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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: S.W. Window Cleaning on March 18, 2014, 01:58:32 pm
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Hi,
Just starting out and asked to quote for this house. I have attached a rear view + 6 windows on the front. What would be a reasonable price to charge? He`s a friend so don`t want to be too dear.
Cheers,
Steve(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1395151084_1.jpg)
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I would charge in my area 20 quid .Frames.sills, glass and doors and door canopy. On a 8 weekly cycle. 18 for 4 weekly.
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bout 18 quid
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£30
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£30 to £35 are there windows on the sides.
Regards
Lal
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15 to 20 mins work aint it? looks easy
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Mates rates £20
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Up north about £15/£20
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flipping heck I would charge 12- 15 and be happy.
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Some differences in the prices guys. I took an average. Told him £18 and see how we go. The window just above the porch looks ackward. Would you stand on a ladder to do this?
Cheers,
Steve
http://large.img.ppcdn.co.uk/p/161600/1415626.jpg
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mates rates £15.00
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Nah you should be ok that, even the slightly lower one.
Edit actually that lower one over the porch may cause some issues.
First couple of cleans ladders off then you should be ok from ground :)
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£18 or £25 bimonthly (which I never offer these days)
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15 to 20 mins work aint it? looks easy
Splash and dash ?
;)
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15 to 20 mins work aint it? looks easy
Splash and dash ?
;)
you forgot the "give me the cash" part ;D
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looking at back pic id go 22 total, 30 mins work tops,
nothin wrong with a bit of splash n dash ;D
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15 to 20 mins work aint it? looks easy
Splash and dash ?
Wink
you forgot the "give me the cash" part Grin
That part goes without saying ;)
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Wow,some of the prices here make me :o
£30!!!!
At half that I'd be very happy.
I'd probably say £12 and it should take me 20 minutes all WFP.
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The window just above the porch looks ackward. Would you stand on a ladder to do this?
Cheers,
Steve
http://large.img.ppcdn.co.uk/p/161600/1415626.jpg
Yes i'd say you'll need to step up a ladder a bit to get the bottom of that lower window.
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Wow,some of the prices here make me :o
£30!!!!
At half that I'd be very happy.
I'd probably say £12 and it should take me 20 minutes all WFP.
£12? Is that mates rate, or normal rates?
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Wow,some of the prices here make me :o
£30!!!!
At half that I'd be very happy.
I'd probably say £12 and it should take me 20 minutes all WFP.
£12? Is that mates rate, or normal rates?
Yeah, probably £15 to be honest. That puts me on my hourly goal. :)
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mates rates?£15 monthly,£17 2 monthly
normal customer?£17 monthly,£20 2 monthly
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Wow,some of the prices here make me :o
£30!!!!
At half that I'd be very happy.
I'd probably say £12 and it should take me 20 minutes all WFP.
£12? Is that mates rate, or normal rates?
Yeah, probably £15 to be honest. That puts me on my hourly goal. :)
£45 an hour?
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£60
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£60
WHAT !!!!! even Matt Batemen don't charge that high .......... unless your using holy water of course
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£30.
Don't do mates rates.
It never works long term.
You think you're doing him a favour, he thinks he's paying for the job.
You'd be better off either charging him full price or doing it for free IMO
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Mates rate £18 - Customer £25
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so somewhere between 12 quid and 60 quid, should be really easy to price up now ;D
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£60
WHAT !!!!! even Matt Batemen don't charge that high .......... unless your using holy water of course
I understand because of his pricing structure he had his best days earning in 17 years today.
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Wow,some of the prices here make me :o
£30!!!!
At half that I'd be very happy.
I'd probably say £12 and it should take me 20 minutes all WFP.
£12? Is that mates rate, or normal rates?
Yeah, probably £15 to be honest. That puts me on my hourly goal. :)
£45 an hour?
Near enough. :)
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Mates rate £25, Customer rate £30
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I'd clean that for £14 4weekly £20 alternate
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Dean Lewis spot on £25 monthly clean cash !!!
That's down in South, prob be cheaper up North 👍👳👳👳🇬🇧
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How much would you all charge if it was a one off, mates rate or customer rate?
Best Regards
Lal
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''Don't do mates rates.
It never works long term.
You think you're doing him a favour, he thinks he's paying for the job.
You'd be better off either charging him full price or doing it for free IMO''
My sentiments too
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''Don't do mates rates.
It never works long term.
You think you're doing him a favour, he thinks he's paying for the job.
You'd be better off either charging him full price or doing it for free IMO''
My sentiments too
+2
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Wow,some of the prices here make me :o
£30!!!!
