[mci services]

i have done the same

[gewindows]

I started in April 2009 and have a nice little round built. I didn't put prices up this year because I felt it was too soon, but plan on doing so from the May clean next year. A £10 clean will be going to £11 - a 10% increase, which for 2 years I feel is fair given the RPI is 4.6% at the moment. A £30 clean will go to £32, so I will adjust as I see fit.

I've chosen May because new, higher tax codes come in In April and the State Pension goes up in April too: ideally people will be feeling a bit more flush (if they haven't lost their jobs as a result of next weeks cuts!).

The issue is that there is quite a lot of doom and gloom about in the news at the moment. I've had a spate of "Can you leave it till March" and "Can you clean every other month during the winter months" too, along with some movers and the odd death; i've lost about £2500 pa worth of work in the last 5 weeks or so (saying that, we have the winter coming and I lose a lot of days to wet weather here in West Wales, so don't want to be rammed with work and worrying I am behind), anyway....

Should I put my prices up in May? If so by how much?

Sounds reasonable enough to me. 10% is about the line I generally go for every other year.

[NJWindowCleaning]

Some put there prices up once a year and some others put them up every other year.

But as there is two budgets in a year now and shop puts there prices up every week without of anyone knowing it and it maybe pence to some but it works out for lot of pounds for them.

In respect a pound a year across the board meaning small to large accounts isn't to much of pay rise every year and clients wont disagree with that extra pound every year as they might have a pay rise more than that.

So the answer to your question is yes indeed put your prices up.

At the end of the day you deserve it for all the hard work that we all do.