Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: East coast window cleaning Services on June 22, 2007, 01:26:21 pm
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Had to do these four townhouses today they were all stripped all they had on them was loads of dust and a few marks on the glass which a bladed off.
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i would say about £45
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it was more then that i can tell ya i would charge a min of £15 for a monthly clean
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I would be charging about 18 Quid per unit :)
Andy
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£25 per unit and 45 per unit first clean naa dont like those railings make it £220 ALL IN AND £30 A MTH EACH
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loking at the prices and peoples locations now tell me there is no north south divide £45 for the whole lot would be a great price for me and take about an hour to do
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Same here ,would do it for £45
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wat the whole lot and first clean for 45 quid theres over 60 windows all in toll thats less than £1 a window do you consider the fact that a lot of trad w/c will not touch the top floor windows they are £3 to start with.
an hours work i find very quick maybe two hours and 3 on first clean or am i slow lol lol ;D
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If you think them 4 houses would take 3 hours id say your very slow! Id take them at £45 and id be done in under an hour!
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vwm
Yes I think you are very slow, I could do them in less than 1 hour
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first cleans in an hour and leave a spotless finish pants
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£25 per unit and 45 per unit first clean naa dont like those railings make it £220 ALL IN AND £30 A MTH EACH
What's this Robin Hood? :o
£220 to do a few poxy flats?
What do you charge for bungalows? £75?
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VWM
You do know that we have femail forum members who read these posts.
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Evening squeaky you make me LOL
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i am sorry just changed post
at £45 that is just over £10 per house and is way to cheep for that size property and for the height. yes for my kind of money i would be there for 2 hours + making sure i did a good job ( travel, set up, unseen problems explainig wfp ect
quality work comes with a quality price and its not how quick a job can be done but the end result.
these are also not flats but houses and if you like to charge 45 note for this then i would pay you alot more should you wish to clean some flats for me that i have been doing reguarly for the past few years. tel u wat ill pay u 90 for 75 windows no more than 3rd floor
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what did you charge any way P&R
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15 per house
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£25 per unit and 45 per unit first clean naa dont like those railings make it £220 ALL IN AND £30 A MTH EACH
What's this Robin Hood? :o
£220 to do a few poxy flats?
What do you charge for bungalows? £75?
lol no its a £1 a window ground floor and 1st then £3 for 2nd and as for those railings well as i said £30 .
are you telling me that should 2 off then cancell that you would clean the other 2 for for £11.25 each come on get real because that is what they would expect mate
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If you are going to be doing them for the individual customers, price them as if you are going there just for the one dwelling because, one day, that might be the case.
If you are doing them as a job lot for some management company (unlikely as houses are usually freehold), then ignore my previous sentence.
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easy get £15 a house there for first clean so £60.00...then you could determine how easy the job is and adjust accordingly...but if £60 was accepted with no problems, keep it at that monthly...if they ummed and ahhed, tell them first clean is £60 and monthlys therefafter are £40
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£15 each unit.
sorted!
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P+R - We have some we do exactly the same layout and we charge £18.00 each and they could do with going up.
As for time if you were on your own trad you would be looking at 1 1/2 hours so not bad for £70-80. 2 men less than 1 hour
Thanks Robbie
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£72.00 for 1 1/2hrs work - nice, and yet you are talking about putting the price up? :)
I suppose the next we will hear you have been undercut by some so and so eh? ::)
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i just thinking the same johnL
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£25. a unit is what i charged them some of them prices were bloody hgh
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£ i thought i was quite dear but £25 per unit isnt cheap
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£25. a unit is what i charged them some of them prices were bloody hgh
spot on ;D ;D how long did it take
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3 hours
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i was spot on again ;D ;D
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Are you doing them trad or wfp.
If I quoted it would have been round 12-50 to 15-00 a unit trad.
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I would have priced an individual house at £20, so doing all 4 would for me have been £80, those 2nd floor windows look pretty high and I always charge more for those.
P+R - We have some we do exactly the same layout and we charge £18.00 each and they could do with going up.
As for time if you were on your own trad you would be looking at 1 1/2 hours so not bad for £70-80. 2 men less than 1 hour
Thanks Robbie
Done trad there ain't a snowballs of doing that in an hour and a half, 60 windows in an hour and a half, even without going 3rd floor is unrealistic, and don't forget those awkward windows with the railings.
