Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Edge Clean on June 13, 2016, 08:09:08 pm
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Got a leaflet from a customer today, delivered by 2 dodgy looking lads (her words! not mine) to her house just after the last clean I did.(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1465844838_image.jpg)
Anyone on here beat those prices?
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Jesus! That's tough.
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Someone's gonna be a busy fool ;D
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Yip plenty guys like that around our area. 4 bed new builds at 6 quid i know of.
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I cant see how you could make a living on those prices, and the fact he has a leaflet with his name and address on it would suggest hes not on the dole.
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I cant see how you could make a living on those prices, and the fact he has a leaflet with his name and address on it would suggest hes not on the dole.
Sean
The way a lot of these lowball window cleaners round here see it is that they could go work for the main operator work their guts out all day cleaning 50 houses and get paid £35/£40 a day on top of their dole or go out and try build a round making £80/£100 a day, if they work all weathers they can make £400/£500 a week over 5 days or £480/£600 over 6 days, up this way that is good money, but if they just lift the sights a bit higher and realise that customers are prepared to pay £5/£6 minimum for the types of houses they are charging £2.50 for then, it makes life a bit better for themselves. Based on those prices over 100 houses they earn £250 a week/£13,000 a year less than me, then again based on southern prices, assuming a similar houses down there are £10, I'm probably losing out on £500 a week/£26,000 a year myself.
I have only lost one in my village to this crew, which goes to show customers are happy paying more.
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The cretin didn't bother to get a spell check before sending to the printers. What is a bungalo? ;D
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What is a rhone?
as in ' rhones cleaned'
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What is a rhone?
as in ' rhones cleaned'
Rhones = Gutters
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Makes you wonder after seeing those prices if they are licensed to work as window cleaners being in Scotland and all?
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The difference between those who are racing to the bottom and those who charge top dollar in this business is quite remarkable, to the point of being unbelievable. Remarkable isn't it.
You really do need to educate yourself before you start up in this game, or you could end up work as a dunderhead for the rest of your working life without realising it.
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I liked the bit about the free window clean too. Bless em! ;D ;D
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I cant see how you could make a living on those prices, and the fact he has a leaflet with his name and address on it would suggest hes not on the dole.
Sean
The way a lot of these lowball window cleaners round here see it is that they could go work for the main operator work their guts out all day cleaning 50 houses and get paid £35/£40 a day on top of their dole or go out and try build a round making £80/£100 a day, if they work all weathers they can make £400/£500 a week over 5 days or £480/£600 over 6 days, up this way that is good money, but if they just lift the sights a bit higher and realise that customers are prepared to pay £5/£6 minimum for the types of houses they are charging £2.50 for then, it makes life a bit better for themselves. Based on those prices over 100 houses they earn £250 a week/£13,000 a year less than me, then again based on southern prices, assuming a similar houses down there are £10, I'm probably losing out on £500 a week/£26,000 a year myself.
I have only lost one in my village to this crew, which goes to show customers are happy paying more.
You've called it right, at the moment the person named on these leaflets works for you know who! In fact he was meant to be starting a weeks trial with me today but never came out.....lucky escape for me, he would av been putting aw his flyers thru ma doors, ach he wouldny av picked up any of ma customers anyway as I'm a wee bit cheaper than him ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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KS,
I reckon he would have been doing more than leafleting your jobs, dipping his wfp in muddy puddles then sabotaging your work sounds possible, I wonder if he is picking up any of RMs cancellations?
I always thought that ES was the cheapest in town, but at least he is charging a £1 more for a 4 in block than this clown.
There are a few more start ups offering ridiculous prices just to get the work, times must be desperate that they are having to stoop so low. The sad thing is that I reckon some of them are here to stay, just hope they realise sooner rather than later that they need to up prices, but I doubt they will.
Have you ever noticed how some of the window cleaners round here want all the work and will do what they can to get it?
As I have said previously at £5/£6, I'm happy with my lot, we are never going to get southern prices up here, occasionally we get the odd golden nugget, just wish there were more of them available in the towns...plenty of them up the coast.
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What is a rhone?
as in ' rhones cleaned'
Rhones = Gutters
Aha I see , cheers
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Explains why when I quoted a 6 bedroom house with double conservatory cost about £500K by the way
the lady nearly had a fit when I said £45, she had just moved down from Scotland where she was paying £5
Asked me to justify the cost, I said live around the corner from her and I'm sure she didn't buy that house earning £50 a day if I have to live down here I want a wage that enable me to live here also, don't think she appreciated my candor
You guys up there have to work very hard to make a living , i wouldn't do it my body wouldn't last that rate of houses a day
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He must be the village idiot
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Whats a bungalo?
Perhaps his leaflet says a lot about him. If he can't be bothered to get a leaflet proof read before printing them then he won't be bothered with the quality of his work either.
