Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: kevinc on April 07, 2012, 06:46:58 pm
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was working in leeds today on some contracts we do,and i picked up two new jobs back to back terraced houses,fiver a pop,customers said that the wc's round their clean every two weeks,now i live "in the sticks"so to speak and usually clean every six weekly,can anyone explain to me why they clean every two weeks?i've gleaned they charge around the £3.00 mark(i'm still cheaper at once monthly wfp)or is it an oooopppp north thing?been at wc for six years and it still throws me-every two weeks -any one explain why
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simple cos they do and can ;)
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;Dnice ian,but why do custies put up with it?every two weeks :o can;t get me head round it >:(god i;d be loaded and stacked out with work if it happened round where i am ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D)i can't see the logic on every two weeks,maybe when it boils down to it its a doley/quick money/pub thing i need enlightening on this one i think
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I'm glad you don't live near me £5 a pop :o :o :o :o
Paul
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i think its an ocd thing
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Trad team in one of my rounds clean weekly ???
Picking up loads of these guys, wont be long till
handbags at dawn me thinks...
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I don't understand the fortnightly cleaning either. I would much prefer to clean windows less frequently and charge a premium rate for them.
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i do a shop 3 times a week . some are twice a week
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shops bring it on!only can't understand the domestic side,colin how do they get away with it every week?£1.00 a time?
per week is good for a doley
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i have a residential which i clean every two weeks i dont why they want it doing twice a month but its all extra money
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;Dnice ian,but why do custies put up with it?every two weeks :o can;t get me head round it >:(god i;d be loaded and stacked out with work if it happened round where i am ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D)i can't see the logic on every two weeks,maybe when it boils down to it its a doley/quick money/pub thing i need enlightening on this one i think
My guess is that it's more about habit than need. Many of the northern towns had heavier industries than in the south and more obvious pollution (coal dust etc.). Therefore the windows needed cleaning more frequently. The industry has gone but the habit remains - and it's affordable for many because the orices tend to be lower than in the south.
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its more of a city thing
In Liverpool it happens a lot,i am guessing it goes back to the days when a guy would walk his round with his ladder and just literally wipe the windows and you paid a £1.00 or two or what ever the currency was in days gone by an he would repeat this over a two week cycle.
a lad i know in St Helens does this as well as some in Widnes
and also as the post above as stated
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so is it just an inbuilt thing then to have the windows done every fortnight?bless em the poles round their were quick enough to catch on i've gleaned
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;Dnice ian,but why do custies put up with it?every two weeks :o can;t get me head round it >:(god i;d be loaded and stacked out with work if it happened round where i am ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D)i can't see the logic on every two weeks,maybe when it boils down to it its a doley/quick money/pub thing i need enlightening on this one i think
My guess is that it's more about habit than need. Many of the northern towns had heavier industries than in the south and more obvious pollution (coal dust etc.). Therefore the windows needed cleaning more frequently. The industry has gone but the habit remains - and it's affordable for many because the orices tend to be lower than in the south.
i read about this in an old window talk mag in the eighties, the federation has been going since 1947 so they should have an idea as to windows being cleaned every two weeks
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I think oooop north they remember in the olden days how smearing faeces on the glass used to stop burglars but it meant needing to clean the glass more often; either that or they still do smear faeces on the glass and the consequences of that are obvious for all but them ;0)
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shops bring it on!only can't understand the domestic side,colin how do they get away with it every week?£1.00 a time?
per week is good for a doley
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I don't no how they get away with it mate! They ain't cheap either, I was working next door to these guys on Thursday, fella said how much do I ou? " 3 weeks mate £27" front only 6 windows!! I just started laughing!!
As I said pick up loads of there's lately, 5 jobs Thursday afternoon, they miss windows and don't clean the frames. Customers are comin out and see the work I do then look at there house, then ask for the price ;D
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All Northeners including sweaty jocks, should be gathered together along with the labour party and burned on a massive bonfire ;D
Failing that deport em to Russia :)
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Maybe they want clean windows .I still clean 2 weekly money for old rope WFP
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Bad trippy I'm gona rob the wheels of ye nice new van for that comment :P
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Its a throwback to the days when everyone had coal fires and lots of air bourne pollution.
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most of my customers are fortnightly thats how i get away with bumping them coz they are still clean, only 7.00 clean so that makes it 14 pound a month :D
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Heard a story of a 2 weekly guy from St Helens who when it rained and customers were out working would go around just wiping the bird c rap off windows that needed it then go collect his money in the evenings ;D
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It keeps the prices down. I clean the majority of my round three weekly, with some monthly ones that are further afield.
When I see people stating minimum prices of £10 I'm not surprised they are done six or eight weekly.
I had a customer with a three bedroom house and conny ask how much I charged and was suprised to discover I was half the price of the £16 they had been paying.
It wasn't undercutting just realistic.