What a day!


Amen.

The funny thing is that I gave my card to someone at his Patio Outlet Store. It has around 108 pain. Maybe i can work something out for his store. He wants me to do them one day. He said he’ll call. Maybe ya’ll can help.

I hope you didn’t get too down on residential window cleaning. Things can only get better from here. If only we were all as perfect as Doug. I remember having plenty of days like that when I first started. I didn’t have the benefit of all these forums to learn from and gain knowledge.

I can’t wait to read your next “what a day” thread. You know, the one where you have a perfect day, making $100 an hour and get a big fat tip.

I can’t wait either.

You gotten two points of advice from two very successful people in the industry. Both basicly stated you have to go out and work harder to pull in more clients. You are going to have good days and bad days. This past April was my full 1 year in business. As I stand now I am averaging $1200 per week take home. That does not include my overhead. But I worked my butt off to get here. I’m no where near what I want for my business. I have a friend who owns a large lawn service company, he pulls in $1000 per day CASH, just from the side jobs his guys are doing for customers on the spot. He just bought a 22 acre home in one of the most desirable places to live here. But he earned it by working his butt off. You learned allot on this 2nd home. Get the painters tool that was already mentioned. I use it for more then just getting screens out. Some screens are hard to take out as in most cases after the window is put in the home, it will settle just a little and that can make it really hard to put it back in. Dont ever push on the mesh, even if it’s new it won’t hold up. I have been lucky in the last year. Only one screen broken (by a helper who thought it was a good idea to FLOAT a screen from the 2nd floor. That’s $36 out of his pay for the new screen) and the I broke one window which sliced my my eblow really nice. Still have the scare. The customer painted all the windows shut. Even after trying to get the one lose, it would not open. I pushed it to hard, it flung open and my elbow drove right into the pane. Single pane old glass, cuts quick and deep. That was nice to see the blood drip on the customers floor. I looked her in the eye in the kitchen and told her “I thought you said the windows were NOT painted SHUT!”. I completed the job but not till two weeks later. It happend dude the bad days just come. Then you have one day where you think it will be bad and it goes great. Yesterday example. A home I cleaned last year took 9 hours cause my helper left mid day. When i got there yesterday with my new helper. We were on site at 9am. Home in my house by 12, with 1 hour drive time. NO BS. WFP the outside in 30 minutes along with screens while my guy cleaned inside. I did a final walk around and all was good. Quick $500. M new guy’s head fell off. I gave him a $50 bonus for completing the job faster. He was happy. He made $100 for his days work. Basiclly he pulled in $50 per hour. If he was to work a full 40 hour week in a company at that rate he would be pulling in $100k per year. You’ll get the gigs down pat by the beginning of next season. I would send that customer a hand written thank you card an either a 12 pack of whatever beer he gave you or a coupon to a store by him. That stuff goes a long way.

I’ve been demoted to Doug’s Dots Department Director.

Thanks man, need to make up a flyer. I’ve been working on one so i can go door to door.

ummm. i meant 2.5 hours with[B][U] 2[/U][/B] guys. 1 larry is enough, but thanks for pointing out my error…