Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Avo on November 09, 2011, 06:28:47 pm
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What you guys charging on standard 2 and 3 bed houses in the midlands area??? Ive been doing a round in warwick/leamington for 7 years but hardly changed my prices since day one..
Spoke to a windy today he's doing them at £12 standard and £15 with a Connie but im doing them at £8 to £10 I am under cutting myself???
Oh also has anyone got a spare 25L di vessel they wanna sell me cause I want rid of my new 11L??
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Think about how much the cost of living has gone up in the last 7 years! You need to increase your prices!
Andy
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price increase every 2 years by at least a £2!
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price increase every 2 years by at least a £2!
Guy near me has been cleaning for 44 years, so he should be charging about £44/2/6 per clean.
Vin
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;D
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not enough ;D
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definitely too cheap. the problem is you can never stick prices up to what they should be after that long. every couple of years now I put them up a quid or so. I made mistake of leaving it for years and trying to put up a lot and upset a lot of customers!
I'd say.your average conservatory on 3 bed semi would be 6 to 8 quid at least at a guess, then with the house I imagine it would come to 12-15 anyway.
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charge enough to make it worth your while , dont worry about others.
The price of living has gone up true, but has people wages or disposable income ?
It has to be a happy medium, window cleaning is not an essential service.
Sounds like you could increase a bit though £10 / £12 ?, if you have a long standing and loyal customer base explain this rise in the fact your prices have not risen since starting and this is to reflect your running costs.
I am charging more to new customers now and trying to increase the lower priced ones slowly and by a small amount to offset any I may lose, especially over this winter.
Simon
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if your charging say£10 for 3 bed semi for a new custy and they are all accepting those prices (you maybe under charging)
try £12 if you get 4 out of 5 accepting
try £15
sometimes rejection is helpful
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What you guys charging on standard 2 and 3 bed houses in the midlands area??? Ive been doing a round in warwick/leamington for 7 years but hardly changed my prices since day one..
Spoke to a windy today he's doing them at £12 standard and £15 with a Connie but im doing them at £8 to £10 I am under cutting myself???
Oh also has anyone got a spare 25L di vessel they wanna sell me cause I want rid of my new 11L??
How can you be undercutting yourself ??? that doesn't make sense, but then neither does not increasing your prices in 7 years :)
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We get a rise every time we pick up a house and people are getting a wage cut so how can we put up prices ???
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8-10 is fine if they are smallish and compact , but if you can get more do
I did some £6 - £10 compact 3 bed stuff today and in 6 hours with a lad on downs(trad) knocked out 35ish...
But they are due a rise , point is money can still be made , HOWEVER , new jobs get charged at £10 minimum now
And next year putting all prices into that category... So start as you mean to go on , but don't stress about any at £8 - 10 if you make money on them
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i dont have a compact round but all realtively close in the diff areas i cover -
however despite having some at 6quid fronts only and starting at 8 for small 1/2 bed bungelow or house - most of mine now start at 11/12 quid and i try to get ones with small conny another 3/8 quid depending on size
i deally id like a perfect average of 15 quid a job coz most days would be great then.
some are decieveing ive got a 2bed det bungelow ay 11quid which takes 35/45mins owing to the amount of hose i have to run round in awkward places - she now makes a habit of having me do 3 inside kitchen windows as well. no extra charge but next march i need to put up.
then ive got a 5 bed large detached house takes 35mins for 25quid - both of these job times include unpack and pack away.