Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: S.A.J on May 08, 2009, 02:51:38 pm
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Afternoon guys, been ask to clean the roof on this covered walk way and wondered how much you would charge?
Job is a one off for now,
Inside and outside to be cleaned,
Perspex panels,
And can only be done on a Sunday or early morning,
All of it can be poled I have access to the roofs to the left & right in pic 3, but have to wear a harness to do it that way.
Good job I have a harness!
Poling form the roofs will get to 90% of the roof, the rest can be done from the sides where you can just about get a ladder through the gaps.
Got to go back tomorrow so will get some more pics
How much??
Cheers
Stuart
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£180.00 ;)
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and their off!!!! ;D
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WOW
I was thinking at least couple of hundred for it!!
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I didn't want to get involved here :) But I can see how I would do the inside, no probs, how do you intend to do the outside mate? Looks abit dodgey "Elf n' Saftey" blah blah
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I wouldn't want to do it - looks quite restricted, and therefore would be asking for at least £200.
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Messing up a Sunday, cleaning it like a conservatory clean (framework too) soaking wet doing the insides. I wouldn't do that on my own (elf and safety!!!). So say £300 of which I'd pay a mate £100 to help. I'd want it done in 4 hours (8 man- hours) and off for a couple of jars too. Make it a well-paying "bit orf a larf"!
If I was scratching for work then £200, out of which pay a mate £50...
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£200 minimum jobs like this often take longer than anticipated
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it must be worth 250 quid
i would point out to them that sometimes that perspex doesnt come up that great as it fades and becomes cloudy with time
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i would point out to them that sometimes that perspex doesnt come up that great as it fades and becomes cloudy with time
Already told them that ;)
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Anyone else? 8)
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300 double mtime for sunday ;D
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My quote would be £300.00. and I'd use a small tower scaffold for the inside.
Probably need to soak with TFR or degrease to help shift the algae.
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£450
Take it or leave it.
Specialized equipment, harness, tower, cleaning agent, inconvenient time.
Or let some other fool undercut!
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That is one pig of a job.
To keep this short you should be thinking of using a cherry picker so you can get directly over the top, and possibly pre spray, scrub and wash off.
Seriously that gap looks too narrow to squeeze between and so if you want to use a 20 foot on the horizontal then you'll be in pain by the end.
£400 if you're doing it the long way
£250 plus hire of equipment other wise
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£200 for a mornings work sounds ok ;D
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I do stuff like this regularly and i would say at least £500 plus vat.
People expect to pay that sort of money in the commercial world, that is one place where they realise it is a 2 man out of hours job, which they expect to pay a day for it to be done properly.
PJ spot on this time
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Looking at the pictures again i would say even more, hard to say how much more without seeing the job.
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Being commercial they probably wont except one quote and will arrange for three companies to quote for the job, providing they have all got adequate insurance then they will accept the cheapest quote, especially as they only see it as a one off job they wont want to spend a penny more than they have to, so it really depends on how badly you want the work and how much profit you feel you need to make, with the right equipment this job will not take any longer than one day and shouldn't be that difficult.
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True it won't even take a day, but they want it done out of hours.
They don't always go for the cheapest. I got a commercial job one off last month and was undercut by 33%, they didn't want to over pay but they used me!
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Simon
You would need two men on this job, you should never work with an harness on your own.
I find with commercial if they like youre quote they wont shop around.
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Simon
You would need two men on this job, you should never work with an harness on your own.
I find with commercial if they like youre quote they wont shop around.
Yes a lot of work for one worker, not sure from the picture what fall arrest system they have on the roof if any, so it would perhaps involve MEWP which of course would cost more. I find with commercial if they have a quote for £300.00 and one for £500.00 then they will want to save money, providing they feel the work can be carried out to their specification.
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I wouldn't want to do it - looks quite restricted, and therefore would be asking for at least £200.
you could stand on the high wall at the side and pole downwards ;D
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£200.00 to clean that it will take you a day to do.
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Cherry picker, trf and wfp and waterproofs, at a guess £350 plus hire of machine half a days work if that
reason, it will be a pain, and weekends cost more, price high if you get it result if not, nothing lost ;)
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SAJ I would be charging £300 plus the hire of a cherry picker, personally I wouldnt take it as its perspex and that scratches to hell, so cleaning it would be very difficult.
Matt
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SAJ I would be charging £300 plus the hire of a cherry picker, personally I wouldnt take it as its perspex and that scratches to hell, so cleaning it would be very difficult.
Matt
I clean a walk way alot bigger than that and it is perspex and is cleaned every 12 weeks scratching will only happen if you dont know how to clean it.
Ian
p.s that was not aimed at the last poster or anyone before someone jumps in
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Window washers I was going on the fact most bus shelters are perspex and they're scratched to hell and weathered quite badly, I've seen guys cleaning those bus shelters and afterwards they look like they havent been cleaned.
Matt
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Window washers I was going on the fact most bus shelters are perspex and they're scratched to hell and weathered quite badly, I've seen guys cleaning those bus shelters and afterwards they look like they havent been cleaned.
Matt
more than likely they use tap water, and they cloud over more so in this weather, I made this mistake 12 weeks ago and had to redo the whole job, normally finish at 2 I was these till gone 7pm as I could not leave it in the state it was but i guess others would.
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Cheers all for the inputs.
I have been told I’m the only person quoting for this job and the roof HAS to be cleaned!
If I get it,
There will be 3 of us working this job 2 on the roof and one on the ground and will be cleaned on a Sunday start time 6am and finish time approx 10am.
Price I’m going to put in is £400.
Cheers all
Stuart.
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Quick update guys got a phone call today and got told the job was 95% mine. Just got to write up a risk/method statement and then get it all Okayed by the big boss.
Will do before and after pics when we do finally start the job!!.
Cheers
Stuart
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so i guess you will be getting a lad to do the underside, wont be paying them loads, maybe £60? and you and your dad do the top?
£400 does seem well priced for three men. i think you could get more, but i guess you will be up early back early and over £250 quid better off, after you paid the other guys
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£300.
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so i guess you will be getting a lad to do the underside, wont be paying them loads, maybe £60? and you and your dad do the top?
£400 does seem well priced for three men. i think you could get more, but i guess you will be up early back early and over £250 quid better off, after you paid the other guys
Spot on Alex accept im paying the lad (my future brother inlaw) £50.
Could have got a bit more money for it but there could be more work coming my way from these guys.
They have already asked me to price up some communal windows to be cleaned bi monthly.
Stuart 8)
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does the roof have a hand rail??
i cant see one ?? the problem this would bring is if you were to fall with a harnes on you would hit the floor or roof still i think.