Hi guys , i cleaned a customers gutters yesterday for £30 and the windows for £7 , the gutter quote was for 2 sides , inside and out ,
Rich;
Never mind the 'not being paid bit'. You can't do anything about it so put it behind you.
That's good advice; but if it had been done to me; I'd still be raging about it two-years-later. In fact I've still got one ex-customer from the Summer who deserves a couple of handfulls of carpet tacks strewn about their driveway.
Anyway,
When you're asked to clean a gutter, I always go up and check they require cleaning first. Sometimes they're clean(ish) and the customer mistakingly thinks they need cleaning because they haven't been done in years.
On occassion, they'll give you a funny look as if you're trying to 'slope shoulders' and get out of a dirty job.
Then when it comes to pricing, I think £30 is too cheap for an inside 'gutter scrape' and an outside gutter clean; including soffits.
£50 is a better price - £25 per side - if it's a terraced house at least. More if there's more.
If it's purely just an inside gutter scrape - charge them £15 per side. If they need doing, they need doing otherwise the weight of all that muck will damage their gutters.
I believe people are willing to pay more if it saves them money on repair costs.
Use a ladder stand-off and get a bucket with some string and a big hook to put all the muck into. Don't forget to use a Rojak ladder stopper too.
I advertise this service to all of my customers and had a deluge of this sort of job in the summer.
My ex-neihbor, a proper 'cash-in-hand dodgy-guy' worked for a 'professional' gutter cleaner and told me how much he charged for a large detached house. It was £180 and it took two of them two-hours.
Okay, with regular window-cleaning customers, we can charge less and if any of them baulk at your price, you could advise them to get another quote from a 'professional' gutter cleaning service who'll probably charge treble.
