Quote from: Tam1872 on Today at 03:05:04 pm

Quote from: Spruce on Today at 02:55:33 pm

What people don't want to realize is that it's not about how much you charge an hour, it's about your expertise and your investment in equipment needed to do the job.

With all due respect, it takes no expertise to wash ground level solar panels. There is zero skill involved.

Expertise includes being someone who runs a viable business, does a good job and keeps coming back. Also, the part in red is crucial.

Vin

I think when doing a job for an existing customer then charging what you would normally make in the hour doing windows is reasonable, there's no need to make extra from them when the job that they want done is relatively easy,  by all means charge more than your normal rate if its not an existing customer, I think some of us take them a bit for granted at times, myself included, without them though you don't have a job all year round. So we should be doing a bit more for them price wise than we would other people. Im not talking about doing yourself here, charge what you average over an hour over a month.


I have different prices for add on jobs for existing window customers and for ones I don't clean the windows for.

£66 per hour. Counting 2 hours. (As said by Tam1872 you need to top up your water)

£132.00

Quote from: Spruce on Today at 02:55:33 pm

What people don't want to realize is that it's not about how much you charge an hour, it's about your expertise and your investment in equipment needed to do the job.

With all due respect, it takes no expertise to wash ground level solar panels. There is zero skill involved.

Expertise includes being someone who runs a viable business, does a good job and keeps coming back. Also, the part in red is crucial.

Vin

Just £1 on each job gives me as a rough estimate about £320 extra a month, not bad for just a quid.....

Still havent done all mine yet doing them in stages, lost 2 so far

What people don't want to realize is that it's not about how much you charge an hour, it's about your expertise and your investment in equipment needed to do the job.

If you quoted first, which you must always do, and they accepted your quote, then they haven't a proverbial leg to stand on. If they thought it was too expensive when you quoted, then it was up to them to reject that quote.

With all due respect, it takes no expertise to wash ground level solar panels. There is zero skill involved.