[Klean07]

I'm thinking of putting my prices up next month but although I've done this many times before I'm not sure how much to put on my £25 plus ones. Any ideas?

[Klean07]

Oh dear

[8weekly]

It depends when you last put them up. Have a figure in mind for each property (assuming they are not ridiculously underpriced) and have several notes/rehearsed speeches about first increase in x years and it is 5%/7.5%/10% as appropriate.

[kempy]

If there well priced - do you need to
If not put them up recently then easily add a quid .

[8weekly]

If there well priced - do you need to
If not put them up recently then easily add a quid .

Yes, because if he doesn't put them up they won't stay well priced.
A "quid" on a £25+ house? 

[Klean07]

Okey dokey thanks.

[dazmond]

on £20 plus jobs i add £2.i have a fair few well priced houses that ive never put up in 5 years.ill be putting them up this year though.

lots of monthly estate bread and butter work will be going up a quid each account,some £2.

i have some commercial that will be going up a fiver.not many though.

at the end of the day we cant give you any advice on pricing as its individual to each business.

we all do what we want.

i put mine up in april.


regards


dazmond

[mike1986]

How often do you tend to raise your prices? I do mine about every 4 years, i would worry that people would get fed up if it went up slightly every year

[H20cleaning]

Can you afford to loose a couple of £25.00?
Im just thinking, you could put 10, £25.00 houses up £1.00 a month but then you could loose one or 2 so wouldnt be worth it.
Just a thought mate

[Pure Shine]

I find that a quud is suitable on all jobs every 2 years not had a problem yet lol .

[8weekly]

I find that a quud is suitable on all jobs every 2 years not had a problem yet lol .

on a £10-£15 job that seems ok. On a £30 job though you would effectively be cutting the price if you added £1 every 2 years.

[roundbuilder]

If your happy with the price of £25 then dont change it! I have priced 80 percent of my business £10 for fronts, i wont need to change those for anytime soon in the next 10 odd years and even then ill only need to put them up to £12 any new work gained ill i keep it as £10 front.
As for the whole houses i do which are mainly £12 £15 and £20 i will be putting them up a pound every few years to stay well priced.
My average price is only £12 which is low compared to many which is due to all the front only cleans i have however i have never had it so good and easy. 25 daily fronts takes me 4-5 hours to clean.
Pricing right at the start is the key i have found, if i underpriced all my work at £5 fronts then it would take a good 5/10 years to get them upto £10 by which will be year 2024 where prices then should be £12/15 making them always underpriced.

[dazmond]

£10 for fronts is very good mick.how many windows is that?is it work on main roads?

 if i got a row of them i reckon i could clean 8 an hour at £7 a pop(£56 an hour).im on about the terraced houses with big ground floor bay windows and awkward upper windows(if your a ladder man).

[roundbuilder]

However many windows there are on the house, yes many on main roads, some are 1 up or 1 down flats with a window and a door and some are detatched houses with 15 windows. I do any front for £10 which most take a matter of minutes but price accordinly for the whole house, terrace £12 semi £15 detatched or house with a connie £20 plus.
My £10 front rule is a winner for me as even the biggest of houses only take 10 mins to clean.
Another plus is i can do them with the backpack so no trailing hose in and out for each job unless i have 4 or more from one stop where i use the vanmount.

[gary999]

ideal domestic round...rows of fronts with no front gardens or drives

My average front price is £7,since Sir Michael of Kent put a post
up in the summer(i think) about fronts only,i have ried to concentrate
more on getting the victorian style house with poor access to the back

i do about 5/6 an hour where i have a few in a row,i reckon i could
do more but im not interested in working to hard

[roundbuilder]

Good on you gary, fronts is defo the best way to go for an easy short working day after day after day etc etc instead of the stressy long days to earn the same trailing hoses in and out of everywhere and everything getting the hump climbing over gates and gardens of dog poo.. No thank you.

[8weekly]

If your happy with the price of £25 then dont change it! I have priced 80 percent of my business £10 for fronts, i wont need to change those for anytime soon in the next 10 odd years and even then ill only need to put them up to £12 any new work gained ill i keep it as £10 front.

Let's hope none of your staff expect a pay rise over that period.

Honestly, that is seriously flawed advice.

[roundbuilder]

If your happy with the price of £25 then dont change it! I have priced 80 percent of my business £10 for fronts, i wont need to change those for anytime soon in the next 10 odd years and even then ill only need to put them up to £12 any new work gained ill i keep it as £10 front.

Let's hope none of your staff expect a pay rise over that period.

Honestly, that is seriously flawed advice.

Depends how you look at it and what you want from your business and life, if like me you want to earn maximum money for minimum effort and minimum time meaning spending more time with family and doing the things i want instead of slogging away working all the hours under the sun then how i do it is spot on.
Most would charge £5-6 fronts which by putting them up 50p a year or a pound every few years would take 10 years to get to £10 fronts so pricing an amount a customer is willing to pay via selling the service correct in the first place is the iceing on a cake for a sucsessful window cleaning business. I have in my eyes the ultimate business for myself that i know will give me an easy and stress free life.
As for if staff wanting a pay rise, i pay on percentage so there is no problem.

with a name like 8 weekly you have your own ways of doing things which are totally different to mine prob by charging 25-50 percent more a clean but still needing double the customers to have a full round which i can never realy understand but i would never tell you the way you do it is flawed as that is damn right rude!.

[Soupy]

All that is well and good but to not put your price up in 10 YEARS is ludicrous!

EVERYTHING has gone up since 2004. EVERYTHING!!!

[ronnie paton]

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