Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Shane sharples on March 29, 2016, 07:24:26 am
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Works in liverpool L19 not far from South Park train station and all house are more or less next to each other plus there is a lot more houses to canvass I have built this up by people only asking never knocked on doors so loads more work to get
36 house x £5.00 =£180
4 house x £7.50 =£ 30
1 house x £8.00 =£ 8
1 house x £10.00=£ 10
2 house x £3.00 = £ 6
Total £234 ever 4 weeks
This take me and one lad a full day or sometimes I do it over 2 half days on my own each house has 3 Windows and a door on front and 3 Windows and Pato door back there is a lot of house but you can do all the front window going over all the gardens as there is no walls or fences and when doing the back Windows you go down one entry to do two houses backs on two of the house I do a quick wipe on the coney roofs but it's up to you if you like to do this to sensible offers no time wastes email me on.....
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2 and a half days , that's about £93 per full day , shockingly low prices and that includes the conny roofs? But , someone still makes a living from it.....
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Who says they make a living from it?
Its being sold for a reason.
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theres always some window cleaners who are prepared to work at those prices.if their happy then who are we to argue he s not charging enough?i wouldnt be happy to work at those prices but some will.
my girlfriends window cleaner charges her £4-50 for her 4 bed house.in fact i seen him working yesterday and stopped for a quick chat as i was walking the dog.he s a nice guy and seems happy enough.i clean them occasionally as he uses a backpack(on his back too)and usually doesnt clean the frames very well.
he probably wouldnt believe how much money i earn a year as a sole trader like him or that my current debt list owing is over 1k and that i dont need to work bank holidays!but its his round and business and he can charge as little or as much as he sees fair for the job. ;D
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it makes me laugh to be honest , this is what happens on a lot of new build estates , some guys are so desperate to ' claim' the estate , they charge in with low prices, then get fed up and sell it on . iv had quite a few new custys recently that they used to have some scruffy chav in trackies doing a rubbish job and iv had to double their prices , but they still say yes ;D
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To me what other persons earn is immaterial .
I just make sure I'm happy with what I charge and do .
Plenty on here earn a lot more than myself , and plenty earn probably less .does it effect me , NO ..
I just plod on ...
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My rounds have been built up over many years by word of mouth. The only time I door knock is if I get a new customer in new area and I will knock on a handful of doors either side of the new one. Some of my prices could be improved, when I get new work I charge well for and my cust who ive had for yrs n yrs have kept some old prices, like a loyalty price. However periodically they would go up and with the new prices, it all balances out to a healthy monthly income. I pride myself on knowing im more expensive than my competition, customers happy as they get what they pay for, a profesional job.
Yet going wfp, I charge a pretty peny for a state of the art clean and clean for the whole 4wks.
Ive lost one or two due to being undercut by the new chaffs on block. It makes me laugh tho, knowing I got 3x's (min) more than silly price they are working for. When cust realise what mistake they've made and ask to come bk, I stick a fiver on top of whatever I charged them before.
So im happy with my prices and rounds and charge to what I want from the job. Regardless of the going rates of competitors
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To me what other persons earn is immaterial .
I just make sure I'm happy with what I charge and do .
Plenty on here earn a lot more than myself , and plenty earn probably less .does it effect me , NO ..
I just plod on ...
I couldn't agree more.
John
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Wow. Another bs/boast post.
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Wow. Another bs/boast post.
Hi hummer thanks for your input , I take it you charge £5 a house too ;D
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Wow. Another bs/boast post.
Hi hummer thanks for your input , I take it you charge £5 a house too ;D
Nah, got a proper job ;D
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To me what other persons earn is immaterial .
I just make sure I'm happy with what I charge and do .
Plenty on here earn a lot more than myself , and plenty earn probably less .does it effect me , NO ..
I just plod on ...
Actually a good honest quote on here for once.
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So that's 1 house yeah lol 😂😂😂
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Who says you need to earn 300+a day,I'll tell you who my bank manager to pay my bills lol. The more you earn unless your very sensible the more you'll spend we all live to what we earn
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Wow. Another bs/boast post.
Hi hummer thanks for your input , I take it you charge £5 a house too ;D
Nah, got a proper job ;D
Good on ya 👍
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So that's 1 house yeah lol 😂😂😂
It's defo 1 house in your books ;D
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Can i just say something here please chaps.
Its all relative. Here in surrey indeed you need to turnover in excess of £300 per day just to pay the bills.
