Cleaning Local Garden Sheds Business Opportunity?

I have just spent this afternoon totally clearing out and domestically cleaning one of my garden sheds. Whilst doing my shed cleaning chores I put on my business opportunity thinking hat! I have never heard or seen advertised any where a business offering a shed cleaning, re organising or valeting service. Maybe this is a well established type of business in places but I have never come across one of these businesses around Lincolnshire where I live, maybe you know differently?

I can see a tremendous opportunity here for someone with self motivation, basic marketing skills, full driving licence, willingness to work hard and most importantly do a first class job.

To get started it might be an idea to draw up a few interior shed designs for various sized sheds, for shelving arrangments, cupboard standing areas, work benches/areas etc etc so as to give yourself a professional appearance when meeting clients and pricing up their jobs. Obviously if you get your price right and do a top class job you should find that once the word gets around about your business and standard of work you may well get plenty of referal work from satisfied customers, also you may well get repeat work as over a period of time I am sure alot of customers would instead of keeping their garden sheds clean and tidy, would let them gradually return to their original untidy mess.

Things you would require would be a vehicle to get you from A to B, a few basic tools ie:- brush, screw drivers, battery drill, dust pan and brush, probably an hammer and a few nails and screws etc.

Also you would require stationary for sending out invoices, and an accounts book for keeping your companies financial records. Don't forget also to take out a liability insurance to safe guard yourself against disaster!

You would also require a name for your company although that could be as simple as Ivor Job Shed Valeting Services, or Ida Newidea Shed Cleaning Company. or just plain I B Trading as Garden Shed Cleaners etc.

To get your business up and running you would need to market it. The best way would be to do leaflet drops at targeted areas such as large houses with large gardens, council estates with attached allotments etc. Other ways to advertise your business would be newspaper adverts in your local paper and also telephone books, You could even get yourself a little website made up and so long as you had good search engine optimism (seo) within the code and pages then enquiries would start coming your way. To give it an initial push you could use google adwords for carefully selected keywords and phrase like garden shed cleaning, summer house cleans, shed interior renovation etc etc

Can anyone else see potential here? or have I already missed the boat?




Robin Harrison is the managing Director of Dolly Char (UK) Ltd. Dolly Char (UK) Ltd is one of the fastest growing domestic cleaning franchise companies in the UK today giving people the opportunity to work from the comfort of their own home.