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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Gordon Saunders on April 03, 2011, 11:42:55 am

Title: 10 yrs
Post by: Gordon Saunders on April 03, 2011, 11:42:55 am

 Today is a landmark for me , i have been a window cleaner for ten yrs exactly . Looked through my diary and my first days work on 3/4/2001 was
  9am - 4.15 pm
  £89 worth of work
  This was 2 of us, myself and my former business partner which worked out at a grand total of £6.13 per hr each.
 i remember being quite pleased with that at the time.

 Anybody else got there records from their first ever days cleaning

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: bumper on April 03, 2011, 11:52:11 am

i  started 27 years ago 20 of them for myself

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: H S and Son on April 03, 2011, 11:54:33 am

Havent got the records but I used to aim for £75 a day. I started November 1998

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: Johnny B on April 03, 2011, 12:14:39 pm

I started on 3rd February 1997. I worked for a friend who I worked with 3 days a week, 8 hours per day. For this I earned £3 per hour. Was chuffed with this as it took me away from the dole and began to give me back some self respect and dignity.

Went solo on 15th May of the same year. Earned £18 in a morning before the heavens opened! I still felt good though!

John.

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: Rayleigh Window Cleaning Services on April 03, 2011, 12:37:50 pm

I started in 1980 so 31 years this June.
I still have some of my first customers today that I started with.
I was charging 80p for some one bed flats,£2.00 for 3 bed semi!!


Steve

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: Dave66 on April 03, 2011, 04:54:11 pm

Quote from: Matt. on April 03, 2011, 11:54:33 am

Havent got the records but I used to aim for £75 a day. I started November 1998

i aim for that now!

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: Tom White on April 03, 2011, 04:58:44 pm

I started in Feb 2002; I earned just over £50, was paid about £30 and felt like I'd just had a right kicking.  I didn't know if I wanted to continue after that first day.

I still clean the very first house I ever cleaned; it's a leaded detached house with a conservatory.  It must've taken me the best part of a morning to do, and now I can do comfortably in fifteen minutes; less if I hurried.

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on April 03, 2011, 05:02:33 pm

I remember the first time I did |£100 in a day I felt like Alan sugar!

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: steven ainger on April 03, 2011, 05:04:52 pm

ive just had my 5th aniversary ( friday), and one of the first houses i cleaned, trad, i quoted at £15. because it had awkward access to the windows using a standoff, and had paint splatters on, which i cleaned free of charge. it took me 3 hours  :o
 i wondered if i had made a big mistake in my career choice.
 i still clean the same house and its £20 and takes me 30 mins wfp  ;D  ;D

Title: Re: 10 yrs
Post by: rosskesava on April 03, 2011, 05:18:25 pm

Just on 10 years for me also but I can't remember the exact date. I think it was late Spring. I was young then.

I'd been sacked from my job and a mate of mine had been made redundant. We were both broke and bored. I don't remember how the idea to clean peoples windows came up but with an old brass squeegie, which had a rock hard rubber, a sponge, some of my missus's t towels and an old ladder, we cleaned the windows of a few neighbours for a pitance.

We spent the 'profits' down the pub. Sounds stupid but it felt really good to have earnt a few quid.

I also still do the windows of two of the original customers we got in those first few weeks and like Tosh, what took ages then takes no time at all now.