[Kurtv]

Hi all. I have been asked to go and price up  a pub tomorrow where a freind works . I only do residential and am not sure how to go about this , could anyone give me any advice  please ?
Its insides and outs.

[Splash & dash]

Hi all. I have been asked to go and price up  a pub tomorrow where a freind works . I only do residential and am not sure how to go about this , could anyone give me any advice  please ?
Its insides and outs.

Look at how long it will take you and work out what you want to earn and you have your prices  personally I would charge more for that than a domestic , but it would also depend on frequency of the clean but ultimately it’s up to you .

[adman]

Pubs tend to want a cheap price round here

[NWH]

No money in cleaning pubs for the time they take they won’t pay enough for it,I see guys I know doing the pubs around the areas I clean and they all work for well under what most other windies charge.
Saw one last week he was there from 8-11ish when I drove back past the place,a pub won’t pay what most will want for 3 hours.

[windowswashed]

Price how you would for a normal job for the outsides and half as much again to double for insides. If you get it great, if you don't no big deal.

[Granny]

At least there is the smoking ban now.
Before that inside pubs was a horrible thing to do

[EandM]

Typically five pints for the outside and up to ten for the inside.

[NWH]

Price how you would for a normal job for the outsides and half as much again to double for insides. If you get it great, if you don't no big deal.

That wouldn’t work in certain areas people spending 2-3 hours cleaning pubs in and out for 60 notes

[deeege]

There’s still plenty of Pub/restaurants that are willing to pay decent money for decent window cleaning.

Go and take a look and provide your price, worst that can happen is they say no. Just be aware that you’re probably not going to be able to clean the insides in the morning as the landlord will likely be asleep or not on site.

I do a few Pubs still and earn very good money from them.

[Kurtv]

Thanks guys . I went to look at it today. Theres 50 windows that are all little squares apart from few doors . Theres 521 little squares. Would really appreciate if anyone can tell me what kind of figure I'm looking at ?

[NWH]

It’s tricky some pubs like it done every week you could do the busy areas more often and do the other parts say once a month,it might give you a better price for you’re time as they don’t like to pay what you may think.
Chain pubs won’t pay the rate you may get on houses.

[NWH]

The trouble with commercial stuff like this is that you are tied to it if it’s weekly you’ve got to be there and make sure you do it like I say every week,years ago I would have taken it on but I don’t want that kind of commitment to frequency these days I like to think some weeks-days sod it I’ll go there today but it’s not so easy with stuff like that it’s got to be done.

[Ched]

Thanks guys . I went to look at it today. Theres 50 windows that are all little squares apart from few doors . Theres 521 little squares. Would really appreciate if anyone can tell me what kind of figure I'm looking at ?

It depends on you in a big way - it's your business. Do you think you could do 1 window a minute? If so an hours work! So charge at 2 x your hourly rate.

[NWH]

Even if the landlord goes for the price it’s head office that will cull you if and when they look at expenditure,they won’t pay decent money most of the time it always ends up coming back to the same thing stick to domestics on the majority they are more dependable in more difficult times,pubs and such like will drop you like a bad habit.

[cat9921]

Its insides and outs.

£50

[Bungle]

Its insides and outs.

£50

🥴

[Slacky]

Its insides and outs.

£50

He'd get the outside done for that.

If they want a decent job doing rubbing kid snot off 520 interior Georgian panes they can expect to pay out a full day for it ta.

[NWH]

Forget the panes how many windows are there

[dazmond]

I used to clean a few pubs years ago...they used to be a nightmare to clean the insides due to cigarettes...also a lot of the time the landlord wasn't around to pay me in the morning so I'd have to call back for the money...

Despite these things not being an issue these days I probably wouldn't take the job on personally as I don't like cleaning inside windows

[NWH]

You can’t get enough for em you’ll earn more cleaning houses in the time they takes  smoking or no smoking these days.

[deeege]

You can’t get enough for em you’ll earn more cleaning houses in the time they takes  smoking or no smoking these days.

No, YOU can’t get enough for them.

I do very well out of my 3 pub/restaurants. All are cleaned before 8am (which suits me fine), all are paid online within a week of the clean and all being in a good chunk more per hour than my best paying domestic work does (which is already a very healthy rate)

Just because YOU can’t make something work Nigel, doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Please stop assuming everybody has the same limitations as YOU do.

