[Splash & dash]

No he only cleaned the front; no pics of the rear elevations.

It was the whole  house just didn’t bother to post the other pictures I only put it up to show what can be achieved, I have hundreds of picture like these .

It was a joke....

😂😂

[zesty]

250-400 🤣🤣 x3 you might be a smidge closer

A very well known company charge £1450 per job plus vat and are snowed under with work .

That amazes me, as someone who does a lot of softwashing, I literally never get the job if the money is in the 4 digit range.

Commercial, yes, but no way domestic.

I usually charge £3-400 for a standard house. Sometimes £280 odd if it’s a quick job.

Even with those prices I only get around 70% of them. A lot of people just go elsewhere and think it’s extortionate.

Must be an area thing...

[NWH]

That house in the pictures looks like it’s been repainted with the great results  I’ve seen some painters clean off something like that with a pathetic effort repaint it and still doesn’t look as good,I’d say it’s money well spent it looks like it’s added 1000s to the property.

[Splash & dash]

That house in the pictures looks like it’s been repainted with the great results  I’ve seen some painters clean off something like that with a pathetic effort repaint it and still doesn’t look as good,I’d say it’s money well spent it looks like it’s added 1000s to the property.

This house is k rend  we do  loads of them , don’t get all we price but get the vast majority 500-1500   Depending on size commercial well that’s in a different league 😂😂😂

[Splash & dash]

250-400 🤣🤣 x3 you might be a smidge closer

A very well known company charge £1450 per job plus vat and are snowed under with work .

That amazes me, as someone who does a lot of softwashing, I literally never get the job if the money is in the 4 digit range.

Commercial, yes, but no way domestic.

I usually charge £3-400 for a standard house. Sometimes £280 odd if it’s a quick job.

Even with those prices I only get around 70% of them. A lot of people just go elsewhere and think it’s extortionate.

Must be an area thing...

I think it is an area thing we quoted one house along with garden walls and detached garage at £675  didn’t get the job , someone else did it for less than £100  and to be fair they did a good job , just Ime not prepared to do stuff like that cheap ,

[Slacky]

250-400 🤣🤣 x3 you might be a smidge closer

A very well known company charge £1450 per job plus vat and are snowed under with work .

That amazes me, as someone who does a lot of softwashing, I literally never get the job if the money is in the 4 digit range.

Commercial, yes, but no way domestic.

I usually charge £3-400 for a standard house. Sometimes £280 odd if it’s a quick job.

Even with those prices I only get around 70% of them. A lot of people just go elsewhere and think it’s extortionate.

Must be an area thing...

I find with pressure washing once you get over the £1,000.00 mark there’s an interesting shift in the customers level of  expectations.

[NWH]

I would let them do it if I don’t get the price I want I feel after a while I don’t want to continue.

[markymark]

There's nothing like that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you get halfway through a job and realise you've underquoted for the work involved. It zaps all the motivation out of work for me. The trick is to only get caught out once if you can help it 

[Slacky]

There's nothing like that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as you get halfway through a job and realise you've underquoted for the work involved. It zaps all the motivation out of work for me. The trick is to only get caught out once if you can help it 

Exactly. I priced up a job recently feeling very confident I’d bagged it already from the conversation with the client. Some roof pressure washing, full roof biocide, rear patio pressure wash and very large front drive pressure wash.

I know it’s probs 6 days work, maybe 7. Or if I trot along at a gentle pace I’ll kick it out in two weeks and still get two weeks money. No pressures, nice pics for the website.

[zesty]

I’m more than happy with the £350-400 range for a softwash job in my area (north Essex). I usually plan two for the day, so it ends up being a £7-800 day.

There is balance, I love softwashing, it’s just so easy and the lump sum payment is always nice. With that, I tend to find I don’t mind dropping the price a touch if the customer seems unenthusiastic. I’d much rather get £250 for a couple of hours work softwashing  than the equivalent in window cleaning.

[NWH]

I always go above any quote especially if it’s going to be regular.

[Splash & dash]

I’m more than happy with the £350-400 range for a softwash job in my area (north Essex). I usually plan two for the day, so it ends up being a £7-800 day.

There is balance, I love softwashing, it’s just so easy and the lump sum payment is always nice. With that, I tend to find I don’t mind dropping the price a touch if the customer seems unenthusiastic. I’d much rather get £250 for a couple of hours work softwashing  than the equivalent in window cleaning.

I wouldn’t want to hypo anything for less than £400 do t like getting covers in the stuff 😂😂😂

[Smudger]

250-400 🤣🤣 x3 you might be a smidge closer

A very well known company charge £1450 per job plus vat and are snowed under with work .

That amazes me, as someone who does a lot of softwashing, I literally never get the job if the money is in the 4 digit range.

Commercial, yes, but no way domestic.

