[PaulKing]

Pulled up near these vans at the local top quality burger van in sunderland!

Noticed Two brand spanking vans that with Homeserve and Chem Dry logos on them.

Talking to they guys while getting sarnies and they said they taking over damage restortion from the "little guys" next month, and they had just been to pick up the vans,  bet the local "little guys" are doing their nut.

[HolmansUKLTD]

Paul what is damage restoration

[PaulKing]

When you restore something thats damaged! 

[*paul_moss]

Nick its when you have done a job and the customer phones us the next day to come and do it properly. 

Left yourself open for that one. 

[HolmansUKLTD]

No you wallys i mean is it for insurance claims or something different,

bleeding norfaners :

[*paul_moss]

Nick were you are means we are all Southeners 

[HolmansUKLTD]

y where am i 

[PaulKing]

jokes aside do you reckon all the white chem dry vans are out on their ears?

I know Homeserve did a similar thing first hand with the Regency Service Network of which our company was a member.

We all got one weeks notice that the supply of insurance work would terminate, as the business model called for directly employed staff to keep up the high standard of customer service. It all came  with a invite for a job interview the same day, mind you free uniform and a company van was very tempting, enough for half our staff to take them up! and i don't blame them one little bit, would have done the same myself in thier shoes.

Most of Network where also Scotchcare services,. thats why you don't see so many these days, along with the collapse of the network of course!

[*paul_moss]

Sounds like its coming around again

[martin19842]

hi there

chemdry bought homeserve earlier this year, or the other way round

they are both franchise operations, therefore you will find homeserve and chemdry on some vehicles as they heve traken both franchises for that area.

the theory is that the two companies compliment each other.

the reality being somewhat different, it all depends what areas they are in , and how enthusiatic they are

both chem dry and homeserve are in the insuarance boards of suppliers, and are perfectly places for the business, as they have been for sometime.

however ther is still plenty of room out there for others.

we do flood response for 3 large multi site oganiastions, one being educational, and also reinstatement work after the cleaning up, and we are doing well thank you very much.  by providing a good service in a tight geographical area.

regards

martin

[HolmansUKLTD]

theres loads of insurance work out there.

[*paul_moss]

Martin can you extend on that or if not can you email me as I would like to do the same but keep hitting brick walls.

[*paul_moss]

Nick Ditto

[CATMAN]

Its all quite simple really.

Homeserve buys Chem-Dry.

Takes over all the Restoration Work under Homeserve.

Sub-Contracts out the franchisees core businesses.

Tells the franchisees to concentrate on carpet cleaning.

Buy up all the big franchises

Train up there glass guys to do fire and flood

Advertise for guys to work direct for them in a "centre of excellance"

Put a small "Chem-Dry" sign on Homeserve vans. Wouldn't be hard to take off.

Do they then sell the Chem-Dry brand back into the market, but keep all the insurance work?

And remember they are still selling franchises- Carpet Cleaning of course.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

A personel opiniun of course as CD do monitor this site. Perhaps they would like to offer a different perspective.

Regards

CATMAN

[martin19842]

paul

youve got mail

martin

[craigp]

so will home serve take on domestic carpet cleaning or just the insurance side. ?

where do the chemdry franchisees stand as they bought the franchise on the understanding of insurance work ?

[martin19842]

hi there


i think your a lttle confused.

chemdry core business is flood and fire, carpet cleaning for them is just an add on.

the insurance market is a weird one.

both chemdry and homeserve have the insurance work already independently

they are now in a position to provide more services.

homeserve -- dont just do boarding up

they provide out of hours response contracts to most major house builders across the country, for electrical, heating and plumbing works.

both companies will continue to develop there network coverage, but like most companies they might fin black spots of cover, and therefore the other company franchisee, may like another complimenting service, to add to his business.

regards

martin

[*paul_moss]

Martin no email arrived
send it to mosscleaning@btinternet.com.

Paul

[HolmansUKLTD]

Martin they dont have all the insurance work for carpet cleaning.

[martin19842]

hi there


no one is loosing any work, in fact they may get more work

ie


homeserve get a call to attens a burst pipe, who will they call in now??

chemdry.

therefore eliminating the need for another drying company

the trick is --  who controls the site, ie the incident.

when we attend floods we dry, clean , and whilst we have control of the site we the quote and win the reinstatement work

that can be anything from a new laminate floor, and a carpet

to

a complete 4 bed house refurbishment after a major flood


unfortunately the latter are  few and far between

regards

martin