[ronnie paton]

so are we going to be let in with the seret of the chemicals used???

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xxmattxx
A woman stopped me at work yesterday walking past with her dog. She lived nearby in a similar house how much would I charge just to do her front?; probably about once every two months. Not wishing to be unkind I said £5 and thought that I had lumbered myself with a chore, but then I saw from her face that it was too much and she said that she had my number.
Is this the sort of person that you mean that wants a quick wipe over?How much would have been okay,£2?
I'll stick with the bul===it taa.

Ah but you should have offered her a six stage windowclean for fifty quid and she would have bitten your hand off - you need to move on upwards away from the competition. Yor perception is all wrong.

[Village Gleam]

I got my chemical info off Jeff1, he has to be missed on here .That was before the embroidery debacle.

DJW, watch and learn.

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Yes master

[ronnie paton]

mr solubility can you not let me in with your secrets??

[xxmattyxx]

xxmattxx
A woman stopped me at work yesterday walking past with her dog. She lived nearby in a similar house how much would I charge just to do her front?; probably about once every two months. Not wishing to be unkind I said £5 and thought that I had lumbered myself with a chore, but then I saw from her face that it was too much and she said that she had my number.
Is this the sort of person that you mean that wants a quick wipe over?How much would have been okay,£2?
I'll stick with the bul===it taa.

Sorry, I dont know what your trying to get at.

All I know is that most people when they want their uPVC cleaned up, they just want it cleaned, nothing fancy, nothing special, just cleaned. I think most of my customers when they want that done expect a bit of elbow grease, the odd cloth, maybe a brush or two, a dab of fairy liquid, but thats all. Its not rocket science. Its cleaning.

Matt

[Tim Rose]

Whats the best squeegee to use on a conversatory?

[Davo]

This is more a debate about how you build your business and we all differ in how we view ourselves and our business's.

No its  not a topic on business building at all. Its a topic that tries to demonstrate the way in which you can change the customers perception of you as just a window cleaner to somene a bit more specialist, and whos expertise is WORTH PAYING FOR.

And the topic centres on the cleaning of the PVCu more than the glass. You can add value to the service you provide by distinguishing it from a run of the mill clean with some scourer to something much much more.


Interesting comment made recently in a post

" I feel that charging the customer £8 for 10 minutes work is a bit of a rip  off".....NO ITS NOT., its called earning a living.

If the customer is happy with the price they pay THEN ITS CALLED VALUE FOR MONEY NO MATTER WHAT THE HOURLY RATE WORKS OUT AT.



Mark

[nice-n-white.co.uk]

Not posted for 120 days who cares,all you need is a good platform ladder to work off ,very good cleaning solution, that will do all the work for you,rinse off solids with low pressure on m/c,dip pole and soft brush in solution and wash away,might have to go over more than once,use machine to rinse off soap,left nice-n-white and shiny like the day fitted. My customers always say,my window cleaners never got them that clean before ,and this tells me something,stick to windows and leave the frames to get dirty as usual.