Lee if your oversubscribed with window cleaning work why are you offering gutter clearing and f/s/g cleans too?is it your ambition to work 7 days a week or are you gonna take on an employee?
Hello Daz,
I see your point.
Maybe 🤔 I’ve got it wrong.
I don’t window clean in the rain 🌧
Light rain/drizzle 👍
rain hitting the windows👎
I live in Essex where it’s not as wet as your
Home 🏡 town Manchester? (Sorry if wrong)
People don’t expect to get their windows cleaned in medium to heavy rain.
So this leaves me days where I lose income
But gutter clearing a couple of jobs in damp weather pulls in more money 💰
I not out to long on a wet day
Unlike not at all with windows.
F/s/g cleaning is harder and as you say overprice it
But gutter clearing is a good add on to counter act weather
I do need to think 🤔 what to do now
Thinking of pushing some work over to 2 monthly for better price, more manageable round 😊
Any advice Daz
I remember you did leave a post here maybe a few years back
From advice of another window cleaner passing on his knowledge of building a better
Round
Look out snow about Daz ❄️⛄️😁
Yeh 50 in May 🤦♂️
Started window cleaning at 32
Ladders
A sidekick to a 60+ trad window cleaner
I was exhausted 😴 the 1st month 😁
Your the same age as me I think(50 this year).....
im a plodder these days Lee......i like to just clean my scheduled window cleaning work and finish early every day while maximizing earnings without having to faff about buying extra equipment like gutter vacs,etc or over stretching myself by working longer hours or weekends....
personally i think your second guessing your customers......once you ve been window cleaning in the rain for a few years most customers dont bat an eyelid mate.....rain does not affect the clean at all mate if your 100% WFP.......just crack on and increase your bank balance.....
compacting my work over many years(300+ jobs in a 3 mile area)
pricing new work higher
increasing prices occasionally for existing work
working in all but the worst of weather
all the above things have helped to knock my round into much better shape over the last 10 years or so and keep my earnings high in relation to hours actually worked....
Yes f/s/g clean hard graft.
Maybe panicking but if customers lost
Will fill gaps in round.
I don’t mind using gutter vac
Just a change from window cleaning
money 💰 earnt quicker
My round is good but not as good as yours
Obviously I’m slower as I couldn’t see me getting 300 customers done in a month
Over cleaning, chatting and could get out a little earlier
1st jobs usually 9.30 am
Not working in rain ☔️ apart from light.
Effects efficiency
I’ve read “remove from the bottom and add to the top”
Regarding building a more profitable round.
I guess I’m too nice in that respect
Most of my customers have been on the books 7+ years.
