Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: windiewasher on March 04, 2013, 08:49:13 pm
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http://www.facebook.com/messages/#!/coastalwindow.cleaning.9?fref=pymk
£3.50 to £4 for houses.|£2.50 to £3 bungalows
im off up there canvassing and get him to work for me ;D
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wow.. how is it he's getting that much .. i need to rethink my price structure
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the link just goes to my messages on FB
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even doing one offs lol
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I didnt no skegness had window cleaners every time ive been over there the windows allways look filthy .
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I didnt no skegness had window cleaners every time ive been over there the windows allways look filthy .
i believe theres a couple on her and also impact 43s window cleaning company clean there
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up that way the towns come to life in the summer with holidaymakers splashin the cash then die back and close down the shutters in the autumn . fantastic beach at mablethorpe me and my kids dug a big groove in the sand to booger up the sandtrain ,some other family got the blame ah happy memories
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The bloke on the left looks like Sid the sexist from Viz ;D ;D Wonder how it feels to be self employed and only earn about a tenner an hour!!
http://www.facebook.com/messages/#!/coastalwindow.cleaning.9?fref=pymk
He joined Facebook on the 3rd of March, and he got married on the same day!!
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There are some real thick people who either should not be in business or will sell out there industry for a pittance. They should take the trouble to do a bit of research before you jump in to the market.
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Probably earning more than if he went to groupon ;D ;D
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thats how it is in some parts of the country .
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Why would he only be earning a tenner an hour.
I know a guy who charges £4 a house and does between 7 and 8 per hour
Quality is rubbish but his custys dont care because of the price.
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The bloke on the left looks like Sid the sexist from Viz ;D ;D Wonder how it feels to be self employed and only earn about a tenner an hour!!
http://www.facebook.com/messages/#!/coastalwindow.cleaning.9?fref=pymk
He joined Facebook on the 3rd of March, and he got married on the same day!!
how come every time I try to look at these links I get my own messages, so I have no idea what you are all on about
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Copy the whole link Stu, not just the blue
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Why would he only be earning a tenner an hour.
I know a guy who charges £4 a house and does between 7 and 8 per hour
Quality is rubbish but his custys dont care because of the price.
That's the way ahead then eh? Who cares mate? Funny prices make me laugh. It's funny to me, I'm not even in the same country. I wouldn't be laughing if my prices were like that though. Are yours? I'm asking, because you seem to give the impression that the prices are OK if you can bang out 7 an hour.
I'd give up the game if I ever end up thinking like that. It's people like that guy that keep prices down in some areas.
I've got a couple of mongs like that around where I am. Never lost a custy to them though. Bet they feel really crap at the end of a working day, knowing they could earn at least double what they do for the same work.
Only my opinion though. Some people see 7 x 4 quid a good hourly rate, even though it could be double. Funny old world eh? ;)
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I bet these guys just don't know any better - they've never done any research and just pluck a figure out the air - and not declaring earnings to the taxman helps a bit too ;D
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One offs £2.50 hes advertising.
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Jezus effin christ hes gotta clean 2 houses to buy 4 cans of stella feck that !!!
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Jezus effin christ hes gotta clean 2 houses to buy 4 cans of stella feck that !!!
lol
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Chris, I never said that its the way ahead.
Simply saying that to charge a low price doesnt mean a low wage.
£4 a house by 7 an hour = £28 over 7 hours = £196 per day.
That might be small change to you but a lot of people
would be more than happy with it.
I know a lot of builders who used to laugh at funny prices. Not
laughing now.
And no I dont charge those prices, but I dont do 7 houses an hour.
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And away it goes! £4 a house by 7 an hour = £28 over 7 hours = £196 per day.!!!
Who works like that? That's 51,480 a year!! That's nearly 2.1million in a 40 year working life!!! ;D
I work on very compact work at "not bad" prices IMO. If I get a row of 13 to 15 quid houses, I can sometimes get through 4 or 5 an hour. If I had the attitude of "4 quid at 6 or 7 a pop" is good money, then I could drop my prices and think I was doing quite well. At the end of the working day, I'd know the custies were willing to pay 13 to 15 quid, and I'd done them for less, I'd fell sick!!! What happens later if 2 or 3 move away, or get another WC? Do I then put the price up??
Funny prices are for those that think low of their work and of their own worth. I have no sympathy for those mongs in Skegness with clip art pics and no business sense. If times are hard and they think that's all they can get, then see if they're still around in a month or two.
I used to think like they did when I first started, then I changed my thinking after about 2 or 3 days of doing this work!! How do you think a new guy at those prices can earn enough to feed himself, let alone a family?