My council tax alone is nudging £200 per month. Rents down here are £1500 per month and upwards, and thats just for a small house in the surrey subs or a flat in the town centre. House prices here are £400k upwards so before you even have started for basic essentials in rent/mortgage council tax ect your lookinh at kissing goodbye to well over £2000 per month before your even puting food on the table.
In order to live here £300 a day is comfortable if you dont live an extravagant lifestyle, remeber you also have to pay tax at top rate too.
Its all releative. Id love to live in an area where rent was £700 a month for a massive house, or pick up a bargain detached 5 bedroom place for £200k.
Average prices down here for a 3 bed semi is around £45 on a bi monthly clean and people pay it here.
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Can i just say something here please chaps.
Its all relative. Here in surrey indeed you need to turnover in excess of £300 per day just to pay the bills.
My council tax alone is nudging £200 per month. Rents down here are £1500 per month and upwards, and thats just for a small house in the surrey subs or a flat in the town centre. House prices here are £400k upwards so before you even have started for basic essentials in rent/mortgage council tax ect your lookinh at kissing goodbye to well over £2000 per month before your even puting food on the table.
In order to live here £300 a day is comfortable if you dont live an extravagant lifestyle, remeber you also have to pay tax at top rate too.
Its all releative. Id love to live in an area where rent was £700 a month for a massive house, or pick up a bargain detached 5 bedroom place for £200k.
Average prices down here for a 3 bed semi is around £45 on a bi monthly clean and people pay it here.
Wow , now I understand what NWH keeps banging on about , Marc ..... You have opened my eyes , cheers
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Indeed a 3'bed semi is no where near the 15-20 mark I wouldn't do one for that I do 3 houses down a small road that are 30 each and they literally take 10-12 minutes each quicker if they are out so £90 in under an hour. You could earn 200 a day down here and with the ebb and flow of money being paid on time you'd struggle,with monlthly bills as said council tax household bills etc you need to earn 1500 at least a month before you flick the kettle on,if you live in an area mid to north country you may not agree but down south I really don't know how people survive even with 2 adults working it cost s£££ loads to live down here.
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Indeed a 3'bed semi is no where near the 15-20 mark I wouldn't do one for that I do 3 houses down a small road that are 30 each and they literally take 10-12 minutes each quicker if they are out so £90 in under an hour. You could earn 200 a day down here and with the ebb and flow of money being paid on time you'd struggle,with monlthly bills as said council tax household bills etc you need to earn 1500 at least a month before you flick the kettle on,if you live in an area mid to north country you may not agree but down south I really don't know how people survive even with 2 adults working it cost s£££ loads to live down here.
What part of surrey you cover?
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Can i just say something here please chaps.
Its all relative. Here in surrey indeed you need to turnover in excess of £300 per day just to pay the bills.
My council tax alone is nudging £200 per month. Rents down here are £1500 per month and upwards, and thats just for a small house in the surrey subs or a flat in the town centre. House prices here are £400k upwards so before you even have started for basic essentials in rent/mortgage council tax ect your lookinh at kissing goodbye to well over £2000 per month before your even puting food on the table.
In order to live here £300 a day is comfortable if you dont live an extravagant lifestyle, remeber you also have to pay tax at top rate too.
Its all releative. Id love to live in an area where rent was £700 a month for a massive house, or pick up a bargain detached 5 bedroom place for £200k.
Average prices down here for a 3 bed semi is around £45 on a bi monthly clean and people pay it here.
Wow , now I understand what NWH keeps banging on about , Marc ..... You have opened my eyes , cheers
Its just bull Shrek, they harp on about the high cost of living and yet they all have £45 or more spare for a 10 minute window cleaning job
I take it there are no nurses, teachers, posties, police, shop workers, fast food chain workers and more all on a lot less than £300 a day living within a hundred miles of this area.
Do these guys pay their employees £300 a day I think not, like I keep saying you don't need to be too much of a detective to
see through a lot of the bull on here.
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We all know what we need to earn to pay the bills and get by if there is any leftover in some cases. So it don't matter what part of the country you are from just stop bickering and get out there and earn as much as you can before you die. Preferably not killing yourself in the process as you can't take it with you.
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Same , up here in Glasgow, average is a fiver a house.
Can't really charge more than that, but seems as though you lot are living in a different planet charging them prices.
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Can i just say something here please chaps.
Its all relative. Here in surrey indeed you need to turnover in excess of £300 per day just to pay the bills.
My council tax alone is nudging £200 per month. Rents down here are £1500 per month and upwards, and thats just for a small house in the surrey subs or a flat in the town centre. House prices here are £400k upwards so before you even have started for basic essentials in rent/mortgage council tax ect your lookinh at kissing goodbye to well over £2000 per month before your even puting food on the table.
