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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: seandyer2003 on July 28, 2008, 09:31:46 pm

Title: NEW BUILDS
Post by: seandyer2003 on July 28, 2008, 09:31:46 pm

From your experience of new builds (if you have any:)   What kind of day rate would you charge for yourself and/or any employees/subbys??

I am struggling to price up a builders clean, keep using different formulas and getting really different amounts!! Whats the best formula???

Title: Re: NEW BUILDS
Post by: dave0123 on July 28, 2008, 10:03:59 pm

Think of a day rate of want you want and for builders cleans treble it and then double it again.

they allways take longer than expected for me anyway.

Title: Re: NEW BUILDS
Post by: darragh windows on July 28, 2008, 10:20:08 pm

i always price them as a normal house then multiply by 4, sometimes this is not enough but i personally would only be doing them to get the house pemanently as i dont enjoy doing them at all, if they are one offs, you probably need to charge more

Title: Re: NEW BUILDS
Post by: cvdewsbury on July 28, 2008, 10:35:58 pm

if you are in with the site agent and they will help you getting  your foot in the door when the customer moves as long as you have covered your costs consider the rest as a loss leader

Title: Re: NEW BUILDS
Post by: seandyer2003 on July 29, 2008, 10:26:59 am

i am trying to get these apartments as a regular job, and theres alot of work there, 4 big blocks and 1 small, and a lot of glass, will be easy for wfp maintenance cleans but the builders clean will be a nightmare!!!

So thats the conondrum, charge properly for builders clean or cut losses to get regular work, but i might end up working for next to nothing for 3 weeks on builders clean!