Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: zesty on October 21, 2022, 07:04:32 am
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What do you charge for new build builders cleans (wondows only)
I’ve got 80 to do, done around 10, never do them as i generally hate them, only doing as it’s for a company I do a lot of commercial work for, so don’t want another company coming in.
Good news as I’m only doing 2 or 3 a week as they get completed.
Other good news is they aren’t actually that bad, they have plastic covering the windows whilst any work is going on, so it’s really just a few bits of plaster to scrape off the frames and then a general window clean inside and out. Still takes an hour for each house, or more. (They obviously want them spotless).
Wondered what the going rate was for a 3-4 bed house builders clean.
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I charged 3 times the rate still lost money but they were covered in all sorts 😬
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Wouldn’t do builders cleans what ever the price , been there done that , far easier ways of earning good money without all the hassle
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Wouldn’t do builders cleans what ever the price , been there done that , far easier ways of earning good money without all the hassle
You haven’t read the original post properly ;D
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Wouldn’t do builders cleans what ever the price , been there done that , far easier ways of earning good money without all the hassle
You haven’t read the original post properly ;D
Yes I have and still wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole
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I would sub it out at a loss if I had to to keep the company on side you do a lot of work for,sting em later down the line to make my money back.
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Just started getting calls for gutter cleans and I don’t want em to much like aggro to me,I don’t care what you can make on em I sub them out too much like dirty hard work from my experience emptying that bin in the rain,and if you aren’t doing em in the rain what’s the point lol.
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Will 100% be doing them, they’re not difficult as hardly dirty, just the odd bit of plaster on the frames.
No way I’d risk another company coming in when I do so much well paid commercial work for them, not a chance.
Happy with £60 a plot if I continue to only spend 1 hour per plot.
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There is your answer...
If you are happy that's good.
Some people hate certain jobs while others love it.
You never know what's around the corner so sometimes it's better to keep your options open.
Sound like you are happy with price too.
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Will 100% be doing them, they’re not difficult as hardly dirty, just the odd bit of plaster on the frames.
No way I’d risk another company coming in when I do so much well paid commercial work for them, not a chance.
Happy with £60 a plot if I continue to only spend 1 hour per plot.
I don't get why you're asking us 🤷♂️
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I know why you want to keep in with them but just wait till after Christmas 🎄 it’ll be a race to the bottom on prices especially new builds.
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Will 100% be doing them, they’re not difficult as hardly dirty, just the odd bit of plaster on the frames.
No way I’d risk another company coming in when I do so much well paid commercial work for them, not a chance.
Happy with £60 a plot if I continue to only spend 1 hour per plot.
I don't get why you're asking us 🤷♂️
Because I wanted to know what the going rate was, but no one does them by the sounds of things.
I never do them, so I’ve no idea what people charge.
My £60 a plot could be really cheap or really expensive.
Either way, I’m doing them, so was interested to know what others charge for standard builders cleans.
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Will 100% be doing them, they’re not difficult as hardly dirty, just the odd bit of plaster on the frames.
No way I’d risk another company coming in when I do so much well paid commercial work for them, not a chance.
Happy with £60 a plot if I continue to only spend 1 hour per plot.
I don't get why you're asking us 🤷♂️
Because I wanted to know what the going rate was, but no one does them by the sounds of things.
I never do them, so I’ve no idea what people charge.
My £60 a plot could be really cheap or really expensive.
Either way, I’m doing them, so was interested to know what others charge for standard builders cleans.
We don’t do them but I know ones that do and they take a lot longer than an hour , so guessing yours must be very good builders , removing tape from frames , stickers ,silicone ,paint, plaster, cement etc is very time consuming , time wise it will also depend on size of house and type of windows , good luck with it if you are happy with the hourly rate it doesn’t matter what others charge ,
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£60 a plot per hour is fine in my book. Especially if you can fit them in two or three at a time as you like and they are not far from your other work.
I would just be careful that the price per hour is always achieved because if it takes an hour and a quarter too often then you are in mediocre territory.
Maybe have a contingency that if a plot takes longer then you have an agreement to charge more for it.
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£60 a plot per hour is fine in my book. Especially if you can fit them in two or three at a time as you like and they are not far from your other work.
I would just be careful that the price per hour is always achieved because if it takes an hour and a quarter too often then you are in mediocre territory.
Maybe have a contingency that if a plot takes longer then you have an agreement to charge more for it.
Do you not think it should be a much higher rate than that as normal monthly repeat work will pay around this figure ? Any add ons we do it’s got to be at least double or treble the normal windows rate or there is no point in doing it .
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Normally yes. But he wants to keep a good customer happy and maybe £120/£180 per hour per plot feels a bit rich.
I personally wouldn't do builder's cleans.
But while I have many jobs that will average £60 per hour I don't have too many days in a cycle (6 hour days for me) that I go significantly north of £360.
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£60 a plot?
That’s nuts.
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If you are doing them properly allowing an hour is not enough £ wise,sounds to me like you’re hell bent on keeping them as a customer by the hesitation on the financial side.
60 an hour on builders cleans is poor.
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I did a builders clean on a self build quite a few years ago. I charged them £30 an hour. I stipulated it was to be by the hour and not by the job. After a couple of hours the owner came out and told me to hurry up ;D
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Will 100% be doing them, they’re not difficult as hardly dirty, just the odd bit of plaster on the frames.
