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Residential work teaches you the craft. Commercial work is where the volume is, and it comes with one decision maker instead of forty. A single hospital floor, one restaurant chain, one office tower — these are the accounts that turn a Saturday operation into a business you can hire into.
350
blinds in one city hospital, cleaned by a single operator
$10k
billed in two weeks from one corporate account
$6k
from one government contractor, working part time
30
years subcontracting for a national cleaning franchise
Every figure here comes from a DirtyBlinds operator, in their own words.
These are not leads we hand you. They are the account types our operators keep landing, and knowing which door to knock on is half of what the training is for.
Hundreds of blinds, infection-control pressure, and a facilities manager who already knows dusting does not cut it. One of our operators cleaned three hundred and fifty blinds in a single city hospital.
Volume, and they re-book on a schedule.
Grease carries onto every surface, including the blinds, and no rag has ever fixed that. Chains are the prize here — land one location well and the regional manager has nine more.
The dirtiest blinds you will ever be paid for.
Hundreds of identical blinds, one property manager, one purchase order. On site in a trailer they are down for an hour, so nobody has to work in a room with bare windows.
One signature covers the whole building.
Slower to start and steady once you are in, because the budget is already allocated. One operator built a six-thousand-dollar account with a government contractor while still working part time.
Predictable, and they pay.
Summer is empty buildings and a maintenance budget with a deadline on it. That is the same season residential work slows down, which is not a coincidence you should waste.
Counter-seasonal, and enormous.
Every room has blinds, guests look straight at them, and management already budgets for appearance. Rolling floors keeps rooms in service while you work.
Recurring by nature.
A facilities manager has no idea what ultrasonic cleaning is and will not sit through an explanation. So stop explaining. This is the approach we teach, and it has worked the same way for thirty-seven years.
1
Not purchasing. The facilities manager, the head of housekeeping, the person who hears about it when a room looks bad. They already know the blinds are the worst thing in the building and have assumed nothing could be done.
2
Bring the trailer, take down two, run them, hang them back. Twenty minutes. They will stand there and watch it happen, and then they will look at every other blind in the room differently for the rest of the day.
3
Walk it, count, and quote the whole job on a schedule they can budget. Do not undercut to win it — the operators who do that are the ones who quit in year two, and the account remembers the number forever.
4
The job is not finished when the blinds go back up. Book the next one while they are still looking at the difference, and one account becomes an annuity instead of a job.
If you cannot picture yourself doing any of that, say so on the call. It is exactly what the training is for.
COIT is the largest carpet, upholstery and area rug cleaning company in the United States, and their Buffalo franchise is one of the biggest — a physical location and roughly thirty vans across Western New York.
We approached them after signing our first dry cleaner. They had the accounts and the reputation. They did not have a way to clean blinds, and they did not want to build one.
They sent us their blind work for close to thirty years.
