[chris turner]

I'd say about 300 customers is the ideal amount for 1 man, 400+ would be considered large. But it really depends on the areas worked. 400 customers on a council estate, although a large round, would not generate as much income as 200 houses in an upmarket area.
Plus the wealthier customers always want all the 'add ons' each year and are happy to pay top dollar for it..

[8weekly]

I'd say about 300 customers is the ideal amount for 1 man, 400+ would be considered large. But it really depends on the areas worked. 400 customers on a council estate, although a large round, would not generate as much income as 200 houses in an upmarket area.
Plus the wealthier customers always want all the 'add ons' each year and are happy to pay top dollar for it..

I reckon 400 would be too much for one assuming a good mix of houses, well priced and a proper job done - 4 weekly that is.

[Scrimble]

My round is 8 weekly, I have 260 residential customers and 13 commercial.
I do around 8-9 houses a day, 4 days a week, with a couple of commercial jobs each week.
And I thought I was overworking myself

just over one house an hour average? yea really overworking yourself

I would say a large round cannot be cleaned by a sole trader employing is the only option,  a couple of hundred customers is still only small, where as thousands is large

[Mick Kent]

The amount of customers doesn't matter! Its all about what your round is worth a month.
In our game these days pulling a grand a week in is common practice!  its simply 100x£10 houses a week or 50x£20 houses a week or if lucky 20x£50 houses a week to clean. All add up to a grand but with totally different customer amounts.

[Scrimble]

ok mick how much in turn over per week would you consider to be enough to say you have a large round?

[Mick Kent]

What i wrote above. A grand a week id class as a large enough round. A round never gets sold on the amount of customers, its always based on the total.

[p1w1]

The amount of customers doesn't matter! Its all about what your round is worth a month.
In our game these days pulling a grand a week in is common practice!  its simply 100x£10 houses a week or 50x£20 houses a week or if lucky 20x£50 houses a week to clean. All add up to a grand but with totally different customer amounts.

totally agree, the whole x amount of customers really doesn't matter.

[Smudger]

As with Mick, numbers are not a measure of a round, property sizes, frequency, all vary, turnover p/w ( or total per cycle ) and large turnover may not mean large profits either.

Darran

[cgh window cleaning]

I agree It is all down to individual price.
Spoke with a window cleaner last year who said he had over 600 houses a month but his prices on average where a 1/3 less than what I charge .

400+ customers a month for a sole trader is what I would consider large or any one running multiple vans full time on mainly residential.

There was a bloke that use to come on here pryors window cleaning who I think had a  large mainly residential round 4  or 5 vans with well priced work.