7k per month on builders cleans. Thats quite good.
On average would you charge a day rate on these?
We charge per job, not day rate. Some days are manic, some are quiet. Yesterday we did £620 between 2 men, that’s top end really, based in the north. Some days there will be stand alone jobs that take an hours travel and fuel with only £60 on or similar, gotta take it as an average though and my hourly is always above £30 per man turnover, sometimes considerably more.
It’s all invoiced and paid into business accounts legit so no hiding place for it like some of you cash boys.
I wouldn’t take this type of work on as a single operator, it can be all consuming. It works for us with 2 vans as a lot of the time one can be on this work and the other can be on our retail/office/domestic work. Finding the balance is key.
Busy spells depend on each builders year end, we get rammed in June and December mainly and it’s not much fun, having £10k+ hit the account 45 days later though is nice reward.