[Tosh]

I've got one unbelievable day of £500 residential customers.

TDW, didn't you say this last year:

QUOTE BY TDW:

Dont be misled by those who say can earn triple that. I read a while back about someone on here who reckoned he did £600. No one does that but £200 is excellent.

In this thread:

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=30134.0

So your best day now is £500, yet only last year you said you read a post from someone who reckoned he did £600!

So there's only a £100 quids difference between reality and waffle?

I can smell something...

[matt]

I've got one unbelievable day of £500 residential customers.

TDW, didn't you say this last year:

QUOTE BY TDW:

Dont be misled by those who say can earn triple that. I read a while back about someone on here who reckoned he did £600. No one does that but £200 is excellent.

In this thread:

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=30134.0

So your best day now is £500, yet only last year you said you read a post from someone who reckoned he did £600!

So there's only a £100 quids difference between reality and waffle?

I can smell something...

tosh, its only 10 X 4 bed houses



10 X 4 bed houses = 300 quid

get them done in a extra hour or so 


its beliveable

[Tony Warren]

£30 sounds about right to me for a 4 bed detached! I wouldn't even bother getting out of the van for £13!!!!

I have plenty of bog standard new style 4 bed det 15 mins each to clean (wfp), many next to each other and charge £10 each. The parts of my round like this give me £35-£40 p/hr. If houses are further apart then maybe a little more to keep the hourly rate.

£30 for one of these idon't think so, or if so you won't get many, you will soon get a bad name for ripping people off and will pay heavily in the long run. With prices like this, soon you would not have to bother getting out of the van at all.

[matt]

£30 sounds about right to me for a 4 bed detached! I wouldn't even bother getting out of the van for £13!!!!

With prices like this, soon you would not have to bother getting out of the van at all.

dont write that

the next post will be

i can squirt water from my van and earn 40 quid a 4 bed house, i dont even have to leave my van 

[Tony Warren]

It is possible to clean windows from inside your van, i've seen the advert on telly and i'm getting one

[frames to panes]

Following on from the original post i went back today to the same estate to follow up a quote i did the same day. This was a big modern detatched house possibly a five bed. Double bay windows on the front with windows in between too. I pushed the boat out on this one and quoted £16. Saw the lady today and she said no thanks it's more than i'm prepared to pay. I didn't haggle because i wouldn't do it for less.
 

[Moderator David@stives]

I can do over £600 in a day

[Tosh]

I can do over £600 in a day

'I' or 'we' can do £600 in a day, on what type of work?

[Moderator David@stives]

I can

[macmac]

I can

I can or I do? & if so could you do it every day of every week for the rest of your working life?

Tony

[NWH]

personally, i think Squeaky is what this place needs

he keeps it real and doesnt blow his own trumpet that much, he lets others know his problems with people dropping him etc etc ( on this note, if it wasnt for him, i would by reading all the posts think it went like this ) :

winodw cleaner buys a van

window cleaner buys a WFP system

window cleaner goes from earning 100 - 150 a day trad to 500 a day wfp

work just happens to increase at the same time to allow him to do this, afterall its 5 X his old cleaning times, thus 1 week trad = 1 day wfp, oh and you can automatically charge 30 quid for a 15 quid job

keep it real Squeaky

You can`t blow a trumpet if you don`t have one.

[groundhog]

I have come back to make one last post to set the record straight, as I have been accused of lying and ridiculed by people who obviously have not even bothered to read my posts properly!

Firstly can someone tell me where exactly I have stated that I earn £300 per day? I haven't ever mentioned how much I earn!

Where did I state that my average customer pays £30? I didn't, all I said was that I thought £30 was about right for a 4 bed detached.

Where did I say that all 400 of my customers were monthly accounts?  I didn't say that at all, in fact although the majority of my customers are monthly many of them are every other month, and a lot of the larger properties are quarterly.

Where exactly did I brag about my earnings?  I didn't I just said that I try to get the best possible price every time I quote for a job, and I tried to explain how I do this to maybe help someone else who is less confident than me when dealing with potential customers.

When putting a reply onto this forum I would advise you all to carefully read all the other posts first, don't just read the last couple and assume that just because squeaky or djw say that someone has said something that they really have, go back and check that it is not just something that they have invented or exagerated!

I have enjoyed most of my time on this forum, but this has been the final straw for me, being called a liar and ridiculed for something I never even said. I think it is time for me to move on to another more grown up forum. Maybe I will see some of you at Windex, and I will buy you a beer or something and you will see that I'm not such a bad bloke after all!  

[NWH]

Groundhog i know exactly where your coming from mate and by not coming back on here your only depriving others of your knowledge and wisdom,there`s a couple of people on here that are not anywhere near  our dizzy heights of earnings lol and it buggs the hell out of them when they hear that someones earning more,try and let it go mate and don`t rise to the bate that`s what there after just do what i do and sit back and smile.

[frames to panes]

Groundhog, i see your a newbie, don't be afraid to ask for advice i'm sure we can help you out on here. 

[Davo]

I can do over £600 in a day

There ya go!!!! .... Is it Mr Morris's turn to be pulled to bits now?


From my point of view that post does look like a statement of fact rather than a hair brained hypothesis.


Mark

[macmac]

I have come back to make one last post to set the record straight, as I have been accused of lying and ridiculed by people who obviously have not even bothered to read my posts properly!

