Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Dave Graham on January 26, 2012, 04:56:38 pm
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Quote from a website:
"I transformed a local north east window cleaning round (which at the time was taking £300 per month) to that of one taking £6000 per month. The company excelled and was sold on 6 months later for £16,000."
Is £6000 per month possible and likely?
And if its making £72 000 per year why would he sell for just £16000? Again is this a likely price to sell this level of business?
Thoughts please................
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If they did so by employing 10 men it doesn't look so good.
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Yes very possible with the right work.
We turnover 8K a month now with 3 men and 2 vans
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Oh its them!!
Turnover is vanity profit is sanity.
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UK Commercial (http://www.ukcommercialcleaning.co.uk/about-us.asp)
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ask richy w ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Understand now, it was UK Commercial
idealrob
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We turnover 3x that amount and mostly domestic with 4 lads
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this is gonna turn into another willy waver ;D
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Yes very possible with the right work.
We turnover 8K a month now with 3 men and 2 vans
How did you get on when you had to go VAT Registered did it hurt?
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short answer ................. YES no problem at all ........... 1 van with 2 lads should be easy turning that over if WFP
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yes but took us 4 years to get there
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6k a month is 300 a day..possible if have a well priced compact round to be done in a normal 5-8 hour day, but if you are just starting out withought buying work you have a long long long way to go to get there.... believe me
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Bloke in my town has bought some work priced @ £4k a month - on top of what he already had (he told me about £700 a month or so ) and he's only been window cleaning about 4 months - on his own as well !! - the point is it can be done but it must it be well priced - with alot of commercial work thrown in
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So if you had a £6k turnover per month would you only want £16k for it? Seems very cheap i think...........
Also out of that £6k there wont be much in the way of overheads? Diesel, Van payment & insurance, Water etc.
Seems good money this Window Cleaning lark ;D
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A few years ago now but i used to work for another guy who had a large round in Kent with 5 men each pair completing roughly £400 of work a day 5 days for four weeks and £200 for the single guy, then he had a round in Billericay £400 a day for four weeks. Very hard to manage but with persistence anything is possible...
Averaging roughly £1600 a day, £8000 a week (baring in mind he really did go through some messers and bad employees' and was totally paranoid that everyone was out to get him)
That 99% domestic and all traditional, Kent work was ok but not greatly priced the Billers stuff was well priced. Neither were that compact
At a good pace i personally think two guys should easily clean £400 a day in 6 to 7 hours and half that for one man.
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Bloke in my town has bought some work priced @ £4k a month - on top of what he already had (he told me about £700 a month or so ) and he's only been window cleaning about 4 months - on his own as well !! - the point is it can be done but it must it be well priced - with alot of commercial work thrown in
He must be a quick learner if he can clean £4700 of work on his own with 4 months experience
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^^^ ask him - he's always posting on here - sunshine window cleaning
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I wouldn't get out of bed for only £6,000 a month...
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I wouldn't get out of bed for only £6,000 a month...
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A one man band wouldn't have time to get in bed ;D ;D
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Bloke in my town has bought some work priced @ £4k a month - on top of what he already had (he told me about £700 a month or so ) and he's only been window cleaning about 4 months - on his own as well !! - the point is it can be done but it must it be well priced - with alot of commercial work thrown in
He must be a quick learner if he can clean £4700 of work on his own with 4 months experience
i am
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We turnover 3x that amount and mostly domestic with 4 lads
Thats some going if they do that every day/week.month
Well done
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ask richy w ;D ;D ;D ;D
are work adds up to around that figure at the moment however with debts etc im not quite there
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Turnover is Vanity
Profit is Sanity......
Cash is Reality!!!!!
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ask richy w ;D ;D ;D ;D
are work adds up to around that figure at the moment however with debts etc im not quite there
glad you havent lost the sense of homour ;D
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i couldnt take a drop in wages :-[
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No where near 6k a month..
I wouldn't believe half of what u read on here.
Most would earn around 3k a month realistically ..
They may say they turn over 8k upwards, it's profit which counts.
All fortune cookie stories I'm afraid
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No where near 6k a month..
