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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Rogue Trader on June 25, 2007, 09:41:28 pm

Title: Quoting for show homes
Post by: Rogue Trader on June 25, 2007, 09:41:28 pm
Have just been asked to quote on 6 show homes in new development...... probably 20 - 25 pound houses if they were residential.
Weekly outside and 2 weekly in and out .... how much would you charge?
Title: Re: Quoting for show homes
Post by: Majestic on June 25, 2007, 10:33:13 pm
I used to do some for Fairclough homes , I charged my normal rate. Plus I asked if I could put one of my business fridge magnets in all there houses. I got quite a bit of work from people who had gone to look at the houses and had seen my magnet.
(I got them from Vista print)
Title: Re: Quoting for show homes
Post by: Rogue Trader on June 25, 2007, 10:58:38 pm
How long did you have them for?
Title: Re: Quoting for show homes
Post by: Majestic on June 25, 2007, 11:17:39 pm
I had problems getting paid , so I only did them for 3 months . But they did want them doing until the last house was sold . If you do start to clean them ask for the phone number of the person in accounts who will be dealing with payment. Thats where I went wrong , I used to give it to the lady in the sales office, then she sent it away.
Title: Re: Quoting for show homes
Post by: Rogue Trader on June 27, 2007, 12:28:58 am
ok thanks mate ... good tip ;D
Title: Re: Quoting for show homes
Post by: Ian Rochester on June 27, 2007, 05:36:41 am
The best thing to do is get them to raise a purchase order for the entire contract, then you have a number to quote on all invoices, bean shufflers (accounts dept) like that, gets paid a lot quicker then.

As for pricing, whatever you think, remember it's on a building site and they tend to get dirty very quickly, even if it's only a week since they were last done, frames and sills need to be done every time.