At half that I'd be very happy.
I'd probably say £12 and it should take me 20 minutes all WFP.
Agreed
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£35 for me
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30m2 of glass, £5 downtime, I'd charge £35.00, 35 mins work.
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No mates rates - £20 - Although I clean my best friends for free every 14 weeks approx
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£12-£15
The £30 guys are just bull-poopters .
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£12-£15
The £30 guys are just bull-poopters .
So you think that everyone who quotes price's that are higher than yours are bull-poopters. ::)roll ::)roll
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Not really ...
Just these threads are pointless .
But £30 , so persons on here are earning £60-£90 per hour yet some moan about £2 gas usage , price of poles and use average poles and old vans ....
So easily to see through persons here
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£12-£15
The £30 guys are just bull-poopters .
So you think that everyone who quotes price's that are higher than yours are bull-poopters. ::)roll ::)roll
I don't think that.
I just think If someone like myself was in your area you'd be losing lots of work :D lol
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I think £10 and a coffee for a friend / mates rates ...
actual everyday customer £17 on the monthly or down to customers preference
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£20 every 6 weeks! i don't have friends
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Not really ...
Just these threads are pointless .
But £30 , so persons on here are earning £60-£90 per hour yet some moan about £2 gas usage , price of poles and use average poles and old vans ....
So easily to see through persons here
Not everyone on here who does £60-£90 per hour moans about prices Nd drives old vans.
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Not really ...
Just these threads are pointless .
But £30 , so persons on here are earning £60-£90 per hour yet some moan about £2 gas usage , price of poles and use average poles and old vans ....
So easily to see through persons here
Not everyone on here who does £60-£90 per hour moans about prices Nd drives old vans.
Tom-01 i agree with you entirely.
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Knew it wouldn't ::)roll ::)roll be long
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Up north about £15/£20
I tried £20 on an L shaped house twice that size in Nunthorpe (a well to do area) and didn't get the job. I tried £35.00 for a house twice that size with a large conservatory also in Nunthorpe, got it but only every 12 weeks. Did it for a year, now cancelled.
8 years ago, my first job in Nunthorpe was a 3 bedroom bungalow with a small conservatory for £8.00. Her sister has a bungalow twice the size with gorgian style windows and a large conservatory complaining that her window cleaner had just put the price up from £4 to £6 (including conservatory). She felt that it was too much and he didn't do a good job. I did a conservatory roof clean for her and she asked me to quote - £15.00. I suggested she raise the window cleaner's price from £6 to £8 on the provisor that he pay a little more attention to cleaning her windows. She nearly fainted. I didn't find any issues with the quailty of his clean either TBH.
7 years later she drives into her sister's with a brand new Audi A4. She is still paying £6 to that window cleaner.
If you honestly think that you can get a price like that then we need to rethink our pricing policy - upwards, despite having the competition of a large trad company of cleaners that charge £5 back and front for a 3 bed semi in Guisborough - £2.50 fronts.
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i think you can charge what you want, some people might think 35 quid for having there windows cleaned is cheap....but a few months down the line someone might knock the door and quote half that, then your gonna get dropped. im not greedy as long as there happy and im bringing in a decent wage im happy.
earning £60 to £90 an hour sounds ridiculous for cleaning windows, doctors and surgeons who save lifes dont earn near that sort of money.
come on bring on the haters ::)roll
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i think you can charge what you want, some people might think 35 quid for having there windows cleaned is cheap....but a few months down the line someone might knock the door and quote half that, then your gonna get dropped. im not greedy as long as there happy and im bringing in a decent wage im happy.
earning £60 to £90 an hour sounds ridiculous for cleaning windows, doctors and surgeons who save lifes dont earn near that sort of money.
come on bring on the haters ::)roll
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i think you can charge what you want, some people might think 35 quid for having there windows cleaned is cheap....but a few months down the line someone might knock the door and quote half that, then your gonna get dropped. im not greedy as long as there happy and im bringing in a decent wage im happy.
earning £60 to £90 an hour sounds ridiculous for cleaning windows, doctors and surgeons who save lifes dont earn near that sort of money.
come on bring on the haters ::)roll
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i think you can charge what you want, some people might think 35 quid for having there windows cleaned is cheap....but a few months down the line someone might knock the door and quote half that, then your gonna get dropped. im not greedy as long as there happy and im bringing in a decent wage im happy.
earning £60 to £90 an hour sounds ridiculous for cleaning windows, doctors and surgeons who save lifes dont earn near that sort of money.
come on bring on the haters ::)roll
Doctors are paid all the time they are at work, not just the time they are in front of patients
Doctors get sick pay
Doctors get holiday pay
Doctors get paid for Bank Holidays
Doctors are still paid if their car is in the garage
Doctors don't pay for the equipment they use
Doctors don't pay their own liability insurance
Doctors don't have to pay to find patients
Doctors don't have bad payers, late payers and non payers
Doctors get money back when they use their car for work
Doctors get a pension
Cut that lot out and £60 turns into something much less. When will people on here learn that your hourly rate on the glass is not the money you take home?
