[Sean Dyer]

First one £50 6-weekly, £75 12-weekly

Second one £75 6-weekly, £115 12-weekly

Southern England

Vin

Does it include the gutters fascias and soffits to ?
That cant be for real?

[Window Lickers]

Obviously in someone's bonce it is  

Even if there's no more than 35 minutes in that second house every 12 weeks

[Sean Dyer]

some guys here must be earning some serious wonga
My prices seem ridiculous to the majority on here
Yet only working 5 days this week and only doing £80 tuesday i did just shy of 1k, i didnt do more than 7 hrs on anyone one day either in fact much less most of the time -with very average pricing , so if i had the prices quoted here id be doing 2k a week , yet no one is doing that so  either you all work about 1 hr a day or theres mountains of bull crap being spouted as fact

[Window Lickers]

The stench can be quite overwhelming at times.

[Window Lickers]

I don't know if it's just odd or coincidental but bull$hit and trying to be the big cheese smell remarkably similar.

[Sean Dyer]

yeh true ... i get that theres a north south difference but i dont think its as pronounced as everyone thinks as theres affluent areas everywhere ... I get the same prices in affluent areas as i do in Oldham where i live

How you can justify anymore than £15, £20 max if its in some gold plated estate? for that first house ? 10 windows and 2 doors?

If your pricing was more realistic alot of you would have more compact work and save money not driving huge distances between the mugs paying you these ridiculous sums !

[Window Lickers]

Their pricing is more realistic - just not on here.


If someone stood in front of me, assuming I owned that second property, and told me it would be £115 to clean the windows on it I don't know if I'd laugh or cry.

[Sean Dyer]

Their pricing is more realistic - just not on here.


If someone stood in front of me, assuming I owned that second property, and told me it would be £115 to clean the windows on it I don't know if I'd laugh or cry.

Id cry laughing lol , id at least want a hand job thrown in with that one

[Window Lickers]

Lol.

[Window Lickers]

Ask him, I'm sure he'll oblige, probably do most things for that kind of money.  

[Clever Forum Name]

Best thread I have seen in ages.

Picked one up today. Same as house 1. Every 5/6 weeks and it's gonna be £16

When I do the first clean. I will show her this thread and some of the prices quoted. See what she makes of it.

Once she has stopped laughing I will get what she thinks her house should be priced at. She was happy at £16. For me it's a 10/15 min house.

You don't have to dig very far. £400 a day. Not vat registered. Tiny house. 12 year old van. Clx held together with tape.

The guys who are doing well are the ones who don't come on here. Own more than one house. And drive round in new vans.

[PoleKing]

Best thread I have seen in ages.

Picked one up today. Same as house 1. Every 5/6 weeks and it's gonna be £16

When I do the first clean. I will show her this thread and some of the prices quoted. See what she makes of it.

Once she has stopped laughing I will get what she thinks her house should be priced at. She was happy at £16. For me it's a 10/15 min house.

You don't have to dig very far. £400 a day. Not vat registered. Tiny house. 12 year old van. Clx held together with tape.

The guys who are doing well are the ones who don't come on here. Own more than one house. And drive round in new vans.

Fella I knew who did extremely well out of shining was driving round in an R reg Nissan Vanette a few years ago when he packed up.
It's a fact-you just can't tell how much money people make.
Even the lads on here who worry about spending 50p on a connector or whatever.
Maybe they can afford it but their careful with their pennies. That's why they've got pennies.
My brother (not a shiner) is just this type-just for example

[Clever Forum Name]

Best thread I have seen in ages.

Picked one up today. Same as house 1. Every 5/6 weeks and it's gonna be £16

When I do the first clean. I will show her this thread and some of the prices quoted. See what she makes of it.

Once she has stopped laughing I will get what she thinks her house should be priced at. She was happy at £16. For me it's a 10/15 min house.

You don't have to dig very far. £400 a day. Not vat registered. Tiny house. 12 year old van. Clx held together with tape.

The guys who are doing well are the ones who don't come on here. Own more than one house. And drive round in new vans.

Fella I knew who did extremely well out of shining was driving round in an R reg Nissan Vanette a few years ago when he packed up.
It's a fact-you just can't tell how much money people make.
Even the lads on here who worry about spending 50p on a connector or whatever.
Maybe they can afford it but their careful with their pennies. That's why they've got pennies.
My brother (not a shiner) is just this type-just for example

There will be a few who are an exception to the rule.

[supernova77]

yeh true ... i get that theres a north south difference but i dont think its as pronounced as everyone thinks as theres affluent areas everywhere ... I get the same prices in affluent areas as i do in Oldham where i live

How you can justify anymore than £15, £20 max if its in some gold plated estate? for that first house ? 10 windows and 2 doors?

If your pricing was more realistic alot of you would have more compact work and save money not driving huge distances between the mugs paying you these ridiculous sums !

Believe it or not I do charge £23 for the first house.

Shock! Horror!

Why is that a ridiculous sum?

The property is in a rural village in Hampshire... The rent per month is £1100... The customer runs her own IT business, owns horses etc... So paying £23 for her windows to be cleaned every 7 weeks isn't an issue at all - It's all relative.