[Slacky]

Please stop assuming everybody has the same limitations as YOU do.

He CAN'T, this is where the problem originates.

[Smudger]

Here it comes……




The ridiculous   answer with lots of lol’s

Darran

[Soupy]

How to price the window cleaning  for a pub:

[NWH]

You clean a pub and it takes I don’t know 20 minutes half hour outside go in and do a few insides in the bar area,if you make as much as you can get on houses crack on with that coz I wouldn’t be.
If you are getting similar how long do you think that’ll take to get round the pub if it’s a local one,I can hear it now you’ll never guess what the window cleaner wants for an hour and half’s work and yeah I’ll finish this off with a lol coz I think in this case it’s a valid one.

[the king]

At least there is the smoking ban now.
Before that inside pubs was a horrible thing to do

i had some domestic work that were as bad as old days in pubs don't see it these days as much thankfully 🙄

[windowswashed]

I clean dreaded lead's on a pub with wfp (easy peasy), but only the outsides plus three holiday homes tied in with the pub next to it. It's profitable otherwise I wouldn't do it.

[Kurtv]

Gonna go give him a price tmrw. I'm thinking 50 windows = £150 . This reasonable ?

[@Woking Windows]

I clean about 8 pubs between £40-60 pounds per pub every 2 ish weeks. This is in Surrey. If you come to me and said you wanted £150 every 2 weeks I would politely decline

[AuRavelling79]

I clean about 8 pubs between £40-60 pounds per pub every 2 ish weeks. This is in Surrey. If you come to me and said you wanted £150 every 2 weeks I would politely decline

How long per pub does it take, on the average?

[@Woking Windows]

Approximately 2 hours per pub. Not the best in price but when you have a few it all adds up. Plus I get in early when the cleaners are in and get done by 9am. Good start to the day.

[AuRavelling79]

Approximately 2 hours per pub. Not the best in price but when you have a few it all adds up. Plus I get in early when the cleaners are in and get done by 9am. Good start to the day.

I understand this. Sometimes when you work at times you otherwise wouldn't (early/awful weather) it's not a bad idea. I used to have (before Covid put paid to their business) a job that was an early start and largely indoors and importantly I could largely turn up on any day without notice. It worked well for me.

[NWH]

I used to find them an inconvenience tbh having to do them on time every time I much prefer to be free to do more or less what jobs I want from week to week,the only time I’ll tie myself down is if I’m doing domestics that take a day or a morning clean and get paid within a few days at most.
When you’ve only been in this job a few years you’ll take anything more or less until when you’ve been at it longer you look back and think better of it,a new manger comes in etc you’re out can’t be doing with stuff like this.

[AuRavelling79]

I used to find them an inconvenience tbh having to do them on time every time I much prefer to be free to do more or less what jobs I want from week to week,the only time I’ll tie myself down is if I’m doing domestics that take a day or a morning clean and get paid within a few days at most.
When you’ve only been in this job a few years you’ll take anything more or less until when you’ve been at it longer you look back and think better of it,a new manger comes in etc you’re out can’t be doing with stuff like this.

I avoid pubs and shops for this reason. Covid has also taught me to not rely too heavily on commercials either. Glass is glass - make it work for you. (Or me, or someone else)

[NWH]

That’s the thing just because you can get in there early means nothing really or at least should do,all the time you clean a window you want to be getting what you would be doing your regular stuff just because it’s early work is not a good enough reason for me to want to do them.
Once the manager realises you earn more for an hours work than he gets for a day you’ll be down the road,seen it all too often  I do the odd commercial that I’ve done for years and it’s not because it’s an early start.

[Smudger]

I agree there in fact if it’s an early start or odd hours you should be charging a premium

Darran

[Splash & dash]

Never thought I would say this but NHW is right £40-60 for two hours work doing pubs is madness earn far more doing easy domestic 9-5 .

[@Woking Windows]

You maybe right, It could been seen as madness but I see it a different way. Let’s just say I have 5 pubs at £40 each and I do them every 2 weeks that’s £80 per month per pub. That’s £400 per month for easy work when I’m up early anyway. Going back to the topic, good luck to the man who puts in a quote for £150 and I hope you get it 👍🏼

[NWH]

I stopped doing jobs like this because it wasn’t worth it even though it was regular,they don’t all let you in early either I used to do a couple and I couldn’t start until 8 at the earliest by the time I’d got away I’d done peanuts to what I could do cleaning domestics.
Like I say a lot of pubs if you quote what’s right compared to what you’ll earn doing domestics you’ll never get any down most parts of the south,a lot I see doing them are trad only or work just to top up their pension.

