Do you guys move furniture?

Thks cmaster.
We also don't move pianos, fish tanks and ming vases.
We find that the customers will move anything that they don't want broken and the stuff the ways more than a bull rhino, we leave.

Great Topic!  I, like most of the others, do not move large furniture, if the customer wants a couch or chair moved, no biggie, If the customer insists on everything being moved I get them to sign a waver that states I am not responsible for anything damaged, and they pay the big bucks. Time is money.. 

 

LETS' CLEAN UP THE DIRT IN THIS TOWN!!

nightrider, I may change my idea on moving furn. Only because I was PO'ed when the roofers left a few nail on the drive way but realy the worst place of debris was in the attic. .

Talking about roofs, what I'm going to tell you is the truth, I watched him do it and saw the end result.

Years ago, one of my neighbours built a storage shed ( Cabano in Quebec ) and put two sepetate layers of shingles............His reasoning was that in 5 or 10 years, shingles will be more expensive and when the top layer dries up and becomes brittle, he just has to remove it and have a fresh new layer already installed........true story,

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I don't think I would call the roofer to clean up the yard and driveway because I would let the loser leave untill it was clean.

YOU tell at 75 year old lady with a bad foot to move HER furniture and see if she, or any of her children or or any of her children's children, or any of her friends children, or any of her friends children's children, or ANYBODY that she  mets, knows or even dates, call you to clean their carpets again, EVER.

I'm not a big, or strong man but to move a couch or chair at the request of a customer is NO SWEAT OFF MY BUTT.

But then again, I prefer to build my business through referials and have happy customers that will jump at the chance to tell their friends that we moved and cleaned their carpets....

but that is just me.

Steaminpile wrote: furniture sliders are my friend

Yours and everyone else's 

Kelpro........thats very nice of you to keep the elderly in mind and move all her house around if she asks........but that is not the point........you are running a business and if 1 or 2 little old ladies a day stop you from making an extra $ 200. to $ 400. per day because of lost downtime.........then an extra charge is in order for the service..........you talk about her friends, her family and kids calling you to clean their house..........soon you'll have 100 customers to redecorate homes for.........My opinion is that you're all running a Mickey Mouse operation, and making NO MONEY at the end of it all........you're all so afraid to lose a customer or 2 so you kiss everybodies ass........let them kiss your ass and tell them the area must be clear in order to properly clean their carpet

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