[zesty]

I’ll take a couple of pics of the next plot i do before, so you guys can see how not dirty they are.

The site is 10 mins from home, it’s no inconvenience.

I have heard some local large companies charge £30 a plot, that’s ridiculous.

The way I see it is it’s £60 - £120 extra, so far not done more than 2 at a time, for a couple of hours work, if it became to inconvenient I’d bring in the guy I use as a subby on bigger jobs.

I think in this case, with the relative ease that these windows are to clean up, £60 is fair.

They are 2, 3 and 4 bed houses, so the 2 beds are are only a few windows, the bigger 4 bed houses of which I’ve only done one, I think I may charge £80-£100 if they take longer than an hour.

If I went in too steep, and they bought in another window cleaning company, I’d risk losing £1000 plus a month of commercial I do for them. Once another company comes in, you never know what they might say/do to snatch that regular monthly work off me.

[Always shining]

It’s that mystical hourly rate again. Never makes any sense imo. All depends where you are in the country, whether you’re a company who employs or a sole trader and most of all it’s down to what each and every person is happy with.
In these times of uncertainty £60 an hour is not too shabby at all. Doesn’t matter what you’re doing to earn it.
Some builders cleans are a pita but others are quite easy to do. All depends on the builders and how they look after the frames, sills and glass. Sounds like he has the good ones so they are usually very straightforward.
And if he’s getting paid punctually then I’d say crack on.
Could be worse. Could be struggling and wondering where the Xmas presents for the kids are coming from this year!

[Smudger]

It’s not the rate your getting - what I can’t figure out is why you posted this I the first place ?

If your content with your price and it local and for a customer who already gives you are amounts of work - why post it at all?

You know from many previous threads rates vary from person to person in the same location never mind across the country

Darran

[DJW]

The longer a thread can run, the higher the prices go. Usual suspects talking b******s.

[zesty]

It’s not the rate your getting - what I can’t figure out is why you posted this I the first place ?

If your content with your price and it local and for a customer who already gives you are amounts of work - why post it at all?

You know from many previous threads rates vary from person to person in the same location never mind across the country

Darran

Because if the going rate was more, I’d be more inclined to increase the price. I have literally no idea as I never do them, never would do them, it’s only because of the reasons stated I’m doing them. Thank God they’re not that dirty.

I think £60 is fine, but it may be that 90% of companies charge £150 or whatever, so I’d like to know.

Then again people do talk complete rubbish on here so perhaps I shouldn’t have bothered 

[Small but perfectley formed]

What area of the UK
Do you know the house prices?
Is it a National House builder
What's the payment terms.
All of the above can influence prices

[EandM]

We did a few in the mid-2000s for around £500 a day (two operatives).
We were cleaning industrial units and price wasn't really an issue.
The customer was paying and if the build cost was £2 million then £500 plus for a clean was largely irrelevant.

However, when one job topped £1,500 and the building company itself was paying, I decided it was time for a rethink.

I now just cap them at around £200 per day.

[NWH]

200 a day ?

[EandM]

200 a day ?

Yes, I view it as a pleasant change of pace and effectively a day off doing something a little bit fun.
I've got plenty of well paying work built up over 30 years the rest of the time and it's nice to do the occasional few days for them.

[Smudger]

interesting reading 

Darran

[Granny]

Don't bother anymore.
Last one I did was in Ireland, we used to joke that we were following in the footsteps of who we used to call "Mastic Man".
Internal Georgian glazed doors, all the glass sealed in with clear mastic on nearly every house we did mastic slarred all over the glass.
Why on Earth you would need to use mastic on an internal glazed door is beyond me!
Put me off for life.

[NWH]

Doing a clean for a builder won’t get you the end product ie the regular job,I’ve had this years ago cleaned em within an inch of their lives only for another shiner to come along and get the easy bit.
Stalk it like prey when you see the labels are off and people have removal vans outside start to knock or leaflet,the only time the scraper and chemicals come out is for regular customers that have had either an extension or new windows etc. Builders promise the earth and deliver just that “Earth” 😂.

[EandM]

Doing a clean for a builder won’t get you the end product ie the regular job,I’ve had this years ago cleaned em within an inch of their lives only for another shiner to come along and get the easy bit.
Stalk it like prey when you see the labels are off and people have removal vans outside start to knock or leaflet,the only time the scraper and chemicals come out is for regular customers that have had either an extension or new windows etc. Builders promise the earth and deliver just that “Earth” 😂.

It's worked out ok for a few of ours.

Some have been too far away to be practical for a regular clean at a reasonable cost.
Others have worked out well where we were introduced to the owners during the build and hit it off with them.

I've just done one clean on a large unit where I've picked up three regulars at the same time.

Very few results on normal building sites though.