In order to live here £300 a day is comfortable if you dont live an extravagant lifestyle, remeber you also have to pay tax at top rate too.
Its all releative. Id love to live in an area where rent was £700 a month for a massive house, or pick up a bargain detached 5 bedroom place for £200k.
Average prices down here for a 3 bed semi is around £45 on a bi monthly clean and people pay it here.
Wow , now I understand what NWH keeps banging on about , Marc ..... You have opened my eyes , cheers
Its just bull Shrek, they harp on about the high cost of living and yet they all have £45 or more spare for a 10 minute window cleaning job
I take it there are no nurses, teachers, posties, police, shop workers, fast food chain workers and more all on a lot less than £300 a day living within a hundred miles of this area.
Do these guys pay their employees £300 a day I think not, like I keep saying you don't need to be too much of a detective to
see through a lot of the bull on here.
You know what Sean why dont you come down here and see for yourself. Its not bull. And for your information why would you pay someone your Turnover?
And this teachers and nurses melarkey you know for a fact keyworkers get help. The council contribute towards rent costs for these people. Which is probbably why my council tax is so flippin high, cos rents are so high its a never ending circle.
Do you even know what turnover is?
Quite simply put to you.
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Same , up here in Glasgow, average is a fiver a house.
Can't really charge more than that, but seems as though you lot are living in a different planet charging them prices.
You've got to clean a lot of houses at a fiver a pop (gross takings) to make ends meet surely?
Sounds bloody hard graft and prity grim to me just thinking about it ???
Just to put that pricing into context we had a trad window cleaner that came every 2 weeks and you can guess what he charged....Yes a fiver a clean but that was nearly 30 years ago ::)roll
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Can i just say something here please chaps.
Its all relative. Here in surrey indeed you need to turnover in excess of £300 per day just to pay the bills.
My council tax alone is nudging £200 per month. Rents down here are £1500 per month and upwards, and thats just for a small house in the surrey subs or a flat in the town centre. House prices here are £400k upwards so before you even have started for basic essentials in rent/mortgage council tax ect your lookinh at kissing goodbye to well over £2000 per month before your even puting food on the table.
In order to live here £300 a day is comfortable if you dont live an extravagant lifestyle, remeber you also have to pay tax at top rate too.
Its all releative. Id love to live in an area where rent was £700 a month for a massive house, or pick up a bargain detached 5 bedroom place for £200k.
Average prices down here for a 3 bed semi is around £45 on a bi monthly clean and people pay it here.
Wow , now I understand what NWH keeps banging on about , Marc ..... You have opened my eyes , cheers
Its just bull Shrek, they harp on about the high cost of living and yet they all have £45 or more spare for a 10 minute window cleaning job
I take it there are no nurses, teachers, posties, police, shop workers, fast food chain workers and more all on a lot less than £300 a day living within a hundred miles of this area.
Do these guys pay their employees £300 a day I think not, like I keep saying you don't need to be too much of a detective to
see through a lot of the bull on here.
You know what Sean why dont you come down here and see for yourself. Its not bull.
My mortgage is £1,600 a month. If anyone takes the time to look it up you can find my house on Streetview or an estate agent site. It's a bog standard 3 bed detached. Not as nice as yours Sean. We're not totally happy with it so we recently had it valued. £525,000. It's madness. That said, £300 a day in Newbury is a comfortable income. I don't see why just to be less comfortable than I am able to be I should price like Sean seems to think I should. I don't drink and I don't smoke and it's not so straightforward now as I have two vans but that was what I aimed for before employing. My average price is £25ish.
It isn't bull Sean.
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Can i just say something here please chaps.
Its all relative. Here in surrey indeed you need to turnover in excess of £300 per day just to pay the bills.
My council tax alone is nudging £200 per month. Rents down here are £1500 per month and upwards, and thats just for a small house in the surrey subs or a flat in the town centre. House prices here are £400k upwards so before you even have started for basic essentials in rent/mortgage council tax ect your lookinh at kissing goodbye to well over £2000 per month before your even puting food on the table.
In order to live here £300 a day is comfortable if you dont live an extravagant lifestyle, remeber you also have to pay tax at top rate too.
Its all releative. Id love to live in an area where rent was £700 a month for a massive house, or pick up a bargain detached 5 bedroom place for £200k.
Average prices down here for a 3 bed semi is around £45 on a bi monthly clean and people pay it here.
thats quite an eye - opener
my rent is £550 per month 3 bed semi and council tax is £100 per month, reason why 150 a day up here isnt a bad crack at all.
