A SELF-started entrepreneur from Trowbridge has seen his business grow over the past couple of months, with hopes of more customers requiring his services soon.

Simon Chown, 44, of Paxcroft Mead, started up his bin cleaning service in January, starting off with between 80 and 100 homes requiring his services. Now, Mr Chown has expanded his client base and is taking his work to Frome, Chippenham, Calne and further even though he originally intended to just cover west Wiltshire.

“I have got about 500 customers now which is fantastic, business has really boomed, I am now at a third of my customer capacity and I got most of those in winter when you wouldn’t usually think of getting your bins cleaned. I have been getting a lot of business off Facebook, my page has picked up a lot of people,” Mr Chown said.

“It is great to see business growing, it is a bit of a real life success story from a local company. I am really glad it has gotten this big. I now go to Devizes, Colerne, Calne, Chippenham and other areas of Wiltshire instead of just sticking to West Wiltshire.”

Now that Mr Chown is expanding the coverage of his business, he hopes to be serving the maximum amount of customers by summer.

“Now it is getting warmer it means people’s bins are going to smell more. If I could get the other two thirds of the customers in by July it would be great, I can only really look to gain another 10 or 15 customers a day. Some of my houses have more than one bin so I have more bins than customers right now,” added Mr Chown.

Anyone who is interested in getting in contact with Mr Chown about his services can do so by visiting the Facebook page by searching Green Cleen- Wilts LTD or by calling 07902 163569.