[LWC]

Got myself a pressure washer last month, pretty good en, did my parents patio came up great and a customer asked me about it, i had no iddea how to price so said £50 thinking maybe an hours work.

4 hours later and 2 of us finished it, not impressed. How do you guys price it? Wouldnt of minded so much if weather was crap but wouldve been fine to do windows today...sighs

[peter holley]

i too would like to know the answer rto this ... 2 men and 4 hrs would have to be a minimum of £200 but more like £250.... but i cant see a custie paying that much

[ftp]

four hours  you did switch it on didn't you?

[supernova77]

four hours  Shocked you did switch it on didn't you?

lol 

[andyatkinson]

a minimum? that would be nice £500 a day, i could take a pay cut for that!
I priced 2 the other week both £70 each couldnt say how big exactly (back yard of council house and down side ally too) similar size on other job, my £7.50 an hour blokey knocked em both out in 5 hours on his own, it lashed down all day so couldnt possibly do anythin else so priced accordingly to do work that day, £140 is not so bad if you can do absolutely nothin else.
i would just save purely for days like today and never ever book in advance a date, i tell them its a bit cheeper so can i be flexible with time and come when its raining.

[LWC]

four hours  you did switch it on didn't you?

Lol yes, i turned the switch past on after 2 hours i was that annoyed lol

[martinsadie]

four hours  you did switch it on didn't you?

[martinsadie]

Got myself a pressure washer last month, pretty good en, did my parents patio came up great and a customer asked me about it, i had no iddea how to price so said £50 thinking maybe an hours work.

4 hours later and 2 of us finished it, not impressed. How do you guys price it? Wouldnt of minded so much if weather was crap but wouldve been fine to do windows today...sighs

Window cleaners should only do jobs like that if they run out of work or its raining 

[LWC]

It was raining this morning, hence the reason i went.

[Nathanael Jones]

Personally I think it was prob a mistake was having 2 ppl at the job. Pressure washing is a 1 man job (Unless you have a twin lance washer),.. it rarely pays to have 2 men on this kind of job.
I used to do it with 1 man pressure washing, the other cleaning the windows, but inevitably there was always someone standing watching for some part of the job and money was lost, so now I do it strictly as a one man operation.

Was it a large area, or was it simply grime that was hard to remove? If the latter, spraying some of this down first will make the job a lot quicker:
http://www.mistral.ie/details.php?code=R1130

I also find if there are "Black spots" of algae left behind after washing that instead of taking hours removing them with the pressure washer, a good heavy spray of that chloras after the washing is complete will make them disappear almost instantly, saving hours of work.

[LWC]

Thank Nath, yeh suppose your right about being a one man job, mind you, i could never lift the washed in and out on my own, not where i store it in van.

Will take a lok at the lnk, thanks alot. 

[Nathanael Jones]

Leave the washer in the van & get loads of hose. www.merrillfoxenterprises.com sells 100' lengths extremely cheap,.. 2 of them will get you round nearly any house.

[Mr Formby]

I charge
£1.50 per mtr for concrete
£2.50 per mtr block paving + £1.00 per mtr for resanding

[Milltown Cleaning]

i generally work at a rate of £20 an hour, to cover for fuel and maintenance costs.

[Nathanael Jones]

£20 an hour? I'd be double that at least for pressure washing! Buying the machine, running it, servicing it etc really adds up. I reckon every time I take it out it costs €50 (I plan on replacing every 3 yrs, so replacement cost is factored in too)

[Milltown Cleaning]

ahh a fellow irish man - though you are at the opposite end of the country!!

you say €50 which is fair enough, the republic ic just so much dearer for everything!!

a guy i used to work for cleans chimneys up here for £20 a go, in dublin you pay €40 for the same service!!

i would love to be able to charge £40 odd an hour!!

[Chris B]

Got myself a pressure washer last month, pretty good en, did my parents patio came up great and a customer asked me about it, i had no iddea how to price so said £50 thinking maybe an hours work.

4 hours later and 2 of us finished it, not impressed. How do you guys price it? Wouldnt of minded so much if weather was crap but wouldve been fine to do windows today...sighs

Did you have a kip matt?    4 hours and i could of done my street thats the trouble with you windies, you have forgotten how to graft   .....only joking lads.....

Chris goes and hides....

[Nathanael Jones]

a guy i used to work for cleans chimneys up here for £20 a go, in dublin you pay €40 for the same service!!

€60 a chimney down here!!

[Milltown Cleaning]

€60 a chimney down here!!

thats it im moving back to dundalk!!! i would love to know what the average window prices are around there!

[JS_Cleaning]

Im also from northern ireland, i wont take the pressure washer out for less than £40 an hour, as im a window cleaner if any of my regular custies ask me about it i aim for £30 an hour to keep them sweet.  Its an expensive job, but most custies know that.