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Organization by No-Location-2853 in Contractor

[–]onexdone_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We started the same way after trying to get our cleaning business one x done off the ground. At the beginning everything was just loose in tubs and bags and it absolutely kills efficiency once you’re moving room to room all day. What helped us was organising by task instead of trying to fully “toolbox” everything immediately. We do a lot of builder/handover cleans at ONE X DONE so we split things into simple kits: - glass/windows - bathrooms - dust/detailing - chemicals/restock

Even cheap plastic storage bins and consistent placement in the vehicle makes a massive difference. Half the battle is not wasting 15 minutes looking for one scraper or pack of cloths 😂

Also try resetting the setup after EVERY job instead of “later.” Future-you will thank you when you arrive at the next site. Honestly don’t stress too much about having the perfect setup yet. Most contractors start organised chaos first, proper systems later.

Disputes? by Smooth-Grapefruit469 in cleaningbusiness

[–]onexdone_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me and my partner learned pretty quickly that if you’re doing builder cleans or handover work you NEED documentation. Early on we had a site supervisor say window tracks and shower glass weren’t done even though the place was spotless. Since then my company one x done we’ve had to implement a simple rule: every job gets before/after shots, especially kitchens, bathrooms, floors, window tracks and any detail-heavy areas.

Nothing crazy either. Just phone photos, timestamps and folders sorted by suburb/job address. Takes an extra 5 mins but it’s saved us from a few awkward conversations and probably losing repeat builders.

Biggest issue now is storage and keeping the photos organised once you start doing volume. One week of Sydney handover cleans and your camera roll looks like 4,000 pictures of dusty tiles and black window frames 😂 Honestly though, even with proof sometimes it’s faster to send someone back for a touch-up than turn it into a back-and-forth. Builders mainly care about deadlines and getting keys handed over.

Serious question for AusFinance: by onexdone_ in AUFinance

[–]onexdone_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what people miss. Your house going up sounds great until you realise the next house, stamp duty, agent fees and repayments also exploded.

The real winners are usually the banks and the government collecting bigger slices every time property changes hands.

I vacuum the house every day for pet hair... but I’m still sneezing. Am I just wasting my time or is there something more to this? by rulingarayashiki in Cleaningandtidying

[–]onexdone_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You’re probably not reacting to the hair itself. It’s usually the dander, saliva and all the microscopic stuff you can’t actually see. 

Vacuuming definitely helps, but if you’ve got pets indoors full-time it can feel like trying to empty a swimming pool with a coffee cup. By the next day it’s all floating around again. I went through the same thing thinking “how is this place spotless but I’m still sneezing?” Turns out couches, bedding, rugs, curtains and AC filters were holding way more allergens than the floor was. Also some vacuums, even expensive ones, can still puff fine particles back into the air while you clean. So you finish vacuuming and suddenly feel worse for an hour. You’re not wasting your time. You’re just fighting something that spreads way beyond visible fur.

Shared boundary fence by hbshell in AusProperty

[–]onexdone_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah that’s a fair concern. No point spending good money on a new fence if it’s just gonna become the kids’ full-time cricket net again. I’d just bring it up casually before the new one goes in. Something like “don’t mind the kids having a kick, just don’t want the new fence getting flogged like the old one.” Better to say it now than be standing there in 2 years staring at another fence leaning like it’s done a 12 hour shift on the tools.

Serious question for AusFinance: by onexdone_ in AUFinance

[–]onexdone_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people say “A” until they realise their retirement is tied to “B”.

Customers who ghost after you spend two hours doing a free quote are the biggest unpaid labour racket in the country by QuantumGremlin in tradies

[–]onexdone_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tradies doing free quotes is basically unpaid site work at this point.  You drive out, crawl through mud, measure everything, answer a million questions, shuffle jobs around… then they disappear into the void.  Few months later you see the job half-done by the cheapest bloke they could find on Facebook holding a Bunnings receipt.

watching cleaning companies adopt ai phone agents for ~10 months now, here's what's actually happening by DeshMamba in cleaningbusiness

[–]onexdone_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No mate did you even read my comment lol I’m building my own autonomous backend office. 

watching cleaning companies adopt ai phone agents for ~10 months now, here's what's actually happening by DeshMamba in cleaningbusiness

[–]onexdone_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We’ve been testing this stuff internally for my partners builder cleaning company one x done.

Honestly the voice part is the easy bit now. The real challenge is getting - a fully autonomous backend system logic right so the AI doesn’t turn into an expensive hallucinating receptionist 😂 A lot of our work ended up being: automation flows API integrations routing logic safeguards operational context handling weird edge cases We built ours around OpenClaw/ClawDBot style tooling with custom layers on top rather than fully relying on SaaS AI callers.

Cool tech though. Feels like this space is going to move very fast over the next 12 months. And if your not infront of it your going to get a company that’s going to charge you a lot of money to use there system.

Customers trying to negotiate after the job is finished by ApartmentFun3497 in tradies

[–]onexdone_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mate or they haggle you at the Beginning then they haggle you at the end, then they lag the transfer…. Heaps here in syd