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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: julianbiggs on October 03, 2006, 05:32:11 pm

Title: Bet we've all done this !!
Post by: julianbiggs on October 03, 2006, 05:32:11 pm
Been window cleaning for 18 months but made a right cock up today. Quoted for a big house with a conservatory, old georgian one worth about £400,000.. Traditional, quoted £40 thinking about 2 hours work. Got there and the windows were filthy and sills and frames ( which I always do) took me 3 and a half hours!! God I was mad but it's my own fault I suppose. Least they're gonna be a lot cleaner when I go back next month.

Tomorrow's another day!!
Title: Re: Bet we've all done this !!
Post by: Paul Coleman on October 03, 2006, 05:46:28 pm
Been window cleaning for 18 months but made a right cock up today. Quoted for a big house with a conservatory, old georgian one worth about £400,000.. Traditional, quoted £40 thinking about 2 hours work. Got there and the windows were filthy and sills and frames ( which I always do) took me 3 and a half hours!! God I was mad but it's my own fault I suppose. Least they're gonna be a lot cleaner when I go back next month.

Tomorrow's another day!!

O yeah.  We've all done it.  I still do get it wrong occasionally but nowhere near as much as I used to.  One job I quoted a very  :)long time ago ended up earning me £7 an hour turnover.  Glad they moved after my second clean 
Title: Re: Bet we've all done this !!
Post by: windows_chepstow on October 03, 2006, 05:54:38 pm
I once quoted 300 quid a month for a large Hilton Hotel and got the job!  We'd only been going for about eight months, but were good at waffling!

What a laugh that was! >:(

I think we lasted about four months.