Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: giftedk on April 19, 2007, 12:47:50 pm
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Are they worth the agg and money ?. Did one yesterday and it took me bloody ages, and i only charged £30. Are they worth it or am i pricing to cheap, if so how do you lot price them up?.
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we use wfp and charge per the hour £50 (for two of us) first we spray with tfr, then brush and rinse with normal tap water (customers tap) the go over with pure water
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cheers whats tfr ? :-[
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I've made a good profit from con roofs i look at the roof decide how long its
going to take, 1hr at least, that would be £30 to start with. Good idea giftedk i've allways used just pure water to rinse off will try using there tap on the next one. ;D
I did a con last week roof inside and out (very hot day) Charged £50 took 2 1/2 hrs it did take longer than i priced for but hey £50 for 2 1/2 is not that bad i used to work all day for that welding >:(
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TFR
Traffic film remover
Car valets use it to does exactly what it says on the tin ;)
Spray on roof leave for 5 mins scrub off it lifts the green off
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Whats the best way to do them trad? I generally scrub them with my mop on a pole, and then rinse off with a garden hose. This works fine for the translucent roofs, but I did a roof the other day that was clear, and it obviously dried quite badly. I had warned the customer about this prior, but he was just happy he could see through it!
Was £40, took me 1 + 1/2 hours, but there was no way I could've squeegeed it 'cuz the panes were odd shapes.
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i charge different rates for cons, 3x3mtrs £50 4x4mtrs £75 and keep going as the bigger the size
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Im just wondering if it is viable to make a living from just doing conservatories and nothing else.
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You'd need a lot of conservatory roofs
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Do you clean the frames as well as the roofs for those prices, or is it just for the roof?
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TFR sprayed on, leave for 10mins (have a cuppa),then pressure wash them off with a very wide nozzle jet fitted from a distance. A lot quicker than using a WFP brush.
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where d u buy that tfr stuff from
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I always get them to have the sides and guttering cleaned too, taked about an extra 40 mins. Price is always from £100.
4 last saturday, 4 this sat (altho gotta do em nxt in case bust me stitches!!!) have always got cons to do, up your prices lads, custies will pay!!!
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Conservatory roof work is the cream as i call it it ! we did 15 last week as well as 7 full fascia cleans, we charge a minimum £60,00 for a roof clean and we,re fully equiped and do every job off conservatory ladders and clean by hand and results are always excellent, the repeat work we get from this and reccomendations to others is untrue, with this type of work plus your regular windows you cannot fail to earn a decent living.
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Im just wondering if it is viable to make a living from just doing conservatories and nothing else.
Oh yes!
We have a crew of two lads fully booked for the next three weeks. Ours is a professional valeting service and not just a clean of them.
Minimum charge is £150 but average is over £200 per clean. The lads do 2 a day so takings are around £400-£500 per day. We've just had to start doing weekend work which is brilliant as not only are we doing more conservatories but neighbours are more aware of the service provided.
This is off about a 4 mile radius of our office and we're about to develop another territory where there is a lot of potential business (area with money) with a second team.
The art is in the marketing of the service and selling it once in front of a customer. We do about 5 surveys a day and get about 4 out of the 5. Every day there are more and more calls from the advertising that we do and from recommendations.
We're working on a few finer points before expanding this service on a grander scale, considering whether to go down the employed worker route as is in place at the moment, or, more likely, launching this service as a low-cost national franchise.
Watch this space... 8)
Chris
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Conservatory roof work is the cream as i call it it ! we did 15 last week as well as 7 full fascia cleans, we charge a minimum £60,00 for a roof clean and we,re fully equiped and do every job off conservatory ladders and clean by hand and results are always excellent, the repeat work we get from this and reccomendations to others is untrue, with this type of work plus your regular windows you cannot fail to earn a decent living.
Does that £60 include ins as well as outs for the roof??
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Im just wondering if it is viable to make a living from just doing conservatories and nothing else.
Oh yes!
We have a crew of two lads fully booked for the next three weeks. Ours is a professional valeting service and not just a clean of them.
Minimum charge is £150 but average is over £200 per clean. The lads do 2 a day so takings are around £400-£500 per day. We've just had to start doing weekend work which is brilliant as not only are we doing more conservatories but neighbours are more aware of the service provided.
