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Grafters Cleaning Services

  • Posts: 1287
your highest paid job
« on: June 16, 2005, 06:15:42 pm »
thought this might be an interesting subject if it hasn't been covered before WHAT IS YOUR HIGHEST PAID JOB?
now i know that some will run into thousands but mine is (domestic) £20 for a 3 bed semi and (commercial) £100 for a rest home
JAY "GRAFTERS"
From Southampton
www.high-shine.co.uk

Jon T.C.

  • Posts: 592
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2005, 06:28:23 pm »
£110 for an office - £25 domestic, as from this morning £100!! ;D

BTW - How's the baby Jay ?
Elite Cleaning Solutions

Rob_j

  • Posts: 49
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2005, 06:38:02 pm »
£180 Commercial, £110 domestic (it is a big house). But who cares, I'm off on holiday for a week tomorrow.

Cheers
Rob

MWCS

  • Posts: 25
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2005, 07:03:05 pm »
Looks like I'm well under charging lol.

mines 10 pound for domestic (a farm house) Usually 3.50 for a normal sized 3 bed semi.

35 pound for Commercial (block of flats, 8 flats in total)

Rob_j

  • Posts: 49
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2005, 07:24:58 pm »
I would charge at least £15 for a three bed semi. On a similar tack, what is your lowest price job? Mine is £8 it's a bungalow and it takes no longer than 15 minutes. One of the few jobs I still do with a Squegee.

Cheers
Rob

steve k

Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2005, 07:30:30 pm »
old advice but double your semi prices...at the very least go for a minimum £6.00 per house. You will lose some but earn more for less work...the spare time on your hands, you go out and canvass for more semis at £7.00 a clean.

£5 a flat is ok.

£3.50 a semi?? That is seriously udervaluing your work.

I am stunned mate...honestly!!
I have been out today carding and canvassing a road of semis in my area...got a £12 because they had an extension and next door neighbour got the OAP discount of £8...she was thrilled.
Yesterday, priced and did straightaway, 2 reasonable sized detached for £15 each...both poled with WFP...both owners happy and both done in 1 hour.

Stick with the advice on here regarding pricing...no matter where you live...I`m in Liverpool...

My highest is £35 per month for a big detached...45 minutes.
Semis from £6.00 to £15.00 depending on extensions/conservatories etc.
Detached start at £15 and go up to £35.

Be confident and lets drag the publics image of us into the millenium!!!

Justin H

  • Posts: 39
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2005, 07:39:39 pm »
Commercial (school) 300 quid.

Domestic 35 quid.

Even I charge a min of 5.50 for a 3 bed - semi.

Justin

MWCS

  • Posts: 25
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2005, 08:56:00 pm »
I bought the round from my old boss and he used to charge 3 quid. When he sold it to me first thing I did was put it up to 3.50. It wasn't till i came onto this site that I realised how under priced the work is by me. I know of another 3 window cleaners who are charging the same as me and one who's charging 2.50 per house. I can't tell my customers that I'm gonna double the prices they'd all go  :o

I'm looking for more commercial and rural work looks like  I'm gonna have to travel out the area to get better paid work.

poleman

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Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2005, 09:01:27 pm »
smallest 35 pounds per clean, biggest 20k per clean

Andy

Paul Coleman

Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2005, 09:19:36 pm »
thought this might be an interesting subject if it hasn't been covered before WHAT IS YOUR HIGHEST PAID JOB?
now i know that some will run into thousands but mine is (domestic) £20 for a 3 bed semi and (commercial) £100 for a rest home

My highest are £99 for a commercial job and £70 for a domestic.
My lowest paid job is £5.  I don't take on anything less than £10 these days but I didn't feel that I could impose that minimum fee onto existing customers.

Roy Harding

  • Posts: 1964
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2005, 09:22:27 pm »
Domestic £240 every 2 weeks. :)

Roy

www.mrgutters.co.uk

  • Posts: 871
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2005, 09:26:45 pm »
at the moment 45 domestic comercial 10 shop front
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

s.hughes

Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2005, 10:12:55 pm »
£300 commercial a setup of 2 blocks of flats every other month.  Highest priced domestic is £150 for one house every month. Its an all day job in & out. Nice customers, good payers. These jobs help me to keep going.

Steveyboy

riz

  • Posts: 162
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2005, 10:19:01 pm »
£47 domestic and £70 commercial cheapest £6 (ups only) domestic £30 commercial

AuRavelling79

  • Posts: 23987
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2005, 10:45:38 pm »
£330 commercial
£30 domestic
It's a game of three halves!

steve k

Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2005, 11:22:12 pm »
Poleman,
£20k PER clean..!!!
what on earth is that job?? and how often!!!

Grafters Cleaning Services

  • Posts: 1287
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2005, 11:39:35 pm »
£110 for an office - £25 domestic

BTW - How's the baby Jay ?
the baby's doing fine thanx jon, putting on eight as we speak
JAY "GRAFTERS"
From Southampton
www.high-shine.co.uk

Grafters Cleaning Services

  • Posts: 1287
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2005, 11:45:37 pm »
i must say i did'nt expect the thread to get so many replies and it's interesting to see the different price structures, as for my lowest price i have to confess that i do 33 oap flats @ £3-00 each, been doing them for a while now and i ain't got the heart to put them up but having said that i can do all 33 (all in a row bang bang)  in 2 and half hours so i guess £99 for that time is'nt too bad
jay
JAY "GRAFTERS"
From Southampton
www.high-shine.co.uk

baldeagle

  • Posts: 251
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2005, 12:35:23 am »
£13 for a largish end terrace with 6 windows plus 2 bays.

Cheapest is £3.50 for 2 windows plus a fanlight, in a terraced house fronting the road; stands right on the edge of the pavement in a quiet street in Stafford.
An odd place, got two floors at the front, but only a ground floor at the back - the owner does the back, [glass in the door plus a french window].

Both houses done once monthly - got no commercial, I'm a part-time operation, domestic only.

Baldeagle in Staffordshire.
"John the Window Cleaner."
A business founded during the Elizabethan age.

zeusjazmin

  • Posts: 244
Re: your highest paid job
« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2005, 12:37:41 am »
£15 for a pub is my biggest earner
old advice but double your semi prices...at the very least go for a minimum £6.00 per house. You will lose some but earn more for less work...the spare time on your hands, you go out and canvass for more semis at £7.00 a clean.

£5 a flat is ok.

£3.50 a semi?? That is seriously udervaluing your work.

I am stunned mate...honestly!!
I have been out today carding and canvassing a road of semis in my area...got a £12 because they had an extension and next door neighbour got the OAP discount of £8...she was thrilled.
Yesterday, priced and did straightaway, 2 reasonable sized detached for £15 each...both poled with WFP...both owners happy and both done in 1 hour.

Stick with the advice on here regarding pricing...no matter where you live...I`m in Liverpool...

My highest is £35 per month for a big detached...45 minutes.
Semis from £6.00 to £15.00 depending on extensions/conservatories etc.
Detached start at £15 and go up to £35.

Be confident and lets drag the publics image of us into the millenium!!!
   i live in a small village every other village or town in the area is all sewn up,so effectively there is not much work out there to canvass,saying that ,there is a new nursing home opening up next month near me ,i will go tommorow and submitt my quote,but i think i will keep it less than it is really worth to try and secure it as it would be a regular income