, funny how people assume I clean retail to keep my guys busy

I do it for profit if it doesn't add up we don't do it. It's all windows

In one town we have about 50 shops of varying prices, all clean by lunchtime, just one guy, cheapest job is a chain spoke about here

Gav

I know what the job is I think I found someone for him

I dont touch retail. Much more money in doing an office block for £200 sheets etc.
I gave up on shops ages ago as couldnt get enough to warrant it vs houses or larger commercial jobs.

[Moderator David@stives]

Hi Mick


Its not just the Shops we clean in these towns, they are just a small part of what we do, wouldnt be without them though.

 If its glass we clean it,

[dazmond]

yep i agree with mick here.nice domestics and medium office blocks,blocks of housing association flats etc rather than shops.you can charge a good price and earn well out of them.cant see me earning £60 an hour on shops!!!

plus shops normally have to be cleaned at ridiculously early times in the morning!!i certainly dont wanna get up at 5am in the morning to go and clean a few shops.


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dazmond

[jarvy]

I get up at 4am some days,man up!!!!

[PAUL ERITH]

I get up at 4am some days,man up!!!!

Thats what im after get 2-3 hrs done on commercial before i start on the houses

Paul

[jarvy]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

Even if i had work either side i wouldnt. I work for myself,not to make others more money.
Just my opinion,some will some wont. I wont.

[♠Winp®oClean♠]

I get up at 4am some days,man up!!!!

So do I every now & then, usually when I'm suffering from diarrhea & sickness or something!!

[Steve Sed]

No one would take on a Greggs with nothing else near it, the same as you wouldnt drive to a street to clean a terraced front.

But if you were already on the High St you would take it.

I would in fact i do and its easy work pull out up side do one bay window and the door then off i go for 5 mins work i get £5.

Im going to start on commercial next year the problem with commercial work is you have to start some where taking on one one shop at a time till you have a few shops all together.

I haven't decided if im going to go down the normal highstreet commercial route, try to get into bluewater or both

Paul

It isnt 5 mins work for £5 though. If you was asked to do a shop in dartford for £5 it would take you 20 mins to get there add that to setting up time, doing the job and packing away and the time it takes to get to your next job could lead upto 40mins to an hour all for £5.?
No thanks.

It is if you are there anyway. That's the point people are making. My view is that if you started doing houses for cheap just because you are there, pretty soon prices would fall. It seems odd that this either doesn't apply to shops or people think it doesn't apply.