[dave f]

recentley ive had afew of my 2 weeklly custys wanting to chagne to monthly they still expect you to do the job for the same price example to day i did a bungalow whith 11 big widows i do trad by the way. i charge £7. 2wkly. when i told her it would be £9mth why  she replyied why so tried to come up with a reasonable answer so if this happens again  what sort of figuer should i re qoute its starting to pixx me of. i try to keep my prices low as poss any ideas im up north i wondered if i over priced to start with

[G Griffin]

 Tell her it`s costing her less in the long run- over a year say.

[Platinum]

Tell her it`s costing her less in the long run- over a year say.

Thats it.

I normally charge £5 a fortnight so if they go to monthly its £8.

[Alun Whyte]

Tell em its now twice the dirt as fortnightly, hence extra work for you, hence extra charge. As was said earlier will still work out cheaper over a year

[dave f]

ill try to be on gaurd next time but it comes when you least expect i cant realy afford to to loose any custys at the mo ive only a small round ill wait until iget afew more and dump the messers

[Platinum]

You dont need to dump them just lay the rules down.
As long as they pay you there isnt a problem.

[sherco]

Years ago i had a lawn mowing round and i had a guy who had a lawn that took me 4hrs to mow. This was done on a price...and halfway through the season it bought a new mower and it only took me 2hrs....Yes you guessed it he only wanted to pay half the price then.....Customers!!!!!

[LSB]

or , dont charge any extra !
i dont charge any different between 4 and 8 weeks ( i dont do 12 ) , i dont advertise 8 weekly but will do it if they ask !

[paul rulton]

just tell them u only charge the going rate & that ur not out 2stich any1 up  
works 4me   even tho it aint true  

[Jonathan Spencer]

or , dont charge any extra !
i dont charge any different between 4 and 8 weeks ( i dont do 12 ) , i dont advertise 8 weekly but will do it if they ask !

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That is what I do.  Mulled over starting to charge more but decided it against it.

[Johnny B]

My work is run mostly on a 6 week cycle. Due to the winter we had I lost a complete cycle. Yet when I finally got round, most windows still looked clean. I had to touch the windows to feel the dust that was on them. It didn't take me any longer to clean them than if I had been on time.

My point and question being: How much extra time does it take to clean windows that are done every 2 weeks compared to every 4 weeks?

My answer is - none. I have a small number of fortnightly customers, so I am speaking from personal experience. Maybe some customers realise this.  

John.



    

[Jonathan Spencer]

My work is run mostly on a 6 week cycle. Due to the winter we had I lost a complete cycle. Yet when I finally got round, most windows still looked clean. I had to touch the windows to feel the dust that was on them. It didn't take me any longer to clean them than if I had been on time.

My point and question being: How much extra time does it take to clean windows that are done every 2 weeks compared to every 4 weeks?

My answer is - none. I have a small number of fortnightly customers, so I am speaking from personal experience. Maybe some customers realise this.  

John.



    

Even the monthly to two monthly you cannot tell much difference.  On some windows maybe depending if the wind has blown loads of dirt up.  In the end I think we do not clean the windows on a regular basis we are keeping them from getting dirty.

[dazmond]

fortnightly is too frequent in my book!god ive not done fortnightly ones for  at least 10 years!4 weekly/6 weekly and 8 weekly.90% of mine are 4 weekly.6 and 8 get charged more as they do take slightly longer to clean!!

a lot of the time my 4 weeklies are 5 weeklies and some 8 weeklies are 9-10 weeklies

I THINK WE SHOULD ALL CHARGE MORE FOR THE LONGER FREQUENCIES!!


REGARDS

DAZMOND

[dave f]

i supose charge what you think you can get a way with and be prepared to take the odd chance of a change of cleaning freqencey an ;Dd live with it

[Paul Coleman]

I think fortnightly is pretty unusual these days.  I only do one domestic job fortnightly and there is a particular reason at the moment why they want it that frequently.  The rest of my domestics are 6 weekly (going on 8 depending on how well I keep up).  I only manage to do the fortnightly job because there is some fortnightly commercial work nearby so I lump it in with that.

[martinsadie]

possibly a third of my work is fortnightly,same goes for a lot of other cleaners around here,i charge same price for 2 or 4 weekly,if some one tried to charge me £8 a month for a £5 every 2 weeks id stck with the fortnightly to make them work for it   

[G Griffin]

 Davef had already increased the price and wanted a reason to cushion the blow a bit.  You wouldn`t go back to the old price if she would you?