Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: L.J.Thorpe on December 21, 2007, 08:47:32 pm
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as an addition to easycleans absolutely gutted what is everyones worst hourly rate for a day whether by misquote or any other reason mine is £4.52 per hour topline on a badly mis priced buildclean any body got any horror stories dont be shy we have all done it ;)
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Beat this...... ;)
My first day EVER.... took me about 7 hours to do 4 bungalows. £20 as I remember..... average £2.85 an hour :P:P
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Early days, priced a care home £30, took me four hours. drove out the gates and got pinged by coppers for no seatbelt - £30 quid fine. If I had a gun I would have shot him!
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£30? still more than Tesco pays for four hours before tax.
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£30 minus £30 = Zero ;)
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Ever been on countdown Nat? You'd be a genius on the numbers game ;D
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When I first started my brother-in-law and I worked from 9:00am - 3:00pm and we earnt £15 between us. And felt if we had been kicked to death by Millwall fans ;D
Roy
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Ten years ago when I first started I did two 8 hour days and earned £75! What's worse is I bought this work for 2 x it's amount and it was (fairly) touted as a days work!
So bought for £75, worked for two days and earned £75! Duh!
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I think my first day was about £32.
Which ironically is the same as I did on monday... ;D
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I did some voluntary work one afternnoon at a school fete, selling cakes. Got **** all for it.
I was 14.
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Lesson to be learnt? Never volunteer ;) Bah humbug ;D
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I used to earn £7.00 for 8 hours work, 21 years ago working in a fruit and veg shop, not window cleaning I know, but its my worst paid job ever. 87 1/2p per hour.
Window cleaning, well, whatever my worse rate is Ive always earnt at least twice what I earnt in the job I left to start this and Id been in my previous job 11 years. Started there at £2.50 an hour which rose to £5.85 as my final hourly rate.
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Have sometimes underpriced jobs but never seriously underpriced so that from memory the worst i can think of lately is £25pr hr although i do some free jobs so £0.00 per hour
Beat that then!!!
Dean
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The only way to beat that is to give someone else money to let you work for nothing!
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First ever builders clean I priced was for £40 took 3 of us 4 hours to complete, now if I price, its always over the top, if I get it fine, if I don't, its no skin of my nose, because I hate the buggers.
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my 1st job was me mates parents bungalow and the old boy next door. I charged them £3.50 each and it took me 3 hours to clean and dry using a sponge and chamois leather. My arms felt like they were going to fall off!!
They take me 10-15 minutes now using wfp.
The trouble is when you start up you can't charge people or price jobs up at £20+ an hour 'cos you are slow and don't know the work. The better hourly rates come from experience of your tools and experience of the job in question.
I 'm still amazed at how quick some jobs are now, even compared to wfp'ing them for a year.
A better pole and brush has shaved more minutes off jobs compared to a couple of months ago. Not rinsing off the window has again cut some times in half.
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ok, did a builders clean, 9 big windows. said £60, thought no more than 3 hours. so took another window cleaner with me...it took us all day...was NOT impressed, was on about £4 a hour
;D ah well lol
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My first day window cleaning, I took 40 quid!Luke
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My first day too, I only took £350.00 in 7 hours.
Oh, well, onwards and upwards.
;D ;D ;D
You have just cheered me up
I wondered where you had gone to
;D ;D ;D
Dean
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worst hrly rate every £1.63 per hr working for Gateway years ago 1988
worst every hourly rate w/c was on my second ever day out in 2000
Grand total of £7.20 per hr
Was please with that at the time
Gordon