I've watched you change Jeff, I'm not saying you are not right, just that I have watched you become a business man.
I'd probably do it for £80.
This plus the house would probably take you three hours Jeff. Compare and contrast that with a post you did soon after going wfp. It was your best ever day and beat any day you had ever had in your previous nine years of window cleaning.
Now you are saying that you would surpass this figure with three hour job.
Like I say, I've watched you change. Good for you mate.
You have watched me change
I have become more and more business Orientated but only where w/c is concerned.
The past post I did, 'The best ever days takings' did refer to W/C and not guttering and conservatory work.
For the past six months I have had a minimum charge of £10 for windows, and I don't care if they only have 2 windows in the whole of the building its still £10.
I have always charged good prices for conservatory and guttering work, because most customers, don't want to spend a free weekend cleaning conservatories or climbing ladders to do there guttering, this is cream work as I call it.
Take the conservatory boshravie has put on here to show us?
That conservatory has not been touched in years? The customer in now obviously ashamed of it after neglecting it for so long, They spent several thousands of pounds having it installed, 'now' they think its about time it was cleaned, and asked Bosh for a price? they know its not a five minute Job, they probably don't know what it will take to get it cleaned to a high standard and looking like new again?
If you charge a good price (as I always have) this sometimes has the affect of them thinking, I'm not paying that amount again, the W/C gave me the option of having it cleaned at a discount price, once maybe twice a year, so I'll take this option, so you gain extra contacts/Jobs, the custy's happy now because there conservatory is looking like new and the W/C is going to keep it looking that way all the time.
Now thats business sence.
If most of us do a first clean on window cleaning we charge double the price, I have always taken this option on conservatories and guttering, its a job the custys don't want to, or can't do them selfs, don't sell your self short on this type of work, its the cream of w/c.
I get most of my conservatory and guttering work by referal, so do an excellent job for them and they will talk? Last week I did some guttering for a woman, she was so pleased with the result, she pointed it out to every one that came to her door, (sad I know) but it gained me an extra 4 lots of guttering Jobs to do.
If that was my Job, I would charge £150-£200 to give it a first clean, then I would drop it to around £80, but only if I had a contract on it.