This will be my 1st Conny clean. am doing it at mates rates for the practice. Anyone give me a realistic price and average clean time please. I will use this as a reference for future jobs . Is it better to price per panel or just guess an hourly rate? Ta Pauly.
Hi Pauly
You have to charge what you can get for your area. Also much depends on how much other work you have. Don't end up creating cheap conny cleans for less per hour than you can get on the glass. I assume you are wfp and make sure you get some tfr or virosol etc. the only scenario where you should sell yourself cheaper than the windows is 1. you dont have a full days work yet 2. you could do them in the tipping rain 3. you are practising. That said you only need to do 1 or 2 roofs to get the idea.
If you can only get £30 for a whole conny and you are ok with that you MUST let them know it is a special price or that will be your highest price all the recommendations will want to pay for theirs. Tell them its £60 but its a genuine half price offer.
I usually start around the £100 mark and about the same for the fascias, then £30 for the windows as a one off etc. Then watch their reaction. Sometimes they are happy to pay £200 odd and cant believe it can all be done for that. Other times you need to come back with "of course if it was done collectively then i can discount that to say £140.00.
Knock on other doors of roofs and fascias you can see need doing. If you knock 10 doors and give 7 prices you could well get 2 of them at £140.00 each and then regular customers. Or you could spend the same time cleaning 2 houses for £50 each who will never want to pay more than that in the future.
You need to have a price ready for these jobs in your head. Don't be standing there counting panels or fumbling around. This is your job and they will expect you to know straight away. Talk to them about the how and the what. Show them some photos in an album of how clean you will get it. Talk through the detail of the gutters, downpipes and then move on to the price for pressure washing the patio
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Get the husband onside because its usually him that has to do all this when he would rather be playing golf. These jobs can be real earners and too many people sell themselves short and drive the price down for everyone else.
Good luck