I also have other houses in the same village - so I'm not driving around all day... It's compact work.

However - I don't do 7 hours on the glass all day every day... I'm currently trying to expand - so I probably only do 15 - 20 hours on the glass time a week - the rest of the time I'm canvassing and quoting new work and scheduling work in for the other van.

Andy

[Window Lickers]

yeh true ... i get that theres a north south difference but i dont think its as pronounced as everyone thinks as theres affluent areas everywhere ... I get the same prices in affluent areas as i do in Oldham where i live

How you can justify anymore than £15, £20 max if its in some gold plated estate? for that first house ? 10 windows and 2 doors?

If your pricing was more realistic alot of you would have more compact work and save money not driving huge distances between the mugs paying you these ridiculous sums !

Believe it or not I do charge £23 for the first house.

Shock! Horror!

Why is that a ridiculous sum?

The property is in a rural village in Hampshire... The rent per month is £1100... The customer runs her own IT business, owns horses etc... So paying £23 for her windows to be cleaned every 7 weeks isn't an issue at all - It's all relative.

I also have other houses in the same village - so I'm not driving around all day... It's compact work.

However - I don't do 7 hours on the glass all day every day... I'm currently trying to expand - so I probably only do 15 - 20 hours on the glass time a week - the rest of the time I'm canvassing and quoting new work and scheduling work in for the other van.

Andy

I do t think he was refering to your pricing Andy, more the extortionate claims on here by others.

Just re-read, well maybe 

[PoleKing]

yeh true ... i get that theres a north south difference but i dont think its as pronounced as everyone thinks as theres affluent areas everywhere ... I get the same prices in affluent areas as i do in Oldham where i live

How you can justify anymore than £15, £20 max if its in some gold plated estate? for that first house ? 10 windows and 2 doors?

If your pricing was more realistic alot of you would have more compact work and save money not driving huge distances between the mugs paying you these ridiculous sums !

Believe it or not I do charge £23 for the first house.

Shock! Horror!

Why is that a ridiculous sum?

The property is in a rural village in Hampshire... The rent per month is £1100... The customer runs her own IT business, owns horses etc... So paying £23 for her windows to be cleaned every 7 weeks isn't an issue at all - It's all relative.

I also have other houses in the same village - so I'm not driving around all day... It's compact work.

However - I don't do 7 hours on the glass all day every day... I'm currently trying to expand - so I probably only do 15 - 20 hours on the glass time a week - the rest of the time I'm canvassing and quoting new work and scheduling work in for the other van.

Andy

Why are you running 2 vans when the first van only has 2 days a week?

[supernova77]

Why are you running 2 vans when the first van only has 2 days a week?

We have a LWB Vivaro which does the bulk of the work 5 days a week.

Then I'm in a Citroen Dispatch which I use to carry out first cleans - and how else would I get around to canvass and quote?

It would be impossible to build up a business big enough to run 2 vans 5 days a week without buying a 2nd van first... How would you clean new customers etc.. if the first van was busy all week on regular work?

Andy

[Mick Kent]

yeh true ... i get that theres a north south difference but i dont think its as pronounced as everyone thinks as theres affluent areas everywhere ... I get the same prices in affluent areas as i do in Oldham where i live

How you can justify anymore than £15, £20 max if its in some gold plated estate? for that first house ? 10 windows and 2 doors?

If your pricing was more realistic alot of you would have more compact work and save money not driving huge distances between the mugs paying you these ridiculous sums !

Cleaning £400 a day is only 20x£20 houses or 30x£15 houses.
Guys who have full rounds who havnt shy'd away from price rising should be able to hit decent numbers if working a full day! If working at a normal steady lace of 4 houses an hour then thats 5 hours to clean £400, Even if slow doing 3 houses an hour at £20 a house in 7 hours thats £420.
Maybe not everyday due to weather but when its a clear normal day i think everyone of us are capable of cleaning 20 plus normal sized houses a day so if you have half decent prices then it is quite doable.

[SeanK]

Sorry Mick but lets take your post for an example, how many low skilled jobs could get £400 a day
in any part of the country north or south ?
How many people would jump at window cleaning if the money was that good or even half as good ?
I mean its no longer a dangerous way to earn a living which was part of the reason that a lot of people
would have never even considered doing it for a living.
Mick Kent and others on here seem to live in a world where there's gold in window cleaning but the rest of the
population haven't caught on to this fact.
I mean look closer at his post, all you would need to do is work 20 hours a week to earn 50 grand or more a year.
Or one and a half days a week to more than beat the U.K. average yearly wage.

[8weekly]

Sorry Mick but lets take your post for an example, how many low skilled jobs could get £400 a day
in any part of the country north or south ?
How many people would jump at window cleaning if the money was that good or even half as good ?
I mean its no longer a dangerous way to earn a living which was part of the reason that a lot of people
would have never even considered doing it for a living.
Mick Kent and others on here seem to live in a world where there's gold in window cleaning but the rest of the
population haven't caught on to this fact.
I mean look closer at his post, all you would need to do is work 20 hours a week to earn 50 grand or more a year.
Or one and a half days a week to more than beat the U.K. average yearly wage.

It isn't a low skilled job. You are running a business. Your thinking holds you back.