Ah well, it's not my neck............. ;)
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I used to think like they did when I first started, then I changed my thinking after about 2 or 3 days of doing this work!! How do you think a new guy at those prices can earn enough to feed himself, let alone a family?
Ah well, it's not my neck............. ;)
I think that's the point, the guy is obviously new and doesn't realise how hard he'll have to work to make work pay at those rates. I think most windys didn't charge enough when they started.
Give it a month he'll have a full list of those customers who will go to the cheapest bloke regardless of quality, then either he put his prices up or think "this is too much like hard work" and do something else.
Annoying for a short while if he's in your area, but not for long.
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Customer here in West Yorks gave me a leaflet says "You've got competition - they've been all around the area".
2-3-4 Bedrooms £4.50 - £5.50 - £6.50
Bungalows and flats
£3.50 - £4.50
Not as bad as Skegness but not great either is it?
Also offering 15% discount imagine working out and counting shrapnel for 15% of £4.50 = 67.5 p!!!
G.
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Chris your missing the point,
Im giving you an example of a guy who charges them prices and
has been working for years.
He charges £4 but does £4 worth of work and thats what his custys want.
My custys want better quality and are willing to pay more.
Yes he could take more time and do a better job and charge a lot more for it, but
at the end of the day he would be no richer.
Your only a muppet if you charge £4 and do £20 worth of work.
And £200 a day is very good money for the area he works in.
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the truth is there is no way he would clean 7 houses an hour EVERY HOUR in 7 hours continous work even if he had a massive compact run so the figure of £196 will be a lot lower and he will be knackered at the pace he will have to go to clean 7 an hour every hour!
at the end of the day just let these guys get on with it and concentrate on your own business.there are guys charging similar prices near where i work!
i have NEVER lost a customer to these guys to my knowledge even though im twice or even 3 or 4 times more expensive than they are!! ;D ;D ;D
best wishes
dazmond
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the truth is there is no way he would clean 7 houses an hour EVERY HOUR in 7 hours continous work even if he had a massive compact run so the figure of £196 will be a lot lower and he will be knackered at the pace he will have to go to clean 7 an hour every hour!
at the end of the day just let these guys get on with it and concentrate on your own business.there are guys charging similar prices near where i work!
i have NEVER lost a customer to these guys to my knowledge even though im twice or even 3 or 4 times more expensive than they are!! ;D ;D ;D
best wishes
dazmond
Yes you can do 7 an hour. I have runs where can do 15 houses from 1 spot taking just over an hour to do of small terraced houses, half are just fronts but still by planning your day first can get 3 or 4 hours in doing 6+ an hour. With 340 haz you must have runs where you can hit that many an hour??.
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on some compact work mick i can hit five 5 bed semis an hour(some with connies)every hour for most of the day but not 7!i clean frames,sills and doors as well as windows though and charge more than £3-50!! ;D ;D ;D
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on some compact work mick i can hit five 5 bed semis an hour(some with connies)every hour for most of the day but not 7!i clean frames,sills and doors as well as windows though and charge more than £3-50!! ;D ;D ;D
See there you go if you can do 5 big houses an hour then 7 small are a dode wfp... I dnt think i could do 5 big houses with connies in an hour mind but i havnt got 5 of those compact anywhere to test. I cant get over some of these silly prices around the country its crazey.
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on some compact work mick i can hit five 5 bed semis an hour(some with connies)every hour for most of the day but not 7!i clean frames,sills and doors as well as windows though and charge more than £3-50!! ;D ;D ;D
See there you go if you can do 5 big houses an hour then 7 small are a dode wfp... I dnt think i could do 5 big houses with connies in an hour mind but i havnt got 5 of those compact anywhere to test. I cant get over some of these silly prices around the country its crazey.
Yes Mick, they're crazy, but it's all over the place. Some people think that this malarky is all about price, and you know yourself, when we're newbies, we all seem to think that way.
As for compact work, and lower prices, as I've already said, who prices work to fit the compactness of work?? I can work fast, same as any old sweat in this game, but I've found that being seen to rush and dash about gives watching custies the impression that it's a slap dash job and you could charge less. They start thinking "How much does he earn an hour" etc, and they start getting the feeling that you're some kind of rip off merchant.
Daz you're my hero!! I've got posters of you on my wall at home!!! ;D ;D ;D
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sorry lads i meant to say i can clean five 3 bed semis an hour on some compact work with some having connies NOT 5 bed semis!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
ID REALLY HAVE TO "SPLASH AND DASH" TO CLEAN FIVE 5 BED HOUSES AN HOUR!!HAHA! ;D ;D ;D ;D