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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Taylor & Taylor WC Services on August 17, 2011, 06:31:28 pm

Title: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: Taylor & Taylor WC Services on August 17, 2011, 06:31:28 pm
For a 3 bed house! A local window cleaner to me advertising on fb the above??

He says they're becoming popular (no wonder at that price) but something tells me he'll get fed up doing them for that.

What do you guys charge? I average £40-£60 for a average 3 bed???
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: bad trippy on August 17, 2011, 06:34:22 pm
same price as you
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Post by: RO-Sheen on August 17, 2011, 06:40:07 pm
£1 per foot
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: sf on August 17, 2011, 06:46:54 pm
£70 to clean outside gutter and facia extra £20 to clean out gutter
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: L.J.Thorpe on August 17, 2011, 06:47:12 pm
have you got a link to the facebook page ???
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: Pope vader on August 17, 2011, 06:59:48 pm
good luck to the bloke, say he does 4 a day thats 60 in his back pocket,  they dsont take that long,  a lot of wc forget that 60 a day is good money to a lot of people
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: Blue Frog Systems on August 17, 2011, 07:17:00 pm
£50 inc windows .... hour and half tops

£15 though is a bit on the low side though.
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Post by: Tom White on August 17, 2011, 07:19:48 pm
good luck to the bloke, say he does 4 a day thats 60 in his back pocket,  they dsont take that long,  a lot of wc forget that 60 a day is good money to a lot of people

Not people who have to fork out for a van, and all the associated paraphernalia that goes with a pure water system.  It's about £40 for a ruddy brush!  ;D
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: H S and Son on August 17, 2011, 07:20:38 pm
good luck to the bloke, say he does 4 a day thats 60 in his back pocket,  they dsont take that long,  a lot of wc forget that 60 a day is good money to a lot of people

£60 a day good money?

It doesn't even come close to minimum wage.
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Post by: Blue Frog Systems on August 17, 2011, 07:23:20 pm
add your dole money ontop of that and i bet it comes close ;)
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Post by: H S and Son on August 17, 2011, 07:25:31 pm
Not after he's taken any fixed costs and variables off, wet weather, ill health, bank holidays and time in the nick  :)
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: mci services on August 17, 2011, 07:38:28 pm
I spoke to a window cleaner a couple of years ago and when he hit the £60 mark he went home for the day, and it took him until 2.30/3.00 to do it

He asked me if that was about right? I said yes ;D
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: H S and Son on August 17, 2011, 07:47:24 pm
Brilliant  ;D
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Post by: s.w.c on August 17, 2011, 07:52:05 pm
i done a bungalow with large conservatory this morning cleaned all fascia and gutters took me two an a half hours with tea breaks i charged 85 notes.

that's a bungalow so a house would be more.
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Post by: Avo on August 17, 2011, 08:09:21 pm
£15 front n back this is crazy.... cant have alot of work coming in doing them for that price.. i'd rather stick a folk in my eye than work for that amount.
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Post by: dave carroll on August 18, 2011, 04:03:12 am
better a folk in your eye than a fork  ;D
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Post by: amayze on August 18, 2011, 06:20:29 am
I can have his number, I'll pay him £20 for each and pocket the difference !!
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: Avo on August 18, 2011, 07:41:10 am
ha ha yes even a fork maybe   ;)
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Post by: dazmond on August 18, 2011, 09:10:52 am
anything from £40-£80 for 3-4 bedroom houses.£15 he is sure to be stuffing the money in his back pocket.is he doing them off a ladder instead of wfp?

£60 a day is not good money whichever way you look at it.for most of us its a couple of hours work or so maintenance window cleaning.i have some work where i earn £60 an hour but not 40 hours a week!

most of this type of work comes through my regular customer base.i have noticed an "odd job" guy knocking about offering conservatory roof cleaning for £20 in with the gardening!!using a hosepipe and garden brush!!he is a retired guy who is just topping up his pension.it doesnt bother me as i have enough work and the conny roof/fascias cleaning are extras to fit in round my regular stuff.
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Post by: Mike_G on August 18, 2011, 08:02:34 pm
good luck to the bloke, say he does 4 a day thats 60 in his back pocket,  they dsont take that long,  a lot of wc forget that 60 a day is good money to a lot of people

£60 a day good money?

It doesn't even come close to minimum wage.

Yes it does, minimum wage is £5.93 for an adult over 21 and the standard average day  (if there is such a thing) is 8 hours so he's getting a bit more than average and if he's just started up perhaps he's happy with that until he builds up some better work.
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Post by: Pope vader on August 18, 2011, 08:13:24 pm
a lot of newbie start up thinking if they earn what they did in there job then they will be happy, and then a few months down the line realise how much can be made

a lot of wc think it is there god given right to earn £200-£300 per day like we have a trade that we spent years studying to do
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: Mike_G on August 18, 2011, 08:45:01 pm
Thing is if this guy is new he might well be happy with just earning enough to pay his bills until he picks up more work, thats what I did when I first started, I had a mortgage to pay and I made sure I earnt the money to pay it and if it meant working all day for less than £60 thats what I did, dont get me wrong I would loved to of gone in and priced jobs high but at the time it just wasn't possible, everyone has to start somewhere and if he priced everything up at some of the prices you read on here he might well been homeless in a couple of months!
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: mci services on August 18, 2011, 08:59:36 pm
Thing is if this guy is new he might well be happy with just earning enough to pay his bills until he picks up more work, thats what I did when I first started, I had a mortgage to pay and I made sure I earnt the money to pay it and if it meant working all day for less than £60 thats what I did, dont get me wrong I would loved to of gone in and priced jobs high but at the time it just wasn't possible, everyone has to start somewhere and if he priced everything up at some of the prices you read on here he might well been homeless in a couple of months!

I agree mike, it isn't easy starting out, and work is work.
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Post by: Frankybadboy on August 18, 2011, 09:57:05 pm
3 bedroom house no less than £100,and loads of work coming in.
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Post by: JUST GUTTERS on August 18, 2011, 10:13:04 pm
I have one job i clean pvc front and back for £15 every 6 months ...£6 pound for windows on top
20-30 minutes tops.....  I tried these maintenance cleans with my customers but lost track..
This one custy keeps reminding me now...
  there is another guy on this site who cleans ALL the whites..EVERY CLEAN.. £10 min
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: mlscontractcleaner on August 18, 2011, 10:13:33 pm
Not after he's taken any fixed costs and variables off, wet weather, ill health, bank holidays and time in the nick  :)

He'll get his dole money what ever the weather!!!!
Title: Re: Fascia & Guttering clean £15 front and back!!!!!
Post by: Spruce on August 18, 2011, 10:17:19 pm
I wish we could get prices like that up North.

I quoted £95.00 for a gutter internal and external clean, fascias and soffits, large conservatory roof clean and all windows and my quote was laughed at. It should have been £120.00.

I charged an extra £3.00 for a brush over front gutter clean that took a couple of minutes last week for another customer. I thought he was going to have a heart attack when I asked for that and I quickly had to think whether I call 999 or 911 for the emergency services.

Spruce