[Moderator David@stives]

I do not collect at all, i just wait for it to arrive by cheque or wait till i catch up with the customer.

My money is safe, i only ever get stung if some one dies.

I have had customers forget when they move house and wrote the debt off only for them to knock my door 6 months later with payment and an apology.

Most of my customers are fairly well off pensioners who live in £500'000 plus houses who are honestly realy nice people.

I got rid of the bad ones years ago.

I am not spending unneccessary time and petrol collecting 4 hours a week.

Add that time up over 8 years and that equates to a lot of un paid time

Dave

[AuRavelling79]

My money is safe, i only ever get stung if some one dies.

Dave

I've even had a note thru recently saying

"I'm sorry to inform you that Mum (elderly customer) died suddenly last week, enclosed is a cheque for your last clean....."

I'm pleasantly surprised by the honesty and integrity of the vast majority of my customers.

[mark dew]

my shops equate to £30+ an hour and if i have to wait 8 cleans for payment that is no bother to me.

Dave
This is a very good rate to be on.
Is this a better or worse rate than your domestics, or the same?

Great post. I'm starting to question some of my accounts now.

Is there anyone else out there who can earn or top this rate (outside london) by doing shop fronts?

[Moderator David@stives]

Mark

I look at my round in 2 parts.

I have an "A" list and a "B" list.

Everything on the A list is done by myself and it equates to £30+ an hour.

This work includes all my commercial and a lot of big houses.

The B list which comprises of estates and the awkward out of the way stuff is done by wife and my employee and the best they can do is between £30- £50 an hour between them. (they must be up to something).

All my work is done by wfp.

Remember these prices are the end product of 8 years work.

When i first started out i thought £10 hour was a good rate, you live and learn.

In one sense i was lucky ,i bought a real quality round with excellent customers ,a lot of them were underpriced but i inched them up over the years without losing to many (only the ones i wanted rid of anyway).

I am definately the dearest around here but that does not seem to bother anyone.

Hope this helps

Dave

[brett walker]

Everyone would like to doing shops comercial work i suppose its every window cleaners dream

Down the road from me theres shops and a small market place ive counted at least 5 different window cleaners and thats not even in Nottingham town center.  All the comercial work round our area is so tied up you cant get a look in

I mainly stick with residential as you know where you stand ok you get the odd one move out plus the odd funny customer but this kind of work comes in the bucket loads.

And now with wfp you can get the tops done quicker

Brett

[mark dew]

Remember these prices are the end product of 8 years work.

Hope this helps
Dave

Thats a good point about 8 years work.

This topic has come up at the right time for me. I'm trying to think ahead a little bit.

cheers

mark

[Sir Squeaky]

Is there anyone else out there who can earn or top this rate (outside london) by doing shop fronts?

My shops are only £30's worth, but they take me 25-30 mins.
So that's closer to £50 p/h.
I do them with a squeegee mind.....

[mark dew]

Is there anyone else out there who can earn or top this rate (outside london) by doing shop fronts?

My shops are only £30's worth, but they take me 25-30 mins.
So that's closer to £50 p/h.
I do them with a squeegee mind.....

 

[williamx]

Is there anyone else out there who can earn or top this rate (outside london) by doing shop fronts?

My shops are only £30's worth, but they take me 25-30 mins.
So that's closer to £50 p/h.
I do them with a squeegee mind.....

Rog

If you had a wfp, your be able to work the other 30 minutes and earn even more.