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Title: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Small but perfectley formed on May 01, 2011, 10:30:37 am
Whats your lowest priced job and what is it
Mines 1 upstairs window fortnightly on terraced house £1
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: andyM on May 01, 2011, 10:33:21 am
2  front leaded windows on a bungalow £4 (wfp)
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: S.A.J on May 01, 2011, 10:41:22 am
Front of small house 3 windows and a door takes us about 2mins to wfp it and charge £3.00 got 3 in a row to clean!!

But there days are numbered!!
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Slash on May 01, 2011, 10:50:04 am
My minuimum is £10,anything under than that it's not worth getting out of the van!
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Wc Solutions on May 01, 2011, 11:52:07 am
prob like the most of you, mines a bungalow at £5 or a certain coffee shop is very cheap to!!
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Post by: mci services on May 01, 2011, 11:58:10 am
£3.50 on flats I have loads and shops at £3 :o
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Post by: K.J.M on May 01, 2011, 12:16:03 pm
£5 tenament 4 windows trad  should be £6 but i got haggled by an o.a.p  :-[
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: AuRavelling79 on May 01, 2011, 12:19:23 pm
In a group (old peoples' home but seperate bedsit-flats) £4.00

Solitary house front (among a row of others) £5.00

House (long time custy from trad days - ex council semi) £7.50

New stuff - minimum £10

Used to do my mum's for free but sadly she died earlier this year.
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on May 01, 2011, 01:39:27 pm
2 top widows £3 wfp there 10 secs.
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: alanwilson on May 01, 2011, 03:59:54 pm
you're not there 10secs - you have to get paid, we won't stop either van for less than £10
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: DaveG on May 01, 2011, 04:04:20 pm
£0... the bloke who sorts my website and any computer problems I may have. I do his windows every 6 weeks or so (3 bed semi)
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: dazmond on May 01, 2011, 05:02:30 pm
£2-50 small one bed granny flats.very compact with 3 windows in each flat.these are housing association flats in a poor area and they nearly all pay when i clean!£30+ an hour.i can clean 12-14 flats an hour!a good little mornings work.i get a lot of  tips off these old folk at xmas as well!! ;) ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on May 01, 2011, 05:39:12 pm
£6 front only - two 1st floor windows, 1 ground floor window and a door

My wife doesnt pay me to do our windows.... so i dont clean them ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: sf on May 01, 2011, 06:49:45 pm
£2 small bungallow, 2 windows and door takes me 1 min trad
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Perfect Windows on May 01, 2011, 07:13:12 pm
Ground floor flat with two windows, £12.

Vin
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Alex Allen on May 01, 2011, 08:00:15 pm
£0... the bloke who sorts my website and any computer problems I may have. I do his windows every 6 weeks or so (3 bed semi)

£0 same here, for a few internal windows for pensioners
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: dazmond on May 01, 2011, 08:56:28 pm
£6 a window? perfect windows?cheapest job?i think ill come round your way and undercut you you robbing barsteward!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Ross G on May 01, 2011, 09:02:06 pm
£6 a window? perfect windows?cheapest job?i think ill come round your way and undercut you you robbing barsteward!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on May 01, 2011, 09:09:53 pm
dont be kidding ya selfs
im the cheapest bar non ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: groundhog on May 01, 2011, 11:09:34 pm
You have to set a minimum price, or you end up having these silly little jobs that waste your time!! I set a minimum price a long time ago of £10, and because of that I have several great little jobs.. ie I have a barn type conversion with 2 of the smallest skylights you have ever seen, I clean just the skylights every month for £10... if I priced it per window I would be getiing 2quid, which would not be worth bothering with.
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: NJWindowCleaning on May 01, 2011, 11:11:50 pm
£0.00: have a hair dressers shop which they dont pay me, the misses and I have hair done for nothing.. :) :) :) ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: mci services on May 01, 2011, 11:16:46 pm
You have to set a minimum price, or you end up having these silly little jobs that waste your time!! I set a minimum price a long time ago of £10, and because of that I have several great little jobs.. ie I have a barn type conversion with 2 of the smallest skylights you have ever seen, I clean just the skylights every month for £10... if I priced it per window I would be getiing 2quid, which would not be worth bothering with.

yes set a minimum but surely you can see if you have compact work with very little effort some low prices are good money earners, or am I missing the point, I make just as much from my low priced flats and two bed terraced than from my stand alone bigger jobs, and the reason is I have lots of them at lower prices but all next to each other
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Richard Neal on May 01, 2011, 11:19:58 pm
OAP flat £3.00 but i do 18 in the same block
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: dazmond on May 01, 2011, 11:32:32 pm
silly little jobs as groundhog puts it turns into good bread and butter work if you have very compact work!i have a mixture.if its a stand alone then a £10 min is ok for new stuff.

