This is why i get angry when accused of splash n dash poor quality etc etc. Because im not racing around each day or each week.
Ive been doing this for many yrs (which i keep harping on about) and have established rounds. The advantage that gives me is that i have compact rounds segmented per week. So as long as i get the weeks allocated work done then im happy.
How its been for last several months is;
Week 1 is my smallest round that if i raced round as in no breaks and no chatting would be done in a day n half. So that gives me many days that week to play with either for add on jobs or family time or even any overflow from the proceeding week. Mostly its 2 days or i can drag it out for three depending my mood.
Week 2 is my largest round which can be done comfortably in 4 days but again depending mood i have that 5th day to play with.
Week 3 i do 3 rounds which take between 1.5 - 2 days each.
Week 4 is the last part of my entire round which steadily gets done by wed or by working solid it would be complete by tue.
Im mostly helping with my young family in a morning and so not setting off till 9am and im mostly back home by 4 or half four at the latest.
With having the set work, i earn x amount per month. The day rate to me is irrelevant as it depends how i feel, but provided it all gets in the bank by end of the month i dont pay attention to hourly rates. Because as you rightly mentioned this can fluctuate. I have houses as cheap as £8 per clean (before i set the 10 min charge) up untill £50 - £90.......so dont really get hung up on those details n dont drive you n your wife into the ground worrying overly much
you still must be pushing it to clean 15 houses in 2 hours.why are you faster than lots of other window cleaners that have been cleaning for years too?
3 or 4 three bed semis an hour (if their all compact)going at a steady pace cleaning all sills,doors,frames as well as glass is the norm.maybe 5 if pushing it a bit but 7 or 8 in an hour?corners are well and truly being cut somewhere mate.
Daz i would agree with you. On the houses your using in the example i would say i clean about 4.5 an hour, which my rounds allow for.
I dont understand how its hard to understand how i couldnt clean 15 hours from the video which i mentioned 15 houses as i showed the houses i was cleaning. Lol im on that part this tuesday (5th sep) and im half wondering about showing a vid or a vid of a house before and after cleaning. Because as iv pointed out many a times, these houses have virtually no obstructions, ie open double drives so i can easily walk round two houses with ease!! Its a small cul de sac and so its very compact indeed and ive cleaned it for 15yrs, so i know the best route to tackle the houses (ie how many to clean this side before i cross over for the other side etc). I also dont clean the frames every time for the sake of cleaning them, because my frames dont require it every 4 weeks. Obviously the ones which do, obviously get cleaned!! No they are not bad with cobwebs or spider poo or the like!! hence why i might do a vid showing the windows before the clean and after.
Also its only this cul de sac where i clean as many houses in a short time. But then the estate i clean from that is less than a minute away and are slightly bigger in size but they have boundary fences n gates etc and so i clean about 4 or 5 an hour (by time im knocking off its about four per hour). So on this day i clean way more than 30 houses in a day!!
(Let the insults n disbelieve begin)
You need to keep track on what your saying Nathan, 30 to 35 properties a day in 5 or so hours is the norm for you since using hot
that even allows time for the odd Toby's and a pint, before hot it took you a full day.
Your only getting your own words thrown back at you.
Nope, in the above quotations i dont see anything thats contradicting. Ive not claimed anywhere else of cleaning 15 houses in just over 2 hours have i apart from this round in question!! I also mentioned im cleaning 4 - 5 houses per hour afterwards. In many of the times i have spoken off, i mention i mostly start at 9 and finish anywhere betweeen 3 - 4.30 which gives 6hours or more pending the rounds that im on.
Also if you look at my first comment on thus thread it gives a little more details as to how i work.........or how if i want to do a video or break for lunch and grab a carvery i can do so!! You can also see that there may be 2 wks in a month if i cant be bothered to work at my normal pace than it will be a full 5 days work but the remaining 2 weeks is somewhat different.
So no, unless ive missed something i cant see where my words are coming back to haunt me.
In addition i know chaps who only knock out maybe 3 houses of average size an hour and if they are happy with that, thats great. I also belief someone on a different thread posted how they also have cleaned a good number of houses in a day which again highlights how it can be done.
Also anywhere in between is also ok, do i fully understand how some feel they have to flood a window or house before they are convinced of a quality clean. Or they feel that 3 or 5 agitations is better than 1 or 2 or that several rinses are better than one!! No, thats for them to decide all ive ever said is experiment and find out for sure and push yourself to perfect your best. Thats what i do and it works for me!!
I dont particularly care, but my flaw is that i bite at how people feel if they cant do so and their quality suffers then everybody elses must as well. No additional thoughts are taken into account of all the variables which go into the arguement.
For instance; the video where my mic didnt work to well. Someone (cant recall who n cant be arsed to search) mentioned how the vid shows a 14inch brush n 6 jets doesnt work better than the standard 12 inch 2 jet brush. Because i used it side wards on....half on frame n half on glass. But 3 jets per half of brush, so frame n glass gets cleaned at the same time. Continuing down the glass, im effectively doing two passes in one go (if ones actually stop n think about it), then add into account i use hot water and a 5mpl pump at a flow rate of 80!! The water flow and spread is very similar to gardiners big fan jet vid which is doing its rounds on here.
Maybe im in a less polluted pocket than most or some other reason why, according to some i shouldnt have clean windows n frames every four weeks to what im claiming. Perhaps im not that cursed with bad luck as i thought
