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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: 8weekly on September 18, 2016, 10:32:40 am
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I was staggered at this. I remember paying £50-£60 a room 15 years ago, so how on earth do they do this so cheap? Glad I clean windows.
Think your carpets are not too bad like this lady did? THINK AGAIN.
Spent £1000s on carpets or would it cost £1000s to replace them?
Whilst spending £0s on LOOKING AFTER THEM!!??
Just because you cannot see it, THE DIRT AND GREASE IS STILL THERE!!
1 room £29
2 rooms £39
2 rooms and hallway £49 (ALL EXCLUDING FLATS NOT ON GROUND FLOOR )
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https://www.facebook.com/MHcarpetclean/
Below is a before and after from last week
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£50 or £60 per room.......you'd be sat at home all day at those prices for bog standard houses.
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
Plus travelling, plus equipment and chemicals, van. Lucky if you clear £18 an hour.
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That brings back memories as was charging those sort of carpet cleaning prices 30 odd years ago. Bless em ;D
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brings back the time of the carpet cleaning wars on teeside back in the 90s , where vans were getting hit and staff were getting abused all for 25 pound full houses !!! they never did anything too our vans
we were talking to a guy here in Essex last week and some here are doing £10 per rooms !
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I was at an end of tenancy exterior clean job not so long ago when a chap turned up with his truck mount. He was there about an hour and before he left we got chatting and only went and billed the tenant £250 for the pleasure. Not to mention he had another 4 jobs booked in that day.
Now that just goes to show you can make good money with the right kit and price well don't it.
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Truth is you can get the same kind of pricing structure with window cleaning. We've all seen the kind of thing £5.00 a house, £2.00 a front.
It's okay. There's plenty of work out there. Do a good job, fill your books with recommendations, advertise in the right place, have a nicely presented professional website. Uniform, polite, paperwork.
Let the bottom feeders do there thing, you don't have to work at their level even if you feel the invite is obligatory.
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Truth is you can get the same kind of pricing structure with window cleaning. We've all seen the kind of thing £5.00 a house, £2.00 a front.
It's okay. There's plenty of work out there. Do a good job, fill your books with recommendations, advertise in the right place, have a nicely presented professional website. Uniform, polite, paperwork.
Let the bottom feeders do there thing, you don't have to work at their level even if you feel the invite is obligatory.
Good post. It's common sense to most normal folk, it's not difficult- although there will always be those who think they've found something no one else has, when they themselves discover it!! ;D
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I was told believe about half of what you read on here.
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I was told believe about half of what you read on here.
Which half does that fall in to?
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Anything to do with "how much"
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
Plus travelling, plus equipment and chemicals, van. Lucky if you clear £18 an hour.
Forget chemicals they are pennies.....for the above maybe 3 litres of prespray max at 9p per litre so 27p
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
Plus travelling, plus equipment and chemicals, van. Lucky if you clear £18 an hour.
Forget chemicals they are pennies.....for the above maybe 3 litres of prespray max at 9p per litre so 27p
I agree with you on the price now add to it this
22k + vat for a good transit trend
20+ vat for a hydramaster truckmount
5k+vat for wrapping and speed liner and extra tools
and your off and window cleaners moan about the price of there poles lol
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
Plus travelling, plus equipment and chemicals, van. Lucky if you clear £18 an hour.
Forget chemicals they are pennies.....for the above maybe 3 litres of prespray max at 9p per litre so 27p
I agree with you on the price now add to it this
22k + vat for a good transit trend
20+ vat for a hydramaster truckmount
5k+vat for wrapping and speed liner and extra tools
and your off and window cleaners moan about the price of there poles lol
Don't forget
350k for a home
2k council tax
5k for kids school clothes
1k for a new shed
1.5k for a decent telly
The list is endless!! ::)roll
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
Plus travelling, plus equipment and chemicals, van. Lucky if you clear £18 an hour.
Forget chemicals they are pennies.....for the above maybe 3 litres of prespray max at 9p per litre so 27p
I agree with you on the price now add to it this
22k + vat for a good transit trend
20+ vat for a hydramaster truckmount
5k+vat for wrapping and speed liner and extra tools
and your off and window cleaners moan about the price of there poles lol
Well if your going to waste good money on things like speed liner those prices aren't going to stretch far,
I suppose the upside of not being able to demand the higher prices is you tend to be more sensible with your expenses.
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Please refrain from using such language SeanK, "sensible"? this is CIU! ;D
You'll be teaching them "common sense" next!