Firstly can someone tell me where exactly I have stated that I earn £300 per day? I haven't ever mentioned how much I earn!

Where did I state that my average customer pays £30? I didn't, all I said was that I thought £30 was about right for a 4 bed detached.

Where did I say that all 400 of my customers were monthly accounts?  I didn't say that at all, in fact although the majority of my customers are monthly many of them are every other month, and a lot of the larger properties are quarterly.

Where exactly did I brag about my earnings?  I didn't I just said that I try to get the best possible price every time I quote for a job, and I tried to explain how I do this to maybe help someone else who is less confident than me when dealing with potential customers.

When putting a reply onto this forum I would advise you all to carefully read all the other posts first, don't just read the last couple and assume that just because squeaky or djw say that someone has said something that they really have, go back and check that it is not just something that they have invented or exagerated!

I have enjoyed most of my time on this forum, but this has been the final straw for me, being called a liar and ridiculed for something I never even said. I think it is time for me to move on to another more grown up forum. Maybe I will see some of you at Windex, and I will buy you a beer or something and you will see that I'm not such a bad bloke after all!  

How can you state that 30 quid is about right for a 4 bed detatched? have you seen how many different types of 4 bed detatched exsist in this country? + would  30 quid still be about right if you had all 20 4 bed detatched in a row?

You didn't say that all your accounts were monthly & that's your mistake, people assume (by the nature of yours & others posts) that all your work is top rate, which, we all know is very doubtfull, So, to be honest, you're at fault for not giving the full picture & only beating on about your very best priced work & posting blanket statements when "money posts" come up.

There is a MASSIVE difference between what an established w/c who doesn't actually need any more work would charge & that of a new/newish starter who needs all the work he can get & stiil has all his bills to pay. I'm not saying anybody should work for nothing or even for cheap BUT the subject needs to be kept real for everyone's sake.

Tony

[macmac]

Groundhog i know exactly where your coming from mate and by not coming back on here your only depriving others of your knowledge and wisdom,there`s a couple of people on here that are not anywhere near  our dizzy heights of earnings lol and it buggs the hell out of them when they hear that someones earning more,try and let it go mate and don`t rise to the bate that`s what there after just do what i do and sit back and smile.

Sorry dude but the time has come

Every money post you're there giving it large, every van post you're there going yeah buy new, buy big etc. etc. every hot topic (now) & you're there again stating how you're going hot etc. etc

According to you, you should be earning 2k a week, driving a brand new vivario (the perfect wfp van, in your own words) & have a top notch hot system!

But, you drive a connect, have only a cold wfp & god only knows what you earn?

This is where the wheat gets sorted from the chaffe i'm afraid. It just does not add up :

Regreatably, Tony

[alanwilson]

yeah and after ooking through all those back posts where you called wfp a bogbrush.

sorry mate, I'm with Tony on this.

[windowwashers]

I have come back to make one last post to set the record straight, as I have been accused of lying and ridiculed by people who obviously have not even bothered to read my posts properly!

Firstly can someone tell me where exactly I have stated that I earn £300 per day? I haven't ever mentioned how much I earn!

Where did I state that my average customer pays £30? I didn't, all I said was that I thought £30 was about right for a 4 bed detached.

Where did I say that all 400 of my customers were monthly accounts?  I didn't say that at all, in fact although the majority of my customers are monthly many of them are every other month, and a lot of the larger properties are quarterly.

Where exactly did I brag about my earnings?  I didn't I just said that I try to get the best possible price every time I quote for a job, and I tried to explain how I do this to maybe help someone else who is less confident than me when dealing with potential customers.

When putting a reply onto this forum I would advise you all to carefully read all the other posts first, don't just read the last couple and assume that just because squeaky or djw say that someone has said something that they really have, go back and check that it is not just something that they have invented or exagerated!

I have enjoyed most of my time on this forum, but this has been the final straw for me, being called a liar and ridiculed for something I never even said. I think it is time for me to move on to another more grown up forum. Maybe I will see some of you at Windex, and I will buy you a beer or something and you will see that I'm not such a bad bloke after all!  

groundhog, dont go m8, some people dont like it thats all,

most guys on here are nice blokes, there is the odd muppet I agree but most are good guys.

[macmac]

Groundhog i know exactly where your coming from mate and by not coming back on here your only depriving others of your knowledge and wisdom,there`s a couple of people on here that are not anywhere near  our dizzy heights of earnings lol and it buggs the hell out of them when they hear that someones earning more,try and let it go mate and don`t rise to the bate that`s what there after just do what i do and sit back and smile.

Sorry dude but the time has come

Every money post you're there giving it large, every van post you're there going yeah buy new, buy big etc. etc. every hot topic (now) & you're there again stating how you're going hot etc. etc

According to you, you should be earning 2k a week, driving a brand new vivario (the perfect wfp van, in your own words) & have a top notch hot system!

But, you drive a connect, have only a cold wfp & god only knows what you earn?

This is where the wheat gets sorted from the chaffe i'm afraid. It just does not add up :

Regreatably, Tony

And a bit more while i'm on a rant, you often forget to mention that your round is, what? 40 years old or something? your dad set it up years ago? ask your dad if when he first set out he was charging 3x the average price & what it was like back then when he first started, you may get a wee insight into reality.

Tony