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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: Pressure Washing
« Last post by Slacky on Today at 07:55:02 am »
Do you guys have a minimum price for pw ?

I've decided on £100. I've had a couple of enquirys for small areas that might take only half an hour but when you include setting up and packing away call it an hour but it just doest seem worth it to get the machine out for less.

Also do you offer different levels of service ?

For example i find a lot of people assume it's just a quick blast over with a pressure washer like they would do with a karcher so they are of the mindset it's a 30 or 50 quid job. Thinking of saying I can either give it a quick blast with the pw for x amount or and accept it will be cleaner but not perfect or I can do it properly and treat with hypo or biocide etc and charge more.

Some of the before and after pics I see on fb still covered in black spot yet people are saying it looks great has me thinking maybe by offering a premium price and a premium service you are missing out on a part of the market that just don't see the value....

Your problem is you try to cater for every enquiry going and I bet in the process of doing that you lose sight of where your business should be going.

Set out your stall, be one or the other (preferably and hopefully the better) and stick to it. There’s thousands of customers out there, you can’t have them all and nor would you want to. If you price a job and in hindsight realise they only wanted a splash n dash when you priced it as a quality clean that’s their loss, not yours. In time you will realise there are plenty of customers out there who do want a quality clean and your paths will cross. You possibly need to work on your self belief and business model. I’d love to see your interaction with a potential customer when you price up a job. Half the time it’s how you sell yourself.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by Stoots on Today at 07:53:07 am »
Hypo and pressure will get them reasonably clean but at the risk of damage

We doff them - perfect results

Is the risk the pressure or the hypo ? Or both ?

Just before I go and do something daft  ;)
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Window Cleaning Forum / Freedom trolley.
« Last post by Slacky on Today at 07:46:01 am »
I have a freedom trolley sat in my shed which has probably been used no more than 5 times.

If someone wants it they can have it, but I’m not posting.

RG23
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by simon w on Yesterday at 08:12:45 pm »
Clean a lovely Cotswold retirement village.  All is well, newly built when i started 5 years ago.  Lovley pvc windows and beautiful stone sills.  5 years on and the sills are as the picture shows, a car crash.  Moss, mould, black spot, lichen etc etc.  its 3 stories high and they have asked if i can clean the sills.  Don’t want to say no as I don’t want to say no.  Just been on FWC ISOH health and safety course as a necessity to comply and come off safe contractor scheme.  This has slowed my recklessness down.  Anyone been asked to complete a similar stone sill job.  Thinking, hypo, jet wash, biocide, but any experience of such a sill clean will be appreciated

sub it out? how far from Bristol are you, if your in the Cotswolds?
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by zesty on Yesterday at 04:47:12 pm »
£25 a sill + travel 👍

Will keep you posted
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by michael mckeary on Yesterday at 04:11:45 pm »
I usually soak a rag in strong hypo mix and leave it on for an hour and do 4 or 5 of them. Tea break and then go back and remove one and dip the rag in the hypo again and put it on another one then go back and clean the sill with small nail brush and soap solution. Go round the rest in same way but I would need a good return to bring them up like new. I buy 50 rags for £35 from Screwfix, cheap as chips.
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by JandS on Yesterday at 12:52:59 pm »
Monty miracle patio cleaner...https://montymiracle.co.uk/products/
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by Smudger on Yesterday at 11:23:07 am »
£25 a sill + travel 👍
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Window Cleaning Forum / Re: I just did not want this one!
« Last post by zesty on Yesterday at 09:04:03 am »
Been asked to do similar, have pied it off, too much faff.

You can quote it Darran? I’ll add 10% on  ;D
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