Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MNWC on April 03, 2007, 07:03:49 pm
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Mines between £225-£275
( Dont tell the wife ) :o
Marcus
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Mine is £392 but that day only comes round every 8 weeks >:( :(
Wish it was every day!!!
Stuart
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Bl00dy hell £392
Is that between you and your dad or just for yourself
Marcus
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Me and my dad.
If i could do that own my own ill sack my dad ASAP ;D
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Wage & turn over are two different things. ::)
I turned over £50,000 friday but my wage is £1. >:(
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Is it groundhog day again?
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£ 47.89
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Best up to now is about £80 but thats still double what I got when I worked for a firm.
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i hate these posts, every wanna be w/c is now thinking s**t, i don't earn that in a week, and watch your best days wage shrink as they start up!!! >:(
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£12.50
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I pay people to let me clean their windows.
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what about the days you dont earn ie day1 £310 day2 £100 day3 £nil day4 £NIL day5 £45 total £455 divide by 5 works out £91 per day thats more my week rather than 5 x £310 total £1550 which is what every one thinks when you say ive earnt £310 today , well i have earned £79 today prob only worked 3 hours plus i did my uncles house for free would be £25 we dont all do w/c for the money it is also the fredom it gives you marc
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so if going by above i only do £45 to £50 tommorrow and have thursday off i will earn about £600 friday (i wish) i will be hanging wall paper for £nil
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i hate these posts, every wanna be w/c is now thinking s**t, i don't earn that in a week, and watch your best days wage shrink as they start up!!! >:(
I totally agree. How many of the £5 dole brigade are still cleaning windows in the winter when it's a struggle with the weather. They don't pay tax, don't have any insurance and are able to undercut our prices during the summer and leave us to struggle on with underpriced work in the winter because of their greed and benefit cheating!
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If you mean turnover rather than wage, I did manage £251 once. Managed £115 today but I didn't start till 12.
However, as someone else said, you can't go on those figures. I have had days when I've only earned a tenner - obviously not full days of course. You know how it is. You go out there in murky skies, do a house, then it starts chucking it down really hard. You go home, make a cuppa and a couple of hours later it seems to be clearing so you go out again. You just get to the next job and it starts chucking it down again. You get home and decide that you need a rest anyway :) so that's it for the day.
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hi nice to see some honest replys i had a window cleaning mag through door bout 3 wks ago.it said sole window cleaner should b earning at least 150 trad 200 plus per day wfp im mostley 80 to 110 good days .were do these people get thier figures from .is taxman looking at these mags why was nt i told my dole money would b stopped when i went self employed ha ha
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it all depends where you live. in some places you could earn up to £100 a day, someplaces e.g. london, you could earn a lot more.
Also it depends whether your work is commercial or domestic. You get much more money working commercial
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Managed £468 for an 8-4 day ................
yeah obviously commercial work..............
and that's 2 of us.........
pity it only comes around every 4weeks...............
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I'm not really prepared to say what my best day has been :-\
But every Monday I now do a minimum of £220.
Other days of the week can vary between £20 and..er... a bit more ;)
Yesterday for instance was £150. And that was £38 commercial and the rest Domestic.
Today it will only be about a ton as I have to finish at lunchtime.
Tomorrow will be good as I'll be making the effort to squeeze as much of Friday's work into it as I can....due to friday being a bank hol of course....well...it could be good, but as a result of having to work in certain Commercial work that would be done on the Friday, it will get in the way (because of location and necessary timing) it will get in the way of my residential stuff, which could well mean that I'll struggle to do much more than a ton.
Once a month I have a really good day, and once overy 8 weeks I have a really good day :P
But I've also been going 23 years, I'm ENTITLED to be earning decent bloody money at last!
And it is only in the past 3 years that my income has began to grow, and it's only been since Christmas that things have really fallen into place (due to a little re-organising).
For anyone thinking of window cleaning, I would say that it is a reasonable aim to expect to be able to earn an income of about £13-15,000 per year, add on 5k to that for your business costs.
But don't expect to hit £20,000 turnover for a few years! (15k income)
It takes quite a long time to build and consolidate a window cleaning round!!
Ian
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what about the days you dont earn ie day1 £310 day2 £100 day3 £nil day4 £NIL day5 £45 total £455 divide by 5 works out £91 per day thats more my week rather than 5 x £310 total £1550 which is what every one thinks when you say ive earnt £310 today , well i have earned £79 today prob only worked 3 hours plus i did my uncles house for free would be £25 we dont all do w/c for the money it is also the fredom it gives you marc
Excellent post.
Having said that ;D the most I can remember having earnt in one day is £245.00.
