[deeege]

There’s plenty of shiners up here still charging 1980’s prices. I live in a 1960’s semi in a nice part of town, local window cleaner cleans 2 weekly and charges £3.50 for I’d be charging £12. I can’t he’s earning £21k per year but that’s his choice for not valuing his service.

There’s also plenty that do value there own service and turn over £40k/£50k+ easily enough.

Don’t always believe  the people that say it’s impossible to make a good living up north, sometimes it’s just a matter of choice.

[Shrek]

350 £4 customers per month

[zesty]

21k?  That’s a laugh! I don’t get anywhere near that, after 30 years, and yes it’s my own business.

Is that trad or wfp?

[John Mart]

There’s plenty of shiners up here still charging 1980’s prices. I live in a 1960’s semi in a nice part of town, local window cleaner cleans 2 weekly and charges £3.50 for I’d be charging £12. I can’t he’s earning £21k per year but that’s his choice for not valuing his service.

There’s also plenty that do value there own service and turn over £40k/£50k+ easily enough.

Don’t always believe  the people that say it’s impossible to make a good living up north, sometimes it’s just a matter of choice.

There’s a guy on Facebook that moved from Oxford to Darlington and is charging the same prices as he did in Darlington and now has two vans. Adam his name is. I agree with you. It’s a mindset.

[dazmond]

21k?  That’s a laugh! I don’t get anywhere near that, after 30 years, and yes it’s my own business.

You must have rock bottom prices and do you only work 2 days a week?

[dazmond]

Local WC who used to clean my girlfriend's 4 bed house(until 6 months ago)was charging £4-50!!!absolutely crazy prices.....He s been window cleaning for many years too......

[RPCCS]

21k?  That’s a laugh! I don’t get anywhere near that, after 30 years, and yes it’s my own business.

Is that trad or wfp?

mostly wfp. I have been increasing prices for new jobs, but some need increasing still.

[RPCCS]

21k?  That’s a laugh! I don’t get anywhere near that, after 30 years, and yes it’s my own business.

You must have rock bottom prices and do you only work 2 days a week?

No I do not.  I charge around £6.50 for a council house, £7 for 3 bed semi.  Houses with conservatory about £10 and I work 5 days a week.

[zesty]

You should be earning a lot more RPWC, where do you live?

I suppose up north that’s probably an ok wage...

I’m in Essex and charge £20 for a 4 bed.

[nathankaye]

21k?  That’s a laugh! I don’t get anywhere near that, after 30 years, and yes it’s my own business.

You must have rock bottom prices and do you only work 2 days a week?

No I do not.  I charge around £6.50 for a council house, £7 for 3 bed semi.  Houses with conservatory about £10 and I work 5 days a week.

Why so low?
But saying that I still have some old prices similar to those still that are getting hiked up this tax year, so i will have very little under my ten pound minimum.   Ive been building a round up slowly and putting more effort into it this year where the prices are between 15 -20 every 4 wks. So when i hike the old ones up, if they want to call it a day, they can do so. 

[tlwcs]

21k is less than £90 a day over 48 weeks, that’s very poor money

[dazmond]

21k is less than £90 a day over 48 weeks, that’s very poor money

10 years ago this was me when I was trad.....in fact it was even less(around 18k a year)......

[dazmond]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

[Shrek]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

Joke 😂 - I’d of given up a long time ago if any of my customers were under £10 each 

[nathankaye]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

Yep, he only has 250 customers and used the wrong emoji, it was meant to be the crying face.
 

[dazmond]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

Joke 😂 - I’d of given up a long time ago if any of my customers were under £10 each 

Why?I still clean some jobs which are under £10 and turn over roughly £45k a year working part time hours....

[Shrek]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

Joke 😂 - I’d of given up a long time ago if any of my customers were under £10 each 

Why?I still clean some jobs which are under £10 and turn over roughly £45k a year working part time hours....

Mate I do this job to earn as much as I can in as least hours as possible. Having a minimum price helps me achieve this

[dazmond]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

Joke 😂 - I’d of given up a long time ago if any of my customers were under £10 each 

Why?I still clean some jobs which are under £10 and turn over roughly £45k a year working part time hours....

Mate I do this job to earn as much as I can in as least hours as possible. Having a minimum price helps me achieve this

i still clean some £5 fronts interspersed with my other cheap compact estate jobs...im still earning £40-£50 an hour on this work so im happy.....

[Shrek]

350 £4 customers per month

You 've got to be joking!......I hope?

Joke 😂 - I’d of given up a long time ago if any of my customers were under £10 each 

Why?I still clean some jobs which are under £10 and turn over roughly £45k a year working part time hours....

Mate I do this job to earn as much as I can in as least hours as possible. Having a minimum price helps me achieve this

i still clean some £5 fronts interspersed with my other cheap compact estate jobs...im still earning £40-£50 an hour on this work so im happy.....

What I’m saying is , if my prices were so low that I can’t even make 21k a year in my own business then what’s the flipping point. My uncle works for Royal Mail as a postie and takes home £600 a week

[NWH]

When I quote new jobs or price anything it’s irrelevent to me what another cleaner may have charged or was charging,I’ve had many jobs over the years when I’ve gone along to price a job given a price of say 35 when they’ve said the other WCleaner used to charge around 18 or 20.
Makes no difference to me at all what another WCleaner charges I want what I want for any particular job,I don’t agree with the prices being the same south of London though if you compare what you would get for the equivalent property down here I can’t see them going for what I want for a large house down south up North.
If your a city worker earning 2-300 thousand a year 80-100 for your Windows to be cleaned on your house ain’t the end of the world.