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L.J.Thorpe
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worst hourly rate ever!!!!
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December 21, 2007, 08:47:32 pm »
as an addition to easycleans absolutely gutted what is everyones worst hourly rate for a day whether by misquote or any other reason mine is £4.52 per hour topline on a badly mis priced buildclean any body got any horror stories dont be shy we have all done it
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chrismroberts
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December 21, 2007, 08:52:58 pm »
Beat this......
My first day EVER.... took me about 7 hours to do 4 bungalows. £20 as I remember..... average £2.85 an hour
:P
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Bob McKillop
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December 21, 2007, 08:54:20 pm »
Early days, priced a care home £30, took me four hours. drove out the gates and got pinged by coppers for no seatbelt - £30 quid fine. If I had a gun I would have shot him!
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Davew
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December 21, 2007, 09:00:07 pm »
£30? still more than Tesco pays for four hours before tax.
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nat
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December 21, 2007, 09:00:50 pm »
£30 minus £30 = Zero
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Pole2pole
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December 21, 2007, 09:30:03 pm »
Ever been on countdown Nat? You'd be a genius on the numbers game
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Roy Harding
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December 21, 2007, 10:00:10 pm »
When I first started my brother-in-law and I worked from 9:00am - 3:00pm and we earnt £15 between us. And felt if we had been kicked to death by Millwall fans
Roy
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AuRavelling79
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December 21, 2007, 10:06:27 pm »
Ten years ago when I first started I did two 8 hour days and earned £75! What's worse is I bought this work for 2 x it's amount and it was (fairly) touted as a days work!
So bought for £75, worked for two days and earned £75! Duh!
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Sir Squeaky
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December 21, 2007, 10:32:19 pm »
I think my first day was about £32.
Which ironically is the same as I did on monday...
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Tim Rose
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December 21, 2007, 10:35:03 pm »
I did some voluntary work one afternnoon at a school fete, selling cakes. Got **** all for it.
I was 14.
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Pole2pole
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Reply #10 on:
December 21, 2007, 10:38:30 pm »
Lesson to be learnt? Never volunteer
Bah humbug
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xxmattyxx
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December 21, 2007, 10:59:31 pm »
I used to earn £7.00 for 8 hours work, 21 years ago working in a fruit and veg shop, not window cleaning I know, but its my worst paid job ever. 87 1/2p per hour.
Window cleaning, well, whatever my worse rate is Ive always earnt at least twice what I earnt in the job I left to start this and Id been in my previous job 11 years. Started there at £2.50 an hour which rose to £5.85 as my final hourly rate.
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Dean Aspects
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December 22, 2007, 12:05:14 am »
Have sometimes underpriced jobs but never seriously underpriced so that from memory the worst i can think of lately is £25pr hr although i do some free jobs so £0.00 per hour
Beat that then!!!
Dean
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Tim Rose
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December 22, 2007, 07:33:50 am »
The only way to beat that is to give someone else money to let you work for nothing!
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Elginn
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December 22, 2007, 11:29:21 am »
First ever builders clean I priced was for £40 took 3 of us 4 hours to complete, now if I price, its always over the top, if I get it fine, if I don't, its no skin of my nose, because I hate the buggers.
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mark dew
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December 22, 2007, 01:07:43 pm »
my 1st job was me mates parents bungalow and the old boy next door. I charged them £3.50 each and it took me 3 hours to clean and dry using a sponge and chamois leather. My arms felt like they were going to fall off!!
They take me 10-15 minutes now using wfp.
The trouble is when you start up you can't charge people or price jobs up at £20+ an hour 'cos you are slow and don't know the work. The better hourly rates come from experience of your tools and experience of the job in question.
I 'm still amazed at how quick some jobs are now, even compared to wfp'ing them for a year.
A better pole and brush has shaved more minutes off jobs compared to a couple of months ago. Not rinsing off the window has again cut some times in half.
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LWC
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December 22, 2007, 01:11:39 pm »
ok, did a builders clean, 9 big windows. said £60, thought no more than 3 hours. so took another window cleaner with me...it took us all day...was NOT impressed, was on about £4 a hour
ah well lol
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Captain Scarlet
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December 22, 2007, 01:13:19 pm »
My first day window cleaning, I took 40 quid!Luke
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Dean Aspects
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December 22, 2007, 01:57:25 pm »
Quote from: j. demarco on December 22, 2007, 01:53:58 pm
My first day too, I only took £350.00 in 7 hours.
Oh, well, onwards and upwards.
You have just cheered me up
I wondered where you had gone to
Dean
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Gordon Saunders
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December 23, 2007, 10:34:10 am »
worst hrly rate every £1.63 per hr working for Gateway years ago 1988
worst every hourly rate w/c was on my second ever day out in 2000
Grand total of £7.20 per hr
Was please with that at the time
Gordon
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