[BDCS]

Have you registered as a charity ?

[Simon Blades]

Ha ha ha. Yeah. Jet washers in need! What would anyone else charge? I don't reckon £300 quid is bad for 4 hours work for 2 blokes. I do 2 areas like this every day. That's over 150k a year turnover. I've tried charging more but domestic customers won't entertain it. I'd sooner have the machine running every day earning some money than it sat in our unit gathering dust.

[Mike Halliday]

Was that £300 inc vat or without?

Nice to see a 2 man tean earning £150k a year sure would like to know your secret of getting 2 of them a day....every day

[Griffus]

Ha ha ha. Yeah. Jet washers in need! What would anyone else charge? I don't reckon £300 quid is bad for 4 hours work for 2 blokes. I do 2 areas like this every day. That's over 150k a year turnover. I've tried charging more but domestic customers won't entertain it. I'd sooner have the machine running every day earning some money than it sat in our unit gathering dust.

Now I have to admit I think you're pulling our proverbials 

[Simon Blades]

Do you lot not work everyday?

[Mike Halliday]

i work every day.  7 days in the summer months but its a mixture of £120 -£500 jobs

that  job to me would have been a £500 job and i would do 2 or 3 a month, I was wondering how you get 2 a day.

but to be honest I think your '2 a day' was a simplication of your work schedule not a exact number

[Simon Blades]

what percentage of quotes do you turn into jobs mike?

Your right, I dont do 2 drives exactly like those every day but I do clean, on average, £550 - £650 per day.

 I've found that keeping my prices low, I obviously get more work. I look at it that the more we and the van are out there the more we get noticed. The more quotes I get asked to do and the more jobs completed.

I think it also depends on your area. In lincolnshire the farmer folks are tight and you have to prise the cash out of there hands! I had a chap phone me for advice the other day and he was charging £5 per m2 for block paving and only getting 20 -30% of his quotes.   

I could put my prices up, get less work but earn the same money but my van is sat on the drive not getting a lot of interest.  Thats just my theory anyway. It's going well so far. 

[Mike Halliday]

Simon, I tend to get less than half of what I quote, but this is becuase I am quite high priced but we are all different and work to different business models,

My primary business is carpet cleaning and I'm busy all the time with this, like I said I work every day I know if I don't have a pressure washing job I will be carpet cleaning. I would actually prefer to pressure wash as I earn more per day doing this but if I put my prices down it would not be comparable to the carpet cleaning side.

[Alan McTernan]

Fair play to you Simon, that is an impressive turnover.

But i would rather do 30 hours work than 40 hours work for the same money, but thats just me!

And looking back at the previous posts i now remember why i very rarely come on here

Regards
Alan McTernan

[Roger Oakley]

Turn-over is Vanity
Profit is Sanity

And as they say cash is King (Dragons Den)

[BDCS]

Turn over is vanity
Profit sanity
Cash is reality

I won't accept cash

[clive82]

reading all those comments is a laugh and a half!!! yous are all typical blokes in the cleaning industry arguing over whos bussiest and who earns the most its not hard to smell alot of bullpoop, 2 pressure washing jobs aday is the first of many bullpoops goodluck millionaires 

[BDCS]

How do you work that out trigger ? I never said I was busy or earn the most ! in fact I only get by by claiming benefits - I can't wait to finish my youth opportunity course and get out there and become a millionaire Rodney

[clive82]

bcds did i say bcds??? 5 window cleaners in my area got into rich list in the times closely behind them were bill gates alan sugar and the queen some going!!!

[Blue Frog Systems]

Cracking job Simon

[Simon Blades]

Thanks!

[johnny bravo]

i wouldnt mnd £300 for even a days work here in teesside,   im defo going to get into this pressure washing side,  get lad of dole and let him do the job give him £7 per hour.      i d  be sat at home eating my cream scone s  and yorkshire tea.,    counting my money.    do you realise how lucky you are to get these jobs ,   especially 2 every day.

[Simon Blades]

It's not luck johnny. It's lots of hard work, lots of knocking on doors, ringing people, leaflet drops, talking to people, business club meetings at 6.30 am, more ringing people and more knocking on doors. I think some people on here think that customers knock on there doors and ask them to do some work for them. This is not the case. You have to be constantly marketing. Where ever you are at any time. Everyone I meet is a potential customer.

[RDEAN]

Simon I like your style and could learn a lot from you.
Im sorry about your original post, it happens on may similar forums, people get the wrong ,essage from some posts.
Im on here to learn from fellow tradesmen and offer advice if I can, but at the end of the day Im trying to earn a living. So anything constructive is a very welcome.

[Donnie Nicolson]

I'd want more than £300 for lockblock off that area, cannae see it all but about £500 if your doing Sanding an aw, i get about 1 a week of these in the summer and about 1 a month in winter, ive done a few and sealed with Resiblock , fearfully expensive swag that is  ,