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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Tom.m on September 28, 2015, 07:31:17 pm
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Hello chaps
Being a newbie I could do with some advice...
I've just done my first ever paid cleaning job since going self-employed :). Lady was very nice, turned up to quote and she just says crack on, don't worry about price!
So for a first clean, what would you chaps charge for this house including fascia and guttering? Wasn't any fascia round the back, just a little on the side. Also French doors on the back and 4 medium sized Windows on the side and back.
Cheers
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First and last clean, it's for sale ;D ;D ;D
£35.
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Not for sale, luckily. I feel a bit bad now you've said £35. I told her it would have been £54 but charged her £40 then £13, 4 weekly
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Not for sale, luckily. I feel a bit bad now you've said £35. I told her it would have been £54 but charged her £40 then £13, 4 weekly
Don't feel bad, there is no right or wrong. If the customer was happy that's all that matters. The rip off police will be along shortly!
Where in the UK are you?
You will do ok with pricing like that, well done
Tony
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Well I hope she was pleased, she looked a bit taken back by the price but she's already got me another job round the corner and she gave me a £5 tip.
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I'm based in Somerset
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You've done well my son.
You price for what you think is fair, and to make a living, remember it's a business, not a part time cash in hand effort, or a hobby, and certainly not a charity. Keep up the good start
You will never ceased to be amazed at people's reactions, never ever let that put you off. Many out there will only want to pay pennies for your services, others actually live in the 21st century.
Darran
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£13?????????!!!!!!
I would've charged £5!!!!!!!! ;D ;D
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
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Good job. Well done.
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Our minimum price is £20 a clean every 8 weeks.
Had someone sign up through the website a couple of weeks ago... 1 bedroom flat, 3 windows plus a front door... They are happy to pay £20 a clean... They even signed up to GoCardless straight away!
I was amazed!
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You've done well my son.
You price for what you think is fair, and to make a living, remember it's a business, not a part time cash in hand effort, or a hobby, and certainly not a charity. Keep up the good start
You will never ceased to be amazed at people's reactions, never ever let that put you off. Many out there will only want to pay pennies for your services, others actually live in the 21st century.
Darran
Good post Darran.
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I would of charged a tenner for 4 weekly, but going down to £8.00 after a couple of months
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£13?????????!!!!!!
I would've charged £5!!!!!!!! ;D ;D
Just kidding, I try and do most of mine £8 upwards ( mainly £10) , difficult though when you've got idiots charging £5 for every single house and front only £2.50!!!!! And that's wfp work aswell!!!
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About £10 for a maintenance clean round my way.
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ive got some similar properties on 6 weekly.£10 i charge.easily clean 4 an hour if their on the same street.
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If I were starting out, I would charged £7. Knowing what I do now £9. Only a 5 min job. really small house. easy access. Easy money even if you charged £5. Could do a few of those in a day :)
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To check & clear downspouts and guttering £65
To wash over guttering, fascias , soffits and downpipes £65
To clean windows and doors (one off price) £25
£155 or £90 if they did not want the guttering cleared .
Would have asked also if they wanted the front path cleaned and any patio area they had at the back whilst there too.
Well you did ask ;D
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Meant to also say if they wanted the white plastic window frames/ sills etc brought back to white that would be at extra cost too as is classed as restoration work and is not included in the standard one off window cleaning price
Regarding guttering if any joints are found to be leaking during a water test then the standard charge is £35 plus parts per coupling to replace. That’s if there is easy ladder access to do so.
Just goes to show how much value is in one property alone work wise instead of charging 6 squid or so just cleaning windows.
If you go in cheap they will expect all the other services you offer to be cheap too so could end up running around like a headless chicken. After saying that any numpty can sell services on price alone but the trick is to gain profitable work and upselling your services.
There is good money to be made in exterior property cleaning and many like the one stop shop so to speak.
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
christ you'd be putting us all out of a job down here m8 lol,to run a business down here charging £6 for houses you'd struggle to afford to live in one round here. I got asked to do a flat the other day adjacent to some houses I clean,I told her minimum £20 every 2-3 months 6 or so PVC Windows and she said can I donut more often than that please. When I told her the price she said happy days,if I clean it for a year it'll have taken you 4 years to get back the money I'd eared from it. As said this is a business £6 would just not motivate me especially the time of year we are coming into.
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
christ you'd be putting us all out of a job down here m8 lol,to run a business down here charging £6 for houses you'd struggle to afford to live in one round here. I got asked to do a flat the other day adjacent to some houses I clean,I told her minimum £20 every 2-3 months 6 or so PVC Windows and she said can I donut more often than that please. When I told her the price she said happy days,if I clean it for a year it'll have taken you 4 years to get back the money I'd eared from it. As said this is a business £6 would just not motivate me especially the time of year we are coming into.
+1
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Let's make that +2
Darran
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Prices are much lower up North. Unfortunately we have to work harder for our £. If I could get away with min charge of £20, I would be laughing
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It's a mindset thing duncan so how do you know for sure they will not pay more if you don't try and just keep selling your services on price alone. Give it a shot as you have nothing to lose as the people that want a cheap service are generally the ones you don't want on your books anyway.
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Parts for your vehicles etc poles brushes still cost the same up north last time I looked,you simply could not charge those prices down here and survive you would be running around like a head less chicken earning chicken feed tbh.You have to charge enough to cover days off wet days etc not just enough for a good couple of nights down the pub or living for week to week,if you are you may as well be working for someone
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That's probably why there ares more domestic trad guys up north as they can't afford to go wfp and make it viable option.
