Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ste b on August 26, 2020, 06:44:50 pm
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Quoted 2 houses next to each other today, first one at £52.50 first clean and the other at £42.
First house had bushes everywhere and would of been a real PIA , second house reluctantly accepted the price after telling me her old windy only charged £11.
Got home and emailed them to tell them I won’t be doing them,
So not a massive amount but got me wondering what’s the biggest job you have declined?
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A 45k local authority contract! ;D
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ive never declined any larger domestic jobs in 27 years of window cleaning......only middle terraced houses and awkward access houses or a small job in the middle of nowhere.....
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Can I ask why you declined these jobs
Two houses next to each other can’t get better then that.
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Quoted 2 houses next to each other today, first one at £52.50 first clean and the other at £42.
First house had bushes everywhere and would of been a real PIA , second house reluctantly accepted the price after telling me her old windy only charged £11.
Got home and emailed them to tell them I won’t be doing them,
So not a massive amount but got me wondering what’s the biggest job you have declined?
£52.50 🤣🤣
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Can I ask why you declined these jobs
Two houses next to each other can’t get better then that.
The 1st was just a PIA. Don’t think I’ve ever seen so much lead on windows plus pretty much every window was awkward to get too. Overgrown bushes on all 4 sides.
Second was setting off my spider senses for a one off plush done nothing but complain when i gave her the price.
I know what you’re saying 2 decent jobs next to each other but sometimes it’s just not worth it.
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Quoted 2 houses next to each other today, first one at £52.50 first clean and the other at £42.
First house had bushes everywhere and would of been a real PIA , second house reluctantly accepted the price after telling me her old windy only charged £11.
Got home and emailed them to tell them I won’t be doing them,
So not a massive amount but got me wondering what’s the biggest job you have declined?
£52.50 🤣🤣
Thats what £35 plus 50% first clean adds up to 😂🤷🏻♂️
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Now I see
Don’t blame you.
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£15,000
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Turned down a big shopping complex, too much work, would have had to employ again and didn't wish to go down that route .
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Quoted 2 houses next to each other today, first one at £52.50 first clean and the other at £42.
First house had bushes everywhere and would of been a real PIA , second house reluctantly accepted the price after telling me her old windy only charged £11.
Got home and emailed them to tell them I won’t be doing them,
So not a massive amount but got me wondering what’s the biggest job you have declined?
Obviously you’ve not priced them accordingly or else you’d have been happy?
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A £6K block of flats in London. Priced it up.
6 months later they got back to me, by which time we were too busy to be bothered.
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I turned down a £400 job not too long ago.
Someone rang wanting windows and a stone archways cleaning. I figured I could softwash it...
After I'd quoted it I realised I had never done soft wash before and didn't fancy winging it :D
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The Hatton Garden job.
I decided that the rest of the firm were too young and inexperienced to pull it off.
Or do the robbery.
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52 grand a year council contract didn't fancy being tied to it liked my holidays to much
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Quoted 2 houses next to each other today, first one at £52.50 first clean and the other at £42.
First house had bushes everywhere and would of been a real PIA , second house reluctantly accepted the price after telling me her old windy only charged £11.
Got home and emailed them to tell them I won’t be doing them,
So not a massive amount but got me wondering what’s the biggest job you have declined?
Obviously you’ve not priced them accordingly or else you’d have been happy?
Not really, Sometimes regardless of how much money you can make it’s just not worth the headache
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I went to quote a new Retirement Home complex, it was massive, 3 storeys, more like a big school, all exterior & interior
glass, including stair glass Balustrades etc, the Project manager said the Builders clean was done already, but i could see
it was a poor excuse for a builders clean, i just said for me as a one man show, the job was to big, i recomended a local
commercial window cleaning company, that would send a team in, and do it in days, but he said they would be too expensive.
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Yeah cheeky sod to expensive it makes me laugh people build a huge lump of there house and moan when the window price goes up,they have a big building you say 3 floors it’s going to cost them did they think they’d get the man that’s on his own and get him to do it for peanuts then.
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Yeah cheeky sod to expensive it makes me laugh people build a huge lump of there house and moan when the window price goes up,they have a big building you say 3 floors it’s going to cost them did they think they’d get the man that’s on his own and get him to do it for peanuts then.
I once cleaned a house for a few years at £17, always pleased to see me and paid well...
Then one day I got to the job and she had a massive veranda sloping roof built at the back of the house with clear glass and asked if I could clean it I say yes but it will be a extra £10 each time her face drops but says ok...anyway I cleaned it another 2 times then get a text to say she wants to cancel me as the husbands not happy with the service and she found another cleaner who would clean the house and veranda roof for £17 ;D I sent a message back saying no problem ;D
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Yeah cheeky sod to expensive it makes me laugh people build a huge lump of there house and moan when the window price goes up,they have a big building you say 3 floors it’s going to cost them did they think they’d get the man that’s on his own and get him to do it for peanuts then.
I once cleaned a house for a few years at £17, always pleased to see me and paid well...
Then one day I got to the job and she had a massive veranda sloping roof built at the back of the house with clear glass and asked if I could clean it I say yes but it will be a extra £10 each time her face drops but says ok...anyway I cleaned it another 2 times then get a text to say she wants to cancel me as the husbands not happy with the service and she found another cleaner who would clean the house and veranda roof for £17 ;D I sent a message back saying no problem ;D
Good Riddance, she did you a favour cancelling, i'd say that £10 extra you were charging wasn't enough anyway SB.
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Got offered £118 million to supply the NHS with PPE.
Turned it down, I've never even seen a rat.
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£3.50 front only
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About 5 years ago . Turned down 2 schools . Gave them the price for the outsides . Then a separate much higher price for the insides . Hoping they would go go for outsides only . Accepted it but knocked em back . Cos I really hate cleaning any inside windows . Also had a pub for years .well priced , outsides were great to clean . But the insides were awful . Kept banging the price up , every 3 months .thinking they will cancel . In the end I stopped going . Not got one single inside window on the round now .
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I priced up a large school with separate buildings on either side of a main road.
Then I decided it was far too big for me and not practical to do...and I couldn't be bothered. My mate is the school caretaker.
I gave it to a mate of mine who only does commercial work.
In return, he gave me a little fsg and windows clean on a 3 bed semi. I was well chuffed!
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Turned down a job to clean 22 hospitals and medical centres for a big commercial contract linked to NHS. Job was worth £50,000+ but the amount of stress and planning involved and the fact that my health is absolute poope it just wasn't worth it at all, so i ended up upping the price by 50% just so they would turn me down!
Think we'll stick to our domestics thank you very much. Probably would of lost it anyway due to covid, would of been an absolute nightmare trying to carry this out over covid period and lost it would of been down alot of money from having to invest in a new van and equipment.
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I turned down doing The Shard.
Not the one in that London; the carbon one in Daz's thumb 👎.
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A big house in Meridian in the midlands. Over 300 windows with 54 in the garage block.
As we walk round the Lady of the house moaned about the window cleaner, gardener and stable girls.
I thought you ain’t going to moan about me.
Told her I couldn’t carry enough water to complete the job and promptly left. I never gave a price.
I drive past occasionally and have never seen anyone there and wonder who she’s moaning about now. Some people!