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Good God, imagine what plasterers earn down that way or a toilet cleaner they must be on £400 a day easily :o
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this is a bug eye opener for me to as some times i here these big ernings on here and think blady hell how do u get these prices but its all about were u live in my area u have quite a few guys running round charging £6 for a house with like 13 windows ect wich i think is blady cheep some times i price jobs and people look at me like ive just robed them blind some of the shop fronts in town are like £3 a clean its a war zone with the old boys trying to get a good run of shops in torquay
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Good God, imagine what plasterers earn down that way or a toilet cleaner they must be on £400 a day easily :o
We tend to deal with professional types down south who have a wee bit more disposable income than a toilet cleaner Dave ;D
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Sean K honestly you have no clue about this end of the country if they paid £3 for half a cardboard cup of coffee they'd think it was cheap,if someone's earning 100-200k a year do you think that they are honestly bothered about paying 50-100 quid every so often for window cleaning. Not only that more often than not they are both earning that out of the same house,before you say anyone is a dreamer and a few only say this kind of thing as a joke to annoy or Bragg you really do need to get your facts straight or do your maths. How much do you think you need to earn to live down here when your monthly outgoings are touching 2k a month 5-600 quid a week! Lol.
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Maybe we should start bitching about Vision or talk about converting a Harris pole for work eh,I might start a thread on how bad I'm doing or how I'm struggling to make ends meet it might get me some friends or praise at how I'm making an effort. The how much for this thread sums it up really beer money quoting comes to mind.
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Sean K honestly you have no clue about this end of the country if they paid £3 for half a cardboard cup of coffee they'd think it was cheap,if someone's earning 100-200k a year do you think that they are honestly bothered about paying 50-100 quid every so often for window cleaning. Not only that more often than not they are both earning that out of the same house,before you say anyone is a dreamer and a few only say this kind of thing as a joke to annoy or Bragg you really do need to get your facts straight or do your maths. How much do you think you need to earn to live down here when your monthly outgoings are touching 2k a month 5-600 quid a week! Lol.
Still, £300 a day is a bit of an exaggeration, and I live 'down' here. You can comfortably live on around £200 a day, unless like nwh your happy paying £3 for half a cup of coffee.
I know alot of window cleaners in hants and surrey and not one of them earns £1500 a week as a sole trader.
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Just to add, I'm not just saying that to be defensive, I average £160-£200 most days and more on others BUT my other half earns a good salary on top of that. Could we live on just my wages, I think we could, maybe not as 'freespending' as we are now but we would certainly be OK.
I think some of the people quoting the £300 plus figure are those that have, or want, a higher standard of living then the average joe.
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Good God, imagine what plasterers earn down that way or a toilet cleaner they must be on £400 a day easily :o
You may joke But I had a plasterer charge me £1400 for 2 days rendering in my garden.
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Sean K honestly you have no clue about this end of the country if they paid £3 for half a cardboard cup of coffee they'd think it was cheap,if someone's earning 100-200k a year do you think that they are honestly bothered about paying 50-100 quid every so often for window cleaning. Not only that more often than not they are both earning that out of the same house,before you say anyone is a dreamer and a few only say this kind of thing as a joke to annoy or Bragg you really do need to get your facts straight or do your maths. How much do you think you need to earn to live down here when your monthly outgoings are touching 2k a month 5-600 quid a week! Lol.
NWH I don't need to live at your end of the country to know what public sector workers are earning, I don't need to live
in your end of the country to know what shop workers and other lower paid workers are earning.
Like I have said before you guys come on here bragging about your £100 plus an hour turnover and then try to justify it by
saying you only clean for millionaires your expenses run into the tens of thousands and its impossible to live in the area on a
UK average wage.
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Maybe we should start bitching about Vision or talk about converting a Harris pole for work eh,I might start a thread on how bad I'm doing or how I'm struggling to make ends meet it might get me some friends or praise at how I'm making an effort. The how much for this thread sums it up really beer money quoting comes to mind.
Seriously where do you get the beer money quoting from ? the only guys on here who constantly feel the need to tell what they
charge/earn are yourself and a few others.
I would say most on here are more than happy with what they earn for the hours worked and for some reason don't feel the
need to constantly brag about it, I wonder why ?
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Same , up here in Glasgow, average is a fiver a house.
Can't really charge more than that, but seems as though you lot are living in a different planet charging them prices.
You've got to clean a lot of houses at a fiver a pop (gross takings) to make ends meet surely?
Sounds bloody hard graft and prity grim to me just thinking about it ???
