[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

I was talking to another window cleaner today about solar panel cleaning prices.

He reckons he has done a few very large solar panel farm jobs, 10,000+ panel type places and reckons the going rate is about 20p a panel.

Surely thats not right is it? Seems you'd have to do about 800 panels to do anything approaching half reasonable or is it easy to do 800 panels if theyre all set out nice?

 

[Darranvps]

Better not think about the competitions price or you could easily undersell yourself.
Always quote for the price YOU want - not what you think others charge!
Do you really want to be as poor as they are?
Or is your business controlled by you? or someone elses pricing?

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

How many panels a day would two men get done in a day on ground mounted then? 1500?

[PoleKing]

660ml per panel on a 1000l tank.
I think you'd run out of water before you ran out of time.

[Alex Wingrove]

20p per panel, does seems a little bit cheap.

I know how he could make it work, but I wouldn't want to work for that, just because you only need a small miscalculatation, and you are in trouble

[CLEANCARE WC]

660ml per panel on a 1000l tank.
I think you'd run out of water before you ran out of time.

this is part of the reason i didnt pursue a contract that was on offer, it would have meant travelling to the site twice. plus they had never been cleaned so would of needed alot of water imo.

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

20p per panel, does seems a little bit cheap.

I know how he could make it work, but I wouldn't want to work for that, just because you only need a small miscalculatation, and you are in trouble

My thoughts exactly. No room for error, a bad day, sailing too close to the wind; doesn't quite add up for me.

Alex I've noticed you seem to have some tidy solar work. Would I be right in thinking a scenario of 100 panels an hour at 50p a panel wouldnt be too far off the mark for one man?

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

660ml per panel on a 1000l tank.
I think you'd run out of water before you ran out of time.

On site water production Darren. Take 4040 with you.

[telfordwindowclnr]

I feel pricing is a very dodgy subject to discuss online.   Each company would need to find their own level. A rule of thumb that I use is:

"Always charge what your market can bear."

It seems at the moment that the solar cleaning market is just finding its feet in the UK. The pricing will do the same. It will find its own level.

I think the earlier comment about each man working out how much he wants to work for is the most valid.

I choose not to discuss our prices or those that we are paying others. However, the scope of prices I've had on CIU for jobs have varied wildly from £3 per panel plus £150 per site for turning up, down to the kind of prices you originally mentioned. The gap and disparity really is that big. Therefore, I reckon to put YOUR price in and hope you get it.

 

[telfordwindowclnr]

20p per panel, does seems a little bit cheap.

I know how he could make it work, but I wouldn't want to work for that, just because you only need a small miscalculatation, and you are in trouble

My thoughts exactly. No room for error, a bad day, sailing too close to the wind; doesn't quite add up for me.

Alex I've noticed you seem to have some tidy solar work. Would I be right in thinking a scenario of 100 panels an hour at 50p a panel wouldnt be too far off the mark for one man?

Matt, the cleaning rate is different too. Every man works at a different rate.

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

They do Steve, but when it comes to making it work, there has to be a cut-off point, survival of the fittest so to speak. If I said £1.00 a panel on a 20,000 panel installation, cleaning 400 panels a day we all know that isnt going to equate. For starters the time-span would be unworkable for all concerned.

In the same light a fair stick when pricing windows is £1.00 a window. A reasonable starting point that most on here can grasp. Thats all Im asking with that sentence that I put to Alex. What would be a fair comparison.


















There is a figure, but it seems to be rather elusive.

[telfordwindowclnr]

You are right, there is a figure, but with competition so hot on this at the moment, with soooo many wanting a piece of the pie, so many claiming they are 'trained' for solar panel cleaning, when there is no training, which is deceptive to prospective clients and with so many guessing their way through a completely different ball game to window cleaning, I for one will not publish on an open forum my 'free-to-all price guide' for solar panel cleaning.

People already copy and paste my website left right and centre, I've issued and won one DMCA recently and may have to do it again. I won't be letting these people copy my price structure too.

It took me YEARS to work the whole spc thing out. I've got it about right now. I will not give everything away anymore than Microsoft telling their rivals about their latest gig. It is down to the competitors to work it out for themselves and then play catch up.

As you say, it's the survival of the fittest so to speak. 

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

To be honest Steve I'm glad you've said that.


I might give you a tinkle in the next couple of days if you have time?

[telfordwindowclnr]

To be honest Steve I'm glad you've said that.


I might give you a tinkle in the next couple of days if you have time?

No worries mate.