[AuRavelling79]

With lots of start ups about. Do you actively protect your compact work. And how? (No comments about breaking legs and trashing vans please! )

For example:

Do you enforce your "regular only" rules more or less in these areas? Do you have a different pricing structure? Or do you just feel that your good work will keep other windies at bay and if the odd messer goes to them then good luck to them?

[dazmond]

i have lots of very compact estate work that takes 8 days to clean.they are pretty low priced although im creeping them up slowly.i earn around £150-£180 per 6 hour working day at present on these jobs.i get quite a lot of add on jobs on these 2 estates,good payers and cashflow is good.

only 2 or 3 van moves all day.no extra fuel being spent on driving between jobs.

its just not worth any other window cleaners doing the odd one or two i dont do although there is a trad guy that cleans about 4 houses i used to do cos they were messers or didnt like wfp!

most of my estate work is monthly with the odd 2 monthly here and there.

these estates get canvassed/leafleted around 4 or 5 times a year by other window cleaners.ive never lost a job yet to my knowledge!i have been cleaning the vast majority for over 10 years though!!

dazmond

[dazmond]

as no one else got "compact" work then?

[koop]

i am the only cleaner in 2 estates of about 800 houses.  the main one I do about 90 cleans and only move a few times a day. 

again its not worth a window cleaner coming in because you have to do it with a WFP system and ladders at the same time. so its hard work but I get a tenner per a clean.  I can only do about 15 a day and I only do 2 days on there at a time otherwise I am to knackered to do any other work.

cant wait to sort out my 2 man system so I can hire someone else

[roundbuilder]

i have lots of very compact estate work that takes 8 days to clean.they are pretty low priced although im creeping them up slowly.i earn around £150-£180 per 6 hour working day at present on these jobs.i get quite a lot of add on jobs on these 2 estates,good payers and cashflow is good.

only 2 or 3 van moves all day.no extra fuel being spent on driving between jobs.

its just not worth any other window cleaners doing the odd one or two i dont do although there is a trad guy that cleans about 4 houses i used to do cos they were messers or didnt like wfp!

most of my estate work is monthly with the odd 2 monthly here and there.

these estates get canvassed/leafleted around 4 or 5 times a year by other window cleaners.ive never lost a job yet to my knowledge!i have been cleaning the vast majority for over 10 years though!!

dazmond

Im the same, and when the houses you dont have get leafleted or canvassed by other cleaners where everyone see's you all the time they are more than likely going to ask you instead of signing with them, they are helping you gain work as you are regular and do so many on the blocks that they feel safe going with you over the cleaner canvassing, i have had it many times.

[Ste M]

The vast majority of my bread an butter work is compact, in fact ive got loads of days with compact work, been canvassed a fair few times an i aint bothered, i have found that its the custies that look after my work, the ones that have been knocked at always tell me and they say to the person knocking not to bother going round the estate as ive got them all haha. Thats happened on loads of my work, I love my custies and they love me haha

[Archer]

Dazmond,

Sounds like you've got a nice little business, well done for maintaining high standards.

[CleanClear]

Daemons,

Who?

[Archer]

Clean clear,

Sorry my iPad playing up, and I'm not with it, ha

[Small but perfectley formed]

if very compact i price accordingly so no room to undercut

[robertphil]

i had somebody/i think i know who/  follow my van around and later go and undercut me,i lost about 10 customers in a compact area before i twigged what was happening

if its the same person i think it is,a yr ago he went round tellin folk he was my brother-in-law and how hes doing my work for me etc

still havnt thought of how to deal with this person

[8weekly]

Compact work is hard though. I do have some, but most is 2 or 3 houses then move. I prefer that as there is a break between jobs. At my age, I need it.

[Simon@ Clearview contractors]

Most of the work I clean is compact, some v. good prices, some average and some are quite low(£4 per house) but, the £4 houses are the smallest semi's you could imagine and it's house after house both sides of the street, where £35ph is easily do-able at an easy steady pace, good access with low reach.
It's one of my better rounds!