You are sitting in a large very tall building, someone has instructed you to get the windows cleaned! Where do you start? Are you situated amongst several other similar sized buildings? Ask them who thy use and ask if they're happy. If not, then as always the answer will be a click away on the ever dependable Internet.
Type in Commercial high rise window cleaner along with the name of your city or location. You will usually find the best service providers will have the best and most professional looking websites. I say this because you will get many companies getting themselves on say page one of Google through computer know how and not investing in a quality website, which denotes effort and a will to be successful by doing things correctly, which in turn one would have thought would be a general reflection on how they conduct their business.
I would select three or four companies, this is not as time consuming as you think because it will be the potential contractor that will putting in most of the hard work. When you have made your choice, call each company and give them a little bit of information about your requirements, for example the size of your building, how many floors, whether you had in mind external clean outside only, both sides, internal partitioning, special attention to the reception area, managing directors office, boardroom etc what sort of frequency you initially had in mind. This is something that you can both discuss at a later stage. A decent contractor will recommend a reasonable frequency, one that will be designed to suit your company and image requirements and not to get as much money out of you as possible. Ask them for feed back, you can usually get a positive feeling for the type of person or company your dealing with this initial chat. Remember, you have not commited to anything so try and get as much information as possible, this could save you a lot of time further on.
Ask how they treat Health and Safety, you can usually get a good idea from the type of response you receive. A company with an excellent Health and Safety record will be very vocal about this. You will then be looking to arrange for site visits. Now in my opinion, this is the the most crucial part of the arrangement. From a contractors point of view, he cannot have enough information, especially if we are talking about a very large building. I know you don't want to be spending lots of your valueble time on this but believe this is where you can save so much time by being precise in your instruction and requirements making sure your potential contractor has as much useful information as he needs. A real big aid is a computer graphic of all the elevations of the building or photos if this is possible, I know this is not always the case, I am just saying this makes everyone's life so much easier. You can both refer to it at any stage and it's there in black and white. Even an architects drawing, providing it has the windows included is just as useful.
Finally, all that remains is for the contractor to provide you with a price, comprehensive method statement and risk assessment and for you both to agree on frequency and terms and put a contract in place. Please be aware that if you agree to pay earlier you could be intitled to a discount. This is something I like to offer as cashflow is key. After all, if your contractor is offering you a top rate service and is doing everything in the timescale you have agreed then by paying on time or a little earlier could benefit both parties. - 30244
Type in Commercial high rise window cleaner along with the name of your city or location. You will usually find the best service providers will have the best and most professional looking websites. I say this because you will get many companies getting themselves on say page one of Google through computer know how and not investing in a quality website, which denotes effort and a will to be successful by doing things correctly, which in turn one would have thought would be a general reflection on how they conduct their business.
I would select three or four companies, this is not as time consuming as you think because it will be the potential contractor that will putting in most of the hard work. When you have made your choice, call each company and give them a little bit of information about your requirements, for example the size of your building, how many floors, whether you had in mind external clean outside only, both sides, internal partitioning, special attention to the reception area, managing directors office, boardroom etc what sort of frequency you initially had in mind. This is something that you can both discuss at a later stage. A decent contractor will recommend a reasonable frequency, one that will be designed to suit your company and image requirements and not to get as much money out of you as possible. Ask them for feed back, you can usually get a positive feeling for the type of person or company your dealing with this initial chat. Remember, you have not commited to anything so try and get as much information as possible, this could save you a lot of time further on.
Ask how they treat Health and Safety, you can usually get a good idea from the type of response you receive. A company with an excellent Health and Safety record will be very vocal about this. You will then be looking to arrange for site visits. Now in my opinion, this is the the most crucial part of the arrangement. From a contractors point of view, he cannot have enough information, especially if we are talking about a very large building. I know you don't want to be spending lots of your valueble time on this but believe this is where you can save so much time by being precise in your instruction and requirements making sure your potential contractor has as much useful information as he needs. A real big aid is a computer graphic of all the elevations of the building or photos if this is possible, I know this is not always the case, I am just saying this makes everyone's life so much easier. You can both refer to it at any stage and it's there in black and white. Even an architects drawing, providing it has the windows included is just as useful.
Finally, all that remains is for the contractor to provide you with a price, comprehensive method statement and risk assessment and for you both to agree on frequency and terms and put a contract in place. Please be aware that if you agree to pay earlier you could be intitled to a discount. This is something I like to offer as cashflow is key. After all, if your contractor is offering you a top rate service and is doing everything in the timescale you have agreed then by paying on time or a little earlier could benefit both parties. - 30244
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If you are responsible for purchasing commercial window cleaners London you should look at Marcus P Weeks excellent free of charge leaflet called 'Everything you need to know about buying commercial window cleaner services' or visit the MPW website