I usually charge £3-400 for a standard house. Sometimes £280 odd if it’s a quick job.

Even with those prices I only get around 70% of them. A lot of people just go elsewhere and think it’s extortionate.

Must be an area thing...

If your getting 70% quoted your too cheap - price comes down to what value the customer thinks it’s worth some wouldn’t pay for it if you quoted 100 quid those that do are getting a bargain but on top of that don’t value the service as much - it maybe quick to do but the alternative is for them to get a painter on it (not k rend) which at £80 a tin of paint before all the prep work them paint is going to cost far more and if they don’t clean it correctly it will grow through the paint.

It’s a bespoke job and priced accordingly

Darran

[Slacky]

I’m more than happy with the £350-400 range for a softwash job in my area (north Essex). I usually plan two for the day, so it ends up being a £7-800 day.

There is balance, I love softwashing, it’s just so easy and the lump sum payment is always nice. With that, I tend to find I don’t mind dropping the price a touch if the customer seems unenthusiastic. I’d much rather get £250 for a couple of hours work softwashing  than the equivalent in window cleaning.

I wouldn’t want to hypo anything for less than £400 do t like getting covers in the stuff 😂😂😂

I personally think one of the things about working with hypo are the associated concerns and costs you need to be aware of and need to allow for.

I’ve lost count of the number of work tops I’ve ruined because I thought it wouldn’t get on them. I also have quite a nice range of pink spotted cargo work trousers. You have to concern yourself with the customers property, their neighbours property, garden, washing line and fish pond.

[zesty]

250-400 🤣🤣 x3 you might be a smidge closer

A very well known company charge £1450 per job plus vat and are snowed under with work .

That amazes me, as someone who does a lot of softwashing, I literally never get the job if the money is in the 4 digit range.

Commercial, yes, but no way domestic.

I usually charge £3-400 for a standard house. Sometimes £280 odd if it’s a quick job.

Even with those prices I only get around 70% of them. A lot of people just go elsewhere and think it’s extortionate.

Must be an area thing...

If your getting 70% quoted your too cheap - price comes down to what value the customer thinks it’s worth some wouldn’t pay for it if you quoted 100 quid those that do are getting a bargain but on top of that don’t value the service as much - it maybe quick to do but the alternative is for them to get a painter on it (not k rend) which at £80 a tin of paint before all the prep work them paint is going to cost far more and if they don’t clean it correctly it will grow through the paint.

It’s a bespoke job and priced accordingly

Darran

Honestly Darren, I wouldn’t get anywhere near 70% of the quotes if I were quoting £7-800.

For me, it’s easy money. I’d be more than happy to softwash full time 

I always mention the saving compared to painting, I reckon there must be others round my way doing it cheap, as i almost never get the quotes that are over £500. Literally 1 in 10 at that price.

I’ve got a dedicated website for softwashing as well, (ranked high on Google) so I’m also suprised I don’t get more enquiries. Must be competition!

[Smudger]

thats the thing - if you were getting them everyday all day then that sort of price would be more acceptable - but as a one off stand alone job its hardly above regular window cleaning rate - so I would rather pass - all one off works need to pay at LEAST double regular work

Darran

[Slacky]

There was a post on a local FB group page earlier today. Someone looking for a bod to do some gutter clearing. A local punter/member of the public/know it all suggested £25 an hour was the going rate for this type of work.

I shouldn’t but I do get annoyed with these types. It’s a race to the bottom on FB.

A few years ago on here there was that shiner/web designer guy, Ian, from Cambridgeshire claiming FB was going to be the new Google and was the way to go for advertising....

[zesty]

thats the thing - if you were getting them everyday all day then that sort of price would be more acceptable - but as a one off stand alone job its hardly above regular window cleaning rate - so I would rather pass - all one off works need to pay at LEAST double regular work

Darran

It’s pretty good money at £3-400 for 3 hours work to me, much easier than the equivalent in window cleaning. I average about one a week throughout spring and summer, it makes a huge difference to my monthly wage.

If I were able to get them for say £800-1000 that’d be great, but I know customers would just go elsewhere seen as there is other local guys softwashing for much less.

Obviously commercial is a different ball game, but for a 3-4 bed house softwash round here, it’s very difficult to get any work at all at the £800-1000 mark. £3-400 is pretty much the sweet spot I’ve found. Still don’t get them all even at those prices.

[Smudger]

3 hours plus all the x's - travel - change of cloths - cleaning equipment - getting the hypo etc...

Darran

[Slacky]

I’ve got a dedicated website for softwashing as well, (ranked high on Google) so I’m also suprised I don’t get more enquiries. Must be competition!

Email me on admin@drivewaywash.co.uk I may have a suggestion for you about website ranking and phone calls a site generates.

I’d rather not share it publicly, there’s competition about.

Matt