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Hi to everyone. Our names are Alan and Liz and we own and operate our own Pressure washing company (AWL Professional Housewashing Services)AWL Professional Housewashing Services Ltd here in Auckland, New Zealand.

We have very much enjoyed reading through the various threads and discovering that many of you are interested in and share many of the same issues we face here in our local area.

We inherited/purchased the business from our best friends 5 years ago when they decided to migrate to Australia. Since taking over the business we have completely transformed it into what we have today. Our friends were busily washing two - three houses a day ranging in price from NZ$120 for single story dwellings - NZ$150 - $175 for Split-Level up to NZ$190 - $250 for two story and larger dwellings. We initially continued with their pricing strategy for the first six months until we realised we were getting nowhere fast. The first thing we learned was that there was no way we could complete three jobs in one day. So we contacted our freinds in Australia to ask why it was taking us twice as long to do what they had done with ease. To our horror we learned that they were no better than your typical 'Splash and Dash' brigade. Fly in throw chemicals at the house - rinse it off collect the money and run.

Boy did we change things - We are very happy to say that we have a growing client base even though we are almost three times more expensive than the average housewashing companies in Auckland.

To give you an idea our pricing is now based on:

Single level - NZ$250 to $400 depending on size.

Split-Level -NZ$450 - $550 and

Two Storey - NZ$500 upwards depending on size and degree of complexity.

We tend now to only do one job per day and our average daily income has risen to between NZ$850 - $1000.

We have achieved this by specialising in High Quality - Low Pressure washing using only a biodegradeable CITRUS detergent and giving away a free 'Roof Treatment' with every housewash booked. This strategy has worked extremely well for us and most of our work now comes by way of referral.

We look forward to hearing from anyone from this group who may be interested in chatting with us and we will continue to scan the threads for any information that can benefit us in our business.

Warmest Regards

Alan & Liz

AWL Professional Housewashing Services

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Alan & Liz -

Welcome to TGS! As you can see, there is a lot to learn here as well as many opportunities to teach...Great to hear how you turned that business around. Best of luck.

- John

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You guys will never catch up with the Scott's...................hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You are hilarious, man.

Wouldn't it be cool if this Alan added as much as the one we already have? I'd be fine with that, as long as they don't band together to challenge our majority! Ha Ha Haaaaaaaaaah aaaa aaaaa!:lildevil:

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Kia ora, Alan. Congrats on salvaging the biz. I think I would have been a bit suspicious that one would want to immigrate to oz from the land of Aotearoa. I mean, unlike NZ everything in oz either chases you, slaps you, stings you, bites you, or kills you. Up in Q'land they have a saying - "don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things". We mostly clean commercial kitchen exhaust systems in Denver, Colorado - similar in size to Auckland - approx 2 million, however you have a tremendous advantage over us. We must deal with very cold weather and high crime. Unless things have changed dramatically since our last visit to NZ you are unaffected by all of this bother - ya lucky cobber! May your biz success exceed your highest expectations.

Richard

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