[EandM]

I do. Never get around to cleaning my own windows as I can always find an excuse not to. I started cleaning a friends house, who was a trad, to show him what WFP could do in about 4 mins unlike his trad cleaning of his own house, (some 3 storey stuff, multipane windows etc), which took him about half an hour when he could get motivated enough. He went WFP and picked up his neighbours houses but didn't want them so swapped some local work with me. Upshot is, I clean his house and he cleans mine. Seems to work well too.

Anyone else do this?

[Jackal]

no i got rid of my window cleaner pretty much straight away when i moved in my house about 6 years ago before i was a windy,im in a small 2 bed but got small conny but you cant get round the backs unless your slim-ish as theres a garage aswell,he was charging £5 for 2 front windows 2 windows at the side (bathroom ones) which i thought and still do think is a p*ss take

[Johnny B]

How much would you charge then Jackal? Serious question.

John

[tacky]

how big were front windows .

[Jackal]

my rate is 75p per window,cant get away with £1 a window round my way

 i proberly just say £3.50 tho for the 4 windows,and charge £3 for my conny (small) i can clean mine in 15 mins including conny, he would of been here  5 mins,i lost a job the other day i was charging £6 got undercut @ £4

[Jackal]

how big were front windows .

cant really say how big but pretty standard size,just what ud expect really not bays

[George Gardner]

my rate is 75p per window,cant get away with £1 a window round my way

 i proberly just say £3.50 tho for the 4 windows,and charge £3 for my conny (small) i can clean mine in 15 mins including conny, he would of been here  5 mins,i lost a job the other day i was charging £6 got undercut @ £4

Thought a quid a window was the going rate nationwide.

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

if u can get a £1 a window in stoke
il av all the work there
every windy i know is in the boozer at 1pm 

[Ian101]

yes ..... me and i do them once every 3 months whether they need it or not 

[Smudger]

NO,   and i do mine.... er, um - well sometimes when the mrs gets on my case...  :

We could not get a windy around here for love nor money, that was i of the deciding factors about starting
up the biz.

Darran

[Jackal]

my rate is 75p per window,cant get away with £1 a window round my way

 i proberly just say £3.50 tho for the 4 windows,and charge £3 for my conny (small) i can clean mine in 15 mins including conny, he would of been here  5 mins,i lost a job the other day i was charging £6 got undercut @ £4

Thought a quid a window was the going rate nationwide.

another one then  street of ex councils iv got about 8 houses, theres about 40 houses in street,i charge £6 each monthly,other windys are charging £4 and a women next door to one i clean has said hers charges £2.50 for the last 10 years  

gav lammy knows how poop the prices can be in stoke thats why he left  ,

there are places (nice estates) that you can charge more,but i feel im at the highest prices i can go with @ 75p as even some of the ones i price now i dont get them

[AuRavelling79]

You need to value yourself more highly Jackal.

[roundbuilder]

I have a trad guy do mine for a fiver a month front n back. it comes up much better than my wfp lol. 

[Jackal]

You need to value yourself more highly Jackal.

prehaps your right mate i dont no,but some lads on here need to realise that other areas of the country can get better prices,for instance ian101 has a min of £10 and takes loads on at £12 there is no chance i could do that i would be charging more than double the going rate for my area,by the way im trad,but cant see how i could charge £10 when others are £4,5,6, i could proberly get them on bi-monthly for that "maybe"

iv got alot of compact £5-6 jobs normal semi's and i no if i tryed to push them up by a £1 id lose alot the following few months after,and i dont like the idea of losing my compact work as i class this as my bread and butter,my plan is to keep taking more work on and start offering bi monthly aswell as monthly then slowly offer bi monthly to my existing customers at 40% extra,(when i take a new monthly on then offer 1 of my other custys bi-monthly)

[Blue Frog Systems]

Why i left Stoke too moved and set up else where

Its over saturated with window cleaners. My brother set up a round, but gave it up in the end as the pricing was crap and all over the place.

[Stephen Dwyer]

I live with my parents so don't actually have my own house but I always clean the windows where I live usually every 4-6 weeks. 

[Helen]

my rate is 75p per window,cant get away with £1 a window round my way

 i proberly just say £3.50 tho for the 4 windows,and charge £3 for my conny (small) i can clean mine in 15 mins including conny, he would of been here  5 mins,i lost a job the other day i was charging £6 got undercut @ £4

Yes, but you don't have the overheads involved when you clean your own, so of course your rate would be much better than asking another Wc'er to do it for you

[bad trippy]

I has a window cleaner, tis my Mrs 

[Johnny B]

I clean my own, but I'm thinking of sacking myself, 'cos I'm so unreliable.

John.

[supernova77]

When we moved into our new place at the beginning of March the windows were filthy, really really bad... I took about 1.5 hours (3 bed semi) cleaning them inside and out - But I haven't touched them since! 

Andy