[dazmond]

Best paying job we ever had was a lottery winner £46,000,000.  £375.00 refused to pay because one of the lads photoed his car a Maclaren) Took him to court and sold the story to the Sun and The Mail. Hourly rate ; well over £1000.00 per hour

that was brilliant that mate.what a complete and utter W*A*N*K*E*R!

[LT carpet cleaning]

"i have quite a lot of houses in the £20,£30,£40 bracket and these ones are the best for day rates v time taken to clean with minimal effort and hassle for me."

Don't forget the £4 ones

theres absolutely no problem with having £4 jobs.one of the most successful window cleaners thats ever been on CIU admitted he had a few too(archer window cleaning).

What happened to Archer! He can come back now dozy cozy has gone/died/been banged up. 

[Plankton]

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.

Good to see an honest post, now I've got a question of my own regards pricing.
I'm quoting for window cleaning on a regular commercial clean and it's inside and out. There is over 100 windows and calculating the external windows on my excel pricing guide = £x.xx Now what due you charge (% extra)  for insides as I avoid domestic internal windows I usually say it's double for the inside which puts them off (but this is a job I want).

[Splash & dash]

Pricing is all about what you are happy with for a days wage , some might be happy with £100 others want £500 both are achievable depending where in the country you are and the type of work you do  , however where I think a problem arises is when the cheaper ones give a  quote £100 per day , someone else then quotes much higher the customer then thinks that the higher priced person is trying to rip them off and that's not the case , this is how under cutting someone else's prices can come about accidentally, those who are happy with lower earnings per day that's fine but I think they are under valuing themselves by doing so , that's if they are doing the job properly . I do a lot of work for a large firm that own blocks of flats that are retirement complexes , they had a national company cleaning there windows they used tap water only did some windows and would not do the internal communal windows unless the manager walked round with them to make sure they did the job properly , they were charging £100 per complex , totally unrealistic price , I now do a number of thease properties charging many times more than the previous firm and they are happy to pay it beacause we do the job properly and don't have to be checked up on , this isn't boasting but I have found that many cheap firms do not do the job properly as the only reason they got the job was on a cheap price then when they get it they cannot spend the time on it that it require to do it properly so they cut corners  . Ime not suggesting that ones on hear are like that this was a large national firm based in Yorkshire , all you sole traders don't undersell your selves charge a decent price for a quality job

[8weekly]

Pricing is all about what you are happy with for a days wage , some might be happy with £100 others want £500 both are achievable depending where in the country you are and the type of work you do  , however where I think a problem arises is when the cheaper ones give a  quote £100 per day , someone else then quotes much higher the customer then thinks that the higher priced person is trying to rip them off and that's not the case , this is how under cutting someone else's prices can come about accidentally, those who are happy with lower earnings per day that's fine but I think they are under valuing themselves by doing so , that's if they are doing the job properly . I do a lot of work for a large firm that own blocks of flats that are retirement complexes , they had a national company cleaning there windows they used tap water only did some windows and would not do the internal communal windows unless the manager walked round with them to make sure they did the job properly , they were charging £100 per complex , totally unrealistic price , I now do a number of thease properties charging many times more than the previous firm and they are happy to pay it beacause we do the job properly and don't have to be checked up on , this isn't boasting but I have found that many cheap firms do not do the job properly as the only reason they got the job was on a cheap price then when they get it they cannot spend the time on it that it require to do it properly so they cut corners  . Ime not suggesting that ones on hear are like that this was a large national firm based in Yorkshire , all you sole traders don't undersell your selves charge a decent price for a quality job

I got asked to quote for one of these complexes the other day and was surprised what it was being done for currently. especially as the current firm make 100 mile round trip for it.

[tlwcs]

"i have quite a lot of houses in the £20,£30,£40 bracket and these ones are the best for day rates v time taken to clean with minimal effort and hassle for me."

Don't forget the £4 ones

theres absolutely no problem with having £4 jobs.one of the most successful window cleaners thats ever been on CIU admitted he had a few too(archer window cleaning).

What happened to Archer! He can come back now dozy cozy has gone/died/been banged up. 

Oh God no.

[Dry Clean]

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.

You have achieved your daily target and hopefully kept a repeat customer, nothing wrong with that.