Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: boshravie on September 29, 2007, 06:29:16 pm
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Hi guys
How much would you charge for cleaning this with Reach & Wash?
Regards
Bosh
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between 85-100
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how do you intend cleaning the side that the house
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£25 an hour
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Think the majority are charging their hourly rate x time + 20% incase it takes a bit long.
That in mind i'm guessing most people would be talking about £75.
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What! £75 for that,
I would be looking to get £150-£200 for that, Its minging, you do a first class Job on that and the customer will see why you charge so much.
They spend thousands of pounds buying the thing, they don't look after it, you bring that up looking like new for £75-£80 they will leave it for another 5 years before they call you, charge them a good rate and get a 2 x annual clean out of it, at a discounted rate.
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I've watched you change Jeff, I'm not saying you are not right, just that I have watched you become a business man.
I'd probably do it for £80.
This plus the house would probably take you three hours Jeff. Compare and contrast that with a post you did soon after going wfp. It was your best ever day and beat any day you had ever had in your previous nine years of window cleaning.
Now you are saying that you would surpass this figure with three hour job.
Like I say, I've watched you change. Good for you mate.
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you cant really see how big it is but looks quite small so i will say 3 hours MAX £80
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Well guys thanks sooooooooooo much , you have been a great help.
I have been so silly and under charged, so I know now that this size conservatory has to be at least £100.00 plus.
Many thanks
Bosh
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God I'm cheap!
That one is miniscule I'd probably charge thirty for the roof and a fiver for the sides. I need to get my prices up. :o
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I've watched you change Jeff, I'm not saying you are not right, just that I have watched you become a business man.
I'd probably do it for £80.
This plus the house would probably take you three hours Jeff. Compare and contrast that with a post you did soon after going wfp. It was your best ever day and beat any day you had ever had in your previous nine years of window cleaning.
Now you are saying that you would surpass this figure with three hour job.
Like I say, I've watched you change. Good for you mate.
You have watched me change ;) I have become more and more business Orientated but only where w/c is concerned.
The past post I did, 'The best ever days takings' did refer to W/C and not guttering and conservatory work.
For the past six months I have had a minimum charge of £10 for windows, and I don't care if they only have 2 windows in the whole of the building its still £10.
I have always charged good prices for conservatory and guttering work, because most customers, don't want to spend a free weekend cleaning conservatories or climbing ladders to do there guttering, this is cream work as I call it.
Take the conservatory boshravie has put on here to show us?
That conservatory has not been touched in years? The customer in now obviously ashamed of it after neglecting it for so long, They spent several thousands of pounds having it installed, 'now' they think its about time it was cleaned, and asked Bosh for a price? they know its not a five minute Job, they probably don't know what it will take to get it cleaned to a high standard and looking like new again?
If you charge a good price (as I always have) this sometimes has the affect of them thinking, I'm not paying that amount again, the W/C gave me the option of having it cleaned at a discount price, once maybe twice a year, so I'll take this option, so you gain extra contacts/Jobs, the custy's happy now because there conservatory is looking like new and the W/C is going to keep it looking that way all the time.
Now thats business sence.
If most of us do a first clean on window cleaning we charge double the price, I have always taken this option on conservatories and guttering, its a job the custys don't want to, or can't do them selfs, don't sell your self short on this type of work, its the cream of w/c.
I get most of my conservatory and guttering work by referal, so do an excellent job for them and they will talk? Last week I did some guttering for a woman, she was so pleased with the result, she pointed it out to every one that came to her door, (sad I know) but it gained me an extra 4 lots of guttering Jobs to do.
If that was my Job, I would charge £150-£200 to give it a first clean, then I would drop it to around £80, but only if I had a contract on it.
