Why air duct cleaning is a great add-on business.
Posted by Peter Haugen on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 @ 02:28 PM
Adding air duct cleaning services represents a great business opportunity to a wide variety of contractors. You should look into adding air duct cleaning if you currently are a:
- HVAC contractor
- Mold remediation contractor
- Fire/water restoration contractor
- Asbestos abatement contractor
- Carpet cleaning contractor
- Plumbing contractor
- Home energy audit contractor
- Other type of contractor
Benefits for you:
- You can better serve your existing customers by offering them this additional service. Satisfied customers are the key to success.
- You help attract new customers which you can then market all of your services to.
- You strengthen your relationship with that customer and give them more reasons to contact you. Plus you should get more referrals from that satified customer.
- You create a new revenue stream, expand your customer base and help grow your business.
- You can set your company apart from your competitors that do not offer air duct cleaning services.
- Integrating an air duct cleaning business into your exiting company is relatively easy because you already have your business and marketing systems in place. All you have to do is expand them a bit.
- If you are currently subbing out air duct cleaning services you can improve your scheduling, quality of work and profitability by doing the work yourself. Your customer remembers your name if your subcontractor does a bad/incomplete job.
- Investment in equipment and training can be as low as $6,00 to $7,000.
The need for air duct cleaning services will continue to grow because the desire for better indoor air quality and and lower energy cost continue to grow. Cleaning a HVAC system will improve indoor air quality because you have removed the accumulated dirt, debris and other contaminates. A clean HVAC system will run more efficiently reducing energy costs.
For more information go to:Blueprint - Residential Air Duct Cleaning Guidelines.pdf