Sir Squeaky

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #40 on: June 26, 2007, 06:22:03 pm »
For 10 or 12 windows? :o

Dick Turpin!

Ian_Giles

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #41 on: June 26, 2007, 06:47:53 pm »
Rog, I would make that a count of 13 windows per house (the way I break it down anyway)
4 of which are 2nd floor.
The ones on the 1st floor at the front have railings, this makes them fiddly either trad or WFP

Always price as for Trad.

Around here you would get £20 no problem....Tosh has picked up those accounts in hardwick Ave that you did for £6.00...ask him what he charges them ;D

(I told the old guy's (Ian) wife to give him a call.

£6.00 is laughably cheap of course, but the second floor windows and the 1st floor ones with railings just have to push the price up.

£25.00, at least around us would be pushing the envelope (so to speak ;))

Ian
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Sir Squeaky

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #42 on: June 26, 2007, 07:00:38 pm »
Around here you would get £20 no problem....Tosh has picked up those accounts in hardwick Ave that you did for £6.00...ask him what he charges them ;D
£7 and £8 actually.

I could do the £32 in 45 minutes.
Underpriced? ::)

You've got to remember Tosh will take longer than that.

They'd be a pain to pole anyway, that's why I don't do them.
They're big heavy wooden sashes that are generally open, and flaky brittle paintwork.
You've have to knock them all, and get them to close all the windows.
Also you need a ladder to open the side gates.

Good trad accounts, but not pole.

Best of luck to him!

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #43 on: June 26, 2007, 07:11:58 pm »
cant belive were still talking about this :D
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cherubs cleaning

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #44 on: June 26, 2007, 07:31:41 pm »
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r they in watford





jerry

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #45 on: June 26, 2007, 07:53:39 pm »
na mill hill
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Ian_Giles

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #46 on: June 26, 2007, 07:58:00 pm »

They'd be a pain to pole anyway, that's why I don't do them.



And also why I was also not interested in them!

The point I was inferring Rog is that people are prepared to pay far more than you might expect, it isn't just about how quick you can do them, there is also the factor that they can't do them for love nor money, and were they to try to (if they were fit and able) can you imagine how long it would take them?

3 storey work comes under that heading too, first floor windows some people will try to get at, but 2nd floor?

I've had many many lads come to work for me over the years and you can almost hear the sweat squirting out of their pores as the attempt to climb, limpet like up the ladder.

so i wasn't actually knocking what you charged, I know you did them quickly, but was clumsily trying to point out that people will pay far more than you might think, for something you think is child's play...if you see what I mean!

Ian
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geefree

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #47 on: June 26, 2007, 08:10:22 pm »
All the new houses now seem to have 3 floors and railings, is this the shape of things to come, they are a pain wfp and a pain trad.... and around here it would be around £10-12  per house,

but they are horrible blooming things.... twisting your brush, getting it stuck,  water dripping from 3rd to second floor then ground floor....or risking life and limb with those dizzy heights doing them trad... ::)

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Re: How much would you guys charge??
« Reply #48 on: June 26, 2007, 08:20:25 pm »
yes gazza i think they r sxxt,

we do a lot of b/clean on this type of houses.


hertfordshire


jerry