[NWH]

I see a chap that cleans 3 pubs he just uses scrim only hasn’t got a squeegee uses 1 damp and 1 dry,that’s got to be worth a lol 🤣🥲

[deeege]

Never thought I would say this but NHW is right £40-60 for two hours work doing pubs is madness earn far more doing easy domestic 9-5 .

Nigel said that all pubs are not worth cleaning long before the Woking chap told us his £20-£30ph price.

There’s plenty of pub/restaurant work out there paying considerably more than that, if you are capable of upselling yourself and offering a quality service, which Nigel clearly isn’t.

[Splash & dash]

Never thought I would say this but NHW is right £40-60 for two hours work doing pubs is madness earn far more doing easy domestic 9-5 .

Nigel said that all pubs are not worth cleaning long before the Woking chap told us his £20-£30ph price.

There’s plenty of pub/restaurant work out there paying considerably more than that, if you are capable of upselling yourself and offering a quality service, which Nigel clearly isn’t.

We used to do quite a few pubs but  over the  years prices have gone down by ones undercutting just like shops in our area so we don’t do many now we do have a few restaurants but the money isn’t great funny this post has come up as I have been thinking about dropping them several are owned by TV celebrate chefs and ones like the prestige of saying they clean xxx windows so go in cheap  .

[NWH]

Commercial jobs are done for a fraction of what they were 10-15 years ago and that’s a fact,you could start at 5 and by 11 you’d done 2 days money almost.
I can remember a woman stopping
Me and saying you want to get into commercial window cleaning that’s where the money is my husband only cleans commercial,that’s was in about 2007 a year later he was cleaning houses,all that glitters is not always gold an old boy told me once how true that is apart from the gold bezel on my Breitling  🤣🤣

[deeege]

Commercial jobs are done for a fraction of what they were 10-15 years ago and that’s a fact.

Is that really  a fact? I was in business 11 years ago and I clean quite a few commercial now that I did then. Every single one of them the price has been increased even when taking inflation into account.

You are talking bollox as usual. 

[windowswashed]

New window cleaners charge silly prices trying to obtain new work and quite often those that have taken on new employees trying to fill their rounds. That's the joys of the internet opening up the scope for new people wishing to get into this game since wfp.  Quite often get asked by recommendations to clean where splash and dash outfits were working because of poor results  from charging too little a lot and the customers get a shock when I tell them my price but they stick with me when they realise I do a proper job without cutting corners.

I have my pricing  rate which I stick to regardless of location, the size or type of property and won't budge on pricing.  Certain places and types of property I won't entertain for all the money in the world as I know what works and what doesn't from experience.

[Slacky]

Commercial jobs are done for a fraction of what they were 10-15 years ago and that’s a fact.

Is that really  a fact? I was in business 11 years ago and I clean quite a few commercial now that I did then. Every single one of them the price has been increased even when taking inflation into account.

You are talking bollox as usual.

Absolutely.

[NWH]

Up sell my Ar** it ain’t worth the trouble my boy better money doing houses,I could very well say get some decent domestics you must have low paying ones if you can make better money messing about cleaning windows on pubs these days.

[NWH]

If you did a pub and charged £70-80 notes and was there half hour 40 minutes they’d think off you go,if you did the same on domestics they might not bat 🦇 an eyelid I think I’ll stick with the sleeping bats 🦇 far less Agro from some jumped up teenager managing a chain pub.

[deeege]

If you did a pub and charged £70-80 notes and was there half hour 40 minutes they’d think off you go.

I have cleaned a pub/restaurant every 3 weeks for the last 10 years pal, it’s £80 and takes exactly an hour.  So  far I’ve outlasted 4 different managers.

So yet again you are wrong.

[NWH]

Well you must be cleaning pubs that the manager has no say in expenditure I’m not saying you don’t have decent pubs you clean fair play to you look at it generally,pubs in villages and towns that are independent won’t pay 70-80 an hour.

