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[Moderator David@stives]

Add a premium for the toll it takes on your body.

[Neil Williams]

Add a premium for anything above 1st floor. Afterall most could do their own at that height but hardly anyone would even consider doing the 2nd storey and that's where we start to add extra.
60 foot and you are realy into high premium money.

[Moderator David@stives]

Ewan

Pricing comes with experience, sadly there is no secret formula.

[steve a]

and I will follow you round and take all your jobs. LOL

It's all well and good what people say about charging more on this site, but sadly, the customer is the one that chooses the contractor and there is always someone willing to do a cheaper job. yourself for instance, you just said you would increase your charges accordingly.

If we all had a fixed price structure, say 50p for ground, £1 for 1st £2 for 2nd etc everything would be rosy price wise, and there would be no competition, but thats what business is about, not just making money but winning contracts, because you are better/cheaper than the competition.

Best bet, charge what you're happy with. If you feel you have been rewarded well at £10 per hour good, if you feel your work is worth £25 per hour go for it but work will be a little harder to get and keep, £50-£100 per hour (regularly) like some of these  dreamers on here and I don't think you would have much work,

Oh and yes I would charge more for a 3 story and do. Keep your eyes on the competition and never think that the customer can't do without YOU.

Good luck

Steve a

[will77]

you must charge a lot more for very high windows. longer polers are VERY expensive and should be paid for just by those customers with higher windows.

[Alex Gardiner]

Looking to purchase a sixty foot pole. How do you start to price for work over 35 feet? Do you add a premium because of the inaccessibility of the windows (the customer has little choice) or not.

Cheers Ewan 

Pricing for me is all about the time the job will take. 

First you have to work out what your hourly pricing rate is.  This isn't what you are happy to earn an hour, but the price per hour you need to charge so that at the end of the day you have earned the amount per hour you need.  For instance, if ideally you would like to earn £25 an hour throughout a day, you would need to price jobs at about £35 an hour.  So having worked out your pricing model it is simply about working out how long the job will take you.

As a guide, if a window takes you 1 minute on a first storey, it will take you 2 minutes on a fourth storey.  If the high windows have any awkward features it will take you longer to deal with these because you are working at such a distance.  I tend to work out the time of the building in chunks, one side at a time, add them altogether and multiply by my price per hour.

For me, getting the above right has taken 7 years of pricing high level work so that now I can usually judge a whole apartment block to within 10 minutes of accuracy.

[Wayne Thomas]

Higher windows get priced higher because it takes longer, is more physically challenging and poles cost more to replace.