[Jackal]

£400 minimum take 2.5 hours

[ben M]

£400 minimum take 2.5 hours

lol 

[Tomboler]

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Yeah about 80-120 for a full day
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only thing worries me is by the time you take off tax n NI @28% (they won't be paying notes) you might find the day could have been better doing domestic maintainence cleans.
Not suggesting that domestic work is not subject to tax/ni but if it takes you longer than you thought is what I mean.
 

Will you just do glass or glass n frames?

[jim bean]

It's made an extra day work for me so I'm not too fussed, I'll make the price higher to compensate for that 28% should that happen. And yes I will do all frames they are aluminium and didn't look in too bad condition anyhow. I won't be taking any paperwork with me otherthan an invoice. I clean the headmasters windows and he knows my situation and he gave me the job!

[Tomboler]

It's made an extra day work for me so I'm not too fussed, I'll make the price higher to compensate for that 28% should that happen. And yes I will do all frames they are aluminium and didn't look in too bad condition anyhow. I won't be taking any paperwork with me otherthan an invoice. I clean the headmasters windows and he knows my situation and he gave me the job!

If you clean the heads windows then u r sorted. The great thing is that school bursars (her who will sort the cheque) chat with each another so you could end up getting other schools in area.
Best of luck Jim.

[jim bean]

Yep my dad was cleaning his windows for 15 years before I started so I think he can trust me and he has already complemented me on my quality of work.
Apparently the windy before said he couldn't do the sides of the gym as there was nowhere to put the ladder 
I reckon once started if I proper got going and didn't mess up those big panels with drips etc it could be done in 4 hours.
Oh and went to clean my mates house and his dad owns a building firm, gave him a bit of paper with 12 addresses on in my town various sizes £5-£15 said crack on with them if satisfied will get me doing the rest monthly!
Things are going great lose a awkward house gain 2 what pay double!

[Mike #1]

If you have got this school how the hell did u get it with a price of £80-120, totally baffeled.  Mike

[Tomboler]

Be interested to know how you get on Jim  

[jim bean]

Will keep you updated, may even post some pics. And I told him I could only work it out based on how long it was going to take me, if it only takes 5 hours 80 quids lovely money to me.
FYI he was very happy with price he knows I'll do a good job, look at some of the replies here sayin £200-£300 I couldnt possibly charge that on my own for a days work with my bucket and ladder in a little corsa, Fred perry t, trackies. Hardly the professional tbh but hey my customers are happy!

[Tomboler]

Will keep you updated, may even post some pics. And I told him I could only work it out based on how long it was going to take me, if it only takes 5 hours 80 quids lovely money to me.
FYI he was very happy with price he knows I'll do a good job, look at some of the replies here sayin £200-£300 I couldnt possibly charge that on my own for a days work with my bucket and ladder in a little corsa, Fred perry t, trackies. Hardly the professional tbh but hey my customers are happy!

You should see their faces when I rock up in stetson n spurs mate  

[jim bean]

Just to update, I completed the work, sides of gym were a little tricky as had to do top window and one below.come down ladder and put it more vertical so cudreach middle windows and do lower ones off steppy. I tell ya what it's a pain in the arse when there's so much glass and little aliminium frames any drips or splashes and ya gotta do it again!!
Anyway it took me 6 hours, had just over 100 windows. Charged them £100, already bin paid headmaster was very pleased said can I do em 3 or 4 times a year and the insides aswell once or twice !

[Mike #1]

Think you underpriced it mate 6 hrs on commercial for a £100.  but if you are thats all that counts . Hopefully your business will grow rapidly and you can invest in wfp which will allow you to get it done far quicker .

As for insides make sure you ask how often insides are to be done i clean insides of a school every 3 years and i charge 3 times more than outsides .  Mike

[jim bean]

I'm going to Wfp when I can. Currently workin out of a corsa. Need to get my 1st years no claims intact as my insurance doesn't cover work atm. I've got the cash ready for it and will be offering both methods to my custies. I'm hoping with Wfp I can secure more commercial work and still plan on tradding as I enjoy the work.

Yes I've been told my price wAs a little low, he told me after I was done the last windy did it for £150 and didn't touch the 2 sides of gym as said he couldn't do it!! It took me 3 hours to do the gym and 3 hours for the other 100 odd windows.
And that's interesting about the insides, this is a primary school and when I did the windows you could tell insides needs doing with fingerprints etc. I was planning on saying I'll do them twice a year for the same price as outsides so £180 all in all.

Also didn't ask for any method statements, I gave them a hand written invoice Aswell check came 2 days later :p

[Tomboler]

I'm going to Wfp when I can. Currently workin out of a corsa. Need to get my 1st years no claims intact as my insurance doesn't cover work atm. I've got the cash ready for it and will be offering both methods to my custies. I'm hoping with Wfp I can secure more commercial work and still plan on tradding as I enjoy the work.

Yes I've been told my price wAs a little low, he told me after I was done the last windy did it for £150 and didn't touch the 2 sides of gym as said he couldn't do it!! It took me 3 hours to do the gym and 3 hours for the other 100 odd windows.
And that's interesting about the insides, this is a primary school and when I did the windows you could tell insides needs doing with fingerprints etc. I was planning on saying I'll do them twice a year for the same price as outsides so £180 all in all.

Also didn't ask for any method statements, I gave them a hand written invoice Aswell check came 2 days later :p

good of the head to tell you that afterwards  it's all a learning curve

[Mike #1]

I would price higher than that it is a lot more tricky getting a ladder sround the inside of a building you will have to get through various doorways and possibly move stuff it all adds up.  i would be asking £250- 300 for insides . Dont under estimate. Work involved and dont underprice yourself . .Mike

[jim bean]

Won't need to take a ladder in there all first floor windows, and yes it was a bit cheeky of him to drop that in when I'd done lol! Ah well I'm happy with it can always put price up