Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john bird on April 28, 2012, 04:00:56 pm
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hey iv been goin out for a month now but am gettin reali stuck on pricing up work what do u guys charge so hav a rough price to charge 4 houses and for shop work please help thanks ::)
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£1 a window wont be far off ;)
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Well how much do you want to earn per hour?
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thanks guys lookin bwt £20 an hour wood b great lool so u price it at a £1 a window is dat for like resturants and stuff where the windows r bigger than normal :)
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£20 an hour too low IMO mate.you should be aiming for £30-£40 an hour.
regards
dazmond(north west)
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Dat wot I mean how do u get to dat price with in hour if u do a house 8 windows take yh half hour u only guna b on 16 an hour m8
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You will need to speed up but will come in time ;D
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You won't be on £20 an hour straight away I'm guessing unless u have already got the technique down an tht
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Been going over a year now yes u can easily gain £20 hour once you have a few houses on the same road.also bad weather will affect your hourly rate as u are not working every day although some do work all weathers.
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Ooo ok wot do u guys do when weatha is lyk dis
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i carry on workin ,its not ideal but ................................................
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Oooo wen weatha is lyk dis we no get £20 hour
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£20 an hour too low IMO mate.you should be aiming for £30-£40 an hour.
regards
dazmond(north west)
So you can do 4 houses an hour :o
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The other day when it was raining I was earning 32quid an hour on cheap compact estate work!wfp and I have been goin one or two years!!!(18 actually!).it can be done.some commercial I hit 50-60quid an hour,same for connys roofs/fascia cleans.not every hour worked though!
20quid an hour sounds great but its not really once u factor in overheads,equipment,tax,insurances,no holiday/sick pay,bad weather and van costs.
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earning £20 ph £30 £60 or what ever does not mean anything if you dont do this each hour you work over an 8 hour period.
I would be interested to see what the real figures are.
to the OP what do you need to earn an hour ?
What ever it is double it at least to get what you need to turn over
an experienced wfp'er will be cleaning a lot faster then a newbie.
Worry about what you do, do a quality good, have good customer services and everything will fall into place earning Tens of pounds starting out is never going to happen and even more unlikely this will happen for years day in day out, this game is no where near as easy as some would have you believe trust me
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yeath daz im 10 weeks in and my dream was 20 an hour im just under it now but already im thinking 20 is the minimum ,as you say cost of van etc an thats before you even consider awkward custys ,hoping to hit 25 ish an hour an i will be more than happy , mind you my dream will then be 30 an hour ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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If i earned 40 pound an hour i would only work 3 days a week. u cant earn 40 pound an hour everyday in this country.
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yeath daz im 10 weeks in and my dream was 20 an hour im just under it now but already im thinking 20 is the minimum ,as you say cost of van etc an thats before you even consider awkward custys ,hoping to hit 25 ish an hour an i will be more than happy , mind you my dream will then be 30 an hour ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
your earning £20 per hour 8 hours a day every day ?
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well if im out 35 hours i tend to make 650 ish so am gettin close but i do jet washing as well so if i get a few of them a week thats what bumps it up ,,dont get me wrong plenty of hours i may only earn 14 pound but over a week i seem to be gettin close to twenty
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You could price the top windows at £1.25 per and bottom windows at £1.00 and doors for a £1.00 or patio doors £1.50 per door and french doors at £2.00 to £2.50.
Or you can look at a house a small two bed house at £10.00, Medium 3 bed at £12.00 a large 3 bed at £18.00 to £20.00 and so on.... hope this helps.. ;D :) :)
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You could price the top windows at £1.25 per and bottom windows at £1.00 and doors for a £1.00 or patio doors £1.50 per door and french doors at £2.00 to £2.50.
