[jayjay]

Ive heard many say fortnightly but my friend does 80% of his customers monthly.

How many times do you clean a customers window the majority of the time?

[Paul Coleman]

Ive heard many say fortnightly but my friend does 80% of his customers monthly.

How many times do you clean a customers window the majority of the time?

About 8 times a year for me.  That's 6 weekly with it being a bit less frequent in the winter (my choice) and taking the occasional holiday.

[windolene]

Hi,

Some of my domestic customers phone me to make an appointment, some to say they have not seen me for a long while. some six weekly & the rest when it suits me.  All seem happy with these arrangements.

My shop work is done every week with nursing homes monthly & offices when it suits me.


What a good job I have got!


Kevin Windolene.

[matt]

i tell them every 6 weeks

BUT

what with weather, sickness, and just plain time off, it can be 8 weeks

most seem happy with it

[Ian_Giles]

By and large most work on a 4 weekly cycle with domestic work.

Commercial work will vary, shops can be a couple of times a week (Woolies is (or used to be) 3 times a week) the big stuff might only be once or twice a year.

Cycle it on a 4 weekly basis if you can, various customers will want different things, but 4 weekly is a good base to start off with.

Ian

[KJG]

I'd say the majority of my work is monthly. Some big commercials tend to go longer but like to have their public areas or entrances done weekly or more.

[dai]

Most of my work is done monthly. I have switched two estates to bi monthly.
They were badly under priced and the clients excepted a 50% increase in exchange for bi monthly cleans. It suits me as I was struggling to get round on time. I can see a few more going this way next year as the work load is always increasing.
When I do these estates now I'm on a good price. Dai

[Moderator David@stives]

sorry guys

i cant understand the mentality of cleaning less than 4 weeks.
If you are on a six weekly cycle and you leave it till 8 weeks then you need twice the number of customers.
The easiest way of increasing your turnover is to switch to 4 weekly and dump the ones who do not comply.
It all equals to less customers ,bigger turnover and a chance to weed out a few horrible jobs.

[Morph]

Hi Seagull

Stay warm.

Off topic!  Whatever!  Am I bovvered?

[Paul Coleman]

sorry guys

i cant understand the mentality of cleaning less than 4 weeks.
If you are on a six weekly cycle and you leave it till 8 weeks then you need twice the number of customers.
The easiest way of increasing your turnover is to switch to 4 weekly and dump the ones who do not comply.
It all equals to less customers ,bigger turnover and a chance to weed out a few horrible jobs.

I do it because some years ago, I had a lot of customers who just didn't want a 4 weekly service.  I used to get sent away a lot and didn't have the workload to consider walking away.  Then, in a very short space of time, I got a few large jobs (by my standards) where they wanted 6 weekly.  It made sense to fit my other work around them.  I've just stuck with it.  I wouldn't be able to get around it all in 4 weeks now anyway.  Also, I live in the southeast where the rates are generally the highest in the country.  It could be awkward getting those rates if I worked 4 weekly.