Vin
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£5
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Pricing a house for a clean varys from one end of the country to the other, you could argue with each other
till the cows come home that your to expensive or your to cheap, ( Busy Fool) your overpriced, your underpriced.
Last summer i was asked to price a big house, windows cleaned inside & out, i quoted them 90 euro wasn't
sure if i would get it or not, he said thats great can you do it now, did the job, he was very happy with the finished
job paid me 90 euro plus 10 euro tip :) he admitted i was the cheapest out of three quotes, the most expensive
being 230 euro which even shocked me. i think its about finding the right balance with pricing, factoring in all
the variables.
Best Regards
Lal
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Doctors don't claim all there expenses back for their tax ;)
I understand where your coming from tho, but I've always been self employed so don't really no any different
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Just a thought tho, I have seen a big increase in window cleaners and a few are our foreigners who would be over the moon to earn 10 er an hour.
One guy I spoke to used to do car washing at one of the many new foreign car washing places round here.
Isn't it worrying that we might get flooded by lots of 10 pound an hour guys taking all our work.?
My average is around 30 an hour and I'm in the middle for prices, this worries me but if I was earning 60 to 90 an hour I would definately be worried ???
Not getting at anyone for their prices was just a thought
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Check the date on this: http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=38735.0;all
Vin
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Just a thought tho, I have seen a big increase in window cleaners and a few are our foreigners who would be over the moon to earn 10 er an hour.
One guy I spoke to used to do car washing at one of the many new foreign car washing places round here.
Isn't it worrying that we might get flooded by lots of 10 pound an hour guys taking all our work.?
My average is around 30 an hour and I'm in the middle for prices, this worries me but if I was earning 60 to 90 an hour I would definately be worried ???
Not getting at anyone for their prices was just a thought
You only need to be worried if you're spending everything you earn.
Top line-unimportant.
Bottom line-that's what counts.
If you earn £30p/h but spend £200 a day, you're left with a tenner.
If you earn £60 p/h but still only spend £200 a day...
And doctors etc NEED to earn that kind of money cause they'll be in debt by 6 figures cause they earn almost nothing for their First 7 years.
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i think you can charge what you want, some people might think 35 quid for having there windows cleaned is cheap....but a few months down the line someone might knock the door and quote half that, then your gonna get dropped. im not greedy as long as there happy and im bringing in a decent wage im happy.
earning £60 to £90 an hour sounds ridiculous for cleaning windows, doctors and surgeons who save lifes dont earn near that sort of money.
come on bring on the haters ::)roll
You may not get dropped in that example. If someone thinks £35. is ok and they are offered the same service at half the cost, they may just think that is too cheap and doubt the cheaper guys intensions
No hating lol
Tony
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Beginning to wonder if im too cheap .... thing is you don't know until you try :(
In North Wales / Chester I would see this at £18 tops ... ok I know Im not the most expensive ... that's Richardisparklyweusegoldplatedwaterinourhotsystem who would prob charge £22 to £24 for this .. point is as far as im aware he does get this rate ... perhaps not every time ?
Between this post and Dazmonds price increase post its giving me serious thought to changing a gear on my pricing ... which is what this forum is about ... making yourself better at the job
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It's crazy tbh , I've priced up jobs and got told it was too much, and also got :o that's really cheap, sack it I'm gonna put my prices up soon and see what happens
Probably lose all my customers and end up unemployed ;D
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It's crazy tbh , I've priced up jobs and got told it was too much, and also got :o that's really cheap, sack it I'm gonna put my prices up soon and see what happens
Probably lose all my customers and end up unemployed ;D
Since being on CIU I've learned a basic rule of thumb is to gain 2/3 of your quotes.
Getting everything you quote-you're too cheap.
Getting none-you're too expensive.
Today, I quoted a house-£50-one off. Didn't get it.
Conservatory roof-£99-one off. Near snapped my arm off!
It's difficult sometimes-thinking of the money you've 'lost' but it's better that way than pricing a £50 job at £30 just to get it. IMO
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Yeagh. Got The Job. £18. He was happy and so am I :)
Thanks for the advice,
Steve