I wouldn't believe half of what u read on here.
Most would earn around 3k a month realistically ..
They may say they turn over 8k upwards, it's profit which counts.
All fortune cookie stories I'm afraid
You're having a laugh aren't ya, a lot of these boys wouldn't get out of bed for a poxy 3k a month
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Like I said fortune cookie.
Profit 3k a month turnover around 4 to 4.5 is more the honest answer
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agreed with london turnover is not where it is your not in business to turnover money, your in business to make money. Yes to get 3k a month average profit for 12 months of the year you would need to hit turnover of at least 4k a month once costs are considered and holiday etc.
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No where near 6k a month..
I wouldn't believe half of what u read on here.
Most would earn around 3k a month realistically ..
They may say they turn over 8k upwards, it's profit which counts.
All fortune cookie stories I'm afraid
Even 3k seems unrealistic unless its very well paid commercial?
Realistic figures (IMO) are 10 £8 houses a day, 20 days a month = £1600 but thats not profit and not taking into consideration days when raining.
Or am I missing something?!
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^^^^ your defo missing something if all you realistically achieve is 10 x £8 houses a day!! Blimey mate I can do that in a couple of hours on some of my rounds
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That does seem a little low in my opinion, but hey if ur over heads r really low that's damn good money..
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No where near 6k a month..
I wouldn't believe half of what u read on here.
Most would earn around 3k a month realistically ..
They may say they turn over 8k upwards, it's profit which counts.
All fortune cookie stories I'm afraid
Even 3k seems unrealistic unless its very well paid commercial?
Realistic figures (IMO) are 10 £8 houses a day, 20 days a month = £1600 but thats not profit and not taking into consideration days when raining.
Or am I missing something?!
I'm considered slow and careful and I did 16 houses from 9-3 today,
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Even 3k seems unrealistic unless its very well paid commercial?
Realistic figures (IMO) are 10 £8 houses a day, 20 days a month = £1600 but thats not profit and not taking into consideration days when raining.
Or am I missing something?!
thats why these threads are a waste of time. some guys work in areas where the prices are half what they are in some others.
if some guy worked in the channel islands then for all we know 6k might be the norm. look at this guy who does 10 x 8 quid houses. willy waving posts are like people who talk about sex. they never get any.
if some of the guys on here were earning what they claim then they wouldnt be asking advice about how to get their customers to pay their 7 quid arrears or how to write an invoice etc.
one or two of the alan sugars on here talking about world domintion were asking last year if you could set your sandwiches off against tax.
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We are very close to £6k per month now
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^^^^ your defo missing something if all you realistically achieve is 10 x £8 houses a day!! Blimey mate I can do that in a couple of hours on some of my rounds
Well Ive only just started 2 weeks ago, I only have 3 customers. I was just guessing as it has taken an hour for each house (1st clean) so I can imagine I could do 10 a day when a bit quicker.
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Well said John f
That is all :)
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^^^^ your defo missing something if all you realistically achieve is 10 x £8 houses a day!! Blimey mate I can do that in a couple of hours on some of my rounds
Well Ive only just started 2 weeks ago, I only have 3 customers. I was just guessing as it has taken an hour for each house (1st clean) so I can imagine I could do 10 a day when a bit quicker.
First cleans take at least twice as long, if not more
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^^^^ your defo missing something if all you realistically achieve is 10 x £8 houses a day!! Blimey mate I can do that in a couple of hours on some of my rounds
Well Ive only just started 2 weeks ago, I only have 3 customers. I was just guessing as it has taken an hour for each house (1st clean) so I can imagine I could do 10 a day when a bit quicker.
First cleans take at least twice as long, if not more
Yeah, took longer than expected! Im getting a WFP backpack for tops only soon so hopefully I will be quicker and be hitting that 6k a month ;)
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Once you crack on mate and have a few months experience behind you and start picking up regular customers you'll realise 10-a-day is an easy day
I appreciate 1st cleans usually take much longer, but you never mentioned that or the fact you've only just started in the 1st post :)
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^^^^ your defo missing something if all you realistically achieve is 10 x £8 houses a day!! Blimey mate I can do that in a couple of hours on some of my rounds
Well Ive only just started 2 weeks ago, I only have 3 customers. I was just guessing as it has taken an hour for each house (1st clean) so I can imagine I could do 10 a day when a bit quicker.