No way I’d risk another company coming in when I do so much well paid commercial work for them, not a chance.
Happy with £60 a plot if I continue to only spend 1 hour per plot.
I don't get why you're asking us 🤷♂️
Because I wanted to know what the going rate was, but no one does them by the sounds of things.
I never do them, so I’ve no idea what people charge.
My £60 a plot could be really cheap or really expensive.
Either way, I’m doing them, so was interested to know what others charge for standard builders cleans.
We don’t do them but I know ones that do and they take a lot longer than an hour , so guessing yours must be very good builders , removing tape from frames , stickers ,silicone ,paint, plaster, cement etc is very time consuming , time wise it will also depend on size of house and type of windows , good luck with it if you are happy with the hourly rate it doesn’t matter what others charge ,
Nope, none of that mate, they have the whole window including frames covered, so it’s not particularly hard at all.
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I’ll take a couple of pics of the next plot i do before, so you guys can see how not dirty they are.
The site is 10 mins from home, it’s no inconvenience.
I have heard some local large companies charge £30 a plot, that’s ridiculous.
The way I see it is it’s £60 - £120 extra, so far not done more than 2 at a time, for a couple of hours work, if it became to inconvenient I’d bring in the guy I use as a subby on bigger jobs.
I think in this case, with the relative ease that these windows are to clean up, £60 is fair.
They are 2, 3 and 4 bed houses, so the 2 beds are are only a few windows, the bigger 4 bed houses of which I’ve only done one, I think I may charge £80-£100 if they take longer than an hour.
If I went in too steep, and they bought in another window cleaning company, I’d risk losing £1000 plus a month of commercial I do for them. Once another company comes in, you never know what they might say/do to snatch that regular monthly work off me.
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It’s that mystical hourly rate again. Never makes any sense imo. All depends where you are in the country, whether you’re a company who employs or a sole trader and most of all it’s down to what each and every person is happy with.
In these times of uncertainty £60 an hour is not too shabby at all. Doesn’t matter what you’re doing to earn it.
Some builders cleans are a pita but others are quite easy to do. All depends on the builders and how they look after the frames, sills and glass. Sounds like he has the good ones so they are usually very straightforward.
And if he’s getting paid punctually then I’d say crack on.
Could be worse. Could be struggling and wondering where the Xmas presents for the kids are coming from this year!
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It’s not the rate your getting - what I can’t figure out is why you posted this I the first place ?
If your content with your price and it local and for a customer who already gives you are amounts of work - why post it at all?
You know from many previous threads rates vary from person to person in the same location never mind across the country
Darran
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The longer a thread can run, the higher the prices go. Usual suspects talking b******s.
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It’s not the rate your getting - what I can’t figure out is why you posted this I the first place ?
If your content with your price and it local and for a customer who already gives you are amounts of work - why post it at all?
You know from many previous threads rates vary from person to person in the same location never mind across the country
Darran
Because if the going rate was more, I’d be more inclined to increase the price. I have literally no idea as I never do them, never would do them, it’s only because of the reasons stated I’m doing them. Thank God they’re not that dirty.
I think £60 is fine, but it may be that 90% of companies charge £150 or whatever, so I’d like to know.
Then again people do talk complete rubbish on here so perhaps I shouldn’t have bothered ;D
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What area of the UK
Do you know the house prices?
Is it a National House builder
What's the payment terms.
All of the above can influence prices
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We did a few in the mid-2000s for around £500 a day (two operatives).
We were cleaning industrial units and price wasn't really an issue.
The customer was paying and if the build cost was £2 million then £500 plus for a clean was largely irrelevant.
However, when one job topped £1,500 and the building company itself was paying, I decided it was time for a rethink.
I now just cap them at around £200 per day.
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200 a day ?
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200 a day ?
Yes, I view it as a pleasant change of pace and effectively a day off doing something a little bit fun.
I've got plenty of well paying work built up over 30 years the rest of the time and it's nice to do the occasional few days for them.
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interesting reading :o
Darran
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Don't bother anymore.
Last one I did was in Ireland, we used to joke that we were following in the footsteps of who we used to call "Mastic Man".
Internal Georgian glazed doors, all the glass sealed in with clear mastic on nearly every house we did mastic slarred all over the glass.
Why on Earth you would need to use mastic on an internal glazed door is beyond me!
Put me off for life.
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Doing a clean for a builder won’t get you the end product ie the regular job,I’ve had this years ago cleaned em within an inch of their lives only for another shiner to come along and get the easy bit.
Stalk it like prey when you see the labels are off and people have removal vans outside start to knock or leaflet,the only time the scraper and chemicals come out is for regular customers that have had either an extension or new windows etc. Builders promise the earth and deliver just that “Earth” 😂.
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Doing a clean for a builder won’t get you the end product ie the regular job,I’ve had this years ago cleaned em within an inch of their lives only for another shiner to come along and get the easy bit.
Stalk it like prey when you see the labels are off and people have removal vans outside start to knock or leaflet,the only time the scraper and chemicals come out is for regular customers that have had either an extension or new windows etc. Builders promise the earth and deliver just that “Earth” 😂.
It's worked out ok for a few of ours.
Some have been too far away to be practical for a regular clean at a reasonable cost.
Others have worked out well where we were introduced to the owners during the build and hit it off with them.
I've just done one clean on a large unit where I've picked up three regulars at the same time.
Very few results on normal building sites though.