[LWC]

been to a house today and the windows were the worst i have seen, puty cement paint, pretty much anything you can think on there. inside and out, bad both sides

now i always give them a price for a job like this and always end up outta pocket. so i said i charge £15 a hour. which is less than i normally earn (i.e. £20) and said it would take around 4 hours

the lady was happy with that, and her husband rang and they had a small row over the phone and she said he thinks your very expensive

and i just said its going to be such a hard job...

im not expensive...am i???

[Sir Squeaky]

Not really.
I'd have asked a bit more actually.
You had every right to ask more like £25 p/h.

Ignore the next few posts telling you it should have been £2,000. :

[geefree]

They will have to pay you or anyone a decent price to do such a rotten job !,

they cant be bothered to clean filth themselves, yet expect us to do it for nothing,

It still doesnt help us that the 3 quid brigade are still out there,

and if they are reading this, for goodness sakes get your prices up for the benefit of us all.!.

i put in a price today for £18 normal detached, ( high price for this area).... it was awkward , so hence the price....

no sooner had i got home , the phone rang... yes please !!! came the reply.

i have had one or two turn me down... but i say, if thats the price you want for doing it... stick with it mate.

Gary

[Russell Macdonald]

Set your price & stick to it. I think your cheap as i would have quoted  alot more.

If her old man thinks it's too much let him do it, he will soon find how hard it is.

Macc

[brightnclean]

LOL at Squeaky  

£3000.00!!!  

No you are not expensive LWC. In fact that is really quite cheap. Arggg I hate to admit this but Squeaky has this one spot on in my opinion lol  

[dave0123]

Its proberly because you said you want £15.00 per hour and hes on about 9   you should of just said your price £60.00 explained the reason of the work. that everywindow could take a good 5mins to clean or so.


Dave

[Clear Vision]

Thats a fair price to charge! It still a bit on the cheap side.

I would love to see her man do that job in 4 hours! It would be nowhere near the quality you would do!

Better off without that 1

[windowwashers]

been to a house today and the windows were the worst i have seen, puty cement paint, pretty much anything you can think on there. inside and out, bad both sides

now i always give them a price for a job like this and always end up outta pocket. so i said i charge £15 a hour. which is less than i normally earn (i.e. £20) and said it would take around 4 hours

the lady was happy with that, and her husband rang and they had a small row over the phone and she said he thinks your very expensive

and i just said its going to be such a hard job...

im not expensive...am i???

I would not class that as expensive, I cleaned a house and charged £100 flat took me 4 hours and the house was a right state had to razor every window inside and out (should have charged more) we charge a bit more than you.  I always say the price upfront so we all know where we stand,  I got a nasty text and a few threats so went back to the house as i dont like people doing that to me, the treats stopped straight away, i didnt get the customer for a reg clean, you normally find this happens when the missus calls and books it as the other half keeps saying they will do it and they dont, they get the ass on when they findout the cost as they think £20 is more than enough for 4 hours work.

You will find the richer they are the tighter they are  
My advice would be to put your price up and dont worry about people like them

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

if it's a 4 hour job you should be charging a min of £120 if not more

[simon knight]

Be careful on this one LWC.

The hubby will be looking for any excuse to knock a few £ off once you've finished.

£15ph for what sounds like a builders clean is way too cheap.

Personally I'd swerve it!

[windowwashers]

Not really.
I'd have asked a bit more actually.
You had every right to ask more like £25 p/h.

Ignore the next few posts telling you it should have been £2,000. :

if anyone can get this type of money please let me know as i really need to know how to do this  

[brightnclean]

Just re-read this and you haven't already done the job I think.

Good advice from Simon Knight I think. Don't bother with it. £15.00 per hour I have to say is very cheap really and like he says you will probably get hassle anyway.

Leave it well alone.. you wont even get a regular clean out of this one.

[twt]

am i expensive? no

[Londoner]

Years ago I tried to branch out into gardening and delivered a load of leaflets. One of those leaflets resulted in a call from a bloke who had inherited a house and wanted to put it up for  sale.
The garden was totally overgrown and he wanted it cleared. I said it was too big a job for me to do. Even so he pushed me for a price "well" I said "by the time you hire a skip and everything its going to be well over £1,000"

"A thousand pounds" he said "I thought it would be about £150 tops"

There you have the problem. People often have no idea whats involved.

Anyway, I never did the job and I never took to the gardening. I badly underquoted a couple of jobs and got the hump with it all.

[jampot]

lwc
that is cheap (£15) i would say ad least £20 hour and add a bit on just incase it does take little longer.

if they dont like it tell them to get a cowboy for £3 hour 

if they dont like the price now they prob be hastle on the next cleans

[Helen]

LWC, if your gut feeling is that they will be hassle customers then decline the work, as it will only "haunt" you and wind you up, I can just hear it now...."oh there is still cement on the window"...and you find a pin head amount that you would need a microscope for. I think that this is a lesson for all who want to charge by the hour. Price every job on its own merits, not by an hourly rate. If you are asked how long it will take make sure that you say the word approximately.

[LWC]

i have been cleaning now for 4 years

i charge what i want like, i wont miss this job. the lady was really nice. i will do it, but i know that im not expensive. i wanted to see what you guys think

i knew £15 was cheap a hour, but its not that harder a job as for access

[NWH]

I`m glad i didn`t quote that job,what Grafters is quoting would be more closer to the mark.Was your price per window?LOL.If the job was going to take you say 5-6 times as long to do than normal then there`s your quote based on what you would charge for that house as a regular clean,so regular clean £20 x 6 times as long = £120.

[jeff1]

Matt
If you need the Job, Name your price & stick to it, but they sound like the witch I binned the other week, not worth the hastle, wide berth springs to mind

[NWH]

On the first time you meet these kind of customers you can just tell what the outcome will be in the end,she`s giving you greive on the price and you aint even cleaned a window yet.