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Maybe although if I went WFP today it wouldn't cost me much more than 1500 with what I know now,these days down south if you don't clean windows with a pole you are the odd one out. If you can't clean 3rd and 4th floor dormers they'll go for the guy with the pole wheres 10 years ago it was oh no I don't want that pole thing today it's I don't want that bloke that just uses a dirty cloth,funny how things get completely turned on there head
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
christ you'd be putting us all out of a job down here m8 lol,to run a business down here charging £6 for houses you'd struggle to afford to live in one round here. I got asked to do a flat the other day adjacent to some houses I clean,I told her minimum £20 every 2-3 months 6 or so PVC Windows and she said can I donut more often than that please. When I told her the price she said happy days,if I clean it for a year it'll have taken you 4 years to get back the money I'd eared from it. As said this is a business £6 would just not motivate me especially the time of year we are coming into.
A house like the one pictured would be £6 for me, but I would knock out 9 of them in an hour on my own no problem..... a busy fool? maybe, but at £50 + an hour I don't mind a bit of graft.
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It's ok doing the odd day like that but it's not achievable day in day out that's the way I looked at it so I made a choice to not take them on unless it was on my minimum price basis that way I'm never out of pocket and then they are a pleasure to do,I know in certain areas they wouldn't pay those prices but in reality it costs a lot more to live down here. You only have to look at house prices either end of the country to see what you have to be earning down here to survive,you won't see any WCS down here doing shop fronts for that in most areas.
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
christ you'd be putting us all out of a job down here m8 lol,to run a business down here charging £6 for houses you'd struggle to afford to live in one round here. I got asked to do a flat the other day adjacent to some houses I clean,I told her minimum £20 every 2-3 months 6 or so PVC Windows and she said can I donut more often than that please. When I told her the price she said happy days,if I clean it for a year it'll have taken you 4 years to get back the money I'd eared from it. As said this is a business £6 would just not motivate me especially the time of year we are coming into.
A house like the one pictured would be £6 for me, but I would knock out 9 of them in an hour on my own no problem..... a busy fool? maybe, but at £50 + an hour I don't mind a bit of graft.
Is that by trad or wfp?
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
christ you'd be putting us all out of a job down here m8 lol,to run a business down here charging £6 for houses you'd struggle to afford to live in one round here. I got asked to do a flat the other day adjacent to some houses I clean,I told her minimum £20 every 2-3 months 6 or so PVC Windows and she said can I donut more often than that please. When I told her the price she said happy days,if I clean it for a year it'll have taken you 4 years to get back the money I'd eared from it. As said this is a business £6 would just not motivate me especially the time of year we are coming into.
A house like the one pictured would be £6 for me, but I would knock out 9 of them in an hour on my own no problem..... a busy fool? maybe, but at £50 + an hour I don't mind a bit of graft.
Is that by trad or wfp?
wfp
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Awesome price
£1 a window , 6 windows - £6
Time 10 mins - £6 = £36 per hour
To get £13 is awesome and great play to you .
If its a individual house and a drive to then Id want £6 plus time , travel etc to next job
So be
£6 to £10 for me
christ you'd be putting us all out of a job down here m8 lol,to run a business down here charging £6 for houses you'd struggle to afford to live in one round here. I got asked to do a flat the other day adjacent to some houses I clean,I told her minimum £20 every 2-3 months 6 or so PVC Windows and she said can I donut more often than that please. When I told her the price she said happy days,if I clean it for a year it'll have taken you 4 years to get back the money I'd eared from it. As said this is a business £6 would just not motivate me especially the time of year we are coming into.
A house like the one pictured would be £6 for me, but I would knock out 9 of them in an hour on my own no problem..... a busy fool? maybe, but at £50 + an hour I don't mind a bit of graft.
Is that by trad or wfp?
wfp
Great if you have a compact round (all in a row including easy acces to backs) but must be a ball breaking job to do 9 of those in an hour if not methinks. Gates locked, bad access, people stopping you to chat etc would also slow you down somewhat too.
In the real world to do 9 of those including backs in an hour is prity far fetched methinks but each to there own I suppose. ::)roll
You must be a bleeding wippet or something ;D
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I'd charge 12 euros for the house in the pic if it were in my locality (SW Ireland).
John
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I'm I missing something ? that property would be easily cleaned in 10mins or less, but it would be around the £7 mark in
my area.
Then again I was watching a property buying programme a few days back and it showed a property very similar to my own
valued at two million in the south of England so even if I was getting south of England window cleaning prices I still couldn't afford to live in it there.
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£10 seems a nice round figure to me for a monthly clean or twenty or so for a first, one-off or add-hoc window clean.
Cuts down change rattling around in yer pockets aswell to boot ;D
Surely anyone don't matter where you live could get away with charging at least 10 squid for that size property? ::)roll
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£10 seems a nice round figure to me for a monthly clean or twenty or so for a first, one-off or add-hoc window clean.
Cuts down change rattling around in yer pockets aswell to boot ;D
Surely anyone don't matter where you live could get away with charging at least 10 squid for that size property? ::)roll
Surely anyone doesn't matter where you live could get away with at least 20 quid for that size property. ::)roll
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£10 seems a nice round figure to me for a monthly clean or twenty or so for a first, one-off or add-hoc window clean.
Cuts down change rattling around in yer pockets aswell to boot ;D
Surely anyone don't matter where you live could get away with charging at least 10 squid for that size property? ::)roll
Surely anyone doesn't matter where you live could get away with at least 20 quid for that size property. ::)roll
One-off window cleans you can charge as much as you want especially if frame and sill restoration work including doors is involved.
End of tenancy cleans, ppl putting their home up for sale or even ppl just moving in is a classic example where most will pay more for a quality job to bring back the property kerb appeal. Not to mention a lot of enquires will be wanting the guttering and any downspouts checked & cleared also the guttering, fascias, soffits, bargeboards, cladding cleaned as well.
At the end of the day you can charge as much or a little as you want as you are the boss after all ;D