i find the same
i quoted a job last week a huge leisure centre, wants cleaning for the most part weekly
I reckon some contrat cleaner is gonna go in at about £11 an hour
mine is nowhere near that probably double at least as it is for doing early morning late evening and is regular money
but its hard to compete with that on my own as i dont have the resources to work for such a low amount!!
even with staff that is too low when you take into account the over heads involved in running window cleaning operations, its much more than contracts as generally you have to provide vans systems etc
contract cleaning they make there own way and you provide a vac some mr musle and bin bags! trouble is the contract cleaners view window cleaning the same and thats why they get ot wrong and do a crap job!!!
Alot of theses national companies do this as they are primarily contract cleaners/fm'ers