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Moderator David@stives

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #40 on: May 09, 2007, 02:13:27 pm »
P&R

How long does it take you to do a builders clean on a 3 bed semi ?

NWH

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #41 on: May 09, 2007, 02:24:54 pm »
What would you include in your builders clean Dave ie,are we talking frames and glass cos if you are i think your price is pretty close.

Jason Atwell

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #42 on: May 09, 2007, 04:47:39 pm »
Sorry guys i will bow out of this one.

I just know what the average guy who concentrates on this type of work is earning, wether that makes them a pro in there field, i reckon so.

Before you try to belittle me, Do you concentrate on builders cleans or not ?

All i am trying to do is help.

Dave



So the average guy is on £280 per 3 bed semi, for a builders clean, we are talking windows and frames arent we, and not the entire house?

You said a professional price, and i still dont understand what this means? Are you saying if you do not only concentrate on the builders cleans, then you are not a pro, at the end of the day its still window cleaning, and everyones price will differ, but i think the only people being belittled is the person paying £280 for a three bed semi! (allegedly)
Fleetwood Window Cleaning Services

East coast window cleaning Services

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #43 on: May 09, 2007, 05:08:04 pm »
P&R

How long does it take you to do a builders clean on a 3 bed semi ?

Even the worst one with concrete and needing de taping that would also include frames and glass, would take me Max 4 hours £130.
P&R Window Cleaning

gary evans

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #44 on: May 09, 2007, 05:12:38 pm »
I think this should be opened up to others who do more of this, for a complete clean i.e. windows int/ext & frames & rebates, all woodwork, kitchen & bathrooms, all light fittings etc only pays around £300 thats for all 3 cleans.

There is more money to be made doing windows regularly.

gary

Moderator David@stives

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #45 on: May 09, 2007, 06:15:54 pm »
This is the last i am going to say on this as some people just want to have a dig at my terminoligy etc, perhaps professional might have been the wrong word as it has clearly offended some people.

Dave

Bazzy1999

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #46 on: May 24, 2007, 09:28:57 pm »
Just to let you all know i done the job today for £90........

Sod it never again  :'( took me all day..
There were loads of black paint speckles on every window which i didnt see when i was quoting.
So all you guys out there with your so called silly prices... your not so silly i should of listened so im putting it down to experience.  ::)

Bazz…

Moderator David@stives

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #47 on: May 25, 2007, 08:53:33 am »
Bazz

Did you get them ALL spotless, or did you leave the odd mark.

Dave

Bazzy1999

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #48 on: May 25, 2007, 07:59:20 pm »
Dave i left them all spotless...

Bazz...

gary evans

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #49 on: May 25, 2007, 10:21:54 pm »
Like i said previously you,d be a lot better off doing windows.

I can do a small 4 bed detached in 4 hours taking it to sparkle, but we have 3 cleans to achieve that, for handover.

It is not the best work & you dont always get a good price. But as add on to existing work, £90 extra on a quite or rainy day is a bonus.

Gary

Bazzy1999

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #50 on: May 28, 2007, 09:06:23 pm »
Like i said previously you,d be a lot better off doing windows.

I can do a small 4 bed detached in 4 hours taking it to sparkle, but we have 3 cleans to achieve that, for handover.

It is not the best work & you dont always get a good price. But as add on to existing work, £90 extra on a quite or rainy day is a bonus.

Gary

Sorry Gary i missed your post...
That was my first and last builders clean im going to stick to just window cleaning (regular)

Bazz...



gary evans

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #51 on: May 28, 2007, 09:12:25 pm »
Bazz

I would to, they can be demoralizing, i,m looking to expand window side more. We are doing less build at the moment.

There,s a lot of work out there.

Gary

Bazzy1999

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #52 on: May 28, 2007, 09:23:17 pm »
I was ok to start off with but half way through the day i felt like sodding off and leaving it but I carried on and finished the job.
I worked on my own and there was no one around for half a mile so it was a lonely hot day all by myself. :'(
Never again……

Bazz…

Ian_Giles

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Re: Help With Price
« Reply #53 on: May 29, 2007, 06:13:06 am »
I used to do an awful lot of builders cleans, and as we all know they are darned hard work.
Providing they are not georgian or leaded style windows, if you allow a minimum of 3 times the normal price you should be in the right area.
Rather than saying a particular price that is.
Every area varies in the sort of price you can charge, for some the average semi is £15.00 and above, for others it is more like £5.00.

For me, that house looks like a place I would charge somewhere around £20-£25.00 for.
So that would be somewhere around £50 for an inside and out clean.

Therefore my own price would be 3 times that for an initial clean - £150 or thereabouts.

There is also a skill all of its own to doing initial cleans, I'll warrant that although it took you all day, it would only have taken me around 3 hours tops.

Using the correct 4" razor scraper, such as the Unger stainless steel one for instance and having it clipped into a squeegee handle makes a huge difference to the time it takes to knife off a window, you can also use an extension pole too, easy to pop the squeegee handle onto a pole of course.

That house isn't your standard semi of course, one of those is only going to have  around 12 windows, so you should be able to initial clean one in a couple of hours easily, if you are doing a lot of them you will also be very adept at it, the speed you will do them in will be corrospondingly quicker and as a result your price will also be sharper and more competitive.

Time I got to work!

Ian
Ian. ISM CLEANING SERVICES