There’s roughly one car for every three people in the UK, that’s over 20 million cars and many of us pay between £3 and £5 a week to have them cleaned, or we spend a precious hour of our weekend doing it ourselves.

It’s an easy business to start, all you need is a bucket, sponge and some car shampoo. After that it’s simply a case of wandering around your local neighborhood (or better yet the nearest rich neighborhood - find the cash rich time poor who have nice cars) knocking on doors and offering to clean their cars.

The downside however is you’ll be working outdoors during winter and you’re likely to find the weather affects business.

If you guarantee a good job you should be able to charge around £5 (after all you’ve saved them having to drive to the carwash) you could also offer add-ons such as waxing, alloy wheel cleaning, tyre blacking and an internal valet to drive up the value of the average sale. If you’ve got a big enough market locally you might also be able to leaflet for business and employ your friends to clean cars too, thus generating more income than you could alone.

This post is part of the my teen business week series.

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