Why do people charge the same price for a one off job or maybe yearly/6monthly
Con roof are a pain in the back side and should be priced above what your hourly rates are for standard window cleaning IMO.
Who ever is doing them for £20 a pop I have about 15 you can do for me
I think conservatory roofs are a bad example because if left for a year or 2 they do get to be a pain to bring up to scratch. For the cons roof as show I would do it for £20 provided it was an integral part of a regular whole house clean.
As a one-off yes I agree charge your hourly rate and a bit more...but not to the point where it's going into rip-off territory.
What’s ripping of territory?
Assuming you're over 14 Ewan I'm sure you're asking a rhetorical question...but if you're not here's my definition of a rip-off merchant:
Taking advantage of people who haven't checked out prices and therefore have no clue as to what is an acceptable/going rate for the job and therefore charging way over-the-odds or whatever you feel you can get away with.
Should haved added it normally happens to the old and also to guileless people.
er did you price check about 5 guys when it came to fixing your leak?
How do you know you got the cheapest price?
I could have done that for a fiver! :
No I didn't. But the leak needed to be fixed asap and the guy I used I had used before so knew that he was sensibly priced...he charged £80 for 1 1/2 hrs..which i though perfectly acceptable.
However: If I'd used a plumber from yellow pages and he had charged £200 (£133ph) for his work and i had then subsequently found that the going rate was nearer £50ph then I would have felt ripped-off because the yellow pages guy, being a professional, must have known, roughly, what the going rate was and was merely taking advantage of the fact that I obviously hadn't a clue.
Clearly, in our yellow pages plumber example, had I checked around I would have found the £50ph guys and Mr £200 would have been shooed away. He was therefore quoting £200 simply because he hoped I'd in all innocence agree to his price because I had no benchmark to compare.
You don't get ripped-off in supermarkets because there is a visible benchmark on prices. OK Waitrose are more pricey than Asda but you go in with your eyes wide open.
As I said, it's not a question of being expensive, more a question of charging way over the odds purely because the guileless customer takes your word that this is the going rate for a given job. And that in my view is the rip-off!
