Riverside....
Could you post your replies without the use of caps please, I'd have emailed you a polite requeat to do so, but unfortunately your email address is hidden.
It's just that it is considered shouting to type in just caps all the time!

Now as to the subject matter of the topic!
I've been WFP for 2 and a half years now, prior to that, 99% of my work was commercial, I had just 2 domestic accounts.
After 2 and a half years of WFP my round is now split approximately 50/50 between domestic and commercial.
the domestic work pays extremely well, on Wednesday of this week the weather was bloody awful, but with a combination of both types of work I knocked out £250+ and was finished by 3pm.
And the split was almost exactly 50/50
All of the domestic accounts bar one £9.00 account have paid...I've yet to be paid for the commercial ones...
All the domestic work was done in horrible drizzle and at one point it was chucking it down and at the time I was doing a new domestic account, first time clean for £35 (took 40 minutes - will be 15 minutes quicker on repeat cleans)
Oops, mistake! Was Tuesday not weds :
I also did a £38 leaded house (20 mins) and the woman cam out with £50 thinking it was £48 and not £38
The house next door came out and asked me for a quote as I was leaving, they are having a huge extention done at the moment, but wants me the moment work has finished, this will be a £50+ house (It's one that Squeaky did a while back, lots of balconies)
I have one day on domestics where I have 8 or 9 £8.00 accounts dotted all over town and I am still doing £200 in a day.
That to me is bloody good money.
To be sure, I also have a handful of very, very well priced commercial offices, and my bread and butter work is my shops, but the shops are increasingly holding me back now.
You have to get at them very early in the morning, and collecting them can take as long as cleaning them, plus the prices for cleaning them have hardly changed at all in the last 20 years.
For instance; A shop I was charging £5.00 for 18 years ago is now £6.50.
A house I would have been charging £3.50-£4.00 for is now £12.00.
At the moment I am as happy as a pig in excrement, I've just had another record week, I've topped a target I didn't think I'd reach for some time to come, and thanks to a huge influx of domestic work I don't think it'll be that long before I repeat it either.
I know it really does depend an awful lot on where in the country you live, but I'm charging youngsters on benefits £8.00 for 7 little windows that take me less than 5 minutes to clean and they are not in the least bothered about the price.
The money is out there...all you have to do is find it, and the domestic market is very good around our way anyway.
Oh...and I very rarely go out collecting anymore, just the odd account here and there...
Life is good...Thank you domestics
Ian