[richard groves]

I did a first clean on an existing customers new house yesterday.
My best paying, but probably due more to the time it took inside and out. As I really had no idea as to how long it would take I quoted it on an hourly rate I had already been charging him previously on his old place that took two hours.
I actually suprised myself for once by being pretty accurate on the length of time it would take. Approx 8 hours + breaks and redoing a few windows that spotted but mainly for my own peace of mind.
I'm not going to mention price yet, but fair to say it was very reasonable.
I'm just curious as to what others would have done - day rate ? a fixed price ? or as I did ?

I charged him for 8 hours.

[AuRavelling79]

It would depend on whether it was a one off, an occasional or a regular job.

[richard groves]

It was an existing customer so by that I mean regular.
I don't imagine it to take this long again. The house is a year old and looked like it had not been cleaned in that time.
The outside took 2 hours and the bulk of the insides time was taken cleaning floor to ceiling windows that span 3 floors of an open plan hall and staircase ( not something that will require cleaning every time ).

[Dave Willis]

Well if it took eight hours and you charged for eight hours then you didn't do too well did you 
Now, if you priced it at eight hours and you finished it in four then bravo!

[Shrek]

£6 front only . Takes exactly 5 minutes which equates to £72 an hour

[Dave Willis]

I have one job that takes me about six hours but pays two days money at my normal day rate.

[richard groves]

The reason I ask is because I don't have experience of cleaning houses on the scale of this and lack confidence in quoting high.
I'm much more comfortable quoting fixed prices on houses that take inside of an hour, often 30 - 40 mins tops. The equivalent hourly rate for them is often more than I charged on this one.
My highest days earning on my round takes about the same time but beats  this one job by about £70 but is way more physically demanding and uses twice as much water.
Don't get me wrong, I am happy with what I charged and earnt more than I would have done on an average day.
I just don't know whether I undersold my services.
I charged £240.

[Ian taf]

I would have charged a daily rate, which for my business in the area I work, would have been between £300 - £400.

[Tosh]

I also did my best paying job yesterday (as hourly rate goes). It was nowhere near what you did per hour. Thank god.

[richard groves]

The willy wavers are out in force.
It was an honest question which I posted to gain some knowledge / experience as to pricing bigger high end properties.
Gloat all you like but to me and the jobs I've held in the past, its not to be sniffed at.

[richard groves]

Talking domestic stuff here ... I aim to work by getting new stuff at £40 per hour (up to two hours). If I was there half a day (3.5/4hrs) I would try to get £140 plus and if I was there a whole day (6.5 to 7.5 hrs) £250 plus.

Sometimes things work out well in as I get the above rates on the first clean and am quicker on subsequent thus giving a better hourly rate. Other times the first clean subsidises subsequent cleans inasmuch as I might struggle to get £40 per hour on the first clean but do better afterwards.

Some of my work pays rather more per hour but I still have work that is at £30 per hour mind ...

Thank you Granville Gold.
A sensible reply that's of help. good advice. 
 I wasn't too far off but I can put it down to experience.
I would like to move away from terraced fronts and semis that make up the majority of my work, only take on ones in existing streets I have a round. The traffic congestion and parking where I live and work is becoming unbearable and lowers my overall hourly wage .
Bigger rural houses that could take half a day or more is something I would like to do more of this year, hence the post.
So there is room for improvement in my pricing and something to aim to 

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

This is CIU Barry- most would have charged upwards of 2k and still felt ripped off!

They don't need much of an invitation but this thread is gold dust for them!!

[Smurf]

Barry I like your honesty and am happy for you as you seemed well chuffed with yourself... Good on you and well done   

 

[richard groves]

This is CIU Barry- most would have charged upwards of 2k and still felt ripped off!

They don't need much of an invitation but this thread is gold dust for them!!

Yeah, don't I know it !
I usually stay well out of any topic that talks money for that very reason.
I had to ask on this occasion else I'd have nothing to compare my pricing to 

[Tosh]

Now you’ve got it and your moaning.     

[richard groves]

Barry I like your honesty and am happy for you as you seemed well chuffed with yourself... Good on you and well done   

Cheers Smurf. Maybe the posts title was a little misleading though. I wasn't out to blow my own trumpet or give myself a pat on the back. My earnings are very humble ones compared to the big boys on here. I know that and it does not bother me in the slightest.
I am just trying to gauge how my pricing structure and charging fares compared to others. Local windies will rarely openly discuss prices with one another. I want to be somewhere in the middle - not too high and not too low.

[Stoots]

My best paying job is a £5 terraced front 2 windows and a door than can be done in approx 2 mins. £150 per hour on that one.

however my day rate average is only 150 so compared to me you are a willy waiver

240 is a cracking days money for cleaning some glass imo

[Dave Willis]

Personally, I wouldn't quote any figures. I never do. The only thing that matters is whether you're happy with what you got.

[richard groves]

Now you’ve got it and your moaning.     

Not moaning Slacky . I just don't like rude and arrogant people who set out to belittle me.
You're reply was a useless one that did nothing other than sneer at my efforts and make you look bigger.
Perhaps you are, but it doesn't bother me. 

[Tosh]

Hey, if I offended you then I apologise, but you shouldn’t aspire to be like Dazmond with all his financial and career based aspirations and achievements that he readily posts on here if you don’t like that kind of thing.