roger,
Did you read my post properly?
I don't think you did.
I've not doubled or trebled any of my prices, most of my work in town is still the same price as when you worked for me several years ago.
most of my domestic, the estate houses at least are all around the £8 or £9 mark.
some of my best days are spent cleaning these.
Just because I have the equipment to do the job quickly does not mean I am going to lower my prices, although in some cases what I price now is less than I would were I doing it trad.
I did a dormer bungalow today, charged the woman £45 to clean 30 windows....
sounds a lot doesn't it?
Well the regular price clean will be £22
I reckon that is more than a fair price for a rural account with 30 full size windows in it.
This time around it took an hour and 45 minutes, next time it will bemore like 20 minutes...
Up around the £60 an hour mark again aren't I?
But that first clean was a minger, the conservatory was covered in mildew, the wooden frames were badly oxidized, as were over half of the UPVC windows.
6 of them had bird feeders outside, and the glass, frames and sills were covered in a thick layer of bits of seed and peanuts.
the rest of them were black with grime, cobwebs and bird muck.
There is also a small UPVC conservatory on it, more of a porch really, but even the glass was covered in green algae.
But now it is as clean as it can get, the windows look like new again, and the Algae covered porch is spotless, including all the frames too, from the gutters down to the floor.
£45 for an hour and 45 minutes isn't bad is it?
to have done that trad you would have needed at least twice that long, and on some of the work (by the bird feeders) it WAS done trad and WFP combined.
So a regular clean at £22 for 30 windows?
That is a fair price to pay, and it has to be travelled to get to remember.
For me it will be 20 minutes work, maybe 25 if I have to knife off the windows by the bird feeder.
The proof?
took a few pics of it today, wish I'd taken some more now.
Here is the mildew'd conseratory before I cleaned it.
Here is the after picture
More to come, but I have to pick up a daughter from the bus stop!
Ian