. Another question is about pricing and charge about 15 pound front and back for average 3 bed house is this about right ? Thanks Edward.
So £30 front & back? Or £15
Either way it massively too cheap
Eh? What part of the world do you do window cleaning if that’s too cheap 
Have I misunderstood the pricing, he is driving to someone’s house cleaning the front &back gutters, for how much? Is he cleaning the facias and soffits as well ? Inside the gutters?
Unless he is doing multiple house on the same street or it’s within a very short drive then ( in my opinion) £30 is too low for a one off clean which it would be
You do however make a good point with traveling time Mike as so many of us fail to consider that when quoting.
I've been asked to quote to clean a shop front which is part of a bigger commercial and residential clean. But traveling time is 15 minutes and 8 miles away. This job is out on a limb and not one I would generally look at.
But before we start we have 1/2 an hour 'labour' traveling time and mileage at say 45p a mile. As 2 of us work the other 2 properties taking some 9 hours this one would take us about 1/4 of an hour to clean increased to an hour with customers demanding immediate entrance/exit. (We once did numerous Sainsbury's Locals until the jobs went national so we know how a quick job can turn to a long one regularily.)
From a costing point we would need around £55 but we will just get laughed at. It could also be taken as an insult and we could loose the lot. Their new house keeper has already made them aware that her son is a window cleaner looking to grow his round.
Ed. With regard to pricing its generally said that if you get all the jobs you quote you are too cheap. If you get none you are too expensive. You should aim to get around 60% of the ones you quote. If you price higher then you would look at 40% of those you quote. But I believe that you will also have a higher customer turnover when the competition quotes lower than you.
This is only for you to decide. If you want the business then you have to quote lower. Once you have enough business to break even then push up your quotation prices and do staggered price increases on the existing round.