[Plankton]

My question is when buying fortnightly work what price should you pay. I only have 1 day which is cleaned every 2 weeks and the prices are lower than they should be, I took this work on one year ago and immediately increased the price by £0.50 and £1.00 but lost some as they thought £5.50 every 2 weeks was to dear for a detached house with an extension! So if rounds are going for 3 to 5 times the monthly take what should you pay for a round of 2 weekers average price £4.00 cleaned trad and to be converted to wfp.

[alfie11]

My opinion based on your prices, it has no resale value. Dump em all

[Plankton]

The £5.50 house should have been £10.00, the other houses in that area are smaller but the work I may look at is probably council 4 in a blocks at £4.00 per 2 weeks which if increased by 50p gives you a fair hourly rate when doing 2 blocks an hour with wfp

[alfie11]

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buying and maintaining a WFP set up (I buy something every week) but I do like online shopping and dislike people



You say £4 avg, you will end up working hard  being skint and end up disheartened.


Good luck

[Marc Stock]

Sorry mate Alfie 11 is right.

There is no resale value here, these customers are doing nothing but humouring you. Get rid of, no one is going to pay for that work.

There's no business sense in buying it.

[Plankton]

So if you can do £27 taking easy to £36 per hour on a council housing round and it was something you were to consider buying to put someone on it would you pay 3-5 times monthly value even though it's 2 weekly.

[PoleKing]

So if you can do £27 taking easy to £36 per hour on a council housing round and it was something you were to consider buying to put someone on it would you pay 3-5 times monthly value even though it's 2 weekly.

No. Cause that's 10 times the price.

[CLEANCARE WC]

Of course its worth something, you just have to find the right person, or the RIGHT price if your buying.

your not going to get any good advice unless someone who does 2 weekly posts, because most dont do it I imagine.

[Crystal-clear]

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You say £4 avg, you will end up working hard  being skint and end up disheartened.


Good luck

This is brilliant you actually were able to pretty much list everything

 

[Crystal-clear]

There is a reason why you wAna sell it cos there is alot of crap involved for £5 jobs why don't you employ someone on that estate and see how profitable it

Of why don't you just up them all to £12 monthly or something? Explain that its the same as fortnightly except you come once now you will loose a few but even if you keep 25% you won't be really worse off you will loose some income but a big difference in the hourly rate I personally prefer to drive from street to street for a £20 then do 4x under priced houses in a street

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You say £4 avg, you will end up working hard  being skint and end up disheartened.


Good luck

This is brilliant you actually were able to pretty much list everything

 

apart from the fact you can make a healthy profit turning over £27 ph+    

[Crystal-clear]

How do they pay that £27 do you have to collect if so add that time on
Small priced houses normally like to pay when they see you,
What's the managing side of things like

[danny mckim]

If I had the choice of 40 houses@ £5 or 1 massive job at £200, I'd take the 40 houses everytime. Unlikely anyone would undercut your £5 jobs, where as the £200 job would probably be gone to someone who would do it cheaper. So for all you guys who say this work is worthless, maybe yours should have a rethink

[Plankton]

Regarding overheads, I don't know of any job other than train drivers that you get picked up from your home by taxi to take you to work so for a large percentage of people that choose to work they will have many of the overheads that have been mentioned. Having Previously worked driving HGV's I would have to travel 25 miles across Glasgow to start work before you earn the going rate of an HGV driver who paid the best part of a couple grand for the privilege at a time specified by management. If you worked in an office you would be spending more than the price of a 22ft pole and resin (ppm from tap 36) on suits.
On the outskirts of Glasgow 2 weekly cleans are common and rounds local to myself are well priced and don't come up for sale they get passed down inbred families.
So if 2 weekly cleans were common in your area would expect to pay say 3 times the 2 weekly clean value or 3 times the monthly value.

[PoleKing]

If I had the choice of 40 houses@ £5 or 1 massive job at £200, I'd take the 40 houses everytime. Unlikely anyone would undercut your £5 jobs, where as the £200 job would probably be gone to someone who would do it cheaper. So for all you guys who say this work is worthless, maybe yours should have a rethink

Nah, 40 jobs @£5. All the paperwork, chasing, collecting etc etc.
10@£20 I'd take over 1@£200 but not 40...

[CLEANCARE WC]

Regarding overheads, I don't know of any job other than train drivers that you get picked up from your home by taxi to take you to work so for a large percentage of people that choose to work they will have many of the overheads that have been mentioned. Having Previously worked driving HGV's I would have to travel 25 miles across Glasgow to start work before you earn the going rate of an HGV driver who paid the best part of a couple grand for the privilege at a time specified by management. If you worked in an office you would be spending more than the price of a 22ft pole and resin (ppm from tap 36) on suits.
On the outskirts of Glasgow 2 weekly cleans are common and rounds local to myself are well priced and don't come up for sale they get passed down inbred families.
So if 2 weekly cleans were common in your area would expect to pay say 3 times the 2 weekly clean value or 3 times the monthly value.

so i got it right then?

[Plankton]

How do they pay that £27 do you have to collect if so add that time on
Small priced houses normally like to pay when they see you,
What's the managing side of things like

I prefer folks to pay online but in a scheme you or someone else will be chapping doors I'd say a third would be collected when cleaned. I've just as much % of hassle in new estates as my scheme work. The normal day for me is dropping someone in a street dotting 25l containers around and off I trot to work myself with the tank, at the end of the week we collect.

[CLEANCARE WC]

Im the only person who has tried to answer your question which turns out you already knew the answer to, and im the only person you have'nt acknowledged! 

[PoleKing]

Im the only person who has tried to answer your question which turns out you already knew the answer to, and im the only person you have'nt acknowledged! 

Feeling a bit neglected fella?

Doesn't pay to be sensible on here.

[CLEANCARE WC]

Im the only person who has tried to answer your question which turns out you already knew the answer to, and im the only person you have'nt acknowledged! 

Feeling a bit neglected fella?

Doesn't pay to be sensible on here.

Im a bit sensative tonight  At least an acknowledgement would of been nice