went out to do an inside and out of a regular customer who is having a party at the weekend. Quoted the normal £12 for outside and £15 for inside.
When I got there, there was a smashed egg congealed on one of the lower windows so I made a bit of a point about how difficult it is to get this off.
I soaked it in washing up liquid and asked her to bring me a kettle of boiling water. I poured this onto my mop and washed it off easily...then WFP as normal...came up a treat.
She gave me a cheque for £26...£1 short
but then handed me 5 £1 coins for sorting the egg out so I never mentioned the pound...
took exactly 1 hour.
Drove 10 minutes to my next customer of the day...a gutter clean, quoted at £45 for a semi-detached.
I got the ladder out and every gutter was spotless...
I was there 10 minutes and told the woman that I did not have to clean the gutters but I would have to charge a turn out and inspection charge of £20.
She was happy with this and I thought it fair enough.
Left after just over 10 minutes
Drove 15 minutes to a beautiful village a few miles out to do 2 gutter cleans next door to eachother (terraces quoted at £30 each)
arrived:
They were full of grass so emptied them out and then suggested a WFP wash of the exterior of the gutters for an additional £10 each. They both agreed straight away so I got the pole and they were back to white in 10 minutes front and back...the green stuff came off easily.
While I am there, a passer by sees my van and knocks on the customers door to ask if I would pop round the corner to do her gutters as they have the "hanging gardens of Babylon in them"
Finished the 2 terraced houses and left at 12.45pm. Just under an hour and a half for £80.00
Got round there and I could only reach safely 1 section of gutter about 15ft long...luckily the one with all the grass growing out of. Quoted £20 and did it in 35 minutes.
Off to the flats I never finished yesterday. Arrived at just before 1.45pm
top floortop floor and ground floor2 x top floor flats and a middle floor flattop floor flat and middle floor flattop floor flat and ground floor flat2 ground floor flats to finishpacked up and drove away at 3.10pm£26.00 plus £5 tip = £31.00
gutter inspection = £20.00
2 x gutter cleans = £80.00
1 x gutter clean = £20.00
7 x top floor flats = £49.00
3 x middle floor flats = £15.00
4 x ground floor flats = £20.00
total earnings today = £235.00 between 9.45am and 3.15pm...5 and a half hours.