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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: tom2009 on November 19, 2009, 04:04:23 pm
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should I be taking to do say a three bed semi with 8 windows? I not too worried about being speedy gonzales at the moment and understand about grouping customers together for best earing power but a guide speed would be something to aim at. Thanks in advance. Tom
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15 MINS-20MINS TOPS.
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first clean with wfp 30 mins, 2nd and 3rd and future cleans will get quicker :)
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should I be taking to do say a three bed semi with 8 windows? I not too worried about being speedy gonzales at the moment and understand about grouping customers together for best earing power but a guide speed would be something to aim at. Thanks in advance. Tom
how long do you think it should take?
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WFP or Trad?
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not sure - im new - first clean today took longer, faffing about etc. doing it trad. Id like to think no more than 30 mins
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WFP 20mins first clean, 10-15mins per clean after.
Trad 20-30 first clean then 20 mins per clean after.
Matt
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off a ladder i guess about upto 2 mins max a window plus a few mins with setting up ladder etc... also depends on type of windows.
wfp id say around 10 - 15 mins max!
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Thanks Matt - I need to crack on and get faster!
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10 minutes max, Thats what I tell my lads you should hear the replys I get from them lol
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thanks for all feedback. Next purchase - stop watch :D
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not sure - im new - first clean today took longer, faffing about etc. doing it trad. Id like to think no more than 30 mins
you will get quicker each month, be able to know where abouts to place the ladder and how many times you have to go up the ladder on bigger sized windows.
if you charge £10 for that 8 window house then thats £20 per hour if you have a good compact round but if its too spread out then you will earn alot less - try and work out how much you would like to earn an hour/per day.
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8 inches, around 8)
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not sure - im new - first clean today took longer, faffing about etc. doing it trad. Id like to think no more than 30 mins
when i did my first house it took me about 1.5 hr to do 8 windows on a ground floor flat :-[
you will get quicker,
or go hungry ;D
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thanks for all feedback. Next purchase - stop watch :D
you will find that some older style houses can take longer trad, due to bay windows and some access probs maybe.
alot of new houses are very straight forward now with not many access probs for the ladder.
just make sure you take into account time factor when pricing up houses.
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like a twit I charged her 8 quid. when i get used to ladder position hopefully can speed up - Im feeling I should have charged her more but its like I need to build a round and don't want to put them off. Have a bit more posture with potential custies maybe
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£1/ window is fair enough way to work your pricing till you are more sure of yourself
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Thats about the going price Tom, £1 per window. do you charge £1 for the 2 doors?
Matt
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like a twit I charged her 8 quid. when i get used to ladder position hopefully can speed up - Im feeling I should have charged her more but its like I need to build a round and don't want to put them off. Have a bit more posture with potential custies maybe
some will charge £1 per window and £2 per bay window.
make sure you price up conservatories right - with trad it can take up alot of time.
some customers will say i only have a small house! - but you are not cleaning the bricks (at least i hope your not) some small houses can have just as much glass as bigger houses.
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In my humble....
don't even think about the first few houses you take on as being about the money. if you learn your trade from them and look at the mistakes you make with them, they have earned their keep ;)
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I've never done a first clean of any house in twenty minutes wfp. ???
Don't worry about the time yet, just concentrate on getting it right and doing the best you can.
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included the patio doors for that price my thinking being that they are big simple panes and easy to do. Front door has only a small glass panel. I see the point about it not being for the money on the first few - I just want to get to a decent round up together so that I can leave the corporate organ grinding mill that i've been in for too long!
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MY 1 pound buys you +- 1.5 sq metres window if its smaller its still 1 pound is still up a ladder I have a flat with 3 windows and I charge 10.50, each window is 3sq metre that comes to 9 pound and 1.5 pound is for the height.
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There was a wally on here recently who reckoned on doing four 4/5 bed detached houses with conservatories in one hour.... ;D
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I've never done a first clean of any house in twenty minutes wfp. ???
Don't worry about the time yet, just concentrate on getting it right and doing the best you can.
Thats the best advice so far, take your time and do a good job. Bang on IMO. Why rush and spoil things just to stick to some silly deadline?l
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I've never done a first clean of any house in twenty minutes wfp. ???
Don't worry about the time yet, just concentrate on getting it right and doing the best you can.
FTP what do you do on the first clean then?
Matt
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There was a wally on here recently who reckoned on doing four 4/5 bed detached houses with conservatories in one hour.... ;D
was that not 10, 9 of which were big 4/5 beds in less than 2 hours :)
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I've never done a first clean of any house in twenty minutes wfp. ???
Don't worry about the time yet, just concentrate on getting it right and doing the best you can.
FTP what do you do on the first clean then?
All the glass and frames get cleaned twice, all the doors get scrubbed, all the downstairs cills get a proper clean as does the front door cill. I then inspect as much as the glass that has dried as much as possible and maybe even scrub some areas a third time. I get it to the best I can. Even after all that it's still not good enough for me.
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I've never done a first clean of any house in twenty minutes wfp. ???
Don't worry about the time yet, just concentrate on getting it right and doing the best you can.
FTP what do you do on the first clean then?
All the glass and frames get cleaned twice, all the doors get scrubbed, all the downstairs cills get a proper clean as does the front door cill. I then inspect as much as the glass that has dried as much as possible and maybe even scrub some areas a third time. I get it to the best I can. Even after all that it's still not good enough for me.
Dont spend too long on it ftp remember your a business not a charity, I give the windows a pre rinse then scrub the frames, glass and sils, then I rinse loads. I will have a quick check before packing my gear up, then I am off, I always tell my customers if theres ever a problem to ring me and I will rectify it.
Matt