[Shrek]

I think some people are in a rush to build a round as quick as possible, why clean 34 houses to earn £200 when you can clean 20 to earn the same ?  has anyone who charges £5/6 per house tried saying £7/8?  If your smart enough and have a good reputation, I doubt many custys would say no to you for pricing their house up at £7 and call the tracksuit wearing chav instead because he said £6 . first impressions and all that, comb your hair , splash abit of aftershave on and you may be surprised at the results

[Spruce]

We had the local job center encourage sign ons to become self employed window cleaners.

The advise was to canvass bungalows and ask for silly prices to get the work, like £3 etc. The job center's further advice was that window cleaners have plenty of customers so can afford to loose a few.

They advise that if it takes an hour to clean a bungalow then they will only need 16 customers a week to work the minimum hours. If they clean every 2 weeks then that's just 32 customers.

They then advise that family credits etc will make up the poor earnings so there's nothing to loose asking those prices.

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[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

at 5 pounds a house you need them close as you can up there ,my friend gets her 4 bed house on inglby cleaning up there 6pounds wfp 

Don't know how people make a living at those prices   

Unfortunately Rob, that's what we are up against in Teesside. Ingle Barwick isn't a 'poor' estate. It's a new estate which has really grown in the past 15 - 20 years with modern housing.


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tell me about it !  its a shame the place as gone like that I can remember cleaning carpets on  when there were  only about 200 houses in total 

Hi Susan,

I never realised you were up our neck of the woods. 

I was years ago before moving down south . worked all the north east with my 6 carpet cleaning vans out every day , I miss it sometimes , still have a house in Thorpe thewles