[tlwcs]

Sorry I didn't read properly no I wouldn't do a 200 pounds a month job for 60 pounds

You’d do it for £40 😁

[G Griffin]

You can't be bitter about it and let it dampen your spirits though. It happens all the time, gentlemen, please.
Look at your glass as half full.

the truth is it SIMPLY DOESNT HAPPEN IF YOUR A DOMESTIC WINDOW CLEANER.......its never happened to me in 27 years of window cleaning...it only happens to the mainly commercial boys.....i dictate the price and thats the end of it...take it or leave it...

You're wight, it is whisky welying on commercial work, Bud.

[mac74]

You are in a bad spot mate, £1600 every 4 weeks is a big loss, BUT those days are already gone, as its now a £480 job/s. Because i also doubt they would revert the prices back the normal once this has all blown over say april/may 21?  As their tighter budgets could run for a few years after this? Nature of the beast with commercial work, it can pay well, but if you loose a few you notice it. Unlike domestic work, if you drop a job or two in wont even make a dent, like the above guys say 'eggs in baskets' . IF, i really had to, i would carry on for now, and speed through the work and just give them a £60 job, whilst working very hard on finding other work  to replace this now, white elephant. Good luck m.

[deeege]

Forget what I’ve wrote in this thread, I misunderstood. I thought it had gone from £100 a clean to £60 a clean.  Not £100 to £30. Too big a drop, time to walk away and concentrate on spreading your workload into more baskets.

I’ve been there myself, lost a contract that was more than 50% of my income. It won’t happen again.

[KS Cleaning]

I have some London pubs used to charge 100 every two weeks lots of work but well paid nice jobs
Now after covid I get 60 a month which is their budget for cleaning
I am 140 a month down x 8 pubs
What would you do keep em
Dump em
Or just suck it up as the new normal
Will take a while to build up new work to replace anyone had this

Did you clean inside & outside for £100 per clean? If so tell them you will do outside only for £60 per clean and in the meantime claim the grant if you are eligible on the grounds of lost income.

[KS Cleaning]

Forget what I’ve wrote in this thread, I misunderstood. I thought it had gone from £100 a clean to £60 a clean.  Not £100 to £30. Too big a drop, time to walk away and concentrate on spreading your workload into more baskets.

I’ve been there myself, lost a contract that was more than 50% of my income. It won’t happen again.

I think it’s went from £100 per clean to £60 per clean but it used to be cleaned fortnightly and is now 4 weekly?

[P @ F]

Whatever it’s gone from to , it’s still a big drop , the question I would have asked the landlord is ......
I assume you have told the brewery that you will only be paying £60 for a £100  keg in future ?
I would be telling them to feck  right off my friend !

[Stoots]

I would make it gin clear that in the spirit of covid you wont be bitter and wine about it but you cant keep working for peanuts.

[G Griffin]

I'd do them for 60 notes if I needed the work.
Even though I'd only be getting a gill instead of a pint, my work would reflect that. And I'd top my glass up with Grants.

[H2GoKent]

I'd say I can still do some work for you but obviously the spec will be lower, so less inside work for example.

If you need it, do it until you can replace it. If you don't need it then don't fill your time with underpaying work
 

[robbo333]

If you walked into the pub and said you have no money due to Covid, so rather than £4 per pint, could you pay £2, they would tell you to feck off!
It works both ways.
Try and replace that work asap.
I can't see them going back to paying the original cost, anytime soon!

[Richard iSparkle]

I have some London pubs used to charge 100 every two weeks lots of work but well paid nice jobs
Now after covid I get 60 a month which is their budget for cleaning
I am 140 a month down x 8 pubs
What would you do keep em
Dump em
Or just suck it up as the new normal
Will take a while to build up new work to replace anyone had this

I agree  with Darren

They won’t go back up.

Do you mean the were £100 fortnightly, so you were getting over £200 a month?

I don’t think you can drop your price, so offer them less often. If the budget is £60 a month, I guess you’re cleaning the pubs every 2 months now?

Or look at what they could miss off. Maybe clean front only.

That way when they are back to normal they can decide if they are happy with a partial clean or if they want to go back to full service