A great many of my domestic accounts are semi's, and a standard 3 bed semi, takes no more than 10 minutes to clean.
And this is NOT rushing, done trad in that time most certainly would be.
The time saving on a small account isn't much, but for me it is certainly quicker and less effort is involved.
If you can't make WFP work on domestic then you ain't doin' it right!
Bigger jobs, georgian or leaded work and the time differential is truly enormous.
If your round is domestic and you are full to the gills with work then you may well wonder what is the point of spending a lot of wonga to do what you are already doing.
But within a month or 2 you will find that you need new work.
You will finds that instead of shying away from Georgian work you'll be gobbling it up, work you could not do before is suddenly work that you can now do.
You will now be in a position to take on work that you would previously avoided.
None of us have all 3 bed semi's, we have a selection, and on some of it you will be massively faster.
You have to be organised, it isn't the same as trad, your approach has to change, every job you have will need to be re-learned.
You may well be better off sticking with ladders, some people just don't seem to learn how to use WFP, their results are poor, they just don't seem able to adapt.
My new van costs me £250 a month for 5 years and I spent about another £1200 or so upgrading from working out of the back of my hatchback to the full van mount, plus £250 to get my van signwritten (it's paid for itself over and over....the signwriting that is!)
My initial setup cost around the £1500 mark to be fully up and running, and that paid for itself in a few months.
Once I had picked up well over £250 a month of new domestic, and I was consistantly turning that extra work over, I then invested in the van, comortable in the knowledge that I wasn't going to have a problem paying for the van.
So for me at least, before I took each step, I was also sure I had that cost covered, and every step of the way I have exceeded those targets and I'm continuing to take on more well paying work, the vast majority of which is domestic.
I use trad every day still, but that is used almost entirely on the commercial work, the only time I use trad on my domestics is when I have to clean inside work.
For external work on domestic it is 100% WFP, whether its a one bed flat or a mansion.
Ian