groundhog just likes to brag about charging £25 for 3 bed semis while us paupers like me charge £6 for some of them! ;) ;D ;D

i can still afford to go to barbados and new york etc and other fancy holidays every year and ive got good wfp equipment and van.

i must be doing something right!! ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: groundhog on May 02, 2011, 12:05:10 am
I'm not bragging Dazmond, I'm just trying to show some business common sense!! Most of us work on our own and have no intention of employing large numbers of employees, therefore we are limited to the number of customers we can take on, so I would say that the average window cleaner can comfortably look after about 3 - 4 hundred customers give or take a few? maybe more if you have very compact stuff. So my advice is to make those 3-400 custies the best quality custies you can get!! And in my opinion the best way to do this is to set a minimum price, most people are prepared to pay a tenner to have their windows done these days, if their not then I don't want them as a customer!! Although I do have a minimum of £10, I rarely take on anything less than £25 these days as I'm trying to refine my round now, and only the cream work is good enough for me thee days!!  :)
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Small but perfectley formed on May 02, 2011, 06:36:04 am
Theres no way you could get £10 for terraced houses someone would do them cheaper and you would loose the lot,
All the work i do extremely compact most streets i clean 30-40 houses
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: dazmond on May 02, 2011, 07:23:40 am
yes some of my work could be better but i also have some better priced work as well!most of my work is in an affluent area.the cheaper estate work is staple work.good solid dependable work with good cashflow.

i have a varied mix of different domestics and a few commercial.obviously im doing the same groundhog.refining all the time.

my round is like a living breathing organism!its constantly changing and mutating!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

still i wouldnt get £25 for a 3 bedder up north!my most expensive 3 bedder is £12 every 8 weeks! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Perfect Windows on May 02, 2011, 09:13:42 am
silly little jobs as groundhog puts it turns into good bread and butter work if you have very compact work!i have a mixture.if its a stand alone then a £10 min is ok for new stuff.

groundhog just likes to brag about charging £25 for 3 bed semis while us paupers like me charge £6 for some of them! ;) ;D ;D

i can still afford to go to barbados and new york etc and other fancy holidays every year and ive got good wfp equipment and van.

i must be doing something right!! ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'm sure you are.  My £12 flat is not next to another customer, so I drive, set up, clean and pack away.

I will say, however, that you could have the better world.  You could charge a little more and not lose your customer base, ending up with better priced but still compact work.  I state that categorically.  You're a reliable window cleaner, that's clear, and customers value that above anything else.

Over in another forum that mustn't be mentioned on here, Matt upped prices of all his customers and lost a grand total of.... one customer.  He's now earning more cash for the same work.

Vin
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: dazmond on May 02, 2011, 09:20:15 am
yeh i am reliable vin.17 years of reliability!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

i did put the old work up in april last year and some again in may 2011 due to me being able to clean the extra windows with wfp.ive put the odd one or two up this year but ive shyed away from a lot of price rises.

i will next year though.


dazmond
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Tom White on May 02, 2011, 10:17:09 am
Over in another forum that mustn't be mentioned on here, Matt upped prices of all his customers and lost a grand total of.... one customer.  He's now earning more cash for the same work.

Vin

I put my prices up every-two-years, and it normally starts off with me feeling quite anxious about it.  I do it in portions because I still secretly suspect that my customers will dump me for it.  So I do it area-by-area for the first week, and then no cancellations come in, and I just finish the job and increase the rest (where it's needed).

The worst I had one year was three cancellations, all by customers who I wasn't keen on anyway.

The end product is always more money for less work.

My advice is to start off doing it area by area.  I always use a letter and I don't give any flannel (i.e. I don't make excuses for putting up my prices such as blaming it on rising insurance or fuel costs; that always sounds like waffle to me; but I do remind them that we are regular, insured, and take our business seriously).

And really, for run-of-the-mill domestic work, what's a £1 increase anyway?
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Paul Coleman on May 02, 2011, 10:47:26 am
My cheapest are a couple of freebies.
Apart from that, there is a place I do where it's £5 for the front only (£10 when I occasionally find them in and do the back).  No side gate for this one.  It's backpack through the house.  I don't normally take work on this basis but it's a hangover from yesteryear.  After that there is a £6 bungalow and another at £6.50 (nothing to them really).  I do normally have a £10 minimum but rarely quote less than £12.  These are jobs that have been on my books for a very long time and are viable at those prices.
Title: Re: Whos the cheapest
Post by: Ryan @ Transparent, Carlisle on May 02, 2011, 05:35:40 pm
have 8 compact flats at £3 each. Takes about half hour to do so £24 for half hours work is not bad  ;)