Once every six weeks I do a job thats £130.00 which only takes an hour and a half. Thats £90.00 an hour and if I did that all the time my weekly would be £1,800.00 WHICH IT AINT.
I aim to do a ton and go home, Fridays a little less, usually pocket-money.
Then theres wet days/holidays I choose to take, bank-holidays which I never took but do now as I'm worth it ;D
I saw a window-cleaner yesterday running hell for leather up his ladder in an effort to get his quota done. Not sure if it was to try to impress or because he drives his ladder round on a 5 series BMW, which no doubt is a costly vehicle (totally unsuitable for the job, but thats by the by) I understand his roof-rack cost more than my car!!!
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this is a brilliant post!
i as the last person aim to do £100 a day, and it is usually more.
i work 4 days a week and am more than happy with a minimum of £400 a week, took me 2 weeks full time at a shop i used to work at 3 years ago!
but as i say this post is good because you speak to some window cleaners and they must be talking rubbish, i told somone i aim to do £100 a day, and he was like, oh you must work part time then! :o
happy now ;D
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I aim to do at least £200 a day. I work on my own. If anyone thinks I am B***sh*tting please come and look at my books. I declare everything I earn , I am totally above board, including with the tax man, so I have nothing to hide.
I feel that it is an individual choice on how hard you work and what your aspirations are. Mine are high. It's taken me 2 years to get to that level of income, and i'm proud of it.
Regards Jon
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just started a weekly contract about a month ago worth £420 a week but has had a negative effect on me as really lost interest in domestic. although i have some well good work i intend to make the most of this and work only 3 days a week. After 2 years at this i know that i can easily re build again if needed but will never totally rely on comercial
simbo
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I aim to do at least £200 a day. I work on my own. If anyone thinks I am B***sh*tting please come and look at my books. I declare everything I earn , I am totally above board, including with the tax man, so I have nothing to hide.
I feel that it is an individual choice on how hard you work and what your aspirations are. Mine are high. It's taken me 2 years to get to that level of income, and i'm proud of it.
Regards Jon
I dont doubt you, I know a window-cleaner that works by himself, I know him very well, he earns as I understand it, that kind of money. I do occassionally ;D doubt the amount of time he tells me it takes him to earn it. He's either a bull-poopter or his customers are real mugs. He does exterior painting too and the last time he told me he had done £3,000.00 in a week, I find that just toooo much tobelieve but slightly more inclined to believe him whe he tells me he's done £170.00 by dinner time.
As for myself I earn a good income by comparison to what I used to earn. I used to be a Landscape Foreman and even then, 9 years ago, £6.00 an hour was dross. I earn hourly now 5 times what I used to earn then, I'm home by mid-afternoon and work when I want, who I want to work for, and at an hourly rate I choose.
These are choices that I could only fantasise about let alone believe I could achieve.
As for guys doing this job for 40 hours a week, I'd earn what you earn, but I have found now Im 'past my prime' ;D ;D that there are more things in life than money. I love being home at 2.30 on days like today, far rather that than shining ta very much :D
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Thats a good post from Ian, turn-over is definately different than take home.
I do all commercial & have good turn-over but high over heads, run 4 vehicles 7 staff & never seem to have any left. Sometimes i consider going sole & cutting back overheads, but, i will keep at it. Take home ?, not enough, but we have a new car through the business, bills are paid.
Gary
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love it, is this the testosterone zone of pound coins??
Happy days ;)
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I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty
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I aim to do at least £200 a day. I work on my own. If anyone thinks I am B***sh*tting please come and look at my books. I declare everything I earn , I am totally above board, including with the tax man, so I have nothing to hide.
I feel that it is an individual choice on how hard you work and what your aspirations are. Mine are high. It's taken me 2 years to get to that level of income, and i'm proud of it.
Regards Jon
That's my next goal Jon - to get to the point where I can average £200+ per day. I originally intended to get there by this Winter but it may have to keep until next Summer now. I'm not in a huge hurry now that I'm keeping up with my bills. You've done very well to get there in two years. I will need to offload and replace more lower paying work to achieve my aims but I will hold back on that for now while I'm getting the better paying work in to fill the gaps.
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I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty
;D Very good PJ.
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Well I set myself a target of, wait for it, £60 a day. Sometimes its nice to just finish at lunch time. Other days I can double that and on the really rare occasion treble it. When these super days come along it seems good at the time but when I cant work due to the weather it evens itself out. When I get more customers I will raise the bar abit but at the moment, with the size round I have it works out fine and dandy for me.
I also do pressure washing, and on the rare occasion I have some patios to do the old weekly takings can rise a tad.
Good luck to you guys who are earning the BIG BUCKS. I know that I am knackered after a full day so you get out what you put in.
Ant
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