[Kwackers]

My Kits Coming this week and a close friend has renovated a house.

It has Rendering and bits of concrete on the windows and UPVC, whats the best way to get this off, and how what would you quote.

It's a 4 bed semi, but fairly big for a four bed, if it was quoted at a pound a window of the top of my head there is 12, so £12 on a normal clean, what would you expect to quote on this.

They would rather pay me to do it than someone else but having not actually used my equipment before i'm not sure if i want to take it on.

Thanks in Advance!

[colley614]

Basically the way I would price it is whatever you want for the outside double for in and out then I usually double again for a builders clean and maybe another clean on top depending how dirty the window are.

To clean them ( I presume your talking trad) Wet the window with an applicator and let the water soak in well, scrape everything off with a window cleaning scrapper. then wet again and squeegee, I find I give it a couple of good scrapes before squeegeeing off as sometimes you don't remove everything the first time and then knick you rubber on cement and have to change your rubber.

[dave0123]

a scraper i would use.


Just make sure you soap up the windows alot and leave it for a few moments and only scrape one way.

its hard to tell without seing the building but i would say around £200 maybe more depending on the state of them.


Dave

[Alex Wingrove]

price it at £15 and charge £100 in and out maybe a it more if they are caked, should take more than 2 hours

[dave0123]

I was talking for in and out btw.

[Kwackers]

price it at £15 and charge £100 in and out maybe a it more if they are caked, should take more than 2 hours

I was thinking something along those lines, numbers i had in mind were £75 and 2 hours.

[colley614]

price it at £15 and charge £100 in and out maybe a it more if they are caked, should take more than 2 hours

I was thinking something along those lines, numbers i had in mind were £75 and 2 hours.

Kwackers I was thinking exactly what you have just said. What you have to remember though is charge what you want. I've found that I've charged £6 for a semi and the guy next door charged £12 for next door. Its all down to what you want to earn and trust me since I set out my prices have gone up by about 10% a month on new jobs because I was underpricing so much.

[Kwackers]

I'm aiming for an average of £25 an hour but i'll be a slow worker i'd guess, and a builders clean is a bit of a bombsite as it could take 2-4 hours depending on my speed and how bad it is i guess

[dave0123]

There hard work... price it right.


Dave

[colley614]

Yeah go in for more than you would expect for spending that time on a normal clean because it doesn't half take it out of your gear. It is also really grubby work. I love doing them! 

[dave0123]

Everytime i do them i say never again at the end of it.. but its good money i spose so everytime i get asked its errrr ok lol.


last one i done was block flats was nightmare ! was snowing and everything had to wait for that to clear freezingggg as well.

Dave

[dave0123]

which reminds me i have to wash my scrim  :

[Kwackers]

2 Hours working, is 2 Hours NOT Spending!

[colley614]

I went and done Tesco's in Sidiothorpe a few years ago with my old firm. All the painters, electricians and stuff worked all day and we worked all night for about 3 days. Our firm were to tight to higher access platforms so when the other guys went off site of a night we were knicking theirs off charge. Then next morning when they got into work there was a big row of flat scissor platforms right along the inside of the windows one morning then the outsides the next and we were tucked up in our hotel room beds. Was great fun! Then we had to wash all the cladding down the side of the building with water fed poles. I left mine stood up on the side of the build whilst going to the toilet, when I got back it was lying flat on the ground. I picked it up and heard a cracking noise then a snap, when I looked up the brush was dangling from the top of the pole by the hose. I blamed a dumper truck driver for running it over! Was great fun that builders clean.

[colley614]

lol Scun thorpe with out the space in it has a naughty word for a womans private parts. So if I try it now you will read it as Sidiothorpe.

[colley614]

thats funny! everything about that place makes me laugh! 

[steve m]

for that size of builder clean I would get £105.00, but thats subbing off a cleaning company and just the windows and porch if its got one. Anything else is extra

[Alex Wingrove]

kwackers you want to be earning more than your normally hourly average for builders cleans, they do take alot of effort and make sure you've got lots of scraper blades and a while scourer pad

[East coast window cleaning Services]

kwackers you want to be earning more than your normally hourly average for builders cleans, they do take alot of effort and make sure you've got lots of scraper blades and a while scourer pad

with you there b/c aint easy if there caked. render can be a pain to remove from frames. i use bricky diloted right down always works a treat.

[julianbiggs]

My only advice I would give you about builder's cleans is run amile!!! They are a nightmare and the contractors always try to haggle you down on price and you will work like a bugger for them and wait months and months for payment. We did a load for a supposed reputable national building company. NEVER AGAIN!