[Mick Kent]

the truth is most of you southerners will be WORSE OFF than us northerners even if you hit £300-£400 a day due to crazy house prices and the general ridiculously high prices of everything.

my middle brother lives in surrey and his house cost £370,000!! ....and its an end terraced house and that was a few years ago!it ll probably cost more now!my brother says its £10 for a burger down there and £8 for a pint of lager/beer!

he was also paying £1800 a month rent for years and years when he lived in wimbledon(mines £308 a month).so over the course of a year he was paying nearly £18,000 more than me!!over 5 years thats nearly £90,000!!!SERIOUS MONEY! .

the best way to carve out a comfortable living in window cleaning as a sole trader is to focus your work in very affluent areas with good prices and live in the cheaper areas 15-20 min drive away with much lower living costs.

Are you on drugs?

House prices are different yes which is to our advantage but everything else is the same.
4pint of milk £1
Loaf of bread £1
Pint of beer £3/4
Diesal £1.18
Etc
Etc

[NWH]

Exactly and they are not 15-20quid cleans are they this is my point so the amount mentioned is easily achieved especially the lower amount no problem if you have enough of these properties.

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

Exactly and they are not 15-20quid cleans are they this is my point so the amount mentioned is easily achieved especially the lower amount no problem if you have enough of these properties.

You keep swithering Nigel whether this 100k per year, or 400 per day is the norm or not.
You never answered the earlier question- seeing as you imply that the 400 per day is "easily achieved" now- do you earn 100k per year? If not then why not?

[Walter Mitty]

Indeed, if my cream work was all close together over a three-day period (for instance), I could do £400 a day for those three days.
However, it isn't. It's interspersed with other work and spread throughout the round.
I see no reason why, in time, someone wouldn't be able to have most of their work at those prices if they were prepared to work hard at refining their round.
The problem is the old one about a bird in hand worth two in the bush though.  Would I be prepared to take on one larger, very-well paid house and drop maybe three or four moderately-priced semis to make room for it - especially when there is a greater chance of losing the well-priced job if someone puts in a far cheaper quotation.  Generally, I wouldn't. I keep both lots and work even harder to make time for both. I imagine that most shiners would.
If willing to take on staff, it's not an issue, but if wanting to remain a sole trader, there comes a point when you can't physically do more.

[NWH]

The question of the thread is 400 the norm not what does Nigel earn a day,is that the norm in certain parts no not the norm but very close,although 2 men from 1 van is not the norm in certain places it’s average it’s done at a canter 🐎

[NWH]

Is it the norm for Cumbucket to bite like a hungry fish at money threads,yes it’s the norm.

[W.booler]

Is it the norm for Cumbucket to bite like a hungry fish at money threads,yes it’s the norm.

You are a sad little man. Why don't you do us all a favour and get diagnosed and medicated. I'm out of this asylum for good.

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

So, it's not the norm but it's easy and simple to achieve and still you don't achieve it? It's not money threads that dangle the carrot, it's persistent BS'ers!!

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

Is it the norm for Cumbucket to bite like a hungry fish at money threads,yes it’s the norm.

You are a sad little man. Why don't you do us all a favour and get diagnosed and medicated. I'm out of this asylum for good.

He's more to be pitied, there is clearly something lacking!! 

[NWH]

The above comments from dazmond were spot on in everything he said,you hear so so many WCs say the works on my doorstep it’s easier well yes it may be easier as it’s very little driving but would it be financially better to travel half an hour to get 2-3 times the prices. The more built up the area your working in is they’ll be far more competition and the majority will have less money than those with a house and 4-5 acres of garden,I can’t see the debate here it’s obvious which is better. You may earn the same but for in most cases double the workload and twice the stress,wheat chaff wheat chaff is the only way to give yourself less work for the same in your pocket for less jobs-work.

[Stoots]

Fair point but it might be more like an hour's drive to decent areas if you are in the middle of a big city, traffic can be a factor.

[NWH]

It really isn’t an is it possible or not possible debate on this subject prices wherever you clean Windows in the U.K. will be more in rural areas especially in the South of the country. If your working in an affluent area the money is less of an issue some customers still want different quotes but if all the WCs have an 8th of a brain they’ll all be similar,prices down this neck of the woods may be hard to believe but so is the cost of living if you weren’t earning enough to be able live somewhere in the immediate area they wouldn’t have there Windows cleaned would they. If you were paying 500 a month to heat your indoor pool I don’t think you’d be that bothered about 20-30 quid extra to have your windows cleaned that’s the reality.

[NWH]

Parts of Surrey oxshot cobham and such places are amoung the most expensive places to live mega money to live there huge lovely houses,2-3 hours to clean 1 of em got to be worth 25-30 quid each 😂

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

So, again, are you on 100k per year Nigel?

[NWH]

Lol wouldn’t you like to know weeee ladddddy 😂 maybe but I ain’t about to give 40k of it back.

[NWH]

I earn about 50 quid a day times are hard down south ask all the retired bankers that are at a ripe old age of 55 with a 4x4 for shopping an Aston that’s 12 months old with a flat battery coz it doesn’t move 😂 different gravy pal it’s a bubble in some parts they think the world  ends after the M25.

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

Says it all. Dreamer!! lol.

[NWH]

Lol honestly it’s a complete bubble they don’t watch the news they watch countryfile 😂 there’s quiet a few Scotsman’s down here won’t have there Windows cleaned though.

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

You are "evidently" full to the brim of the Brown stuff Nigel!

[NWH]

Yeah I like my coffee latte of course non of that one stops own you drink 😂,us Window cleaners down here pal we wear Green wellies to work.