Start-up Costs For Maid And Janitorial Services

While most cleaning service owners in the industry admit to using personal finances and savings to capitalize on their cleaning business, some choose to take out loans. Especially for bigger or expanding cleaning businesses, it is sometimes essential to borrow money from various financing firms to buy equipment, rent larger spaces [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 03:51:04

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Bidmycleaning.com: Using Technology to Keep Startup Costs Low

Bidmycleaning.com is known as the “eBay of house cleaning services”.  The company’s website allows homeowners to receive multiple competitive bids for house cleaning, window and carpet cleaning services, schedule appointments, and pay for their service online [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 19:42:07

How To Start Up Your Own Cleaning Service

A cleaning business that runs successfully will definitely be rewarding for its owner ... other additional janitorial services. Will you be able to afford it? For you to legally operate ... .  Those two are the main costs.  For the equipment, you can actually start cleaning with a borrowed vacuum [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 02:33:54

How you can start your own cleaning service at home

You want to work at home but would like to avoid high startup costs. You’re also not sure of embarking on a creative vocation ... . The supplies or equipment you need would be: cleaning detergents, rags, mops, a long handled duster ... . What do you do? Think about a house cleaning service. If you’re one of those obsessive compulsive people [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 09:55:33

10 ideas for more efficient winter heating

Here are ten ways to heat your home more efficiently and cost-effectively this winter: 1) Have heating system cleaned and serviced annually ... floor or bedroom areas is especially important as that area can be kept cooler that the family room. With steam systems, thermostatic valves allow temperature setting at each radiator. Hot air systems [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 15:43:14

Priorities.  I’ve been thinking a lot about priorities lately, and where the best place to spend my time is ... , and make choices that cost them money but save them time (cleaning services, anyone?) - time [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:39:49

Prepare Your Home For Winter

With our current economic situation and the expected increase in engery costs, ... the filter until the end of the season (March or April). Next, call a duct cleaning service ... , cleaning your ducts will increase furnace efficiancy and improve your indoor air quality. Finally [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 19:03:24

Gotta love those Olefin rugs...Just another Public Service announcement from "At Home"

It's rug cleaning time at the At Home compound..and I wanted to move a rug from storage back into the big dining area redo... ... our gazebo.Most of the time it's dry. No fancy rug services, no toxic chemicals and no extra cost. Dirty rugs ... are made out of, it's just woven differently, and they recommend hosing for cleaning.. That means [more...]

Date: 2008-07-19 03:46:00

It’s not the poor the middle class should fear

The villains of today are not the radical union bosses of old, but Sir Fred Goodwin and his kind The Observer, ... at the Financial Services Authority who did not and, if their lifting of the ban on short selling is any ... with an unlimited liability for the cost of cleaning up the mess. That we are living through chaos unleashed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:57:08

Keep Your Sewing Machine Like New

by David Trumble Have you ever visited a luxury automobile showroom? The cars sparkle with a sheen so bright you can almost see to comb your hair by ... between services by cleaning out the bobbin area frequently. A recent national survey of sewing ... you do that consider how you can reduce your costs simply by keeping your machine working properly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:35:09

We are living through chaos unleashed by the wealthiest

Here is a must-read article from Nick Cohen in today's Observer. I recently read one of Nick's ... regulators at the Financial Services Authority who did not and, if their lifting of the ban on short ... with an unlimited liability for the cost of cleaning up the mess. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:22:00

Can You Keep Your Sewing Machine Running?

by David Trumble Imagine buying a brand new Lincoln Continental or BMW or Cadillac ... and maintenance. You would never go year after year on your car without changing the oil or cleaning off ... between $79.95 and $129.95. If you need your sewing machine serviced several times a year, the costs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 15:47:04

Will Junior Hockey Team Skate Right In?

A group of organizers are considering the Janesville Ice Arena for the home of a Junior A hockey team ... about $500.-- contract for security services and staff - no volunteers-according to any police or school ... be responsible for finding an alternative site.-- The user would pay for the cost of cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 06:08:00

12 - ‘Nickel and Dimed’ by Barbara Ehrenreich

12 - ‘Nickel and Dimed’ by Barbara Ehrenreich January 15th, ... for a cleaning service; and in Minneapolis, she took a job at Wal-Mart, and her constant struggle to find ... up staying in motel rooms that cost twice as much as an apartment, because they can’t scrape together [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 04:45:03

The iPhone Hotel: Check In, Tune Out, Room Service

A California Inn is dubbing itself the world’s first “iPhone hotel ... to hotel services: order room service, set a wake up call, request dry cleaning, extra blankets ... , eating and cavorting info for the area is on tap, too. Cost to the hotel is about $10 per room [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 11:30:01

I Got the Golden Ticket

One of the drawbacks to all of the cost cutting going on at work is that we're slowly reducing or losing our custodial services. The first step was to outsource our cleaning crew from a bank of actual employees to contractors hired by an outside company. Now the number of contract employees that actually do the cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 13:45:00

Get Your Cleaning Business off to a Good Start by Avoiding These Common Mistakes

As you get ready to start your own cleaning business there are literally hundreds of things you have to do - from buying supplies to figuring out ... you need to price your janitorial services so you cover all of your costs and still make a profit [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 15:32:24

Mandatory Community Service Needed to Combat Graffiti and Vandalism in California

Mike Davis Member California State Assembly The City of Los Angeles strongly believes that murals and other public art found ... clean-up, such as graffiti removal, diverts City funds and resources originally intended for other ... of graffiti removal and the indirect costs relating to a devaluing of property and the loss of business [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 14:01:27

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