First cleans take at least twice as long, if not more
Yeah, took longer than expected! Im getting a WFP backpack for tops only soon so hopefully I will be quicker and be hitting that 6k a month ;)
I've just invested in a trolley wfp, I buy the water up the rd, it's truly unbievable how much quicker it is. We were going to trad the bottoms, and wfp the tops...sod that, wfp all the way
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I understand that but Im working out of an estate at the moment so I think I could only fit 4 25 litre barrels in so will be tops only. Im also on a water meter >:(
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We are very close to £6k per month now
what each van ;D ;D ;D
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I understand that but Im working out of an estate at the moment so I think I could only fit 4 25 litre barrels in so will be tops only. Im also on a water meter >:(
I too am on a metre, so with the cost of water, buying the purification system, setting it up, buying filters/resin and all the rest of it, I'd rather just drive up the rd and buy it, I reckon £1 out of every four-five customers covers the water, it's cheap as chips to buy
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I understand that but Im working out of an estate at the moment so I think I could only fit 4 25 litre barrels in so will be tops only. Im also on a water meter >:(
I too am on a metre, so with the cost of water, buying the purification system, setting it up, buying filters/resin and all the rest of it, I'd rather just drive up the rd and buy it, I reckon £1 out of every four-five customers covers the water, it's cheap as chips to buy
I saw a bloke this week working out of a Peugeot 306 with a trolley system.....he'd taken out ALL of the seats excepts the drivers, I couldn't believe it looool
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We are very close to £6k per month now
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I understand that but Im working out of an estate at the moment so I think I could only fit 4 25 litre barrels in so will be tops only. Im also on a water meter >:(
I too am on a metre, so with the cost of water, buying the purification system, setting it up, buying filters/resin and all the rest of it, I'd rather just drive up the rd and buy it, I reckon £1 out of every four-five customers covers the water, it's cheap as chips to buy
I saw a bloke this week working out of a Peugeot 306 with a trolley system.....he'd taken out ALL of the seats excepts the drivers, I couldn't believe it looool
:o :o Thats a bit extreme! No chance of me doing that, got two girls and were expecting again....
Will be getting a van this year for sure.
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I understand that but Im working out of an estate at the moment so I think I could only fit 4 25 litre barrels in so will be tops only. Im also on a water meter >:(
I too am on a metre, so with the cost of water, buying the purification system, setting it up, buying filters/resin and all the rest of it, I'd rather just drive up the rd and buy it, I reckon £1 out of every four-five customers covers the water, it's cheap as chips to buy
I saw a bloke this week working out of a Peugeot 306 with a trolley system.....he'd taken out ALL of the seats excepts the drivers, I couldn't believe it looool
:o :o Thats a bit extreme! No chance of me doing that, got two girls and were expecting again....
Will be getting a van this year for sure.
Don't think the police would be very impressed with loose 25 litre barrels everywhere
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:D :D :D
thats why I never post much on this forum.... If I say yes ..£6000 a month in 1 van and 1 lad I get the "oh yeh whatever " btw yes it is easily done !
if I say no way, I get "oh your this and that and not charging right "......
its a no win forum ???
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As stated elsewhere turnover is important but not as important as profit, We do turnover a high amount but each time we take on a new employee the turnover goes up but the profit per person goes down slightly. It takes more support staff/hours to run the business. If I clear £3.00 per employee per hour profit (net), I am a happy bunny. Now the only time I am on the glass is to cover holidays and sickness.
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We are very close to £6k per month now
sudo humility ;D
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i think dave morris is telling porkies
i think hes well past the 6k a mth
6k a mth is easily do able
with the right men equipment and work
basically everything as to run like clockwork
but wot wud be better is at the end of the mth
everyone u ad cleaned ad paid you directly into the bank ;) ;) ;)