Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark blundell on November 02, 2011, 01:18:10 pm
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was out canvassing today knocked a door spoke to the bloke he said already got a window cleaner using wfp
out of interest asked what he was paying IM NOT LOOKING TO UNDERCUT just nice to know how far out my pricing is for the area.
Anyway
Front: 3 1st floor windows 2 of them above the porch one ground floor window next to porch and the porch that was about 6ft with glass side panel.
Side of property 2 1st floor window
All nice easy access park right outside pull of 20ft hose tops
ill tell you my price and the price he is being charged later just to let you all have some input first
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I will open the bidding at £12
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he will be getting charged £5 or £6
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No rear windows??
I'd go in between £8 to £10, providing the windows / porch wern't too big and if I had other work close by
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£20
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No rear windows??
I'd go in between £8 to £10, providing the windows / porch wern't too big and if I had other work close by
He only has the front and side cleaned the porch is not really big door in front then about 6ft side then end same size as door
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So its 5 first floor windows and a couple on the ground?
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£20
I like your prices. I wish lol
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£11.50
from what i can tell from your description
east mids, lincolnshire
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was out canvassing today knocked a door spoke to the bloke he said already got a window cleaner using wfp
out of interest asked what he was paying IM NOT LOOKING TO UNDERCUT just nice to know how far out my pricing is for the area.
Anyway
Front: 3 1st floor windows 2 of them above the porch one ground floor window next to porch and the porch that was about 6ft with glass side panel.
Side of property 2 1st floor window
All nice easy access park right outside pull of 20ft hose tops
ill tell you my price and the price he is being charged later just to let you all have some input first
My minimum for new work is £12.
That would fall within that price so - £12.
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oh no wait, if its just one side panel in the porch way its £10.50
GB
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
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i was out knocking the other week and quoted a house at £6, said no thanks only pay £2 for the front to be done
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
The people who have already said they'd charge more on this post so far, and thats pretty much all of them, will be asking the same thing about you!
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
get ya prices up for 1st floor windows to 1.50 for a small to average window mate! £2 1st floor big window ;)
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i would have said £8.00 even thou i ma trying to charge a min of £10.00 the fact its only 2/3rds of a house getting cleaned would lead me to £8.00
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
The people who have already said they'd charge more on this post so far, and thats pretty much all of them, will be asking the same thing about you!
Fair comment but £5.50 really
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
get ya prices up for 1st floor windows to 1.50 for a small to average window mate! £2 1st floor big window ;)
I really wish i could but i haven't been going long and i need all the work i can get. so at the moment and until i get to the stage when i can be fussy and not care if I get it or not i have to price my work to get it.
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
get ya prices up for 1st floor windows to 1.50 for a small to average window mate! £2 1st floor big window ;)
I really wish i could but i haven't been going long and i need all the work i can get. so at the moment and until i get to the stage when i can be fussy and not care if I get it or not i have to price my work to get it.
i know what your saying mate, thats very homest of you! im still not where i want to be in this game yet, but i AM at the the stage were i dont want anymore underpriced work! hope you get to the point im at soon mate
all the very best to you
GB
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I price about the same as you Mark. I guess it depends whereabouts you live but if I priced at £1.50 - £2.00 for a first floor window one of two things would happen
1. I'd pick up no work
2. If I did pick up work I would earn easily over £100k a year and I do mean easily
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I would price the same as you chap - £8/9 - And i would of thought that was a good price.
cant believe it - are we really underpricing at that ??
im 100% sure if i started quoting at £11 or £12 for that i wouldnt get any work!! :) :)
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£12 pound mate
but as youve posted this im guessung £25???
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£5.50 dont seem too bad to me!
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well i priced it @ £8.50 6 windows in total @ £1 per window as they are all easy access and £2.50 for the porch.
He was shocked as his window cleaner only charges £5.50
How can you compete with that ???
get ya prices up for 1st floor windows to 1.50 for a small to average window mate! £2 1st floor big window ;)
I really wish i could but i haven't been going long and i need all the work i can get. so at the moment and until i get to the stage when i can be fussy and not care if I get it or not i have to price my work to get it.
i know what your saying mate, thats very homest of you! im still not where i want to be in this game yet, but i AM at the the stage were i dont want anymore underpriced work! hope you get to the point im at soon mate
all the very best to you
GB
Thank you really appreciate that. that is on thing about this fourm most of the people on here are very helpful and encouraging
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forgot to mention my service includes frames, sills and doors on a 4 wkly cycle
i think a price is not the be all and end all, its how the custard perceives the service there are paying for.
i also text and phone the evening before there booked in and leave a card with the next exect clean date!
george
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Sometimes a simple little job falls into the right spot on the round.
I would give it £10 for a first clean and £7.50 after that but only if it happened fit well with other stuff around and about.
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If it was sitting amongst my compact work then i`d probably be doing it for £6,i envisage the whole house at £10-11.So lets say you did next door at a £10 and this one at £6, £16 in just under 30 mins and thats running nicely over £30/hr on the glass.At this price they would both be getting a price rise for the beginning of next year to £11 and £6.50.
Charge more if you can get it but don`t be surprised to be undercut and perhaps rightly so.
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i dont discount if its compact because what happens if you loose all the other work and your left with one underpriced job? you loose out thats what ;)
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I expect he's paying £3.00 at the moment.
I was asked to price a job today with 22 windows. Their old window cleaner used to charge them £12.00. My price was £30. Needless to say I didn't get it ;D
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i do some front and sides only houses amongst 150 very compact 3 bedders.i charge £4-£6 for them.they take 5 mins to clean 4 weekly and i earn enough thank you very much!!it also stops other window cleaners getting any work on these estates as its just not worth cleaning for that price if it was a stand alone.
i work in the north west albeit in a very affluent area.
if it was a stand alone i probably wouldnt take it on unless they were willing to pay a tenner.
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i also clean frames,sills,doors in with that price as well GB!!! ;) ;D ;D ;D