Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dazmond on December 12, 2013, 04:30:39 pm
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i had a few £50 houses booked in first thing this morning(all are texted the night before)6 weekly jobs a little bit out of my way.
drove up there this morning and it was absolutely hammering it down!so i had a brew in the van and had a chat with girlfriend on the phone.an hour later its still heavy rain(10-30am) so i decided to just crack on.
now i work in the rain but this morning it was BAD!!anyway all customers were in and paid me.NOT ONE CUSTOMER EVEN MENTIONED THE RAIN!!no tips but got a xmas card off one of em. ;D ;D
just goes to show most customers are not bothered about the weather!
happy days!! ;) :D
regards
dazmond
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highly trained. Good job
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a few £50 houses?
sorry forgot for a min this is ciu ;D
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I have 2 £60.00 houses booked in for Monday... if there is any chance of rain I wont be doing them! far to much of a risk to loose even if I explain its fine in the rain etc.
I only work in very light rain... im a wuss and cant handle loosing jobs! ???
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Only about 20 before lunch time. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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smurf you might clean loads of council houses for £6 or £7 (i clean a few of them by the way!)but i have lots of posh houses as well.a good mix.i mainly work in very affluent areas! ;) ;D ;D
regards
dazmond
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So if you started as you say at 10.30 and they are big houses at £50 per pop and I take it you have to setup at and pack away at each job then move onto the next one how long does it take you to do each one then?
smurf you might clean loads of council houses for £6 or £7 (i clean a few of them by the way!)but i have lots of posh houses as well.a good mix.i mainly work in very affluent areas! ;) ;D ;D
regards
dazmond
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they are nearly all next door to each other on a posh estate(cul de sac).5 of em.about an hour each. ;) ;D
large 6-7 bedroom houses with large conservatories.
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Out of interest would you post a pic of an example house that you would charge 50 for? Would just like to see the difference in the prices I charge
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https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mold&ll=53.16216,-3.148999&spn=0.000026,0.021007&hnear=Mold,+Flintshire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.162351,-3.148998&panoid=2dO_VXdIqzNALj6StxGFiA&cbp=12,350.83,,0,1.1
bigger or smaller than these ?
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about the same size ian,maybe a bit bigger.all have double garages(i wash down the garage doors as well).
i just wish i had a months work of the buggers!! ::)roll ;D ;D ;D
a few turned me down when canvassing some of the other houses.i think they thought i was expensive!!i always add an extra tenner on the price i think i would normally charge(rich tax and driving up there!) ;D
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Dazmond!!! Your nose is getting longer! ;D
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think i may need to put mine up a little ;D
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I clean a lot of house like that, got an estate full of them, 20 houses or so.
I feel embarrassed at how little I charge compared to that. Lol.
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ideally i would like to get more of these types of houses.i could quite comfortably clean 6 houses a day at £50 a pop.id be happy with £300 a day but we all know its not that simple in window cleaning! ::)roll
im trying though!! ;D
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Daz,
I believe those whom live in more expensive houses understand that your a business, years back, when working Council estates, would let me clean if the sky had a black cloud lol, needless to say, that was in the beginning :)
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You charge more than me dazmond and im in london!..
What happened to all your £4 houses you said that were great??
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i think im at risk of being undercut on this type of work but its 10 miles from home so you have to factor in travel time as well.i do a good job each and every time though.
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I'd charge 25 tops for that, 30 to 40 min work, maybe Extra 10 er if it had a decent size Donny on back
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Conny sorry
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mick i also clean some front only estate work at £3 A POP!!(3 windows!)they will be going up 50p in april though! ;D
i have a lot of varied work lads!!been going 20 years now.3 and a half years WFP.
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Was only messin daz, fair play to you.
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A "Rich Tax".........I like it Daz. :D
Do you lure these rich customers in with the promise that you will use a Super-Lite Xtreme pole to clean their windows complete with Aquadapter and Xtreme Medium Mixed Bristle Brush? ;D
Lucky buggers........
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i wash all frames,sills,doors as well as glass,garage doors,velux windows(i have to get the extreme 47 out of the van for em).yes £50 an hour is good but i earn £60 an hour on some other work closer to home!!(commercial).
i havent got loads of this type of work!(im trying to get more though).
i spent years with a large underpriced round when 100% trad and earned next to nothing and just about scraped a living together for many years!i also had debts.thankfully i worked hard and paid em off.(took me over 5 years though!)
the last 4 years have been different though with a fresh positive attitude and of course WFP.
