Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Shoreditch on October 07, 2010, 06:34:52 pm
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Is £50 too much to charge to clear 30m of gutters?
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nope
id imagine most charge £50 standard for 3 bed or £1 a metre to clear and upto 5x that to clean and clear
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Cheers for that.
I just gave a quote (4 bed, gable ends, so clear runs front and back), and they said that thought it was 'a lot of money', they would still go for it becasue they are leaking in some way.
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Lots on here would go in at £3-£4 per metre.
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Lots on here would go in at £3-£4 per metre.
Agreed. I charge £3.50 metre for clearing gutters with vac
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ive just done 55m on a house and got £175 ;)
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ive just done 55m on a house and got £175 ;)
Why so much?
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i did a full day of them on one of my estates(small 3 bedders)years ago and charged £15 a house.made £350!i was well happy but i smelt like id been working in a ditch and i was covered in crap(it was a wet day!)
never again!i nearly fell off a couple of times!dangerous and a dirty job!ive stopped all gutter clearing now.
i will clean the outsides with wfp though! ;) ;D ;D ;D
dazmond
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you can clean a small 3 bed semis gutters in 15-20 mins if there not too bad.
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Why so much?
This is why IMO.
i smelt like id been working in a ditch and i was covered in crap(it was a wet day!)
never again!i nearly fell off a couple of times!dangerous and a dirty job!ive stopped all gutter clearing now.
And because they dont want to do it themselves. They have a choice whether or not they accept your quote, they have every right to go elsewhere for a 2nd, 3 rd or 4th quote.
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Why so much?
Because his customer will pay that much.
Vin
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£3 a metre to clean just the inside and £4 if the want it all done i.e fascia soffit gutter presuming you use wfp if trad id charge more cus it dangerous a crappy
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I charge £3 per meter and people are happy to pay that for a job that needs doing and one they don't want to do themselves.. Heres a pic of one i done last week... one of the worst i have done in a while..
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hi kev how u doing? thats a nasty gutter where was that mate? yes it is me ;)
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an ageing INDIAN rang me up ,told me id be cleaning her gutters inside and out for 15 quid,as MRS PATEL said that was my price! i went along to look at the job,and purely because i was already there said id do it now for £25
oh,but but but, HOW ABOUT 20? She replied.
"tell you what,just think about it " was my reply and i quickly drove off
then 6 months later she rang me,
" you said 20,that includes fascias and you said you would do all the front windows in this price ,can you do it very soon? collect your money later if we arent in "
YEAH RIGHT !
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Some people...
Anyway, let's say you did them off a ladder and charged £50, then got a vac and did them in half the time, can you still charge the same?
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yes its a once a year job. as far as im aware people dont quote any less now they have wfp, i certainly dont. if they say anything point out the fact its a once a year job, your outlay on equipment has to be paid for and someone off ladders would charge the same if not more.
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hi kev how u doing? thats a nasty gutter where was that mate? yes it is me ;)
hey dan.. hows it goin?
yeah tell me bout it... 4 buckets full of moss for the whole job ... 1 per side.. that was in elmsett...
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I'd Mrs Patel to clean her own gutters and while she at it come round and clean mine!
I charge £5 a meter as i hate doing them and i hope they say they ll try someone else ;D
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an ageing INDIAN rang me up ,told me id be cleaning her gutters inside and out for 15 quid,as MRS PATEL said that was my price! i went along to look at the job,and purely because i was already there said id do it now for £25
oh,but but but, HOW ABOUT 20? She replied.
"tell you what,just think about it " was my reply and i quickly drove off
then 6 months later she rang me,
" you said 20,that includes fascias and you said you would do all the front windows in this price ,can you do it very soon? collect your money later if we arent in "
YEAH RIGHT !
Thats why i moved out of London!!! (Southall to be exact) used to have that all the time ;)
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You could have bartered for a camel perhaps?
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You could have bartered for a camel perhaps?
For the wife maybe ;D
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EEK!
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ive just done 55m on a house and got £175 ;)
Why so much?
3hrs work for 2 peolpe
normally i charge £5 per meter clearing and cleaning out
and other costs
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gutters need pricing right its one off dangerous smelly horrid work (on a ladder, dont have a vac)
i do some building s every 12 months sometimes 6 monthly & make a killing, 2 of us for day split 1200 .00 happy days (not 50 / 50 either :) )
its hard graft though , mere mortals would take days to do it
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I might get a vac - don't think I could stand a ladder - I mean, you have one hand holding a bucket (don't you?), another a trowel, so how do you keep yourself safe?
I think I know the answer to that ::)
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Or jam the feet of the ladder into the grass and so thereby keep the ladder from touching the gutter? Why?