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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john tomkins on September 12, 2008, 07:21:17 pm
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Folks on MSE asking "how much should window cleaning cost? "
Examples given....
"3.00 for 4 bed house with 11 sash windows here in Pembrokeshire!
Not bad!"
"A pound for me 3 windows"
"£5.50 for a detached 3 bedroom in cheltenham. 8 windows"
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Oh dear! The one in cheltenham concerns me! I work that way and would charge a tenner for the same!
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was just reading there post on there, '1 pound for three windows', even the cheapest window cleaner in my town will look over priced if they are expecting that. That pour guy going to give his qoute wont stand a chance.
gerard :'(
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Yes it would but I've had this discussion before on here. The price divide between north and south is unbelievable! Theres no way I would move up north with those prices - sounds like to much hard work!
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I am in scotland, and would say that some prices on here seem high in comparison to me, but there is even cheaper again. But I fear that there is too many people doing this job off the book and charging less. I have seen it time and time again. eventually they realise they can make more and ditch the customers, then we go by and they are looking to get there house done for the price they pay a taxi driver, to take them a five minute trip.
Needless to say, some pay a more sensible price and some stay dirty.
gerard 8)
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Yes it would but I've had this discussion before on here. The price divide between north and south is unbelievable! Theres no way I would move up north with those prices - sounds like to much hard work!
it sorts the men from the boys,and we dont want you up ere
Lol!
I am in scotland, and would say that some prices on here seem high in comparison to me, but there is even cheaper again. But I fear that there is too many people doing this job off the book and charging less. I have seen it time and time again. eventually they realise they can make more and ditch the customers, then we go by and they are looking to get there house done for the price they pay a taxi driver, to take them a five minute trip.
Needless to say, some pay a more sensible price and some stay dirty.
gerard 8)
Have to agree with you even with the price divide there are some silly prices that some charge. £1.00 for 3 windows - I wouldn't even fart for that!
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that cheltenham house
£6 at most
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that cheltenham house
£6 at most
No way deffo a Tenner maybe in the 80's..........................
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My family are in cheltenham, prices are pretty good in Gloucestershire!!!
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cheltenham house in wales (in the valleys )£5 to £6. three front windows £2.
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My family are in cheltenham, prices are pretty good in Gloucestershire!!!
Do they need a window cleaner?!!!!
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Funnily enough my mums cleaner is crap!! she would be interested, i live in Leeds so its a bit far for me to go!!
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oh my god there is no way id of become a wc if thats the prices we charged my cheapest is £8 and thats just for fronts.
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Funnily enough my mums cleaner is crap!! she would be interested, i live in Leeds so its a bit far for me to go!!
Email the details to me I'll do it if she wants! ( wce@sky.com)
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Funnily enough my mums cleaner is crap!! she would be interested, i live in Leeds so its a bit far for me to go!!
Email the details to me I'll do it if she wants! ( wce@sky.com)
Will do, she's a wfp fan(don't know why!! ha)
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Thats cool i'm 99.9% wfp!
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oh my god there is no way id of become a wc if thats the prices we charged my cheapest is £8 and thats just for fronts.
has been said before but thats the difference between pricing depending on area
dont know where you are based but i bet its darn sarf ;D :)
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right right right down south
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Shhhhhuuusshhhh chris.
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right right right down south
Not only have you got better prices there in general, you've also got better weather, jammy git ;D
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nice part of the world that :)
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Yes it would but I've had this discussion before on here. The price divide between north and south is unbelievable! Theres no way I would move up north with those prices - sounds like to much hard work!
Im up north and my prices are much better than that. I think it's just the old fogeys with their pram frames and scrims.
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that cheltenham house
£6 at most
how do you know which house it was?!?!? :o
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PS...........
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Some more additions from MSE........
Wow, mine feels pricey now. £7.50 for a 3 bed - 14 windows. In Hertfordshire.
I stopped my window cleaner as he wanted £10 last time for 9 windows and a glazed front door on my 3-bed semi in Bedfordshire. My younger neighbour paid £6. Why do some people seem to think that because you're a bit older than them you're stupid and they can rip you off
I didn't ask for the quote but came home one day to a card through the letterbox about 18 months ago...Offering to clean our windows once every 4 weeks for £15 (now we are slightly out of the way and do have some big windows). In all honesty I was gobsmacked... our last place was a 4 bed which cost £4 every 2 weeks.
This is the Money saving expert site though, so if there are cheap W/C about, then they are gonna find them :o
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If they get a window-cleaner for those prices what are the chances of him hanging around though. The others say they are paying whatever they are, but they havent said for how long.
Everyone on here I guess is assuming these window cleaners are regular, reliable, insured, and produce recommendable work.
Perhaps those people on the money-saving web-site get their windows cleaned by the beer money brigade.
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im going to post a reply what shall i say any ideas
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take that 9 window job
I would be about £10, but at £6 and doing one every 30mins, plus travel say 40 mins, I would only clear about 9/10 per hour, and I would have to pay holidays, sick days, petrol, licencing, mots, road tax, wear of equipement, consumables like liquid, cost of flyers etc... from that £3 if I took £6 per hour.
I would be too tight financially and would end up eating into my hourly rate puting me below the MWage.
no thanks
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take that 9 window job
I would be about £10, but at £6 and doing one every 30mins, plus travel say 40 mins, I would only clear about 9/10 per hour, and I would have to pay holidays, sick days, petrol, licencing, mots, road tax, wear of equipement, consumables like liquid, cost of flyers etc... from that £3 if I took £6 per hour.
I would be too tight financially and would end up eating into my hourly rate puting me below the MWage.
no thanks
Same here mate. No thanks, :-\
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ive posted reply
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Now youve done it Chris, those Womens Institute coffee mornings will never be the same again :D
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nice one jaykie, I would still like to get the name of the guy who is doing three windows for a pound, and what method do they use.
Hit each one with a water balloon, job done!
lol
gerard :D
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think cleaners will come out the wood work now and post
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Has anyone read the new posts, lol
forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1152753 (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1152753)
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I have given a reply on there as well now, that checky git, I qoute 'its window cleaning, not rocket science'.
Maybe I should ask him to explain reverse osmosis, what a fool.
gerard :D
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nice one jaykie, I would still like to get the name of the guy who is doing three windows for a pound, and what method do they use.
Hit each one with a water balloon, job done!
lol
gerard :D
Now theres an idea!!! pure water in balloons!
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Funnily enough my mums cleaner is crap!! she would be interested, i live in Leeds so its a bit far for me to go!!
Hope it's not me ;D
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Funnily enough my mums cleaner is crap!! she would be interested, i live in Leeds so its a bit far for me to go!!
Hope it's not me ;D
And me, are you of largish build ;D ;)
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If anyone is in Edinborough you had best look at the above site coz the guy is now looking for someone with insurance. His previous w/c has let him down twice.
Jake, sounds like some of those guys are disrespectors of people.' The lowest price at any human cost'!
Some good replys defending you though.
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ive been out since i replied to that post but thanks to the guys who added to it aswel, how funny, would anyone be willing to do that job in Edinborough.
Chris
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Shiner good thing people dont no we know each other on there
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UPDATE FROM MSE:
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Originally Posted by Fred56 View Post
We paid £20 last year for our 3 bed semi. But only once.
The chap works from the ground with a trailer and a long brush with water pumped to it. The result was simply abysmal.
You should have stuck with it.
The water-fed-pole system only works after about 2 or 3 cleans.
It's like a treatment really. Did your WC not warn you of this?