[geefree]

HI,

who does lots of shop windows,?..... is it you guys? 

do you have a lot?  to make decent money...

rows? or an odd one..

and how the hell did you get them?

cos they all have window cleaner.

curious again, sorry 

[NWH]

I have shops that i do twice a week and use them to get going on a monday and tuesday morning.

[tacky]

most of this work is sowed up .handed down through family etc .u might b lucky to pick up odd shop here n their . or if verrrry lucky might b able to buy some work .  ps  im still trying so dont give up hope

[NWH]

To be honest shop`s arn`t all that.

[dave0123]

I do one or to shops twice per month spar etc! but as tacky said,, there all taken alot at silly prices of £1.50 etc...


Dave

[geefree]

Cheers,

i do think they are a waste of time personally... but every penny counts i suppose...

an odd one is useless  i feel,  as you could be setting up somewhere else and making more pro rata.

[colley614]

The best way I've found is to get to all the little out the way villages in your area. If there is nobody else there canvass all the shops then you get the houses thrown in on top. 

[Sir Squeaky]

I do about £50 of shops every thursday morning.

They used to be my best earners, but since I went WFP a lot of my domestics earn more.
By the time I've driven into town, then off to where I'm doing houses I'm usually a bit down on turnover.

But I don't care.
I love doing shops. They're easy, I get to use my squeegee, it's always social, and there's always plenty of attractive lady scenery.

[NWH]

I know a wc that does shops in a village that i do work in and he charges a min of £12 per shop regardless of the size,he does 1 particular shop with 4 panes of glass 8x5ft + 1 door with 12 panes on it and charges £20 per time.Now i charge high prices but for a shop of that size that takes the P***,he`s a slow worker and makes about 7-8 shops his friday mornings work,he`ll soon be losing half of them to me.They take him all friday morning to do when in real terms it`s only about an hours work.

[Dean Aspects]

To be honest doing shops on a weekly or fortnightly cycle is a bit too much of a bind for me
I like the flexability of being able to just go away for a week when i want but if you have these type of jobs you either have to leave them for a week or arrange for someone else to do them which personally i dont like

I have been w/cing for 12 years and only have a few shops might get rid too much hassle

Dean

[m.b.s.]

i have ;ods of shops weekly fortnightley the way i got them was just handed them a bussiness card lots of them asked for a price there and then and asked me when i can do them prices vary from £3 upward they only take a few minuits each shop to do i also do houses i preffer the shops as they are easier to do say you had a house for £8 it coud take 1/2 hour were as you could do 3 £3 shops in 10 mins a third of the thme no ladders no hard work but you are commited week in week out so have a think before you start thinking about this

[d s windowcleaning]

read my post . felt sorry for the old man . ive now got 3 rows of shops to do . & 9 pubs & 4 clubs  .

[matt]

i do a few shops and a few pubs

ideal early in the morning work

[david thomas]

people with old A frame ladders and no scrims and drink cheap tea  do shop windows

[SparklingWC]

mmm...tea

i'd like to do shop windows, just so i could get an early start for the day before carrying on with domestic work. but seems like most of the work is taken - and i wouldnt know how to price it anyway.

[matt]

i was asked to price a hairdressers about 2 weeks ago, the guy who does it is very crap

i turned up, handed over my " welcome pack" and gave them a price, when they said the guy does it for £1.75, i took my pack back, gave thema card and said " i will be on my way then, here is my card "

£1.75  : : not worth me even getting out of the car for that

[SparklingWC]

what does your 'welcome pack' contain? just incase i do ever get the chance to take on some work (future reference)

[m.b.s.]

dont knock it till you try it david thomas i prob earn more in a day doing shops than you in a week i have been doing shops for 10 years now any way i dont drink tea and dont use scrims ether only coffee and microcloths lots of money in shops if priced correctly as a newby on hear i wouldnt use poasts like that because if you need help people wont respond to you

[Sir Squeaky]

dont knock it till you try it david thomas i prob earn more in a day doing shops than you in a week i have been doing shops for 10 years now any way i dont drink tea and dont use scrims ether only coffee and microcloths lots of money in shops if priced correctly as a newby on hear i wouldnt use poasts like that because if you need help people wont respond to you

Too right.

Average shopfronts 3 or 4 minutes for 3 or 4 quid.

Get enough of them and they're a great earner, and so easy and social.

[Paul Coleman]

dont knock it till you try it david thomas i prob earn more in a day doing shops than you in a week i have been doing shops for 10 years now any way i dont drink tea and dont use scrims ether only coffee and microcloths lots of money in shops if priced correctly as a newby on hear i wouldnt use poasts like that because if you need help people wont respond to you

Too right.

Average shopfronts 3 or 4 minutes for 3 or 4 quid.

Get enough of them and they're a great earner, and so easy and social.

I only do two shops.  One is where I also clean two houses for the owner and the other is a job that I subcontract from a company that is based a bit far away for it to be worth doing it themselves.  Both are reasonable earners.  Nothing special but fair enough.