Just to put that pricing into context we had a trad window cleaner that came every 2 weeks and you can guess what he charged....Yes a fiver a clean but that was nearly 30 years ago ::)roll
I do it trad also, I don't feel it's grim either mate. I think it's what the jobs worth and I feel happy with my lot. I can do 15 houses in a 3 or 4 hours.
I know plenty of people that it takes them all day to make what I make and they have nagging bosses set times of work, different shifts.
You have the honey down your end though mate for sure.
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Rent round our way is £700+ and water bills nearly £900. Thank goodness this year my mortgage comes to an end.
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I suppose all trades in Surrey must be on 300 a day minimum just to live in that area. Bakers, Policemen Lollypop men, Tesco Employees, Teachers, Butchers and Candlestick Makers.
Thing is though, they aren't much better off 'cos everybody is on 40% tax. People in Yorkshire don't pay any tax.
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I suppose all trades in Surrey must be on 300 a day minimum just to live in that area. Bakers, Policemen Lollypop men, Tesco Employees, Teachers, Butchers and Candlestick Makers.
Thing is though, they aren't much better off 'cos everybody is on 40% tax. People in Yorkshire don't pay any tax.
Thing is though, each person has his own expectations and ambitions. If someone is happy on £15 an hour cleaning windows, that's up to them. I would object if it was a "beer money" type job and weren't declaring it, but otherwise, so what?
Th thing I do find slightly irritating is those that think people will never pay £15 to have their 3 bed semi cleaned once every two months. Or £20 for a 4 bed detached - £25 with a conservatory. They will and do. If they won't then the guy happy to earn £15 an hour will do them for £5 and I'm not interested in them. Pretty soon the guy happy to do them for a fiver will be full and he'll be happy.
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I know policemen I know fireman lollipop man-women I don't,if you watch the news or read the paper it's all there for you to see why do you think they are all moaning,they moan about money money oh and money. Most are happy as said earning what they earn and fair enough but if you go around making statements such as you can't and won't earn 300 a day then what do you expect,I have no clue what you really earn as you don't me. There are windys that will clean 20 houses for 200 quid and there will be windys that earn that cleaning 1 or2 there always has and always will be,because the bloke cleaning 20 has failed to see the quicker way to earning his 200 he is always going to think the other bloke is either bragging or saying it for effect to put him down. If he was to take his blinkers off for a minute he might see it's possible over time to achieve,this is the point I make when people make statements such as you can build a round like this in around 2-3 years,it was difficult years ago even harder today.
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A window cleaner up North might quote £5 for a 3 bed semi, then another one might quote £8. They can both live earning via their respective quotes.
A window cleaner down South might quote £15 for a 3 bed semi, then another might quote £27. They can both live earning via their respective quotes.
In both cases I know which one I would like to be, and I don't think it makes me greedy.
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I suppose all trades in Surrey must be on 300 a day minimum just to live in that area. Bakers, Policemen Lollypop men, Tesco Employees, Teachers, Butchers and Candlestick Makers.
Thing is though, they aren't much better off 'cos everybody is on 40% tax. People in Yorkshire don't pay any tax.
Thing is though, each person has his own expectations and ambitions. If someone is happy on £15 an hour cleaning windows, that's up to them. I would object if it was a "beer money" type job and weren't declaring it, but otherwise, so what?
Th thing I do find slightly irritating is those that think people will never pay £15 to have their 3 bed semi cleaned once every two months. Or £20 for a 4 bed detached - £25 with a conservatory. They will and do. If they won't then the guy happy to earn £15 an hour will do them for £5 and I'm not interested in them. Pretty soon the guy happy to do them for a fiver will be full and he'll be happy.
The thing is nobody has mentioned what they charge for the above properties, I charge £25 for a 4 bed detached
with conservatory more depending on the size of the conservatory but to do the quantities needed to make the money you
claim to be making my quality would be that poor they would be better off getting the guy at a fiver.
That's where the bull comes into it.
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Where does the bull come in because you charge 25 for that and I might get 40-50,do you mean it's bull because I can get more for a house than you Sean.
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It's not where you are, it's who you're selling to. Target the recently retired in their late fifties with MASSIVE pensions. Happy days.
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Its all relative to where you live and the economic state of where you live.
Im south yorkshire and one round i have is in a ex mining village. A 3 bed semi in this area is much lower than a 3 bed semi in a more prosperous village that i clean. Thankfully for me, my other 6 rounds are in prospering villages and so it balances my monthly income nicely.
I get round all my rounds within a month and all my work is 4wkly.