You've got 3 floors to clean, no way on gods earth are you going to shift a big 3 tier ladder around and manage to clean those top floor windows in under a minute, just climbing up and down the ladder will take you at least 20-25 seconds.
People keep thinking they are like bloody lightning when they clean a window, they may feel fast but I have done countless time and motion studies and if you are going to do a consistently good job you are going to take close to a minute and a half to clean those windows once you are up the ladder, then you have to add climbing up and down said ladder and allow time for moving and re-positioning it for the next window.
The front is straight forward, but at the back you will have to take the ladder down, walk down garden and go to the next property and then put the ladder back up again, I note that there is a large fence separating the back gardens.
Thats damn hard work off a ladder.
WFP I would certainly say an hour and a half quite easily on repeat cleans.
1st time clean I'm not sure, certainly a lot longer than an hour and a half though, I think you would need to be onsite to properly assess how dusty and grimy the windows are.
P & R also says he bladed off some windows, if he was accessing the top floor with ladders then I can well understand why it took 3 hours to do.
For me though, even if there were paint to be knifed off on the upstairs windows, the ladders would stay in the van, I'd have only been prepared to knife off paint or sealant on ground floor windows. but that's just me.
Ian
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and i was getting worried that i am very slow lol
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£56 for all four ;)
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I was thinking £15 a house for a monthly clean. But a builders on each property where you have to get your ladders out, maybe £75 a place.
Simon.
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ladders didnt use ladders on these had the run off all four houses from the inside as no ones moved in ;D ;D
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i think about 6 pound per house every 4 weeks is fair
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lol lol
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I think Alex is just trying to get people 'going' - but I think this topic has run its course.
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how do you clean windows with those railings on them.
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id price it at 20/25 per house.
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For 10 or 12 windows? :o
Dick Turpin!
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Rog, I would make that a count of 13 windows per house (the way I break it down anyway)
4 of which are 2nd floor.
The ones on the 1st floor at the front have railings, this makes them fiddly either trad or WFP
Always price as for Trad.
Around here you would get £20 no problem....Tosh has picked up those accounts in hardwick Ave that you did for £6.00...ask him what he charges them ;D
(I told the old guy's (Ian) wife to give him a call.
£6.00 is laughably cheap of course, but the second floor windows and the 1st floor ones with railings just have to push the price up.
£25.00, at least around us would be pushing the envelope (so to speak ;))
Ian
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Around here you would get £20 no problem....Tosh has picked up those accounts in hardwick Ave that you did for £6.00...ask him what he charges them ;D
£7 and £8 actually.
I could do the £32 in 45 minutes.
Underpriced? ::)
You've got to remember Tosh will take longer than that.
They'd be a pain to pole anyway, that's why I don't do them.
They're big heavy wooden sashes that are generally open, and flaky brittle paintwork.
You've have to knock them all, and get them to close all the windows.
Also you need a ladder to open the side gates.
Good trad accounts, but not pole.
Best of luck to him!
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cant belive were still talking about this :D
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r they in watford
jerry
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na mill hill
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They'd be a pain to pole anyway, that's why I don't do them.
And also why I was also not interested in them!
The point I was inferring Rog is that people are prepared to pay far more than you might expect, it isn't just about how quick you can do them, there is also the factor that they can't do them for love nor money, and were they to try to (if they were fit and able) can you imagine how long it would take them?
3 storey work comes under that heading too, first floor windows some people will try to get at, but 2nd floor?
I've had many many lads come to work for me over the years and you can almost hear the sweat squirting out of their pores as the attempt to climb, limpet like up the ladder.
so i wasn't actually knocking what you charged, I know you did them quickly, but was clumsily trying to point out that people will pay far more than you might think, for something you think is child's play...if you see what I mean!
Ian
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All the new houses now seem to have 3 floors and railings, is this the shape of things to come, they are a pain wfp and a pain trad.... and around here it would be around £10-12 per house,
but they are horrible blooming things.... twisting your brush, getting it stuck, water dripping from 3rd to second floor then ground floor....or risking life and limb with those dizzy heights doing them trad... ::)
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yes gazza i think they r sxxt,
we do a lot of b/clean on this type of houses.
hertfordshire
jerry