[mickeyfat]

20 houses in a day at £10 each..whats so hard about that???

even 40 £5.00 houses?



my average day is £250??

seems to me you must be a crap window cleaner if you cant crack that much work out...to much tea maybe?

or maybe you leave sttreakes and your reputation is nuts?


Vince Cobbold

VGC

Est 1997

ps

chuck a gutter cleaning job in and it 350

some commercial and its £400 a day?....


This WHOLE POST SHOWS ME THE WINDOW CLEANERS AND THE wana bee's

Its goto be in your blood ..dont get of your ass from an office if you cant handle working your ass of sweating and working....WORKING.sorry did that word scare you?

[windows_chepstow]

Well done mate!

[mickeyfat]

If you dont belive us....get a job in a Mcdonadls or summit.

And if you have to ask what a " proper " window cleaner is...dont even think about doing it as a job!

[windows_chepstow]

No, really mate - honest - well done!

[mickeyfat]

Hmm..sarcasm maybe?

Do a good job...price a little better as you owe it to yourself..

and it will come quicker than you think

Plan your work well also.and..dont drink tea!....

and do a good job..

did i mention...do a good job?....all whites..all doors...garage evn..it goes along way!

do it the first clean and the rest will be easy

go for it

[AuRavelling79]

VGCWCS:-
Hi, just a question - why have you put question marks after "my average day is £250??"

[AuRavelling79]

I was just wondering if he was questioning the amount or not

[mickeyfat]

you silly arsed twit (vgcvgs), what are you on about?

Do you not understand?


marc..the are supposed to be !!!..typo sorry

listen folks i aint going to argue with you all my average day is £250...why would i lie about it?





I really do feel sorry for you type of window cleane :
My point is if you feel its a large figure you should get a new job..
£200 a day is easy enough for a window cleaner..i am suprised there has been so much negative repoces to the guys that do it?

You all seem to me like a bunch of kids that are working for pennys?

You are proffesionals?

A plumber or carpet fiter would get that, why shouldnt you...get a better opinion of yourselfs and go for it


I really do feel sorry for you chaps

[mickeyfat]

Feel free to come to Plymouth and i shall go through it with you!

I cant say farer than that

pm if you wana see how its done one day!

[windows_chepstow]

Look, stop dragging Vince down.  Listen to the man.  Why should he lie?

Look stop arguing.  Just be professional and get yer prices right!

If you're not earning £350 a day - do as the man says - get a job in MacDonalds.

You gotta be professional in this job, or get outa this job.

Bloody kids, the lot of you!

PS.  Did I get a BITE there or what!
PPS.  Gotta go, the long haired Sergeant Major says it's time for bed.  Just when this was getting interesting.

[AuRavelling79]

VCGVCS - Do you average these figures over a year?

[mickeyfat]

ok

Goodluck boys

Vince

[Duke]

speechless... :

[mickeyfat]

Ken, aka  windows_chepstow

Might this be the reason you dont have a large high priced client list?

and in turn think £200 a day ( somtimes£250-£350 ) is a myth?

After some intense pressure from my missis, I cleaned the windows of my house.  Just the upstairs mind - she's a window cleaner too - and can do the bottoms herself.  Big ladders are to heavy for her (She reckons), so I tell her it's against union rules for me to do the bottoms.

Anyway, I cleaned them in the usual way.   Soaped them up, being careful not to hit the top and sides.  Squeegied as normal.  I didn't bother scrimming as I tend not to be so particular on the upstairs windows (I don't think they get looked at as much).  Main downstairs windows I always leave in pristine condition.  My missis would say that's because she does 'em.

Well, shock/horror.  I looked through my young uns back window and at the top of each there was a one to two inch grey streak where my applicator didn't hit and squeegie didn't clean!

I checked the other upstairs windows - the same - dirty at the top.

I've only been cleaning windows for two years (nearly) and I thought I was doing okay.  None of my customers complain.  My missis did though (but I won't be doing my own again for a while - I'm sure you know what I mean).

What am I doing wrong (if anything)?  Do the small percentage of my customers who notice, just turn a blind eye?  Or do you think because I do my customers every month, and my own every time I get sick of being harrassed by my missis - their windows come up clean? 

Who else will admit to doing a shoddy job? 
 
 
 

ps
Ken , the offer to come to plymouth is still on if you promise to go nowere near my customers windows!!

[mickeyfat]

Dont expect any more replys from me on this subjuect...........

I have to pack

Off to Florida for 3 weeks soon

[mickeyfat]

Not chicken, just bored of explaining somthing so easy 

See ya...





Goodluck with it all

[AuRavelling79]

VGCWCS 
Sorry if my post got lost in the melee, I'll try again:-
Do you average those figures over a year? Or are they "peaks"

[rosskesava]

Having just put our accounts together for Sept to Dec last year, for 3 of us we averaged £158 (after expenses) a day and that includes times off, days lost to the weather etc and Christmas. That's for a 6 day week. Bear in mind we had a young kid who was on £20 a day when we worked it works out to just under £400 a week for me and my partner.

The young kiddie may have seemed on a low wage but he was 17, couldn't read or write, didn't have a clue to start with, was full of attitude, and didn't get any of the work in the first place and would have got a pay rise this year. He didn't have a clue about the proper way to be in fornt of customers and had loads of tantrums. We now have a 25 year old who jumped at the chance and who'd wished he'd been given the chance at 17. Just shows you doesn't it and he's said that in a year he'll be aiming to do w/c with his own round.

This year till April we're aiming for £175 a day.

So far this month we've averaged £86 but the weathers been cr*p. Things should improve as the months go by and the days get longer.

It's bloody hard work

[g_griffin]

Vince has not always had a "high priced client list". I remember him saying he got 3 pound per house and so missed the bathroom windows. This wasn`t that long ago. If  he now has only top paying customers, good luck to him, but I hope he doesn`t forget the time when he wasn`t as successful or professional  :.
                   Gerry.

[mickeyfat]

I do try to forget!

I raised all my prices
brought a sign written va
brought a database ( george software )
new tools
new wfp
got a uniform
got a company logo with loads of  stationary
stamped addresed envelopes went in
it cost be a good part of 5k to get there!...i was skint for months and am just comming back to normal with a very rosey futre

you might notice no money went into advertising!!!!!

lost a few cos of it.....o well.it was worth it
I then got the word of mouth goin ape as we started cleaning people con roofs etc..
People are willing to pay it..i didnt think they would at first..

I went from having alot of crap work to having a little good work nearly over night!

It took nearly a year ( about 6-9 months) but it paid off

Stop being mugslike i was chap and get thoses prices higher..!

On cip a report just came in about some poor bugger dieing after a fall......

Your worth it guys!