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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Avo on May 25, 2011, 02:11:57 pm
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How much do you charge for a 3 bed semi these days???? £8 £10 £12
New customer was shocked when i priced her £8 and said her old window cleaner was doing them for £4 :o i said maybe thats you dont have one now then cause nobody i've met could do them at £4 and doing the job right..
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hi
i wouldnt want to do a 3 bed semi for 8 let alone 4. its got to be ten now anywhere in the country more further south.
we qt 13.00 and will drop to 12 if the custie is a haggler. Any less than that we move on there are others out there who will pay.
regards
john
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£8 sounds about rite to me
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3 bed semi £15.00 all day long in south 8)
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Really god no wonder i have so many on the books then ;D
I thought £8 no connie was the norm lol but i did understand this may go up the further south you go..
But £4 quid whats that all about thou (slap dash) wham bam thank you mam I wanna no of someone who is willing to clean for that lol.
ANYONE???
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Cleaned some local offices today, got chatting to the receptionist and she said her windy charges her £2.50 for her 3 bed semi! :o
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Start at £24, but small ones (2 bed, start at £16).
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Cleaned some local offices today, got chatting to the receptionist and she said her windy charges her £2.50 for her 3 bed semi! :o
That's quite a good price for some parts of Scotland.
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£10 every 6 wks for me
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I'd say £9 or £10 sounds about right.
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north wales / chester £12 unless do a neighbours for a tenner then will do the same
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And that's why your always begging for work
I seen your leaflets too ;D
hi
i wouldnt want to do a 3 bed semi for 8 let alone 4. its got to be ten now anywhere in the country more further south.
we qt 13.00 and will drop to 12 if the custie is a haggler. Any less than that we move on there are others out there who will pay.
regards
john
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is say £10 for me
but talking to a woman in rbs the other day
who asked me for a price on a 3 bed with no conny,
i said tenna a month
she said the fella that does it now charges £3.50 a month,
i just chucked
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;D
bet its the fella I used to slave for in Kew, Southport
Prices 'em rock bottom to keep competition out. It works, but he only window cleaned as a second job, and really didnt do it very well, although he does have 500+ customers, 98% paying peanuts - say £4.50 a 3 bed semi... ooh and £4.50 for a 4 bed detached ???
fool wrecks it for everyone else.
Glad I jacked it in and went solo wfp, charge around £8 for the same job. And do it better ;D
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£10 for new work outside my cheap estate work.although i still clean a fair few for £5-£6.these are ultra compact small 3 bedders(around 150 all right next door to each other).keeps competition out,get loads of add on work and good xmas tips.these are 4 weekly jobs.
most new work is priced much better and on a longer cleaning frequency(6-8 weeks)
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£6-£7 here in spennymoor county durham
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£7-£8 in Basildon but a local windie has been putting leaflets out say £4 whatever the size, £3 first clean. He's been going a year, probably not made a profit yet though.
Simon.
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Average 3 bed semi £15.
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if its not bays, 8 is okay . bays at 8 is a bit stupid and i jacked these up to 9.50 and boy did they sqwark/ few cancelled . once you price at 10,the tips stop i found .
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
You feel for us ??? ??? ???
So if the neighbour of a customer asked you clean just a couple of upstairs windows for her because she was too old to reach them but couldn't afford to have the whole house done you'd still charge her a tenner at least ??? ??? ???
Tit ::)
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£7-£8 in Basildon but a local windie has been putting leaflets out say £4 whatever the size, £3 first clean. He's been going a year, probably not made a profit yet though.
Simon.
At those prices he must just be reccying houses he wants to burgle. £3 for a first clean!!! No way! A pint of lager must be about £3 these days! £30 fills my car fuel tank to half full. How can anyone live on charging £3/£4 for the cleaning of a house windows?
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
You feel for us ??? ??? ???
So if the neighbour of a customer asked you clean just a couple of upstairs windows for her because she was too old to reach them but couldn't afford to have the whole house done you'd still charge her a tenner at least ??? ??? ???
Tit ::)
No I charge more for one off jobs! LOL
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
Show us a picture of your van,house,car,girlfriend and bank balance and then we'll see who feels for who.
Condescending twat
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Im happy to do jobs from £8 to £12 we all take the rough with the smooth RIGHT!!!!
I mean we all have them areas where we milk it and them areas where we get no where fast.. Im shocked to here windys will laugh in the face of 8 quid cause im happy to clean them at that myself, i started at 9am today and finished just after 3pm done a £155 whats wrong with that. (good honest days work)
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
Show us a picture of your van,house,car,girlfriend and bank balance and then we'll see who feels for who.