However if really good money can be earnt in these places mentioned in this thread then i might come get me a slice. Travel down, spend night in van, 2 days working, make them 4wkly and travel home with my treasure............worth doing perhaps
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I'm still waiting for these easy to do houses all together on one street and all in a row and seemingly such jobs, they happen to some day after day and week after week. Must be great to have that type of work all the time.
I must be doing something wrong.
I have one cul de sac where I do a pile together and that's it.
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I'm still waiting for these easy to do houses all together on one street and all in a row and seemingly such jobs, they happen to some day after day and week after week. Must be great to have that type of work all the time.
I must be doing something wrong.
I have one cul de sac where I do a pile together and that's it.
I tend to find the streets where I have work like that are a pain in the arris. Awkward access, awkward windows. awkward parking.
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I suppose all trades in Surrey must be on 300 a day minimum just to live in that area. Bakers, Policemen Lollypop men, Tesco Employees, Teachers, Butchers and Candlestick Makers.
Thing is though, they aren't much better off 'cos everybody is on 40% tax. People in Yorkshire don't pay any tax.
Thing is though, each person has his own expectations and ambitions. If someone is happy on £15 an hour cleaning windows, that's up to them. I would object if it was a "beer money" type job and weren't declaring it, but otherwise, so what?
Th thing I do find slightly irritating is those that think people will never pay £15 to have their 3 bed semi cleaned once every two months. Or £20 for a 4 bed detached - £25 with a conservatory. They will and do. If they won't then the guy happy to earn £15 an hour will do them for £5 and I'm not interested in them. Pretty soon the guy happy to do them for a fiver will be full and he'll be happy.
The thing is nobody has mentioned what they charge for the above properties, I charge £25 for a 4 bed detached
with conservatory more depending on the size of the conservatory but to do the quantities needed to make the money you
claim to be making my quality would be that poor they would be better off getting the guy at a fiver.
That's where the bull comes into it.
You couldn't do 12 in a day to a decent standard? Try using an additive as I've heard some on here say it will give you more confidence in your work and you might work quicker. ;)
Seriously, if you can't do 12 estate four beds in a day, perhaps cleaning windows isn't for you.
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Yer but no but where I live they don't make houses in cold dee sacks they only make massive houseswhere really rich people live and pay me loads of money I wouldn't clean council houses like what you saddos clean cos I'm far superior than you lot and I like to tell everyone on ere how brilliant I am yer but no but I got free brushes too lol so stick that down your toilet yer? What I'm saying is I earn loads of money and clean conservatories for free dont start me on tax I pay so much tax lol.
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I'm still waiting for these easy to do houses all together on one street and all in a row and seemingly such jobs, they happen to some day after day and week after week. Must be great to have that type of work all the time.
I must be doing something wrong.
I have one cul de sac where I do a pile together and that's it.
im cleaning 78 houses on an estate this week.it takes me 3 and a half days with prices ranging from £7-£12.ive also got a few larger stand alone 2 monthlies to do then a cluster of local 4 weekly houses saturday morning.
most of this is "bread and butter" work and is ok but on some other days through my working month im earning more just cleaning 5-8 larger stand alones a day(prices ranging from £30-£70).
diesel costs are about £30-£40 a month to clean all my work as no work is further than 10 miles away from home.
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Its all relative to where you live and the economic state of where you live.
Im south yorkshire and one round i have is in a ex mining village. A 3 bed semi in this area is much lower than a 3 bed semi in a more prosperous village that i clean. Thankfully for me, my other 6 rounds are in prospering villages and so it balances my monthly income nicely.
I get round all my rounds within a month and all my work is 4wkly.
However if really good money can be earnt in these places mentioned in this thread then i might come get me a slice. Travel down, spend night in van, 2 days working, make them 4wkly and travel home with my treasure............worth doing perhaps
It is and it isn't Nathan, yes you can charge more in more prosperous areas but they also expect more which eats into your
time.
I'm sure we would all like to find areas full of rich dummies living in small overpriced properties who are that desperate for
a shiner that the sky's the limit when it comes to pricing, I certainly would travel and sleep in the van but in the real world these are few and far between. (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1459320456_grin[1].gif)
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Yer but no but where I live they don't make houses in cold dee sacks they only make massive houseswhere really rich people live and pay me loads of money I wouldn't clean council houses like what you saddos clean cos I'm far superior than you lot and I like to tell everyone on ere how brilliant I am yer but no but I got free brushes too lol so stick that down your toilet yer? What I'm saying is I earn loads of money and clean conservatories for free dont start me on tax I pay so much tax lol.