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Standard lounge, dining room and hallway at £50 you would still make good money if you organised yourself...around 90 minutes arrive to depart.
Plus travelling, plus equipment and chemicals, van. Lucky if you clear £18 an hour.
Forget chemicals they are pennies.....for the above maybe 3 litres of prespray max at 9p per litre so 27p
I agree with you on the price now add to it this
22k + vat for a good transit trend
20+ vat for a hydramaster truckmount
5k+vat for wrapping and speed liner and extra tools
and your off and window cleaners moan about the price of there poles lol
I had no idea they only made the Trend, and van wrapping for carpet cleaners...
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oops sorry for resurrecting such an old thread but felt I had to comment.
Just to confirm there is no money in carpet cleaning. Used to be ok a few years ago but everyone one is charging cheap prices and there is literally no money out there to make it work. I barely scrap a living :'(
Stick to the glass fellas.
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http://www.cleanandclearcleaning.co/
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;D ;D
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oops sorry for resurrecting such an old thread but felt I had to comment.
Just to confirm there is no money in carpet cleaning. Used to be ok a few years ago but everyone one is charging cheap prices and there is literally no money out there to make it work. I barely scrap a living :'(
Stick to the glass fellas.
yeah im sure! Like the avatar, bet there not cheap. Wink
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On a serious note. There are A LOT of carpet cleaners out there charging cheap cheap prices. Stupidly so imho as they can get more if they just ask for it. But they have an employees mind set and can't see the wood for the trees.
Its easier to set up too now a days. Easier to find information, more and better suppliers that provide training (not that most ever bother with training), forums like these that pretty much teach the new comer most things. Then they just go on facebook and advertise for free offering cheap price carpet cleaning.
Personally I think it ruins the industry.
Anyway, there's my rant for this morning.
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On a serious note. There are A LOT of carpet cleaners out there charging cheap cheap prices. Stupidly so imho as they can get more if they just ask for it. But they have an employees mind set and can't see the wood for the trees.
Its easier to set up too now a days. Easier to find information, more and better suppliers that provide training (not that most ever bother with training), forums like these that pretty much teach the new comer most things. Then they just go on facebook and advertise for free offering cheap price carpet cleaning.
Personally I think it ruins the industry.
Anyway, there's my rant for this morning.
100% agree. It's mad. As I said, I remember paying about £50 for a lounge 20 years ago.
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I think window cleaning is going the same way. Social media is breaking down the barriers between customers and service providers, more and more people have entered the window cleaning game thinking they are going to be wealthy. What they don't realise i's it takes years to build up rounds that are stable let alone profitable.
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I do carpets, in fact I do a bit of everything pressure washing, gutters, fsg etc.
Anyway with carpets I struggle to see how it beats window cleaning. Certainly at the prices in my area which would be something like 40 first room 3 carpets for 100 etc. I don't think that's bad money but you really need to be getting £100 plus jobs to make it worth while. I can clean 1 room in about an hour or slightly less including unloading and packing up a portable but you have to get there and onto the next job, it's unlikely to be compact!. If I did 3 rooms at 100 then I would expect to be there no longer than 2 hours max that's when it starts to pay.
But the equipment costs more to buy and maintain, it's a constant marketting effort needed.
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I think window cleaning is going the same way. Social media is breaking down the barriers between customers and service providers, more and more people have entered the window cleaning game thinking they are going to be wealthy. What they don't realise i's it takes years to build up rounds that are stable let alone profitable.
This is true. I'm into year 2 full time now and my round isn't full and it isn't stable., im dropping an losing the odd customer everyweek due to issues from bad payers, access, underpriced, skipping cleans eyc etc. Also when I factor in all the costs and advertising I have done it isn't very profitable either yet. Another year before I feel comfortable with it i think.
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I think window cleaning is going the same way. Social media is breaking down the barriers between customers and service providers, more and more people have entered the window cleaning game thinking they are going to be wealthy. What they don't realise i's it takes years to build up rounds that are stable let alone profitable.
This is true. I'm into year 2 full time now and my round isn't full and it isn't stable., im dropping an losing the odd customer everyweek due to issues from bad payers, access, underpriced, skipping cleans eyc etc. Also when I factor in all the costs and advertising I have done it isn't very profitable either yet. Another year before I feel comfortable with it i think.
Keep going. You will get there. You have to really want to make it work. Just be consistent, competitive, and polite.