This is off about a 4 mile radius of our office and we're about to develop another territory where there is a lot of potential business (area with money) with a second team.
The art is in the marketing of the service and selling it once in front of a customer. We do about 5 surveys a day and get about 4 out of the 5. Every day there are more and more calls from the advertising that we do and from recommendations.
We're working on a few finer points before expanding this service on a grander scale, considering whether to go down the employed worker route as is in place at the moment, or, more likely, launching this service as a low-cost national franchise.
Watch this space... 8)
Chris
which areas do you cover in england
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so again.wat is that tfr and where d i get it from
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Does that £60 include ins as well as outs for the roof??
No that £60 is just for the roof and outsides, but as i said this is our minimum charge and our average price is probably around the £100 to £120 mark, and when i say outsides that is all the down pipes frames sills and glass and guttering jetted out.
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TFR...traffic film remover...available from Ebay or Halfords...plus many others...do a search on Ebay/Google
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I priced this one at £185, because I didn't want the Job, just to waist a little time, I washed the windows as well took me 70 minutes in total and that was stopping for a cupa and a piece of chocky cake of the custy.
I ended up charging her £150 in the end as she has promised to have it done twice a year for £100 and she is one of my best custy's, so giving her a £35 discount she was over the moon.
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which areas do you cover in england
East Midlands.
Chris
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ta.
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Hi Jeff. Like the pics & what a nice earner. Did one similar about 3 weeks ago & only charged £40. Took me approx 2.5 hours, trad. Think I need to up my prices. Out of interest how did you clean your one?
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with con roofs i like to earn money, so i price how i feel, take into account the customer where they live and then think how long will it take me, 2hours? ill say 60-70, because the worst thing you can do it rush, get tangled in the hose, fall off the ladder, or worse through the glass, so if you take it easy and price to do so, you can go wrong, if they seem a bit weary, and then add, ill wipe all the gutters and clean them out, only takes 5mins and looks great,
bottom line is, i dont earn any less that 30p/h on con roofs,
i find the best way to clean them is with the hi-flow brush from unger, stick that on the end of your pole, get a pump action spray bottle, put it some mega powerful hard surface cleaner, the sort that staines the glass if you leave it on too long and scrub away, and rinse
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Oh yes, did one today as an extra, took 30 mins £30, ;D
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and dont you feel good after knowing i earn't 60/ph for almost no work.
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hello chris of dust knights any more word of you doing national franchise would like to talk to you please email me your details to johnmeehan10@btinternet.com thanks john
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Dustknights
I would be interested in this upvc & con cleaning, not far from you cannack but cover a lot of midlands. Phone 07763 143280 or email landywood@tiscali.co.uk
Gary
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John and Gary, many thanks for your interest but its a little early at the moment.
We probably will go down the franchise route but need to develop the local areas with employees first. We need to make sure that any mistakes (at least the major ones) are ironed out before launching the service across the UK.
The point of buying into a franchise is that the pilot(s) have been throughly tried and tested with lessons learnt to avoid potential franchisees getting their fingers burnt - or at least minimise the risk.
For example we are about to try a different form of advertising medium that we are very excited about - but it could fail miserably. We have invested large sums of money into various aspects of the service, marketing etc that have been a risk, but we have had to take them as any franchisee will need to benefit from our experience.
We need to ensure that not only are our customers delighted with our service, but also that our franchisees are too. We want them to earn a lot of money and enjoy what they do. Happiness is everything imo!
There are too many bad franchises in the cleaning industry where franchisees are pretty much conned out of their money; high up front costs and silly percentages of turnover to be paid as royalties.
I hope you appreciate what I'm saying and understand why I'm saying it.
Maybe in 9 months time we will have dotted the i's and crossed the t's. We need to get the consultants in next to establish how territories are to be worked out and the Terms and Conditions of course.
Thanks again for your interest.
Chris
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Chris,
Got your message, good that you are determined to get it right for all involved. I am available next week a couple of days, would be interested in talking in more detail if that was ok. This is something that i plan on doing may onwards perhaps any help or possible guinee pig trials for you, Lets talk soon.
Gary