[Jay Le Huray]

I put mine up in January and February and no problems, there are just a few of my 8 weeklys which I have not done yet but will be doing on the next visit.

[Stoots]

Can't even think of the last cancellation - certainly not this year - when prices went up last year I think I lost maybe 3 customers

putting up prices appears to be a worry more on the part of the cleaner than the customer - firstly inform the customer in which ever way is most comfortable with you - letter, note, not at all .....

Darran

I agree i put about 250 up a quid last year and only had 5 or 6 cancel. Ive just put about 50 up £2 from 10 to 12 and surprisingly so far only had 4 cancel i thought i would have culled more. Percentage wise the 2 quid rise has done more damage that the £1 rise but still only 10%

[SB Cleaning]

Can't even think of the last cancellation - certainly not this year - when prices went up last year I think I lost maybe 3 customers

putting up prices appears to be a worry more on the part of the cleaner than the customer - firstly inform the customer in which ever way is most comfortable with you - letter, note, not at all .....

Darran

I agree i put about 250 up a quid last year and only had 5 or 6 cancel. Ive just put about 50 up £2 from 10 to 12 and surprisingly so far only had 4 cancel i thought i would have culled more. Percentage wise the 2 quid rise has done more damage that the £1 rise but still only 10%

You must have some right tight customers cancelling over such a small increase

[Stoots]

Can't even think of the last cancellation - certainly not this year - when prices went up last year I think I lost maybe 3 customers

putting up prices appears to be a worry more on the part of the cleaner than the customer - firstly inform the customer in which ever way is most comfortable with you - letter, note, not at all .....

Darran

I agree i put about 250 up a quid last year and only had 5 or 6 cancel. Ive just put about 50 up £2 from 10 to 12 and surprisingly so far only had 4 cancel i thought i would have culled more. Percentage wise the 2 quid rise has done more damage that the £1 rise but still only 10%

You must have some right tight customers cancelling over such a small increase

Well yes the £10 houses that do i have are the smallest ones on my round, terraceds, 2 bed semis or bungalows so it probably stands to reason they are in the poorer areas or are the least well off customers. 

So i think its that along with the fact £2 on a £10 job is a 20% increase which is huge in inflation terms, very rare bills go up by that much (apart from this years of course)

I think if you have a lot of 30/40 quid jobs £2 is nothing but i would say 90% of my round is between £10 - £15 so £2 is actually a relatively big increase in percentage terms.

But yes you are right, i live and work in a northern ex mining town everyone is thrifty and tight thats just the way it is round here. Im the same way, i wont pay anyone to do anything i can do myself and will always look for the cheapest option 

[NWH]

People are gonna be squeezed next year I hope people hold on to even the smallest of jobs.

[Slacky]

Im putting quite a few up. My one off jobs are going up significantly.

I did a gutter clean last year, small 2 bed place. £160.

She called yesterday to see if I could do it again. Price has gone up to £195. Diesel is getting expensive 

I got a call the other day for an annual solar panel clean I do. Usually it's £240. This year it'll be £335.00. Just because....

Its called 'testing the market'.

I spoke to this fella last night. Told him about his price increase. Didn’t bat an eyelid.

[NWH]

It’s not those kind of jobs that will imo it’s the estate work or smaller houses-jobs that will give grief,very wealthy people won’t bay an eyelid as you put it.

[Slacky]

Who said he's wealthy?

[NWH]

Yeah well you know what I mean the wealthy ones will still be wealthy it’s the smaller jobs that will be either putting it back an extra month or so,I mean the people with money not the ones that look like they’ve got some.