Or you can look at a house a small two bed house at £10.00, Medium 3 bed at £12.00 a large 3 bed at £18.00 to £20.00 and so on.... hope this helps.. ;D :) :)
I wonder what is an actual window ? Is it single glass or set of glasses put together ( like bay or round window )
Cause sometimes there is 4 glasses in a set and don't know should i charge £4 or 1 for it? :P
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Hey to u all thanks for all the advice with the pricing specialy to the 1 who gave me a rough price list and dis go to u all how do u price like resturants as there is like 10 big windows and 8 medium windows 12 little wot to price this as this wood b my first 1 of this sort to do this big thanks
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Those figures was just for example and a full window and not per pane but if you want to price per pane then you could easily adjust the figures to your own liking and in different areas some will price more than other windy's... ;D ;D
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Hey to u all thanks for all the advice with the pricing specialy to the 1 who gave me a rough price list and dis go to u all how do u price like resturants as there is like 10 big windows and 8 medium windows 12 little wot to price this as this wood b my first 1 of this sort to do this big thanks
get a picture of what your looking at and can then price, if it is sub work it will not be a noraml price as they have people working for peanuts if it is direct then a normal wage can be earnt
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I remember when I started last year and the buzz I got when I was hitting £20 per hour but daz is right you do need more and want more as soon as you aclimatise to this figure, and you can, I am constantly looking at ways to price better and I'm slowly getting there, also important is to re canvass streets you already have work in as once canvassed you tend to move on, we constantly re canvass the streets evey couple of months and it does work, people who have said no are now saying yes, bottom line is you must tweak and constantly retweak to get your hourly rate up, I have areas that I work in where I'm still hitting £20 as a solo operator but the ones where I hit 30-£40 are starting to outweigh these, I even have the odd £50 hour now on domestic which I never thought I would achieve, I am constantly thinking about my business and how to achieve more, this site is great for ideas and would not have got as good without it, bottom line is do whatever you can to get that hourly rate up
Graham
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Thanks I dnt understand how u can get it to 30-40 ph I take it these ar on lyk shop work and stuff how do u get the shop work and yer I have reali found dis site a gd 1 as I was lyk only chargin lyk 8 a house no matter how many windows till I looked on ere and ppl helped me with lyk price work
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I have plenty of small pockets of work and can get round really fast on my brush, for instance in one of the cul de sacs I do I have 5 houses at £8 each,takes me exactly one hour to do these, another street I have 3 at £12 each again just under 1 hours work, the most important thing is to price well, once you speed up on the pole this is achievable, not all my work is grouped as well as the above mentioned but I'm constantly striving to get there by canvassing and recanvassing
Graham
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I think I'd be pretty pee'd off if I was a professional who'd been to uni, got a degree etc. And then comes along the window cleaner who blasts round in 5mins with his pole and charges £10! To be fair an unskilled job like this should not be earning £50 an hour. Fair play if you can think I'll stick with me £10-20/hour. I charge the same for any job, gutter, connys. At least I can tell the customer I want £10 an hour I'll go as fast and do em aswell as possible and they're happy!
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jim its just not worth it for me to work for £20 an hour "on the glass" time.i dont have any work that earns me that these days.
average "on the glass" time a day is 5-7 hours.the rest of the time(filling up,driving in between jobs,admin,lunchbreak,talking to customers and a quick coffee etc)im not earning.throw in no holiday/sick pay,van costs,equipment,insurances,tax,bad weather days where i earn nothing at all eat into my earnings.
i once had the same attitude as you ( for years in fact!).treated the business as a "job" and guess what?i always seemed to be struggling financially esp when the weather was bad or unexpected van breakdowns etc.
im in this business to make money,provide a good cleaning service for my customers and provide a better life for myself and friends and family.
youll just bump along the bottom and just about get by if you dont raise your prices per job and get a better hourly rate for work done.i know IVE BEEN THERE!!! ;D ;D ;D
at the end of the year after all expenses,tax and overheads have been deducted.THATS YOUR PROFIT!!itll be a lot lower than you think!!