Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: wcs. on May 16, 2008, 07:12:00 pm
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My minimum price used to be £10, but I now have a £25 minimum price on any new jobs that I take on!! :)
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£25 min price :o
do you still pick up a lot of work ?
I thought £3 min was good ;D
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My minimum price used to be £10, but I now have a £25 minimum price on any new jobs that I take on!! :)
So your turning down work and not expanding - reached the peak of ambition?
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£25 min price :o
do you still pick up a lot of work ?
I thought £3 min was good
are you serious £3 with any methid is to cheap.
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so ground hog, little old lady rings, little bungalow, 5 odd windows and you say £25...yeh right
no one can really have a minimum price in my opinion, it really depnds on house. for example, i do a row of houses, and one on the end likes her one window done upstaires, i just chage her a £1
i like to charge at least £10 a house now, but there is exceptions
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Yes I pick up lots of work, I just prefer doing larger jobs rather than messing about with loads of £10 houses. Also by making my minimum price £25 I have picked up quite a lot of houses that I would have priced at say £15-£20, but I have told the homeowner that my minimum charge is £25 and its suprising how many have said fine!! It works for me!!! ;D
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My minimum price used to be £10, but I now have a £25 minimum price on any new jobs that I take on!! :)
So your turning down work and not expanding - reached the peak of ambition?
wonder if its £25+VAT :D :D
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I know a guy who charges minimum £80 + vat per job
I dont like taking anything on now for less than £45.00 inc Vat, but saying that I still have loads of smaller ones and will slip some lower ones into my existing rounds
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Minimum price? Delusions of Grandeur..
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Minimum price? Delusions of Grandeur..
Or successful so you can do what you want
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introducing a minimum price was the best pay rise i ever gave myself.
It is only a tenner but the amount of work i do that would have been 3 or 4 quid when i started is quite alot.
The thing that suprised me most about it was when people phoned and i mentioned it, i have not had 1 bat an eyelid. I think people half expect there to be some sort of minimum price. Although townies still expect their houses cleaned for 50p like their last cleaner charged in 1947 or whatever century it was. ::)
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Minimum price? Delusions of Grandeur..
Well it's better than me because I still have delusions of competence.
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introducing a minimum price was the best pay rise i ever gave myself.
It is only a tenner but the amount of work i do that would have been 3 or 4 quid when i started is quite alot.
The thing that suprised me most about it was when people phoned and i mentioned it, i have not had 1 bat an eyelid. I think people half expect there to be some sort of minimum price. Although townies still expect their houses cleaned for 50p like their last cleaner charged in 1947 or whatever century it was. ::)
I have a minimum of a tenner too. I didn't apply it to jobs that I already have but I have been increasing the prices of the lower priced jobs a lot more quickly. I have been turned down at times due to my minimum charge but that is the whole point of it. I used to have a lot of jobs under £10 a few years ago. Now I've only a few and those that are, are very small ones.
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Minimum price in our company - appr. GBP18 for Saint-Petersburg (Russia) and 30 for the country side.
Vadim
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;D I thought I would wait before I answered...glad I did! ;D
I think I might introduce a minimum price, sound like a good idea! :)
It's one way of getting rid of the dross1 8)
Many thanks... Learning all the time ??? (might change that to my signature!) 8)
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Minimum price? Delusions of Grandeur..
Or successful so you can do what you want
Correct Dave,this is the point you want to be aiming for.What is it good business to be working for peanuts then,i know what i`d rather be doing.
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Exactly right!
The point about any price is whether on not you are prepared to get turned down. If you are short of work and really need the customer you are not going to start tossing about "silly"prices. You are more likely to underprice it. (We have all done it, haven't we?).
High prices are only really possible when you don't care if they say no.
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Yes I pick up lots of work, I just prefer doing larger jobs rather than messing about with loads of £10 houses. Also by making my minimum price £25 I have picked up quite a lot of houses that I would have priced at say £15-£20, but I have told the homeowner that my minimum charge is £25 and its suprising how many have said fine!! It works for me!!! ;D
Funny, i could have sworn you were cleaning houses for twelve pound a couple of weeks ago!
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Yes I pick up lots of work, I just prefer doing larger jobs rather than messing about with loads of £10 houses. Also by making my minimum price £25 I have picked up quite a lot of houses that I would have priced at say £15-£20, but I have told the homeowner that my minimum charge is £25 and its suprising how many have said fine!! It works for me!!! ;D
Funny, i could have sworn you were cleaning houses for twelve pound a couple of weeks ago!
yep...dreamer
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Probably still is, as there can be a good margin in £12.00 cleaning jobs. The money coming in still can pay the bills.
But if he recently only set minimum at £25.00 and above and sticks to it all new customers will be at that price.
Maybe in a couple of years or more his lowest priced customers will be £25.00. All those that haven’t bothered with a minimum will be a few years behind him. Then a few more years pass and now you are really starting to be out of touch.
How many years will it be before we see old window cleaners using wfp systems (hot or cold) and the new younger window cleaners talking about the 1st generation of wfp users who haven’t put there prices up for years!
Ewan :)
Thankyou Ewan! :) I'm glad somebody reads my posts properly before jumping to conclussions!! >:( Yes sure I still have lower paying customers, the lowest being £12, but as I said in my original post - any new work I take on has a minimum charge of £25! I only target larger properties with my flyers so its quite rare for me to need to mention the minimum being £25 because most of the houses I now take on are £50+, and thats the way I like it!!! I find its good to have a few smaller ones though for the end of the day when there is not time to start a large house.
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I understood. Sometimes people argue for the sake of it. ???
My argument/puzzlement if any would be why then why the harriss pole? But you already said you prefer it and I accepted that.
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I understood. Sometimes people argue for the sake of it. ???
My argument/puzzlement if any would be why then why the harriss pole? But you already said you prefer it and I accepted that.
Very true Discount about people arguing for the sake of it, I have been guilty of that myself in the past! :-[
As for the harris pole, I use it because it is a great pole!!! Oh and its onlt 15 quid!!! ;)
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I understood. Sometimes people argue for the sake of it. ???
No I don't. :)
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Who's arguing? Just an observation. ;)
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Who's arguing? Just an observation. ;)
No it isn't.
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Yes it is >:(
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No it aint ;D
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blimmin well is :-\
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I started window cleaning this jan and after 1 month intriduced a min charge of a tenner. now i have enough work to pay me bills I see it as only common sence to target larger properties and will probably have a minimum of £20 unless i get 3 or more small houses on the same road. Quoted £20 for 3 bed semi last month and said i would do it for £20 but would knock of £1 for each neighbour they recommended up to 10, now have 12 houses in the same road, some have consevatories or extentions etc so tend to be £15- £20 and the original customer will get thier house cleaned for a tenner. always use the price of diesel as an excuse for high price
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I think a minimum charge is a sensible idea. The time it takes to park, get your gear out, put your gear away, collect payment/write a ticket etc all adds up, and time is money.
I have a minimum charge of €15 in the town and €25 further afield,... BUT if its next to an existing job and can be done at the same time then I waive those limits.