[Davew]

I need to price up some flats - blocks with three stories with around eighty windows/doors in each. Domestics tend to be around a pound an opening as a rough guide. But what about appartments looked after by management companies? Can they be pushed much higher? I haven't a clue how to price them -  anyone have a rough way apart from working out how long it will take me.

[marc]

if your happy with £1 a window why not stick with that you wont be going from job to job so will earn more from this sort of job or on the higher windows go  £2 per window if your the only one that is quoting then you could go a bit higher but why be gready best of luck                                                marc

[Londoner]

I would think the management company would be as sharp as knives where prices are concerned.
I made enquiries about a block of warden controlled flats recently, the warden told me what the present company was charging ( £3 a flat ) and I rapidly lost interest. A lot of these firms are tough cookies to deal with.

[LWC]

i would go on a pound a window too, its  all in one place and a well easy job with wfp!

id go for £90 - £100 mate

[Trevor Knight]

Price according to the time taken/hourly rate.

If you price per window like on a normal domestic account you may well come in too high.

[geefree]

I tend to work out .. time  it takes to clean one window.... multiply it.. to give me a decent hourly rate...   and done.. works wonders. so if it takes 2 minutes to do one decent sized window...thats 15 in half hour....so work your hourly rate out and charge accordingly.... just an example so please dont say im fast , slow or indifferent.

simple but so am i lol.

[steve k]

or you can charge per flat.
I do a similar arrangement and I charge £5 for ground floor flats/middle floor flats and £7 for top floor flats.
There are 12 flats per block, 4 on each floor. This works out at £68 per block and takes about an hour.

[Davew]

Some wildly varying answers here! I can't see me getting one of the adove prices - unless my arms go like bees wings! Then I would be in danger of melting my brush! Many apartment blocks are serviced by companies thirty or forty miles away so I'm guessing that their overheads would be considerably higher than my own. However they are also well established with the property management companies and would operate with more vans and workers than myself as a sole trader. Think I'll have another look today.

[steve k]

these are the blocks I refer to:


By pricing per flat, the owners have a fixed price and I have a good job.
If I were to price per window on each block, that would be:

Each flat has 4 small windows and 2 large windows:
small window: £1.00
Large window: £1.50

per flat would be £7.00 (that is what I charge top floor flats)

per block would be:

£1 per small window x 48 windows= £48.00
£1.50 per large windows x 24= £36.00

That would be £84.00 per block

My per flat pricing is £68.00 per block.

I could not do this cheaper or any slower. I do not go fast on these, they are just good WFP friendly windows all in one place.
All a flat owner knows is that they pay £5/£7 every 4 weeks to have their windows cleaned.

[Tristan R Clean]

Where are you based dave?

Tristan

[Davew]

Why would you ask Tristan? (no not Whitby)