MY ROUND HAS JUST GOT BETTER AND BETTER OVER THE LAST 4 YEARS but plenty of room for improvement still.
very best wishes to you all
dazmond
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Too busy to give a poop what the weathers' doing up until Xmas. Rain tomorrow... just got to put me waterproofs on as I'm determined to catch myself up by next Friday.....I can do it if I work regardless of weather and customers will expect it this time of year if they want their windows cleaned for Xmas :)
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Dazmond,
dont worry about being undercut on those type of houses, from experience they wont change, they are happy to pay that and wouldnt run the risk of hassle from someone else, they dont really need to save money just want it done right first time.
I have never had one cancel on me, and we do some fairly big priced houses ;)
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Dazmond - what poles have you got?
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Dazmond - what poles have you got?
All Harris poles & gaffer tape.
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Fair play daz
I have lots like this and charge around £55-60. Can only manage 5 max a day though ! :P
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Those ones that Ian101 posted are 1/2 hour jobs at most assuming no conservatory.
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Not if you do them properly ! ::)roll
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Not if you do them properly ! ::)roll
Are you on ladders?
On an 8 weekly frequency on a fairly quiet road that is a 30/35 minute job on a high flowrate from pulling up to pulling away. I am guessing about 20 windows including two patio doors. On a first clean/one off I would say an hour tops. I have a cul de sac with three like that. It is 90 minutes tops and I charge £30 each. I have had two of them for three years and one for a year. No complaints.
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Not if you do them properly ! ::)roll
Are you on ladders?
On an 8 weekly frequency on a fairly quiet road that is a 30/35 minute job on a high flowrate from pulling up to pulling away. I am guessing about 20 windows including two patio doors. On a first clean/one off I would say an hour tops. I have a cul de sac with three like that. It is 90 minutes tops and I charge £30 each. I have had two of them for three years and one for a year. No complaints.
No i am fussy , take pride in my work and clean customers houses perfectly
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Not if you do them properly ! ::)roll
Are you on ladders?
On an 8 weekly frequency on a fairly quiet road that is a 30/35 minute job on a high flowrate from pulling up to pulling away. I am guessing about 20 windows including two patio doors. On a first clean/one off I would say an hour tops. I have a cul de sac with three like that. It is 90 minutes tops and I charge £30 each. I have had two of them for three years and one for a year. No complaints.
No i am fussy , take pride in my work and clean customers houses perfectly
Being "fussy" is not doing a job "properly". I doubt I achieve perfection often and I doubt you do, but I leave clean windows and frames. That job would only take me an hour if I scrubbed and rinsed beyond that needed to do the job properly.
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Not if you do them properly ! ::)roll
Are you on ladders?
On an 8 weekly frequency on a fairly quiet road that is a 30/35 minute job on a high flowrate from pulling up to pulling away. I am guessing about 20 windows including two patio doors. On a first clean/one off I would say an hour tops. I have a cul de sac with three like that. It is 90 minutes tops and I charge £30 each. I have had two of them for three years and one for a year. No complaints.
No i am fussy , take pride in my work and clean customers houses perfectly
Being "fussy" is not doing a job "properly". I doubt I achieve perfection often and I doubt you do, but I leave clean windows and frames. That job would only take me an hour if I scrubbed and rinsed beyond that needed to do the job properly.
Bully for you
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Half hour job, 45 with a big conny, or am I doing a rubbish job ::)roll
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i did say they have large conservatories and some with velux windows that i need my 47 footer to reach plus garage doors washed down every time.
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To be fair garage doors take a bit if time, i never really offer that in my service, maybe I should
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by daz description i would take close to a hour if the customer
was around, at £50 a hour why shoot myself in the foot at those rates
trying to get away as soon as poss.
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by daz description i would take close to a hour if the customer
was around, at £50 a hour why shoot myself in the foot at those rates
trying to get away as soon as poss.
Well said Gary my thoughts exactly
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if the customer wasnt there you could knock 15mins-20mins
off the time ;D