But it amasing what some customers are happy with. We watched one of our competitors across the road last Wednesday on the street coming into Lingdale. So did our customers. Even they were shaking their heads in disbelief.
He couldn't quite reach the top of his customers first story windows as his fiberglass pole was too short and bendy. So half a job there.
After we did our customers we stopped and inspected the results. It looks like he is using ordinary tap water.
He's been going for years. I looks like he has a second car on the road now.
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Work like a dog up here some weeks for nothing more than a decent wage.when you factor in van, fuel,pli, road tax, van insurance, workwear, equipment, sservicing van it soon bites into profit.
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I wouldn't worry. Leaflets don't work after all.
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KS,
I reckon he would have been doing more than leafleting your jobs, dipping his wfp in muddy puddles then sabotaging your work sounds possible, I wonder if he is picking up any of RMs cancellations?
I always thought that ES was the cheapest in town, but at least he is charging a £1 more for a 4 in block than this clown.
There are a few more start ups offering ridiculous prices just to get the work, times must be desperate that they are having to stoop so low. The sad thing is that I reckon some of them are here to stay, just hope they realise sooner rather than later that they need to up prices, but I doubt they will.
Have you ever noticed how some of the window cleaners round here want all the work and will do what they can to get it?
As I have said previously at £5/£6, I'm happy with my lot, we are never going to get southern prices up here, occasionally we get the odd golden nugget, just wish there were more of them available in the towns...plenty of them up the coast.
A cannae work out who ES is lol! Approx 75% of ma work is in KDY. What area was it that he had put leaflets thru your customers doors?
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to dear , theres better deals to be had in teeside ;D
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KS,
I reckon he would have been doing more than leafleting your jobs, dipping his wfp in muddy puddles then sabotaging your work sounds possible, I wonder if he is picking up any of RMs cancellations?
I always thought that ES was the cheapest in town, but at least he is charging a £1 more for a 4 in block than this clown.
There are a few more start ups offering ridiculous prices just to get the work, times must be desperate that they are having to stoop so low. The sad thing is that I reckon some of them are here to stay, just hope they realise sooner rather than later that they need to up prices, but I doubt they will.
Have you ever noticed how some of the window cleaners round here want all the work and will do what they can to get it?
As I have said previously at £5/£6, I'm happy with my lot, we are never going to get southern prices up here, occasionally we get the odd golden nugget, just wish there were more of them available in the towns...plenty of them up the coast.
A cannae work out who ES is lol! Approx 75% of ma work is in KDY. What area was it that he had put leaflets thru your customers doors?
I'm still trying to figure out who this KS Cleaning is lol. You got silver van? Sign written?
ES...wee yellow escort van ring a bell? They do all over Kirkcaldy as well.
The leaflet went through one of my customers doors in Kinglassie, discovered another one today in the Co-op, but that's disappeared now ::)roll
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KS,
I reckon he would have been doing more than leafleting your jobs, dipping his wfp in muddy puddles then sabotaging your work sounds possible, I wonder if he is picking up any of RMs cancellations?
I always thought that ES was the cheapest in town, but at least he is charging a £1 more for a 4 in block than this clown.
There are a few more start ups offering ridiculous prices just to get the work, times must be desperate that they are having to stoop so low. The sad thing is that I reckon some of them are here to stay, just hope they realise sooner rather than later that they need to up prices, but I doubt they will.
Have you ever noticed how some of the window cleaners round here want all the work and will do what they can to get it?
As I have said previously at £5/£6, I'm happy with my lot, we are never going to get southern prices up here, occasionally we get the odd golden nugget, just wish there were more of them available in the towns...plenty of them up the coast.
A cannae work out who ES is lol! Approx 75% of ma work is in KDY. What area was it that he had put leaflets thru your customers doors?
I'm still trying to figure out who this KS Cleaning is lol. You got silver van? Sign written?
ES...wee yellow escort van ring a bell? They do all over Kirkcaldy as well.
The leaflet went through one of my customers doors in Kinglassie, discovered another one today in the Co-op, but that's disappeared now ::)roll
Ah av got ye now lol. Aye av got a silver transit custom, sign written. What do you drive yourself? a must av seen ye at some point? Kinglassie eh, a don't do anything there, a stayed there when a wis a nipper tho n ma granddad owned the newsagents there.
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Funny old game isn't it.
You're moaning at this guy going en fir 2.59 when you're 5/6 quid. I moan at the 5/6 quid guys when I do em for 10. And down south they'll moan at 10 quid guys when there doing em at 15/20 or we've
Really don't see how you can make a living on 5 a house. When you factor is messers and non payers fuEl and overheads you must be flat out 8 hour days 5days a week to make 400-500 profit
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At those prices much much easier ways to make a living ... in fact getting a job is prob better than working for those prices after all expenses and hassles that comes with window cleaning :'(