what would you quote on a 8 story and five story blocks there are 860 windows all together newly built so there is a lot of dirt on them. I have never quoted for any big job before can any of you help and give advise please.
No disrespects but even if you do get this job, they will find someone cheaper in 18 months and you'l loose it to the next "new" window cleaner thinking he is going to become wealthy. There are a lot of new startup this year so far, and it will end in tears for the majority of them.
My advice to you is forget these jobs. If you want a good stable business you need to spend time getting a volume of customers, that are stable, reasonably priced and profitable first. This can take anything up to 5 years to achieve, and in that time you are dealing with the dregs of the customer inquiries to start with, bad payers when your cash flow is critical, and you have to stay motivated to keep going, even when you are slogging away with no money in your account for a couple of years, because trust me everyone on here will agree that is how they had to start.
Then and only then once you have a stable business, and round can you even consider exposing yourself to such a high liablilty of bigger value jobs. Even then to stay liquid you shouldn't really (imo) agree to take on more work from one customer that exceeds 20% of your current business turnover, and remember i mean stable turnover with a track record, not turnover you have canvassed your backside off for 12 months and you look at it and feel good that its X amount. In 2 years that will have gone down by as much as a third from the original bookings due to messers, bad payers and possibly your own motivation.