;D you also missed out this gem:
this is a bug eye opener for me to as some times i here these big ernings on here and think blady hell how do u get these prices but its all about were u live in my area u have quite a few guys running round charging £6 for a house with like 13 windows ect wich i think is blady cheep some times i price jobs and people look at me like ive just robed them blind some of the shop fronts in town are like £3 a clean its a war zone with the old boys trying to get a good run of shops in torquay
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I suppose all trades in Surrey must be on 300 a day minimum just to live in that area. Bakers, Policemen Lollypop men, Tesco Employees, Teachers, Butchers and Candlestick Makers.
Thing is though, they aren't much better off 'cos everybody is on 40% tax. People in Yorkshire don't pay any tax.
Thing is though, each person has his own expectations and ambitions. If someone is happy on £15 an hour cleaning windows, that's up to them. I would object if it was a "beer money" type job and weren't declaring it, but otherwise, so what?
Th thing I do find slightly irritating is those that think people will never pay £15 to have their 3 bed semi cleaned once every two months. Or £20 for a 4 bed detached - £25 with a conservatory. They will and do. If they won't then the guy happy to earn £15 an hour will do them for £5 and I'm not interested in them. Pretty soon the guy happy to do them for a fiver will be full and he'll be happy.
The thing is nobody has mentioned what they charge for the above properties, I charge £25 for a 4 bed detached
with conservatory more depending on the size of the conservatory but to do the quantities needed to make the money you
claim to be making my quality would be that poor they would be better off getting the guy at a fiver.
That's where the bull comes into it.
You couldn't do 12 in a day to a decent standard? Try using an additive as I've heard some on here say it will give you more confidence in your work and you might work quicker. ;)
Seriously, if you can't do 12 estate four beds in a day, perhaps cleaning windows isn't for you.
Nope not a chance of me doing 12 4 bed detached with conservatories a day five days a week, but then my last job was
working 12 hour nights for around £550 a week so window cleaning is still definitely for me. (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1459321469_grin[1].gif)
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you should easily be able to clean 12 4 bed properties(with connys) a day(2 an hour)in a 7 hour day but if you have health problems maybe not as i know you ve had a few sean. :(
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I have been in this game 19 years and couldn't do 12 4 beds with conservatories in a day.
I love the job, but have OCD tendencies, so maybe it isn't for me. ;D
John
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you should easily be able to clean 12 4 bed properties(with connys) a day(2 an hour)in a 7 hour day but if you have health problems maybe not as i know you ve had a few sean. :(
Nothing to do with health Dazmond as that's been sorted ( touch head/wood ) maybe its age but I would be lucky doing two
large 4 bed detached with conservatories an hour over a 7 hour day, it would certainly need for everything to fall right compact,
easy access, few or no van moves, packing and unpacking to a minimum and so on which I certainly don't get with most
detached properties.
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I have been in this game 19 years and couldn't do 12 4 beds with conservatories in a day.
I love the job, but have OCD tendencies, so maybe it isn't for me. ;D
John
Yes but wfp makes you 500% quicker.(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1459324598_grin[1].gif)
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I'm still waiting for these easy to do houses all together on one street and all in a row and seemingly such jobs, they happen to some day after day and week after week. Must be great to have that type of work all the time.
I must be doing something wrong.
I have one cul de sac where I do a pile together and that's it.
Ive sold all of my work like that, used to bore the tits off me. I much prefer the larger, out of town properties. My average job price is £45.00. Screw sitting in a cup-de-sac all day long, does my nut.
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I'm still waiting for these easy to do houses all together on one street and all in a row and seemingly such jobs, they happen to some day after day and week after week. Must be great to have that type of work all the time.
I must be doing something wrong.
I have one cul de sac where I do a pile together and that's it.
Ive sold all of my work like that, used to bore the tits off me. I much prefer the larger, out of town properties. My average job price is £45.00. Screw sitting in a cup-de-sac all day long, does my nut.
I must admit I hate the compact work. It's very boring. I'm not keen on very large properties eith tbh as I find them a bit boring. I actually like one offs in general, but I mostly turn them down at the moment. I have a new development of townhouse I like though. I've about 20 and they are all 20-£25 each. I can do the lot in a long morning. Total doddle and pretty easy work.
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I suppose the best way of thinking no matter what part of the country you are is to look at ways to try gross as much as you can in the least possible time and effort.
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Yer but no but where I live they don't make houses in cold dee sacks they only make massive houseswhere really rich people live and pay me loads of money I wouldn't clean council houses like what you saddos clean cos I'm far superior than you lot and I like to tell everyone on ere how brilliant I am yer but no but I got free brushes too lol so stick that down your toilet yer? What I'm saying is I earn loads of money and clean conservatories for free dont start me on tax I pay so much tax lol.
