[GB Window Cleaning]

In an area where the average bung is £6 and thats 4 different companies i know of inc myself who price at that,why charge that little??
With overheads i have/most have couldnt do that,hell 4 of them at 3.50 is 14quid an hour,after diesel,insurance,tax,mot/repairs,public liabilty,water,detergent,gear etc etc and all the other outgoings-you would be working for minimum wage guaranteed.Whats the point?!

exacly. you would be better off p.a.y.e working for someone!

[Lee Burbidge]

Lets remember yeah £20 an hour may sound awesome to some and "well thats average/going rate/trash",but lets not forget after the stuff i said in my previous post it isnt anywhere near that...
So its NEVER £3.50 for 10mins etc unless your on a bmx,with stolen gear and a pogo stick

Plus, when the weathers really bad you cant work, when you go on holiday you dont get paid for that either or if your ill, no sick pay. No pay at all.

I do this old ladies house. She only wants me to clean the tops (3 bed semi). I never spoke to her husband or hardly saw him before.
One day she was out but he was in and when I asked for my £5, he had a pap on! Im not paying that for 10 minutes work, he told me.
I used to get that an hour before I retired. I tried to tell him that it is not as bad as he thinks, since I have insurance, overheads, tax etc to pay and plus if I do not go work through sickness or bad weather or if I take a holiday I dont get paid.
His answer to me was: that it was my fault for picking to be a window cleaner  :

He gave me the fiver and I told him he was off my list.

Next month I did next doors and the old lady ran out to me. Apparently she gave the old misery git a bollocking and she told me she could not do without her window man.

I back on it now, but just shows the ignorance of people dosent it.

[david watts]

had a bungalow priced up by some chancers;
no kidding round here most you could charge would be£ 20
they walked round said we will do a better job make it £60
they have been going a year so that shows how fast some learn

[Londoner]

These examples all go to show that pricing is a really complicated subject and the implications go deep. Just because some window cleaner will do a bungalow for £3.50 where another wants £60 doesn't mean either are wrong. They are just extreme examples of the spread.

If somebody asks you to quote a bungalow and you say £10, chances are you might easily have got £12, maybe £14 who knows? If the customer then said I can only afford £8 would you take it anyway?
Another window cleaner would be absolutely delighted with £6

Complicated, very complicated.

[dazmond]

depends on so many things.

area.if your down south you need a hell of a lot more money to live compared to areas of the north.

is it very compact and local?if it is then that cuts fuel costs and you ll spend more time cleaning rather than driving about.


i have a mix of various types of rounds.some are very compact cheap 3 bedders.large domestics at good prices,commercial,blocks of flats,converted barns and well priced stand alone accounts.

i pick up a fair amount of add on jobs on the 3-4 bedders over the course of the year and because of the sheer amount of it i dont notice if one or two cancel because of moving,losing jobs etc.

i personally wouldnt clean a bungalow for £3-50 but i dont slag off other windys that do.


regards


dazmond