[David Kent @ KentKleen]

God how many 'old' windies are way behind with there prices!!!!!
Bungalows £2.50
I charge £6.00
Whats going on lads, get your prices sorted your killing it for us newbies!!
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[Steve CM]

6.00 for a bungalow?

can see why your a newbie 

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

how bigs my bungalow and where is it in the uk?
 

[Steve CM]

don't take anything on under a tenner thats the first lesson newbie. 

[Taylor & Taylor WC Services]

don't take anything on under a tenner thats the first lesson newbie. 

I like that idea BUT......If it's a row of £5-£6 bungalows you can smash in one go you would?

[Steve CM]

only if i bought them off a wc'er. they wouldn't stay that price for long after

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

down buc's that might be acceptable but up north £6 is a good price for a bungalow.

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

standard size bungalow with no porch or connie £6.00 good price up north, am i right or wrong?

[Steve CM]

of course you could get more than 6 quid! you just need to sell 'the service' no problem!

[G Griffin]

standard size bungalow with no porch or connie £6.00 good price up north, am i right or wrong?

They are doing to you, what you did in your original post.
There is no right answer.

[David Kent @ KentKleen]

 

[Newannaive]

deffo sell yourself more than £6 mate. either that or move lol.

that damn avatar 

[idealrob]

Don't think the southerners realize how grim it is up north at time, and doleies and scroungers still doing it at Margaret Thatcher prices, thats early 80's . in good parts of middlesbrough typical 3 bedroom semis done for £2.50, they do 20 a day and get £50 cash in hand and think they are millionares, the dole or familly tax credit keeps them going. One lad I know has 680 houses a month at £3 each, declares £96 a week and and gets £320 a week of tax credits and fiddles over  £1600 a month and takes home the equivalent of £800 a week.
and he wont get undercut at £3 a house.
Whats the solution ?


idealrob

[barry mallett]

i think youll find that most of these guys that say dont do owt for less than a tenner , have to charge that cos they spend more time driving about , looking for a parking spot , getting gear out , just to do a load of stand alone jobs. unlike a lot of windys who park up once a day and do a street in one day .(a proper round)

[Paul Coleman]

i think youll find that most of these guys that say dont do owt for less than a tenner , have to charge that cos they spend more time driving about , looking for a parking spot , getting gear out , just to do a load of stand alone jobs. unlike a lot of windys who park up once a day and do a street in one day .(a proper round)

I've done compact and I've done stand alones - both over a long time.
My experience is that price has little to do with it - at least in the south.
So I might as well charge a decent rate.
Another problem I found wih work being very compact is that if you get one or two customers always messing you about, it's harder to drop them.

[Poles R Us]

standard size bungalow with no porch or connie £6.00 good price up north, am i right or wrong?

you are wrong should be 10

[Paolo]

Why such a price difference?

Salaries can't be that different can they?

Price of house should make no difference to the cost of the clean!!

[Ste M]

its the cost of livimg down south, everything is so much more expensive, charge what you want, if your happy and the customer is then so be it, well done if you can charge £20 for a oap bungalow im proud of you, well done if you charge £6 im also proud of you. 

[dai]

Why such a price difference?

Salaries can't be that different can they?

Price of house should make no difference to the cost of the clean!!

It's not just the wage difference, it;s what the customers think is the going rate.
people know what their family pay, and if someones doing them for £4.00, you must be a right rip off merchant if your charging a tenner.
It's ok saying they won't last, but some of them  are older guys perfectly happy to carry on.
The average guy can never compete with an old shiner, who paid his mortgage off years ago and is drawing his pension. I'm in this bracket so could beat anyone on price, and still have more disposable income at the end of the week because I have no debts.
A newbie trying to compete with old Joe is on a loser from the start, he has far too many outgoings, simply needs so much more to live on, but that's what some are trying to do, and it's holding prices down. They have to wisen up or they will go down too, even quicker with the millstone of outgoings they have around their neck.
I just want a decent fair price for the work I do, and do less of it.

[barry mallett]

Don't think the southerners realize how grim it is up north at time, and doleies and scroungers still doing it at Margaret Thatcher prices, thats early 80's . in good parts of middlesbrough typical 3 bedroom semis done for £2.50, they do 20 a day and get £50 cash in hand and think they are millionares, the dole or familly tax credit keeps them going. One lad I know has 680 houses a month at £3 each, declares £96 a week and and gets £320 a week of tax credits and fiddles over  £1600 a month and takes home the equivalent of £800 a week.
and he wont get undercut at £3 a house.
Whats the solution ?grass the scum bag up . its your taxes hes taking


idealrob