[BartG]

You could price the top windows at £1.25 per and bottom windows at £1.00 and doors for a £1.00 or patio doors £1.50 per door and french doors at £2.00 to £2.50.

Or you can look at a house a small two bed house at £10.00, Medium 3 bed at £12.00 a large 3 bed at £18.00 to £20.00 and so on.... hope this helps..

I wonder what is an actual window ? Is it single glass or set of glasses put together ( like bay or round window )

Cause sometimes there is 4 glasses in a set and don't know should i charge £4 or 1 for it? 

[john bird]

Hey to u all thanks for all the advice with the pricing specialy to the 1 who gave me a rough price list and dis go to u all how do u price like resturants as there is like 10 big windows and 8 medium windows 12 little wot to price this as this wood b my first 1 of this sort to do this big thanks

[NJWindowCleaning]

Those figures was just for example and a full window and not per pane but if you want to price per pane then you could easily adjust the figures to your own liking and in different areas some will price more than other windy's...

[Window Washers]

Hey to u all thanks for all the advice with the pricing specialy to the 1 who gave me a rough price list and dis go to u all how do u price like resturants as there is like 10 big windows and 8 medium windows 12 little wot to price this as this wood b my first 1 of this sort to do this big thanks

get a picture of what your looking at and can then price, if it is sub work it will not be a noraml price as they have people working for peanuts if it is direct then a normal wage can be earnt

[Total shine cleaning services]

I remember when I started last year and the buzz I got when I was hitting £20 per hour but daz is right you do need more and want more as soon as you aclimatise to this figure, and you can, I am constantly looking at ways to price better and I'm slowly getting there, also important is to re canvass streets you already have work in as once canvassed you tend to move on, we constantly re canvass the streets evey couple of months and it does work, people who have said no are now saying yes, bottom line is you must tweak and constantly retweak to get your hourly rate up, I have areas that I work in where I'm still hitting £20 as a solo operator but the ones where I hit 30-£40 are starting to outweigh these, I even have the odd £50 hour now on domestic which I never thought I would achieve, I am constantly thinking about my business and how to achieve more, this site is great for ideas and would not have got as good without it, bottom line is do whatever you can to get that hourly rate up

Graham

[john bird]

Thanks I dnt understand how u can get it to 30-40 ph I take it these ar on lyk shop work and stuff how do u get the shop work and yer I have reali found dis site a gd 1 as I was lyk only chargin lyk 8 a house no matter how many windows till I looked on ere and ppl helped me with lyk price work

[Total shine cleaning services]

I have plenty of small pockets of work and can get round really fast on my brush, for instance in one of the cul de sacs I do I have 5 houses at £8 each,takes me exactly one hour to do these, another street I have 3 at £12 each again just under 1 hours work, the most important thing is to price well, once you speed up on the pole this is achievable, not all my work is grouped as well as the above mentioned but I'm constantly striving to get there by canvassing and recanvassing

Graham

[jim bean]

I think I'd be pretty pee'd off if I was a professional who'd been to uni, got a degree etc. And then comes along the window cleaner who blasts round in 5mins with his pole and charges £10! To be fair an unskilled job like this should not be earning £50 an hour. Fair play if you can think I'll stick with me £10-20/hour. I charge the same for any job, gutter, connys. At least I can tell the customer I want £10 an hour I'll go as fast and do em aswell as possible and they're happy!

[dazmond]

jim its just not worth it for me to work for £20 an hour "on the glass" time.i dont have any work that earns me that these days.

average "on the glass" time a day is 5-7 hours.the rest of the time(filling up,driving in between jobs,admin,lunchbreak,talking to customers and a quick coffee etc)im not earning.throw in no holiday/sick pay,van costs,equipment,insurances,tax,bad weather days where i earn nothing at  all eat into my earnings.

i once had the same attitude as you ( for years in fact!).treated the business as a "job" and guess what?i always seemed to be struggling financially esp when the weather was bad or unexpected van breakdowns etc.

im in this business to make money,provide a good cleaning service for my customers and provide a better life for myself and friends and family.

youll just bump along the bottom and just about get by if you dont raise your prices per job and get a better hourly rate for work done.i know IVE BEEN THERE!!!

at the end of the year after all expenses,tax and overheads have been deducted.THATS YOUR PROFIT!!itll be a lot lower than you think!!