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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Highrise on May 17, 2008, 11:05:05 am

Title: Going down blind
Post by: Highrise on May 17, 2008, 11:05:05 am
I would like a bit of advice in regards to a builders clean I have to go and see on Monday and start on Monday....

It is 2 hours drive from me ( so 4 Hours travel a day )

I have been told it will take 2 men 2 weeks to do....

and the work only involves cleaning the frames on the inside on the building....

What price should I be looking at?

I have not done a job like this ( as far away)
so please give some good advice...
 
Title: Re: Going down blind
Post by: Rob_Mac on May 17, 2008, 04:14:33 pm
Up to an hour away we drive back. Over an hour away the caravan and motorhome come out and we go on our holidays on a camp site somewhere near the work.

Come back home on a Friday afternoon and then go back on the Sunday. Not ideal - away from family but some of our work is 5 hrs drive away

Rob ;D
Title: Re: Going down blind
Post by: Highrise on May 17, 2008, 06:33:09 pm
Thanks, But not the advice I was looking for  ::)

A price would be better...

I'm now looking to have four of us on the job and have it finished on Thursday.
Title: Re: Going down blind
Post by: Ian Lancaster on May 17, 2008, 06:55:51 pm
I have been told it will take 2 men 2 weeks to do....

You're a brave man if you take someone else's estimate as gospel.  It could be wrong by a couple of hundred percent either way.   I wouldn't dream of accepting a job on those terms.

As to price, I would have thought that was easy: 4 hrs a day driving is 20 hrs a week so 40 hours for the two weeks at your usual rate times 2 because it's 2 men's work so 80 hours before you even start :o

Then four man-weeks: whatever you would expect to earn if you were working locally per week times 4.

Are you sure you still want this job?
Title: Re: Going down blind
Post by: peter holley on May 17, 2008, 07:04:47 pm
i wouldnt touch a job that size withiut looking for myself.... :o.
Title: Re: Going down blind
Post by: NWH on May 17, 2008, 07:09:27 pm
Is that job through Dave Morris lol. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D