[♠Winp®oClean♠]

Does it expose you to being undercut?

Competition advertising to beat your price?

Go to www.such&such, get a quote & we'll beat it by 20% GUARANTEED!

If I was your competition & needed the work that's what I'd be setting up right now!

You put the leg work in & I could ride along like a hawk!

[gordonswindows]

Good spot Win

That did concern me but without having to carry the additional burden of meeting the new client and quoting and then having to collect as well we have managed to keep the prices very lean.

The idea is based upon volume as well as the actual cost and of course as said earlier the money is in the add-ons

Power washing yes Matt it is one of the extras to follow, driveways and decking being the main aim, I have a hydraulic oil spill on a tarmac driveway waiting to be done already and also a Portakabin facia, email me if interested

Our main line is commercial but  we have always wanted to get in to domestic, after all it is how I started so we have priced ,any business that fall within our present area too. Now they love irregular cleaning and are happy to pay a premium for it too

Gordon

[gordonswindows]

As Crystal Clear has unfortunately found out today on another post, the client in these difficult times wants to choose who when and how often and the day of the w/c telling the customer "I only do monthly" or whatever seems to be changing

They will buy what they want when they want and as often as suits them not us

On the subject of first cleans I have never ever charged extra for a first clean, I do not agree with it. T clean a window is too clean a window I have never been charged extra for a particularly dirty car at the car wash or from the dry cleaners for my new suits so why would I charge extra for dirty windows. Plus I have never heard of a w/c reducing the cost each month as the windows become easier and then quicker sombrely it is just an "add on" and then you all get mad when the customer catches on

Gordon

[deela1]

an idea maybe ??

you could have diff pics of all the various windows...the customer clicks which ones & how many=get quote/price

you could go nationwide then, subbing the work out as your sunning it up in barbados

[mci services]

I think this will get a few window cleaners backs up, but there is no need, you are simply tapping into a market that many window cleaners don't want for whatever reason they may have. James 44 suggested dial a clean on here and was slated page after page, but all he was doing was offering that option for the customer that did not want it every month and there is lots out there like that. But there is plenty that do want it done monthly even fortnightly so there is nothing to worry about for the average window cleaner, there is IMO a market for both. Indeed it could be copied on a smaller scale by all easily enough. I often take on one off cleans even though the customer has phoned every company in 20 miles, I just make sure I do it when it suits me as it is all money in the bank.
 
Although I am guilty of ignoring the messages sometimes as well when I should not. as I think lots of us have when we are busy.

But then again I keep trying to get away from domestic :

[James Leet]

So you offer customers the chance to have them cleaned when they feel like it  : :

Bang goes your regular work in the winter

Sounds about right for you

[gordonswindows]

Not quite sure what you mean James

Our business has been ten years in the making and I have worked the early years through all weathers including the sleet the snow and the ice

Our commercial clients want us each and every time no matter the weather conditions and I am proud to say that throughout the last winter we missed two days yes 2single days because of the weather and I am so proud of the team who struggled through the difficult days. You see as an employer these people rely upon me for their income, their families rely upon me having work ALL year.

Yet I come home and yet again some people are on here moaning "it's too cold" my van is frozen" "oh poor me" "it's not fair" so too suggest I won't be busy in the hard months (yeah right) is a bit unfair. Have you invented a way of heating the hoses off of a copper coil wrapped around the van' s exhaust system oh o ats right no it wasn't you IT WAS ME

Thank u

Gordon

[dazmond]

you sound like a switched on guy gordon and probably well above the "average joe bloggs"window cleaner on here!

your more of the businessman!a few of us could learn a lot off you if we tried!

[john@windows2clean]

I like the idea, but how have you priced over 19,000 homes? If it has been done from the road/street by foot or google streetview how would you know what is on the rear of a property, i.e extensions?

[Matt Gibson]

Email sent gordon 

[newbroom]

Fair play to you Gordon for being innovative and standing out from the crowd. Alot of W/Cs moan about how their customers percieve them and they don't get the respect they deserve.  Its a clever idea hope it works for you.

[windowswashed]

Have you invented a way of heating the hoses off of a copper coil wrapped around the van' s exhaust system oh o ats right no it wasn't you IT WAS ME

Gordon

Hello Gordon, when did you come up with the above idea?

[gordonswindows]

First tried it four years ago, itmwas a bit of hit and miss at first then got carried away with valves, air plates and all sorts

It works really well the trick is the thickness of the copper pipe how long the pipe is and of course how tight you wind it in the coil

Circulating the water as I drove took me a while to figure but you track the feed pipe and outlet pipe through a split a bit like the points on a railway and use our old friend gravity to keep it moving

Gordon

[bluez]

love it

well done, ching ching i think

[Crystal-clear]

At 6pm tonight we go live with click2clean the first true online window cleaning service

It will change window cleaning forever

Houses pre priced

Book online

Pay online

even add your gutter cleaning at a click of a button

and your conservatory

and this is just the begining

www.click2clean.co.uk

Gordon

Interesting

how much would you charge someone who requested a 3 bedroom semi no con to be cleaned at say 8pm (its 24h right)

one off clean does not want regular i guess it would be quite a bit more expensive otherwise regular customers might not stick?
 

[mci services]

Interesting

how much would you charge someone who requested a 3 bedroom semi no con to be cleaned at say 8pm (its 24h right)

one off clean does not want regular i guess it would be quite a bit more expensive otherwise regular customers might not stick?
 
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I don't think that is how it works. the customer accepts the quote and pays and then it is scheduled in for the next day or as soon as possible then cleaned, then the customer receives an email saying the job is completed. At least that is how I read it on the website.

[mikecam]

the local surveys we completed showed the most annoying thing for a customer is having money collected from their house.

 

[prestige cleaners]

cool idea, but i dont think it will work very well, i just tested it and asked for a gutter clean, and you have quoted £50 but you cant get to my top front gutter as there is a roof in the way. you would need roof ladders making the job a nightmare and adding hours on to the job. as well as that how do you know how many windows are around the back?

also not charging more for 1st cleans? are you mad or what? i think your being a mug doing that.

also £50 for a con roof clean! it could be massive and black with dirt and algae, you could be there 2 hrs!

its too hit and miss sorry, and you will be underpricing yourself loads.

[prestige cleaners]

sorry heres a link to my house

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&complete=0&q=1+Selkirk+Place+Perth,+PH1+1SH&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=1+Selkirk+Pl,+Perth+PH1+1SH,+UK&ei=UqGTTdCSL4aAhQfEzOH8CA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA

[gordonswindows]

Prestige thank you for your comments

I think you have had trouble understanding how it works

The core solutions are that we have already priced every house that we have on the system so ,your "massive" conservatory will come as no surprise to us, although to suggest "your"house has a massive conservatory is stretching things a little

As for access to difficult roofs your is not difficult in fact it is one of the easier in the scheme especially as we use the safe and efficient gutter vac from Omnipole

You are entitled to charge a high first clean price if that is the way you wish to run your business and as it must make you a lot of extra cash maybe advertising with sign writing on your van will bring in many more

I have checked with the license officer for the council and there seems to be some irregularities with your w/c license at that address so he has offered to visit you to clear up any problems

Gordon