Condescending twat
;D
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Im happy to do jobs from £8 to £12 we all take the rough with the smooth RIGHT!!!!
I mean we all have them areas where we milk it and them areas where we get no where fast.. Im shocked to here windys will laugh in the face of 8 quid cause im happy to clean them at that myself, i started at 9am today and finished just after 3pm done a £155 whats wrong with that. (good honest days work)
Nothing wrong with that for a one man band. About 25 quid an hour is OK in my book when it's bread and butter stuff you can rely on. I envy some of you blokes in UK. VAT threashold at 75K, self assessment income tax etc etc.
I pay over 200 quid a month on health insurance here. VAT starts at 17,500 (About 15K). When you are sick, no sick pay from the government etc. No benefits for self employed people. You work or you fold.
If I was in your position, I'd be reasonably happy with 25 an hour. Another point is, with the complicated bay windows etc etc that you get in UK, I'd be WFP too. I get shivvers down my spine when I see some of the pics you guys post on here.
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Ive got ex council 3 bed semis at £3.50, private at £5. I can rattle a £3.50 house off in 6 or 7 mins on my own to a better than average standard. All window cleaners in my area charge similar so pricing £10 is a no-no. I will increase them in the future but with current economic climate and the fact that i earn loads im not in to much of a rush.
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
Show us a picture of your van,house,car,girlfriend and bank balance and then we'll see who feels for who.
Condescending twat
I did not mean to be condesending at all I just meant I feel for those window cleaners who find themselves in an area that will not stand £10 and up charge. Just doesn't seem fair!
Can't seem to say anything on here without someone reading more into it that there is.
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
Show us a picture of your van,house,car,girlfriend and bank balance and then we'll see who feels for who.
Condescending twat
I did not mean to be condesending at all I just meant I feel for those window cleaners who find themselves in an area that will not stand £10 and up charge. Just doesn't seem fair!
Can't seem to say anything on here without someone reading more into it that there is.
What do you mean by that?
;D
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Between £12- £15 dependant upon access etc. My minimun charge is now £12 from £10 get work no problem. I feel for those who do any jobs for less than £10.
Show us a picture of your van,house,car,girlfriend and bank balance and then we'll see who feels for who.
Condescending twat
I did not mean to be condesending at all I just meant I feel for those window cleaners who find themselves in an area that will not stand £10 and up charge. Just doesn't seem fair!
Can't seem to say anything on here without someone reading more into it that there is.
What do you mean by that?
;D
Nice one! LOL ;D
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Start at £24, but small ones (2 bed, start at £16).
thats cheap for london
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The guys that charge £16 for a 3 bed semi are you doing £60 - £70 an hour on your own. Or because you charge more you take longer? and because your price is so high you dont have to rush? Surely window cleaners in the south arent earning £75-80,000 a year sole traders
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birdy i think a lot of the guys thats are charging upwards of £15 for 3 bed semis are cleaning the bigger 3 bedders with big bay windows.they probably also have them scattered here and there and not like 100 accounts virtually right next door to each other.
if i was charging even £10 for my cheap very compact estate work i would be earning very good money indeed!
you might only clean 2 houses an hour at £15 a pop but itll be at a leisurely pace rather than trying to work faster(and harder!) to get a similar hourly rate!
i have a mixture of both expensive 3 bedders and cheap 3 bedders.
remember the guys charging higher rates are usually down south where the cost of living is considerably higher thus can justify a better price.
there are guys(semi-retired)who work near me and still charge £3-50 for full houses.they usually dont clean sills/frames and get round every 2-3 weeks and give the windows a "quick tickle" with a scrim then off to the next house!they dont do conny roofs/fascia/soffit cleaning and they tend to have lots of older customers with wooden sash windows!
i have picked up a few jobs off these guys but clean the windows properly.clean them every 8 weeks and charge them over 3 times as much as they charge!
quality clean,longer frequency but the customer is paying virtually the same money as they were paying the old guy.this is the way i do business with new customers now.
i still have a lot of compact cheaper 4 weekly work that is good regular staple work and good cashflow but im slowly moving away from this type of work.
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£8 - £10 in pontypridd south wales.
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And that's why your always begging for work
I seen your leaflets too ;D
hi
i wouldnt want to do a 3 bed semi for 8 let alone 4. its got to be ten now anywhere in the country more further south.
we qt 13.00 and will drop to 12 if the custie is a haggler. Any less than that we move on there are others out there who will pay.
regards
john
I always have marketing going on, constantly its called business! the day i cant be bothered to be keep growing i will pack up and do something else.
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my sister pays £5 for her 3 bed semi and she thinks thats too much to pay i told her i would charge her more if i did em