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I reckon I could clean one that small in an hour with a squirt of tfr. If I charged that kind of money they would have a fit. Good on you Jeff if you can get away with that. Like I said my pricing is way way out I must toughen up! My problem stems from the fact that all my life I have done everything I can myself so I would not pay anyone a penny for a job I could do myself. I could go down the market and buy a water fed brush for twenty pounds and clean that myself. I find it incredible what people will waste money on.
My neighbour has hired a skip to sort his garage/house out. It's been there a week already. If it was me I would borrow my brother-in-laws trailer and do it for nothing. Whats skip hire? £100?
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When some people have money they get lazy,take advantage of it.
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Trouble is a lot of my customers have less than me because of my previous job. I automatically assume they have little money and so struggle to come to terms with pricing. I was cleaning a house the other day and the custy asked if I could wash the guttering I said yes but it will cost about forty pounds. He then said they had a guy offering to do it last week for one hundred and eighty!!. Custy said he could buy the guttering for that!
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i advertise conservatory cleaning heavily and am unindated throughout the summer i have a minimum charge of £125.
Cleaning a conservatory is easy, and they always come up as new!! The customer is always happy and never questions the price!!
Dont undersell yourself!
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I reckon I could clean one that small in an hour with a squirt of tfr. If I charged that kind of money they would have a fit. Good on you Jeff if you can get away with that. Like I said my pricing is way way out I must toughen up! My problem stems from the fact that all my life I have done everything I can myself so I would not pay anyone a penny for a job I could do myself. I could go down the market and buy a water fed brush for twenty pounds and clean that myself. I find it incredible what people will waste money on.
My neighbour has hired a skip to sort his garage/house out. It's been there a week already. If it was me I would borrow my brother-in-laws trailer and do it for nothing. Whats skip hire? £100?
I wouldn't even waste tfr on it, brush connected to custys tap, bit of fairy in a bucket and give it an initial clean, go and have a ciggy or cupa, come back and wash with the same brush connected to custy's tap, when its finished, rinse with pure water, Job done conservatory looks like new.
I'm also like you Dave, I won't pay anyone to do something for me, if I can do it myself and save a few bob, but if a custy needs to have a professional do the job for them, then they must be prepaired to pay the price.
Were most w/c problems start, is they under price without thinking, just because they want or need the Job.
My thinking is.....If they want me to do the Job then they must pay for it, if I'm to expensive for them and I don't get the Job, its no skin of my nose, i had a custy think this way a few years back, when I priced his conservatory and he thought it was to expensive, he spent the whole week-end doing a poor Job, I turned up to do my next W/C he asked me what I thought, I told him the truth, I did one panel on his roof and straight away he could see the difference,
He then said, now I have given its first clean how much??? My price is still the same for the first clean I said, it might be up to your standard, but its not upto my standard, I never did get the job, but I also won't back down on my price.
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i generally charge 50/60 for the average concervatory roof
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This one I charged £200 for the whole of the conservatory and if you look it has only 2 sides, No I'm not stood on the conservatory roof, but on a scaffold board on a flat roof.
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I did a house the other week gutters, soffits windows one massive conservatory (about thirty panels long) one normal coservatory. Gutters and soffits on a treble garage all for £200 and the custy was shocked at the price. Took me two half days.
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I did a house the other week gutters, soffits windows one massive conservatory (about thirty panels long) one normal coservatory. Gutters and soffits on a treble garage all for £200 and the custy was shocked at the price. Took me two half days.
OMG Dave
You live on my boarders, you will have to come out with me one day, when I have some pricing to do, you don't need to be a sales man or have the gift of the gab?
Just with the thought, I don't need the Job, and if you want a professional Job done by a professional then you have to pay the asking price.
This is the Same house as the conservatory, this guttering, it was awkward over the conservatory and a little extra over the front, I charged £80.
Once the whole job was finished, the owner was chuffed, and I have a yearly contact to do the same job again.
'O' Bye the way this is a before shot and not an after shot, I do this one and 3 others all next door to each other, this is a typical case of keeping up with the Jones's
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I'll get there in the end. ::)