[fez]

I always aim for £20 per hour to cover travelling,collecting etc. I don't always achieve it though.

[Rob_B]

When I started I had a couple of cloths a 99p bucket and some fold away ladders. I was given 12 customers and didn't get any more for months.

Then I bought some proper ladders hip bucket scrims etc. and looked the biz and got 3 or 4 new customers a day.

[jdlcleaning]

Hi i only do office and shops and use a tucker poll for most externall windows. I have contracts with wicks, goldsmiths, M & S, Black and Decker etc and can earn around £65 per hour, however my over heads are higher

[Kwackers]

Dont get caught up in the £30 an hour thing, theres lots of people making that, and more.

It's down to you, how hard you leaflet, canvass, the quality of your kit and work, the referrals you get, the distance between houses, how fast you can work at good quality etc etc

For instance i've just started, i'm sure down south a house i quote £10 for, they'd be quoting nearer £15, and probably do it twice as fast, where as up north someone might quote £6 for it, but still do two to my every one so they make more.

Swings and roundabouts really.

[ok cleaning]

take it this way minimum £10 a house and you can easly clean three houses an hour =£30 and this is what you sould be earning if you want goodish life

[Kwackers]

Like i said, alot do, but i know that i havnt been going long and at the moment, my houses arnt next door to each other, so i have to spend time packing up and driving.

[Pj]

For what it's worth, I live in the east of England

£30 per hour?  Average w/c works 6 hours per day (less travel, setting up etc.) = £180 per day

5 days a week = £900 per week = £45K PA.

Those on that amount or more as one-man-bands are truly in a small minority.

I'm afraid the internet has become like the newspapers...

You have to separate the truth

[williamx]

I generaly sharge for an average house with 2 upstairs and 1 downstairs window at the front and 2 upstairs and 1 downstairs window with a pation door at the back about £5-6 if that same house had a conservatory then I'd charge about £7-8 (remembering I wouldnt be able to do one of the upstairs windows).   I live just south of Birmingham.  I generally do about £15 per hour on average with the odd f*g break hear and there.  Does this sound about right or am I undercharging (I really don't see that customers would pay any more though).

Central

I live and work in the Kings Norton area of Birmingham, My minimum charge is £10.00, I do not get any objection about this price.

If you know the Pool Farm, Hawksley and Druilds Heath estates, you will know that all of these areas are council, and they pay me £10.00 no problem, some even pay me more.

If you are Charging £5.00 to £6.00, then you are very under priced.

The next time someone asks for a quote, Tell them £10.00 and see what they do, if they all run screaming to the "Lickey Hills" then you are over pricing.

[Kwackers]

I'll join them, the lickey hills is ace, specially if it's snowing!!!

Will, do you have any work you want to sell, rent or need help on?

[john tomkins]

You do know this thread is 4 years old so obviously its underpriced:o

[Small but perfectley formed]

you can earn that amount but not for 8 hours aday 5 days a week because every one at some time has under priced work.economists say the market dictates the price thats true because people will only pay the going rate here in s.yorks average 3 bed semi £5 -£6 if you tried to charge £10 you may get a few customers but not that many.

[Kwackers]

Like williamx, Minimum charge is the way forward for areas used to a cheap cleaner.

You might be told to get lost by 5 people, but 5 people might say yes, at which point, your quids in.

[Davie T]

Started reading all the posts  and almost at the end I noticed that 90% of them are 4 years old!
Why can't you start a new topic on the same theme and avoid me and others wasting time reading prices that are 4 years old!!!!!!!!!

                                                              

[andyc]

hi guys,im a brit window cleaner living and working out in germany for a few years and "oh my god!" what a difference in pricing.All houses over here are done inside /out,i would say ahouse (average size);kitchen,livingroom,bathroom,and 4-5 bedrooms) with frames,sills etc-45-60€uros,hour to hour and a half work!!

[pingu]

I am in Holland and I work on the basis of 35 to 40 euro's per hour and for the most part I am hitting it...trouble is that I do not have enough customers to fill my 8 weekly cycle but it will come...

I work wfp and this is enabling me to combine speed with the aimed pricing structure....I am pricing the same if not more than the trad guys around here...but I offer frames as well which very few do...not without additional pricing...

Obviously 1st cleans knock that....

30 quid an hour...yes it's possible....but you'll need a well thought out and executed pricing structure...well placed work, time to build it.

30 quid and hour
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Possible = yes

6 hours a day,5 days a week, 11 months a year = Very unlikely in the early years and obviously location has a very important impact on what can be achieved.

Dave.

 

[elite mike]

[it...trouble is that I do not have enough customers to fill my 8 weekly cycle but it will come...



why not do them 6  or 7
weekly
regards
mike

[pingu]

I have set my stall out that I clean on the day I say...i.e all my work is scheduled for a particular day....so those who are 8 weekly expect it 8 weekly....and for the most part I have been able to satisfy this with the exception of 3 days of work that have had to be re-scheduled due to 2 days weather & 1 day vech issues.

I like to think if it as an agreement between the custy and I...they close all windows/allow access via a gate and I turn up on that day and clean....

Cheers
Dave.

[elite mike]

I have set my stall out that I clean on the day I say...i.e all my work is scheduled for a particular day....so those who are 8 weekly expect it 8 weekly....and for the most part I have been able to satisfy this with the exception of 3 days of work that have had to be re-scheduled due to 2 days weather & 1 day vech issues.

I like to think if it as an agreement between the custy and I...they close all windows/allow access via a gate and I turn up on that day and clean....

Cheers
Dave.

i find that if by chance i get ahead with the work ?which is not very often,i bring it forward a bit .
no one has ever minded,
best regards
mike

[rehcra]

The first day i ever went window cleaning was with my uncle ,i was 9 years old & all i did was carry a bucket round. At 17 i bought my first round, needless to say im doing well. Over the years had 7 lads, rented work out, but now i have 2 lads and seem to earn alot more as im ontop of things more.

The work i love is terraced houses, 1 up 1 down and i charge £4.00 - £4.50 & if theyre nextdoor to eachother you can earn some excellent money.

So the £30 per hour is a definate, just work it out how many terraces could you clean per hr ?

£30 is a correct hourly rate.

If im asked what my hourly rate is for the day, im £30 phr & thats me cleaning traditional, wfp or in mewp.

If im pricing individual large houses per hr, then i would be charging around double that.

 

[supernova77]

Pricing does depend a lot on area... It also depends on how confident you are when you give the quote to the customer... If you come across nervous (thinking that perhaps your quote sounds too high) the potential customer will sense this and probably refuse the price.

At the moment I don't need anymore work as I recently let my helper go... So when I go to quote I always now quote high.

I went to a new housing development (which contains 8 new houses) the other day to do a quote... They are all 3 bed detatched houses, but no bigger than a normal 3 bed semi... I quoted them £20 for an 8 weekly clean... They were fine with the price.

The day I turned up to clean the windows 3 neighbours saw me cleaning them and also asked for a quote... I quoted £20 for each one and they all accepted!

High prices can be acheived. You just need to be confident that you can get them!

Andy