He's trebled the price then.
It used to be £70 for 2 and a half hours trad.(when I was slow)
You are both (Tosh included) correct on the account in question, but it also includes the big 3 storey appartment block directly next door and 6 shops (A £10, an £8 a £7.50, a £6.50, a £6.50 and a £4 acount)
These will be completed by approx 8am.
Squeaks is wrong on a couple of points, the job he is talking about was £75 when he was doing it and it drove me potty that it always took him 3 hours to clean it (and he wasn't slow then, in fairness, off a ladder that job is very hard work indeed)
That was....what...5 or 6 years ago Rog?
It went up another fiver, then up another tenner a couple of years later (2 and a half years ago).
Because of WFP it's now one of my top accounts, rather than one I would use almost any excuse to put off doing.
Yes, in town centres you clean in the dark...except it isn't dark, the streetlights make it a doddle.
Matt makes a point that at a tenner an hour it is more than other semi skilled jobs.
Ok, for the hours you
actually work what you do is well paid.
But you don't get holiday pay for one thing, and out of that 15k all of your business expenses have to be taken off.
It is your business that is earning £10 an hour, your
wages are significantly less than that.
This is yet another mistake that self employed people make, not just window cleaners, they see their hourly rate as their wage, it isn't.
One of the benifits of having a separate account for your business (please note I not not saying a
business acount) is that you can make out a standing order from the one you use for your business to the one you use for a personal acount.
Let that standing order be your true wage.
What is left behind is what you run your business off.
And don't forget...your business also needs to make a profit and have funds available for small investments - upgrades to equipment and so on - You will be pretty disappointed to see what your
true income actually is.
Gotta shoot, 5 mins to get to my offices
Ian