wanting to start a wheelie bin cleaning service

Slinky

This thread is a year old

mjpksp

Spongebob

How are things going? Are you still in the wheelie bin cleaning business or not?

Jamesy

Did you get it up and running?


I'd really like to know whether your trading or not?

property.advert

To bring in £50,000 a year before costs, at £2.50 a bin, you need to clean 20,000 bins, which is simplified to 400 a week, which on a 2 week cycle is 800 customers or a 4 week cycle is 1600 customers !

At 400 a week, over 5 days (bins don't get emptied on the weekend) that is 80 a day. If it takes 10 minutes per bin, you are going to have to work 13 hours 20 minutes a day !

I keep crunching the numbers and irrespective of whether you can work faster, are prepared to work all hours, or get paid more per bin, I simply don't think you can get the customers. At a 5% take up rate on a 4 week cycle, you need a total population of 32,000 houses !

Mistral001

Slinky wrote: »

This thread is a year old

It may be a year old, but I still have to ask the question why? I think we are into ashtray on a motorbike territory here. It as dustbin. It is meant to be dirty inside. A clean dustbin is an oxymoran. It is like talking about a dry rain or a straight bend.

paddyrg

Mistral001 wrote: »

It may be a year old, but I still have to ask the question why? I think we are into ashtray on a motorbike territory here. It as dustbin. It is meant to be dirty inside. A clean dustbin is an oxymoran. It is like talking about a dry rain or a straight bend.

Actually more like 3 yrs now (!) but I tend to agree. The fact that I haven't had anybody offer to wash my bin in 5+ yrs suggests nobody has been able to make a compelling business model from it

However, business is all about identifying (or creating!) a problem, then supplying the solution. The ashtray on the motorbike could have been a huge market if it had been pitched and promoted right, and if smoking whilst riding/waiting at lights was a genuine inconvenience (as opposed to a nonsense!)

lincroft1710

property.advert wrote: »

To bring in £50,000 a year before costs, at £2.50 a bin, you need to clean 20,000 bins, which is simplified to 400 a week, which on a 2 week cycle is 800 customers or a 4 week cycle is 1600 customers !

The guy who cleans bins in our street does them every 2 weeks. I don't know what he charges as I certainly don't have my bin cleaned!

If it were £2.50 each time, then I am saving £65 a year!

s_b

our bin is spotless as we use free farmfood type carriers so nothing goes direct into the bin
heck we arent a fast food chain (one by me at work has its bins overun with rats that have chewed through the bottoms of the bins,you can watch them going in and out):eek:

a bin cleaner left us a flyer and it was from £3 a bin

BargainGalore

Very easy and cheap to do you own. The secret if to make sure you bag things up if its food. I also wash yoghurt up from old washing up water etc and out it in recycle bin. Never need to pay for someone when you can do yours for 20p or less, using water, disinfectant cheap value stuff and a soft brush. Takes all of 5 minutes work

mikemaple

This type of thing always strikes me as a good uk economy business, I really can't see people using what little spare cash they have to pay someone to wash a bin.

I think the only way you could make something like this work is to offer it on a posh area

s_b

mikemaple wrote: »

This type of thing always strikes me as a good uk economy business, I really can't see people using what little spare cash they have to pay someone to wash a bin.

I think the only way you could make something like this work is to offer it on a posh area

they would probably try and wiggle out of paying though
at least if you knock on a door in a council estate so long as their dog doesnt bite you they nearly always answer the door and pay for things if they can