[angleside]

Are there any wheelie bin cleaners left, it appears that there are less and less of us about or am i just imagining it, if there any of us left perhaps you may be interested in my wheelie bin blog site http://vic-wheeliebincleaning.blogspot.com

[angleside]

Are there any bin cleaners that have any advise on pricing.....

[angleside]

Bin cleaning is such a lonely life 

[Londoner]

I've seen a couple around recently but in general they have all disappeared now. Too difficult to co-ordinate these days.

[CATMAN]

 I think bin cleaning is something that is concessionary spending, when times appear hard or money is tight this is the first type of thing  to suffer.

Many will opt to do it themselves.

I had a bin cleaner, but he did nothing to keep the business, clean the bin, drop off the invoice.  Sometimes people enjoy a freebie a something extra, perhaps clean the other bin once in a blue moon. He didn't offer anything I couldn't do myself. Just a thought. Not being anal!

Graham

[angleside]

I think your right when money is tight bin cleaning is the last thing on the customers mind, I am now offering a free clean if you book 6 cleans...........

[Steve L]

Just sold my round after 4 years

Bin collections changed to fortnightly which was both an opportunity and a threat!

At my age (58) I didn't want to invest £20k in a (necessary) additional truck or endure another winter like the last one.

I offered one free wash for six monthly prepayments and two for twelve monthly prepayments and approx one third of my customers took this up which saved a lot of evening collecting.

Good luck to my bin cleaning colleagues!

Anyone want to buy my Trafic van with a Spectrum hot/cold wash fitted?

Steve

[JandS]

Ours still comes round once a fortnight and does a good job.
He only charges £1.80 so it's worth it to me.

John

[stalwart]

My opinion,the actual bins belong to the council in the 1st place,well they do here,they should sodding well clean em,we pay enough bloody council tax as it is,and they still cant put it back the same place they found it

[Platinum]

I thought this business would be booming with the increase in bins these says with the household bin then the recycling bin .....

[Steve L]

There are more opportunities but the problem is the recycling bins are emptied on different days/weeks to the waste bins so couldn't be washed at the same time. I would have needed to buy another truck/employ another driver.(and a lot more work to pay for it.)
Some existing customers wanted their recycling bin only washing so I would have ended up having to do a few bins on the same round twice (for the original amount.

Bin cleaning provides a good hourly income on the round (80-100 bins per day-12-25 bins per hour but you also ned to collect at least 50% of those at night which involves two people 2/3 nights per week /3 hours per night.


Cheers,

Steve

[Dougaldum]

yes my buisness was called "wheelie bins r us & we do a wheelie good job" sold half the buisness 4 years ago and im still doing really well with the other half happy smelly days.

[paul rulton]

ive never seen 1 round my way 

[Dougaldum]

what are you waiting fore start one up

[BDCS]

Wheely bins are a futuristic thing here - we're still on bin bags that the seagulls rip open and spew the rubbish over the street, I am probably the only one on the road with a wheely bin but that was because it was my jetwash tank and it cracked. I don't see why you would want to clean it because I still put the bags into it - do most people not use bags ?

[Rcs]

i thought about it at one stage last year but was put off by the high cost of the unit

[Dougaldum]

yes a lot put bags in but when full the bottom bags split open because of the wight that is way the bin needs   cleaning