[seandyer2003]

I look to take £40-50 an hour - however 30p in every pound comes to me directly as a wage and the rest 70p go to the business for supplies, new equipment, insurance, marketing all that type of thing.

So if your talking actually earning £30 an hour id need to be taking about £100 an hour.

So all those bragging about how much they "earn" an hour you really need to take a step back and work out your costs first.

sounds like alot of overheads mate......

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

On compact work a tenner a throw 4 n hour is 40quid so there you go ,most ov us on ere easlily clean an house in 15,mins an thats wiping the sills with conservatory these figures can be achieved yes

[Space monkey]

most of my quotes get no reply . but the ones that do, make £30 per hour possible.quote high and wait for well paying work

[1wayno]

if you price right,then yeh it pretty easy to get £30 an hour,jus depends on what u want to earn an hour once youve considered all your overheads 

[Ryan @ Transparent, Carlisle]

i live north west england. and on some rounds i can be making £30 an hour.

I think its all down to pricing a job correctly, and speed of work but not comprimising quality of work.

cheers, ryan

[Rob.Hall]

Im South East and average £20 an hour.

I say average because I can earn £25-30 an hour doing commercial.

However when you take in weather, hols etc the av is £15.

Have started to look at how my round is organised and the prices charged because I feel that some dire changes are needed to increase turnover and cleaning compacity.

Quite the running around which has started to creap in again.

I have a mate who is trad. He is fast but has been doing it all his life. His av turnover is £34-37,000 year.

[*kentnick@hotmail.co.uk]

£12-£15 is my average an hour when working. god if i was on £30 an hour id be a million aire in 10 years.

[andrew66]

there seems such a disparity in the trade, in ireland, where i live, in Dublin to be precise, the average semi is 25euro taking around 20 minutes, the cost of living is higher here of course, and taxes as well but a normal years income would be 60,000 euro, we have all the same problems here as uk weather customer apathy etc but we make a great income also i am a very cheap window cleaner.

ps please dontmove to ireland the market is very small

[andrew66]

sorry forgot to mention im part time at this also

[WCE]

there seems such a disparity in the trade, in ireland, where i live, in Dublin to be precise, the average semi is 25euro taking around 20 minutes, the cost of living is higher here of course, and taxes as well but a normal years income would be 60,000 euro, we have all the same problems here as uk weather customer apathy etc but we make a great income also i am a very cheap window cleaner.

ps please dontmove to ireland the market is very small

Funnily enough I am considering such a move!

[Sir Squeaky]

Amazing how much earnings have changed since this thread started.

I'm not on half what some are, and I try to do 30 p/h most hours...if not they go up or get replaced.

[prestige cleaners]

its between £30-£60 per hr in south wales, thats with wfp though and a one man band. i think my 1st year i averaged £35 phr over the year, but i do 8 week cleans so charge twice as much.

but im seeing a few newbies every month, so might start seeing a lot of work being undercut unfortunately. 

[Matthew JN]

Hi all,

I live in Kent and all my residential round work is WFP.  Any new residential work that i quote is always based on time taken to do the job and i base it on £30.00 per hour.   I dont always ge the job but would rather not do the work than do begrudgingly underpriced.

My best  residentail earner is 5 x 3 storey 1970s town houses that i charge £25.00 each for (£125.00) and last monday i completed them at an easy pace in 3 hours. So that is £41.66 per hour. But part of  the reason is they all next to each other so can park in one spot. They are cleaned every 7-8 weeks.

[paul rulton]

£40/£50 4 me 

[Daniel Watson]

I vary from £15/h in my own town cus i stupidly did not know what to charge when i started, two villages over i earn double that.

 £30 is fair

[williamx]

I generaly sharge for an average house with 2 upstairs and 1 downstairs window at the front and 2 upstairs and 1 downstairs window with a pation door at the back about £5-6 if that same house had a conservatory then I'd charge about £7-8 (remembering I wouldnt be able to do one of the upstairs windows).   I live just south of Birmingham.  I generally do about £15 per hour on average with the odd f*g break hear and there.  Does this sound about right or am I undercharging (I really don't see that customers would pay any more though).

HI Central

I have only read to this post so if I repeat what others might have said then I am sorry.

I live in Kings Norton and I cover the whole of the West Midlands area, I have even clients in Barnt Green - Alverchurch and Redditch.

My Prices are for a basic house (7 windows) £10 with the 1st clean charged at double.

If they have extra windows or access issues then the price goes up.

My commercial rate is even higher.

My average domestic is £25 and I achieve over £45 per working hour.

These are not bullpoop figures but fact.

If you want help in building your business to achieve this then call me and I see what I can do.

[marko]

there seems such a disparity in the trade, in ireland, where i live, in Dublin to be precise, the average semi is 25euro taking around 20 minutes, the cost of living is higher here of course, and taxes as well but a normal years income would be 60,000 euro, we have all the same problems here as uk weather customer apathy etc but we make a great income also i am a very cheap window cleaner.

ps please dontmove to ireland the market is very small

at 6 quid a pint in dublin i wont be moving there any time soon

[laddermonkee]

£12-£15 is my average an hour when working. god if i was on £30 an hour id be a million aire in 10 years.

i was earning £12 ph in 1991 and that was trad.were do you live

[john the cleaner]

hi all i live in kent and i charge  around £1 per unit  and i can earn £30 hour  no problem so yes it can be done good luck everyone

[ant french]

Like i said, alot do, but i know that i havnt been going long and at the moment, my houses arnt next door to each other, so i have to spend time packing up and driving.

im the same mate i start tomorrow morning and the weather aint in my favour, but ill wack the waterproofs on and show im genuine and relible.  word of mouth is the best advertising you can get! i live in hope to get 100 custys a month and im happy