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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company on May 20, 2009, 06:52:44 pm

Title: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company on May 20, 2009, 06:52:44 pm
Could you please give me an idea what I should be charging to clean all the UPVC Cladding?

I'm starting to pick up more of this work, and in the past have have always had a problem getting the right ( in my favour) price.

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Thanks  :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Oakley Windows on May 20, 2009, 06:55:54 pm
I'd give that all a good dose of  this

(http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Ecover_Truck_wash.jpg)

with a pole and nozzle fed via a garden pressurised sprayer.

Then pole it off.

Allow a day.
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Alex Wingrove on May 20, 2009, 07:07:16 pm
£250
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: borg on May 20, 2009, 07:42:00 pm
i would say about £230 and use TFR and if ya got a trolly systam use hot water if you can thats what i do and its a doddle and it wont take all day i reckon u could do it in 5 hours
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Rob.Hall on May 20, 2009, 08:12:31 pm
£250-300.

Get a facia brush as well. They are a lot stiffer and it takes less scrubbing on green bits etc.
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Window Washers on May 20, 2009, 09:26:50 pm
£250-300.

Get a facia brush as well. They are a lot stiffer and it takes less scrubbing on green bits etc.
Where do you get a facia brush from ???
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: NWH on May 20, 2009, 09:32:26 pm
With hot water you would be surprised how quickly you`d get this done,the bit over the roof would be easy with an SL2 and is the pole i would use to do all of it.
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: andyatkinson on May 20, 2009, 09:39:23 pm
ian, i have a hard bristled vikan brush for pvc, came with my 1st set up from pure freedom
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Oakley Windows on May 20, 2009, 09:40:17 pm
hot water

Hot water, whats that all about then? :D :D
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: NWH on May 20, 2009, 09:41:40 pm
ian, i have a hard bristled vikan brush for pvc, came with my 1st set up from pure freedom
Lol have you purchased an up to date brush within the last 2 years. ;D
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: andyatkinson on May 20, 2009, 09:43:45 pm
no but i really need to!
im never gonna ruin that brush though it only comes out to play once a month or so ;)
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Window Washers on May 20, 2009, 09:50:59 pm
ian, i have a hard bristled vikan brush for pvc, came with my 1st set up from pure freedom
Lol have you purchased an up to date brush within the last 2 years. ;D
NWH you love vikan mono's you just will not admit it.

I still use them now, have tried loads of others, have a new flocked super lite which I quite nice and a tucker not used that yet though
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: andyatkinson on May 20, 2009, 10:25:42 pm
What is that building anyway, it looks like a caravan in the sky! ;D
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: JSMC on May 20, 2009, 11:01:51 pm
I'd give that all a good dose of  this

(http://www.gardinerpolesystems.co.uk/acatalog/Ecover_Truck_wash.jpg)

with a pole and nozzle fed via a garden pressurised sprayer.

Then pole it off.

Allow a day.

i have a garden sprayer but only on a short hose. Who has a diy version of this i can look at and can ye control it from ground?
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: mark dew on May 21, 2009, 12:43:47 am
That looks a very quick job with a light pole. I might be way off but i reckon i'd look at that as 3 hours hard work and would have quoted around £120 - £140.
And if it was simply algae on there i would hope for nearer 2 hours.

I would use a trolley and tfr or something for this. If you do alot of this work it would be worth spending £80 or whatever on a backpack and pump the mix up a pole 1st. Or put a T piece and shut off valves between pump and water tank and run the spare hose into a barrel of tfr mix.
And then connect the pole to the garden tap and rinse off.
I use a pump crop sprayer for conservatory roofs and lower and i would be interested to see how they would pump up that height. Cos mine has a maximum of around 12 feet. Horizontally. 
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Sapphire Window Cleaning on May 21, 2009, 12:50:21 am
Ian I think Andy means a Vikan Sill brush, I have one brilliant for cladding but crap for fascias and soffits lol.
they are about £35 from pure freedom.





Matt
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Rob.Hall on May 21, 2009, 08:44:04 am
I will have to look up where I got mine from. (Cill brush ).

I think it was Aurthor from Irland....Cant remember co off the top of my head.
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Window Washers on May 21, 2009, 08:49:50 am
I have a few vikan sill brushes.  ;D
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: CLEANGLASSUK on May 21, 2009, 09:01:55 am
Tiny building shouldnt take any longer than 2-3 hours max £150
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Moderator David@stives on May 21, 2009, 09:12:20 am
no more than 4 hours work there
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: S.A.J on May 21, 2009, 10:52:21 am
I would say £200- £250 no more than a mornings work!

Stuart
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: The Seven Bays Window Cleaning Company on May 21, 2009, 03:59:41 pm
Thanks Folks.

I wasn't too far out with my own thinking..

I was thinking about £170 - £200.

At about 4 to 5 hours work.
Title: Re: UPVC Cladding Quote Help - Please.
Post by: Sunshine/Cleaning on May 21, 2009, 04:20:26 pm
Beware of the asbestos roof!