[NJWindowCleaning]

£0.00: have a hair dressers shop which they dont pay me, the misses and I have hair done for nothing..

[mci services]

You have to set a minimum price, or you end up having these silly little jobs that waste your time!! I set a minimum price a long time ago of £10, and because of that I have several great little jobs.. ie I have a barn type conversion with 2 of the smallest skylights you have ever seen, I clean just the skylights every month for £10... if I priced it per window I would be getiing 2quid, which would not be worth bothering with.

yes set a minimum but surely you can see if you have compact work with very little effort some low prices are good money earners, or am I missing the point, I make just as much from my low priced flats and two bed terraced than from my stand alone bigger jobs, and the reason is I have lots of them at lower prices but all next to each other

[Richard Neal]

OAP flat £3.00 but i do 18 in the same block

[dazmond]

silly little jobs as groundhog puts it turns into good bread and butter work if you have very compact work!i have a mixture.if its a stand alone then a £10 min is ok for new stuff.

groundhog just likes to brag about charging £25 for 3 bed semis while us paupers like me charge £6 for some of them!

i can still afford to go to barbados and new york etc and other fancy holidays every year and ive got good wfp equipment and van.

i must be doing something right!!

[groundhog]

I'm not bragging Dazmond, I'm just trying to show some business common sense!! Most of us work on our own and have no intention of employing large numbers of employees, therefore we are limited to the number of customers we can take on, so I would say that the average window cleaner can comfortably look after about 3 - 4 hundred customers give or take a few? maybe more if you have very compact stuff. So my advice is to make those 3-400 custies the best quality custies you can get!! And in my opinion the best way to do this is to set a minimum price, most people are prepared to pay a tenner to have their windows done these days, if their not then I don't want them as a customer!! Although I do have a minimum of £10, I rarely take on anything less than £25 these days as I'm trying to refine my round now, and only the cream work is good enough for me thee days!! 

[Small but perfectley formed]

Theres no way you could get £10 for terraced houses someone would do them cheaper and you would loose the lot,
All the work i do extremely compact most streets i clean 30-40 houses

[dazmond]

yes some of my work could be better but i also have some better priced work as well!most of my work is in an affluent area.the cheaper estate work is staple work.good solid dependable work with good cashflow.

i have a varied mix of different domestics and a few commercial.obviously im doing the same groundhog.refining all the time.

my round is like a living breathing organism!its constantly changing and mutating!!

still i wouldnt get £25 for a 3 bedder up north!my most expensive 3 bedder is £12 every 8 weeks!

[Perfect Windows]

silly little jobs as groundhog puts it turns into good bread and butter work if you have very compact work!i have a mixture.if its a stand alone then a £10 min is ok for new stuff.

groundhog just likes to brag about charging £25 for 3 bed semis while us paupers like me charge £6 for some of them!

i can still afford to go to barbados and new york etc and other fancy holidays every year and ive got good wfp equipment and van.

i must be doing something right!!

I'm sure you are.  My £12 flat is not next to another customer, so I drive, set up, clean and pack away.

I will say, however, that you could have the better world.  You could charge a little more and not lose your customer base, ending up with better priced but still compact work.  I state that categorically.  You're a reliable window cleaner, that's clear, and customers value that above anything else.

Over in another forum that mustn't be mentioned on here, Matt upped prices of all his customers and lost a grand total of.... one customer.  He's now earning more cash for the same work.

Vin

[dazmond]

yeh i am reliable vin.17 years of reliability!!

i did put the old work up in april last year and some again in may 2011 due to me being able to clean the extra windows with wfp.ive put the odd one or two up this year but ive shyed away from a lot of price rises.

i will next year though.


dazmond

[Tom White]

Over in another forum that mustn't be mentioned on here, Matt upped prices of all his customers and lost a grand total of.... one customer.  He's now earning more cash for the same work.

Vin

I put my prices up every-two-years, and it normally starts off with me feeling quite anxious about it.  I do it in portions because I still secretly suspect that my customers will dump me for it.  So I do it area-by-area for the first week, and then no cancellations come in, and I just finish the job and increase the rest (where it's needed).

The worst I had one year was three cancellations, all by customers who I wasn't keen on anyway.

The end product is always more money for less work.

My advice is to start off doing it area by area.  I always use a letter and I don't give any flannel (i.e. I don't make excuses for putting up my prices such as blaming it on rising insurance or fuel costs; that always sounds like waffle to me; but I do remind them that we are regular, insured, and take our business seriously).

And really, for run-of-the-mill domestic work, what's a £1 increase anyway?

[Paul Coleman]

My cheapest are a couple of freebies.
Apart from that, there is a place I do where it's £5 for the front only (£10 when I occasionally find them in and do the back).  No side gate for this one.  It's backpack through the house.  I don't normally take work on this basis but it's a hangover from yesteryear.  After that there is a £6 bungalow and another at £6.50 (nothing to them really).  I do normally have a £10 minimum but rarely quote less than £12.  These are jobs that have been on my books for a very long time and are viable at those prices.

[Ryan @ Transparent, Carlisle]

have 8 compact flats at £3 each. Takes about half hour to do so £24 for half hours work is not bad