So, I just added this page to my site. Mostly to show that I’m taking it seriously, as concern will be soon rising as this continues to spread.
What are your thoughts?—- btw, the link goes here- Advice for the public
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Nice! Cant hurt anything and it shows that you care !
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Is anyone here taking a hit with business yet?
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We had 2 commercial clients suspend service today.
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Yup. Around 80% of all my accounts are suspending service. I sat down and called every one of them and only 4 jobs will get done this week. I’ve resorted to posting on the Nextdoor app offering 50% off for new customers. 
Gotta try something.
How is it for you so far?
Ah man, I’m sorry to hear that! I don’t do much commercial so, no weekly routes, but I had a lady call me yesterday and instead of doing her windows for $300, I’m gonna do a small amount of pressure washing for maybe $100-$150
I think I’m gonna Start trying to push more for house washing with no personal contact. People are getting pretty nervous right now.
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That’s a good idea. I thought about calling my customers back to offer outside only cleaning temporarily and getting digital signatures through email.
Good luck with everything in the coming weeks, Adam
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Here in belgium full lockdown,every non essential store is closed so about 60% of all work is cancelled.Its a hard hit achter a horrible winter.Hope this passes soon
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How is everything going for everyone?
Roller coaster of emotions here in Central Florida. On one hand most things are business as usual, on the other, panic/hoarder shopping is making things scarce unnecessarily. Trying to keep working while able to and jobs are available to build up a savings, but unsure of when clients are going to start cinching down on their spending and things start to dry up.
Business as usual: It’s midnight and I am typing up some bids for a few house pressure washing, window cleaning and driveway clean/re-sand/seal jobs and I have three window cleaning jobs to bid tomorrow. All is normal there. I purposefully scheduled this week off about a month ago because I just finished 4 huge driveway jobs in a brand new high-end housing development and I knew I needed a break to recover. It is giving me the time to reorganize and start calling clients individually to confirm appointments, where as I am normally reliant on my client management software (Jobber) and emails to confirm automatically scheduled recurring appointments. We are still allowed to go to work if we have it. No “non-essential” restrictions here yet.
I’d say about 90%+ of my clients are in retirement communities and so far I have not had any more than normal cancellations(4)/reschedulings(3) this month, than normal and have in fact been getting more calls for bids than usual for this time of year.
Oppositely: I went out to get some normal supplies for both my pressure washing and window cleaning jobs starting up next week and found it difficult to find HDX Outdoor and/or Clorox Outdoor bleach which is the base for my pressure washing detergent as well as finding larger bottles of Dawn Platinum, or any Dawn for that matter for my normal window cleanings. I guess there has been some panic shopping going on here almost as if a hurricane was coming, yet that’s not exactly the case. For some reason meat is now scarce in grocery stores here. But, if it really came down to it, we are still in Wild Turkey hunting season and we can hunt Boar and Rabbit year round.
I’ve been sick this past week, very noticeably when you talk to me, so I’ve felt obligated to mention it, so I Currently have 4 decent residential window jobs postponed. (Not into full swing yet for spring) I’ll for sure be able to get a little pressure cleaning done this week. The phone is stressfully quiet.
I will keep first things first in life though and I have full trust that I won’t go without. We’re not at the point of struggling with anything yet so that’s good.
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90% of my commercial customers have closed which has forced my hand to close as well. I’m still doing residential customers but the rain and this pandemic are not helping with business.
I’m getting trickling requests for exterior cleaning but its pretty rough right now, especially here in California.
I hope everyone is staying safe and productive so we can hit the ground running once things cool down.
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yikes! that’s rough…I hope you recover soon.
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