[pingu]

Ok guys...I was talking to a trad window cleaner and he told me he had 700-800 customers and cleaned around 40 a day...

No I do not want to start a WFP v trad ...poles better than yours debate...but just wondering how many houses you would do per day 5 days a week using the trad method ?

Now do not get me wrong but 40 just seems alot per day thats all.

Cheers
Dave.

[NWH]

40 very small houses.

[seandyer2003]

40 very small houses.

I have a council round where i can do 50 in 8 good hours, but they are small!! Semi detatched, probably about 25 in 8 hours....trad that is!! you wanna be doing 3 semis an hr at least so thats 24 in 8 hours, but can do about 3 an a bit, with pole id imagine in 8 hours you would do more, or just finish early

40 semis though would be some going, and if they were priced right !! Your talking 300+ day!! Doubt it though as sole trader, maybe with someone though who was quick!

[Tosh]

40 very small houses.

Dolls houses?

[peter holley]

whats that strange smell?? :

[s.w.c]

then he woke up. : :

[trike]

i used to do 50 a day,now ive cut it down to 30

[NWH]

I don`t doubt it`s possible but i still wouldn`t want to do it.

[AuRavelling79]

When on trad working briskly on semi ex councils close together with good access I would do 3 an hour.

The same houses with van mount wfp? 5 an hour.

[*cleanking]

I can clean four  average sizes semis  per hour all day long !

[Mr Cleannclear]

Where I live there  are lots of terraced houses , 2 windows , 1 door at the front and 4 windows at the back ,and quick to do. If he has some of them he can clean loads per day

[sf]

6 5 windows front 3 back 2 doors. per hour x 7hrs = 42

[seandyer2003]

I don`t doubt it`s possible but i still wouldn`t want to do it.

It is hard work, its the climbing gates that gates me, i get sick of it, its a fortnightly round and used to do it once a fortnight in one big day, but do half a day a week now!! much easier, but still growing so ill prob be back upto 50 a week soon mustnt grumble! money is good, but bit of  wfp nightmare and loads of gates! so i stick to trad and its knackering!

[Oakley Windows]

6 5 windows front 3 back 2 doors. per hour x 7hrs = 42

Theres no way that a window can be done every minute for 7 hours, reliably and to an acceptable standard. Not a chance.

You can do a window in a minute, but I wouldnt expect the rest of 'em to be done with any pride.

Too much bleedin' testosterone mate.

[Tosh]

6 5 windows front 3 back 2 doors. per hour x 7hrs = 42

Then Mrs Smith wants to chat to you about her ailing husbands prostate cancer; and Mrs Jones wants to ask you for a gutter cleaning quote; and Mr Burns wants to pay you, but can't find his wallet, and Mrs Duffield has put an outside table and chair set right where you need to get access; so they all need moving out of the way; then returned... etc.

[karygate]

i do around 3 an hour for between 25 and 30 an hour wfp. i know all my customers and there problems and never get a complaint. would not swap that for 50 half done houses a day. might as well be working on a production line.

[Chris Cottrell]

2 of us today cleaned 55 properties, started at 08.30hrs and finshed at 15.30hrs

[alanwilson]

he gets through 40 a day? 


Is he talking about his Marlborough??

[peter holley]

I don`t doubt it`s possible but i still wouldn`t want to do it.

my thoughts exactly... if i need a workout i go to the gym :

[pingu]

Thanks...for the most part you all have pretty much said what I had been thinking but was not sure about...

Cheers
Dave.