[Small but perfectley formed]

what is the average price you charge or would charge for terraced houses done fortnightly with  3 upstair windows and  4  downstairs .( compact round )

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

£6
Monthly it would be £8
I charge £1 per window and 50p for front door and back door.
£1.50 for patio doors and french doors.
so for fortnightly i would just knock a couple of pound off.

[Dean Taberner]

£6.50

 

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

Dean 
lol

[groundhog]

Never ever charge anything less than £10!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blue Frog Systems]

Depends on the area, but i'd agree somewhere between £6 - £8

[Small but perfectley formed]

minimum £10 for fortnightly  . i wish

[Londoner]

£14 but if there are several togeather in the road £12.

My friend has a house exactly like you describe, its in one of the roads opposite Watford football ground. His next door neighbour pays £35.

[seandyer2003]

minimum £10 for fortnightly  . i wish

Hahaha, i wish i lived in minimum ten pound land lol

I dont understand it ! I dont like to talk about earnings because it upsets people but on £4-6 (mainly £4) houses yesterday i averaged over £30 am hr for 4 hours... thats some people day wage in a morning ...

I couldnt get a tenner for them if i tried but they are small . very low, and extremely compact - yes they are due a price rise, but still im happy with that

its not a good post - its unrealistic

[AuRavelling79]

A minimum £10 is a good general rule which I generally adhere to but it isn't an inflexible rule.

e.g.

Lots of compact small houses together. (few van moves)
Flats in OAP complexes.
Fronts only.
Fortnightly

But ... if it's a local authority semi size then nowadays that minimum is about right and even more so if the job requires a van move and hose reel in and out all for itself.

Mind you I have sections of compact old stuff at £7.50/£8.50 for which I would now charge £10-£12 and which still pays over £30 ph over a day.

[Richy L]

a £10 minimum charge can't apply to everything.
I do a few streets where I charge £7-8 pound a house for 3 beds. Becaude I have a lot of houses next to each other I can whip through them. Sometimes it is better to price a quid lower and 'monopolize' the area.

[[GQC] Tim]

Minimum price for me now is £14, no point charging less.

[MSTAV]

I think it all depends on the area you work i work se london and i try to keep at £12 min with all new customers now. I still have a lot at £8 and £10 from existing work from years ago where i slowly put up each year.

[Small but perfectley formed]

if i tried  to charge £10 minimum i would have no customers because you would easily be  undercut.

[cozy]

So if a bungalow has 5 windows and at the end of the street I was cleaning, I should charge 10 quid? I thought this thread was "Average price" by the way

Let's go over to "Egg on window" next, that's a good one

[seandyer2003]

This is a ridiculous post you cant stick rigidly to a rule like that sensibly can you??

In compact areas where people arent carrying there wages home in a wheel barrow its not good business sense to say im sorry its £10 minimum, when you could have the whole street for £8 each?? small houses arent gonna take long!! You could easily do 5-6 in a row, i a m not saying dont charge more when they are not compact, my minimum for 3 beds up is around a tenner but i dont stick to it if it means losing a job....

The round i referred to earlier is very low houses with only a few windows back and front which are easy to clean wood/pvc windows, take a few mins each, with more compacting it could easily be some of my best work i wish i could insist on ten pound a house but it aint gonna happen, i do them fortnightly as well , and there is no window cleaner gonna get them off me, i monpolized the whole estate, and regualarly still pick up 2-3 houses per clean and lose very few If i went round insisting on ten pound a house i may get a few but not for long, and would soon be undercut

[Rogue Trader]

£2.50 or £3 if they had a sports car in the drive

[martinsadie]

£4 whatever the frecency

[cozy]

£4 whatever the frecency

 

[seandyer2003]

Quote- Seandyer2003

“This is a ridiculous post you cant stick rigidly to a rule like that sensibly can you??”


Yes you can, that’s normal practice.

I dont think it is normal practice mate, some of you do it, alot dont, so why is it "normal practice"??

Its about being reasonable and pricing what is right for the circumstances in view of the location of the job, the size, the competition etc etc,

The point i was contending was not that you shouldnt have a minimum but that groundhog says never charge less than £10 - if you get away with that and are happy to turn down work good onyou but i pointed out in my posts - i make a good living on some work that is much less

I dont underprice any work, in fact 90% of it priced very well now as i keep bringing in new and have shed some rubbish and am slowly getting prices from old work up, but im not such a window cleaning snob that i will turn down anything under ten pound... as compact houses reasonably priced will bring in good money, and keep the work from competition, and has done in my case for many years, i started that round when i first picked up a squeegee, and now i have a day a week there, only one house on there is a tenner and every week i have a well paid easy day - suits me...