Hey spectator!
Welcome to the forum! Where are you from? How long have you been in business?
Pricing residential cleaning jobs is challenging at times. I have arrived at a standard charge for each window of $8.75 to $10 per window. Unless a storm window(minimum of $20. per). Hate those.
When people call, I tell them that over the phone and then if they are serious I will go out for the exact amount.
There is a town 20 miles from here full of millionaires, mostly retired. They are the biggest penny pinchers I have ever seen!
I think they are used to hiring illegal mexicans and they pay them horribly little. I have cleaned a lot of homes there, but sometimes I will quote a fair price and they act like it is 10 times more than they will pay.
Their homes are expensive; they golf every day; drive nothing but mercedes, cadillacs, etc; I treat everyone the same.
I began taking pictures of each house we do now. I do it at estimate time and then I go home and analyze the difficulty, etc, and then call the client with the exact quote.
I keep the info stored and all the details so we know what ladders to take, what will we need; how complex, time, etc.
I don't know how it is over there with house design, but in all the years of business; and having done hundreds of houses, NO TWO HOUSES ARE THE EXACT SAME!
I finally have devised certain techiques that work for me, and I think you should do what works for you.
Hugs, Texas Girl