Dave you are envious of others arnt you lol,and by looking at the above post I have to ask have you been following me round on my working day.
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I can't keep coming on here during working hours I've got a load of 2 up 2 downers to clean 😂😂😂😂😂
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I can't keep coming on here during working hours I've got a load of 2 up 2 downers to clean
I'm having today off as earnt far too much yesturday so don't want to be accused as being too greedy ;D
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He loves me so much he remembers everything I've said in the past,I don't mind Dave it's better to be remembered for something than to never be remembered at all. 😉
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I can't keep coming on here during working hours I've got a load of 2 up 2 downers to clean
I'm having today off as earnt far too much yesturday so don't want to be accused as being too greedy ;D
Working Easter Tuesday you need to up your prices mate, I have a few jobs on Friday that I cant get out of as they are pre arranged interior cleans, only for that I would have took the week off.
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I come on here for a laugh pure and simple. There's no end of funny posts I love it. :D :) lol toilet pictures, rolly eyes and turds give us some more!
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I suppose the best way of thinking no matter what part of the country you are is to look at ways to try gross as much as you can in the least possible time and effort.
This.
Aim to be as expensive as your market allows whether that's 12 quid semis or 30 quid semis
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Same , up here in Glasgow, average is a fiver a house.
Can't really charge more than that, but seems as though you lot are living in a different planet charging them prices.
Have you actually tried saying £6? when I first started , every windy near me was charging £5 , I thought it was too cheap so I thought il try my look with £6 ... Everyone took it , then the next lot I said £7 and after that I just priced it at whatever I thought it was worth for my time .
I didn't start this thread to brag or put people down, I just think a lot of windys these days should be charging a lot more. I know people who went from trad to wfp and kept their prices the same, which to me doesn't make sense as they now have more expenses ( compared to carrying a ladder and a dirty cloth) .
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Some people have actually started pricing houses cheaper than they did traditional because it takes less time,prime example of pricing it on time and not the job in hand that's a slippery slope I wouldn't get into, like I've said I can clean loads of Windows in an hour I price what I want for doing that particular job not the fact it might only take me half an hour or so.
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whether im on estate work for 3 or 4 days or cleaning clusters of work or stand alones here and there.its all window cleaning.makes no difference to me.
the very compact work i tend to get a few more brews and more payments in cash/cheque there and then.also ive known lots of my customers for a long time.some have been with me for 23+ years!a bit of banter and a little chat helps the day along. :)
im very fortunate.i work mostly in really nice semi rural/leafy suburb areas and most of the time its a very peaceful and chilled working environment with farmers fields nearby and gorgeous views. :)
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whether im on estate work for 3 or 4 days or cleaning clusters of work or stand alones here and there.its all window cleaning.makes no difference to me.
the very compact work i tend to get a few more brews and more payments in cash/cheque there and then.also ive known lots of my customers for a long time.some have been with me for 23+ years!a bit of banter and a little chat helps the day along. :)
im very fortunate.i work mostly in really nice semi rural/leafy suburb areas and most of the time its a very peaceful and chilled working environment with farmers fields nearby and gorgeous views. :)
Sound idyllic to me ;)
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Works in liverpool L19 not far from South Park train station and all house are more or less next to each other plus there is a lot more houses to canvass I have built this up by people only asking never knocked on doors so loads more work to get
36 house x £5.00 =£180
4 house x £7.50 =£ 30
1 house x £8.00 =£ 8
1 house x £10.00=£ 10
2 house x £3.00 = £ 6
Total £234 ever 4 weeks
This take me and one lad a full day or sometimes I do it over 2 half days on my own each house has 3 Windows and a door on front and 3 Windows and Pato door back there is a lot of house but you can do all the front window going over all the gardens as there is no walls or fences and when doing the back Windows you go down one entry to do two houses backs on two of the house I do a quick wipe on the coney roofs but it's up to you if you like to do this to sensible offers no time wastes email me on.....
I work in Liverpool, and i work in L19. I've never come across anyone so cheap, and i've seen plenty of cheap cleaners. As others say, each to their own, i can't personally think of anyone i know including myself that would take that work off him even for free. But maybe thats why its for sale as i don't think the guy is packing up and ceasing trading? Might be a good start for someone , not for me to judge.
I's say an average/usual price here for a front is a fiver and no matter how compact it is.............ah sod it !!!!
Good luck with that as they say !!!! ;D