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Just got a hilarious offer from a national maintenance contractor company .... Walgreens locations, scope of work: Drive through, sidewalks, interior and exterior window cleaning and all mirrors in store. Offering $200 monthly per location!!!! What a joke!
 
Just got a hilarious offer from a national maintenance contractor company .... Walgreens locations, scope of work: Drive through, sidewalks, interior and exterior window cleaning and all mirrors in store. Offering $200 monthly per location!!!! What a joke!

Ray, Ron is right this is only like an hour worth of work tops. Even with interior windows maybe an additional 30 mins. Yes, its low. But it can be done for this price especially if you get a lot of locations. Just my opinion. I would be in and out of Everything in 1.5 hours tops.
 
Had the same call this summer. I couldn't do it because of the traveling. Several locations but they didn't want to get all the locations around the same areas done at the same time. Sometimes they just want part of the work done, wasn't always the $200 full service. Didn't want to pay untill they got paid and wanted a singed invoice from a manager, kinda hard to get without making two trips. They said it would take 45 days most of the time to get paid. So you would clean it twice before you even get paid for the first time.
 
Had the same call this summer. I couldn't do it because of the traveling. Several locations but they didn't want to get all the locations around the same areas done at the same time. Sometimes they just want part of the work done, wasn't always the $200 full service. Didn't want to pay untill they got paid and wanted a singed invoice from a manager, kinda hard to get without making two trips. They said it would take 45 days most of the time to get paid. So you would clean it twice before you even get paid for the first time.

Scan and email work order to mgr.... Scan back. Heck they upload and download photos all day long!!!
 
One guy it takes 45min-1hr for the flat work. Windows outside take another 30 unless you have a di system and in that case you are spending dollars to make dimes. Sorry but there are way more profitable and consistent jobs out there. Ray they left out the part of requiring the garbage can tops cleaned inside and out. $400-$500 sounds more like what is needed for the scope of work they are asking for.
 
That probably would have worked, the biggest problem was driving an hr to do one store and not have me do the others in the area at the same time. I hate turning down work just couldn't make it worth it.
 
Get (3) of these a night in a 50 mile radius and its great money- with or without employee's. The problem is the interior or not. If you add one of these a night to your regular commercial nightly route, puts at least a $100 dollar bill in your pocket. It's $200 dollars for tops two hours of work. I recognize drive time, set up/ break down, but if it fits into an already developed route its another Hundred dollar bill to add to the pile.

Always to ways to look at work- either I'm too small of a company to make $200 dollars worth my wild, or volume and another $100 bucks on your tech's way back in to the yard that night. Trust me a few years back, I also would of said "No way its not worth it"- or I need that extra money.

Today- with a National Company- that I know pays and I do business with- I just signed on to clean windows at a Grocery chain, 3 stores within 10 miles of each other for $115 dollars per service 2x per month. 3 stores at $230 month equals $690 a month for actual work time of 5-6 hours. We run 2 man crew- one outside with water fed pole- other inside using a new interior cleaning pad pole method. It will take less than an hour each store and fits right into the route. Created a truck with DI tanks next to water tank and blah, blah.

Each price works for a different type of company. Like I said, I may have written the same head line 3-4 years ago, but I have learned how to make it work.
Systems and procedures get you paid- volume and $100 dollar bills also help.

Just my 2c
 
Just got a hilarious offer from a national maintenance contractor company .... Walgreens locations, scope of work: Drive through, sidewalks, interior and exterior window cleaning and all mirrors in store. Offering $200 monthly per location!!!! What a joke!

To cheap for any interior work also- And that's why they are all filthy around here.
 
Get (3) of these a night in a 50 mile radius and its great money- with or without employee's. The problem is the interior or not. If you add one of these a night to your regular commercial nightly route, puts at least a $100 dollar bill in your pocket. It's $200 dollars for tops two hours of work. I recognize drive time, set up/ break down, but if it fits into an already developed route its another Hundred dollar bill to add to the pile.

Always to ways to look at work- either I'm too small of a company to make $200 dollars worth my wild, or volume and another $100 bucks on your tech's way back in to the yard that night. Trust me a few years back, I also would of said "No way its not worth it"- or I need that extra money.

Today- with a National Company- that I know pays and I do business with- I just signed on to clean windows at a Grocery chain, 3 stores within 10 miles of each other for $115 dollars per service 2x per month. 3 stores at $230 month equals $690 a month for actual work time of 5-6 hours. We run 2 man crew- one outside with water fed pole- other inside using a new interior cleaning pad pole method. It will take less than an hour each store and fits right into the route. Created a truck with DI tanks next to water tank and blah, blah.

Each price works for a different type of company. Like I said, I may have written the same head line 3-4 years ago, but I have learned how to make it work.
Systems and procedures get you paid- volume and $100 dollar bills also help.

Just my 2c

Just wondering, how long is your set up and tear down? I know it depends on the job but it looks like your still on the job, working and not getting paid. Correct me if I am wrong and thank you.
 
Our WG have been neglected for a long time. Would most likely take several deep cleanings just to bring them to "par". I already have a full time night crew and I see these stores as taking 2-3 hours each for the first few months. Also wanted underside of canopy on front of store done with monthly service too.

i see where it would work, if they were somewhat clean already, and no interior work.
 
Our WG have been neglected for a long time. Would most likely take several deep cleanings just to bring them to "par". I already have a full time night crew and I see these stores as taking 2-3 hours each for the first few months. Also wanted underside of canopy on front of store done with monthly service too.

i see where it would work, if they were somewhat clean already, and no interior work.

http://www.propowerwash.com/index_retail.php

Ray I do not know what the Interior Scope is, but I can do the exterior for less than 200 monthly

My Hourly Rate here in PHX would be a 120 per hour with drive time.


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