[Slacky]

Well you must be cleaning pubs that the manager has no say in expenditure I’m not saying you don’t have decent pubs you clean fair play to you look at it generally,pubs in villages and towns that are independent won’t pay 70-80 an hour.

I’d imagine it’s the opposite of that.

[NWH]

If I was mainly commercial I’d be walking on egg shells 🐚 at the moment they don’t cut back on the frequency of a clean if they go you go end of,I’ve been cleaning windows through 3 recessions domestically every time I’ve lost little to no work,my advise to someone taking on commercial would be look at it as a bonus price well above what you normally would it’s not bread and butter work. 

[NWH]

I’d like to see you clean a pub on a regular basis be there 1-5- 2 hours and give him an invoice for 160 notes 🤣🤣,must be a pub on a cloud and all the locals are wearing shrouds lol.

[NWH]

I see window cleaners doing shops 1 particular 1 every single Friday 🤒 that’s every single Friday he’s there working from 1 end to the other for not great money,can’t think of anything worse than thinking every Friday is taken up with the exact same jobs I bet they even get fed up with him.
Thing I love about pubs and shops is that they think they can pay you whenever they fancy lol.

[deeege]

You’re just making yourself look daft now pal. I’ve shown you that it’s possible and now you’re moving the goalposts. Give it up.

[NWH]

Keep you’re pubs m8 good on ya.

[AuRavelling79]

Keep you’re pubs m8 good on ya.

Shut up please.

[james peters]

I see window cleaners doing shops 1 particular 1 every single Friday 🤒 that’s every single Friday he’s there working from 1 end to the other for not great money,can’t think of anything worse than thinking every Friday is taken up with the exact same jobs I bet they even get fed up with him.
Thing I love about pubs and shops is that they think they can pay you whenever they fancy lol.

I do a few village shops and petrol stations where I have houses to clean,  some are one window , one door , and I charge £10
takes about 5 mins from start to finish including payment. why wouldnt I want to do them ?
I do a pub in a country village next door to several domestics  £25 takes 20 mins why wouldnt I want to do it?

you see Nigel . you cant comprehend  the area I live in
I have a 4 bed detatched, seperate garage , drive , and nice size garden. I am very close to a national park with fantastic views .
I couldnt by a tin box in your area of the country for what my house cost.
so I dont need to get £80 an hour . or whatever it is you seem to earn.

I would also like you to explain how you arent vat registered? I would be way over it at your prices.
I have asked this before but you have avoided it .

[KS Cleaning]

If I was mainly commercial I’d be walking on egg shells 🐚 at the moment they don’t cut back on the frequency of a clean if they go you go end of,I’ve been cleaning windows through 3 recessions domestically every time I’ve lost little to no work,my advise to someone taking on commercial would be look at it as a bonus price well above what you normally would it’s not bread and butter work.

Oh dear, that’s a funny looking eggshell🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Splash & dash]

If I was mainly commercial I’d be walking on egg shells 🐚 at the moment they don’t cut back on the frequency of a clean if they go you go end of,I’ve been cleaning windows through 3 recessions domestically every time I’ve lost little to no work,my advise to someone taking on commercial would be look at it as a bonus price well above what you normally would it’s not bread and butter work.

Oh dear, that’s a funny looking eggshell🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes more like a sea shell 😂😂😂😂😂

[the king]

As long as your happy with your price and work crack on and injoy

[cgh window cleaning]

I still clean a bit of retail work some in a shopping centre it's a lovely bit of work especially in the winter.

I've had it for years even with a change of managers most are actually very loyal.I've even had some work off nationals for over 10 years so to say they get shot for cheaper or new managers is simply not true.

You can't claim there's no money in it, it's down to what you can or can't get but some do very, very well out of it.The largest uk window cleaning company clean loads of retail and he turns over a huge amount.

[EandM]

I did clean restaurants for a couple of TV Chefs and found it on the whole very lucrative.

My favourite one worked out at around £100 per hour which the manager thought was extremely cheap - it did involve a lot of glass mind.
Did the job for a few years until the unmentionable virus came along and wound up the business - shame really as the manager was a decent guy.

[NWH]

Tom Kerridge was it.

[EandM]

Tom Kerridge was it.

Never heard of him, had to Google it
Marlow looks pretty though.