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Poll

Whats the best days wage youve earnt

£100 - £125
14.9%
14 (14.9%)
£125 - £175
8.5%
8 (8.5%)
£175 - £225
18.1%
17 (18.1%)
£225 - £275
16%
15 (16%)
Over £ 275
42.6%
40 (42.6%)

Total Members Voted: 87

Voting closed: April 10, 2007, 07:03:49 pm

LWC

  • Posts: 6824
Re: Best days wage
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2007, 08:33:27 am »
this is a brilliant post!

i as the last person aim to do £100 a day, and it is usually more.

i work 4 days a week and am more than happy with a minimum of £400 a week, took me 2 weeks full time at a shop i used to work at 3 years ago!

but as i say this post is good because you speak to some window cleaners and they must be talking rubbish, i told somone i aim to do £100 a day, and he was like, oh you must work part time then!  :o

happy now  ;D

Jon T.C.

  • Posts: 592
Re: Best days wage
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2007, 02:13:53 pm »
I aim to do at least £200 a day. I work on my own. If anyone thinks I am B***sh*tting please come and look at my books. I declare everything I earn , I am totally above board, including with the tax man, so I have nothing to hide.

I feel that it is an individual choice on how hard you work and what your aspirations are. Mine are high. It's taken me 2 years to get to that level of income, and i'm proud of it.

Regards Jon
Elite Cleaning Solutions

simbo

  • Posts: 609
Re: Best days wage
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2007, 02:15:40 pm »
just started a weekly contract about a month ago worth £420 a week but has had a negative effect on me as really lost interest in domestic. although i have some well good work i intend to make the most of this and work only 3 days a week. After 2 years at this i know that i can easily re build again if needed but will never totally rely on comercial
simbo

xxmattyxx

Re: Best days wage
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2007, 02:58:57 pm »
I aim to do at least £200 a day. I work on my own. If anyone thinks I am B***sh*tting please come and look at my books. I declare everything I earn , I am totally above board, including with the tax man, so I have nothing to hide.

I feel that it is an individual choice on how hard you work and what your aspirations are. Mine are high. It's taken me 2 years to get to that level of income, and i'm proud of it.

Regards Jon


I dont doubt you, I know a window-cleaner that works by himself, I know him very well, he earns as I understand it, that kind of money. I do occassionally  ;D doubt the amount of time he tells me it takes him to earn it. He's either a bull-poopter or his customers are real mugs. He does exterior painting too and the last time he told me he had done £3,000.00 in a week, I find that just toooo much tobelieve but slightly more inclined to believe him whe he tells me he's done £170.00 by dinner time.


As for myself I earn a good income by comparison to what I used to earn. I used to be a Landscape Foreman and even then, 9 years ago, £6.00 an hour was dross. I earn hourly now 5 times what I used to earn then, I'm home by mid-afternoon and work when I want, who I want to work for, and at an hourly rate I choose.

These are choices that I could only fantasise about let alone believe I could achieve.



As for guys doing this job for 40 hours a week, I'd earn what you earn, but I have found now Im 'past my prime'  ;D ;D that there are more things in life than money. I love being home at 2.30 on days like today, far rather that than shining ta very much  :D

gary evans

  • Posts: 1242
Re: Best days wage
« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2007, 03:04:03 pm »
Thats a good post from Ian, turn-over is definately different than take home.
I do all commercial & have good turn-over but high over heads, run 4 vehicles 7 staff & never seem to have any left. Sometimes i consider going sole & cutting back overheads, but, i will keep at it. Take home ?, not enough, but we have a new car through the business, bills are paid.

Gary

Trevor Knight

  • Posts: 1825
Re: Best days wage
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2007, 03:10:40 pm »
love it, is this the testosterone zone of pound coins??

Happy days  ;)
Covering Hampshire, Dorset, Surrey, Berkshire

Pj

Re: Best days wage
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2007, 04:21:36 pm »
I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty

Paul Coleman

Re: Best days wage
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2007, 04:45:31 pm »
I aim to do at least £200 a day. I work on my own. If anyone thinks I am B***sh*tting please come and look at my books. I declare everything I earn , I am totally above board, including with the tax man, so I have nothing to hide.

I feel that it is an individual choice on how hard you work and what your aspirations are. Mine are high. It's taken me 2 years to get to that level of income, and i'm proud of it.

Regards Jon

That's my next goal Jon - to get to the point where I can average £200+ per day.  I originally intended to get there by this Winter but it may have to keep until next Summer now.  I'm not in a huge hurry now that I'm keeping up with my bills.  You've done very well to get there in two years.  I will need to offload and replace more lower paying work to achieve my aims but I will hold back on that for now while I'm getting the better paying work in to fill the gaps.

Paul Coleman

Re: Best days wage
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2007, 04:47:45 pm »
I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty

 ;D   Very good PJ.

TVCS

  • Posts: 884
Re: Best days wage
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2007, 07:16:12 pm »
Well I set myself a target of,   wait for it,   £60 a day.  Sometimes its nice to just finish at lunch time.  Other days I can double that and on the really rare occasion treble it.  When these super days come along it seems good at the time but when I cant work due to the weather it evens itself out.  When I get more customers I will raise the bar abit but at the moment, with  the size round I have it works out fine and dandy for me.
I also do pressure washing, and on the rare occasion I have some patios to do the old weekly takings can rise a tad.
Good luck to you guys who are earning the BIG BUCKS.  I know that I am knackered after a full day so you get out what you put in.
Ant
TVCS
Veni, vidi, vino, splatus.

 (I came, I saw, I drank, I fell over...)