[geoffreyspecht]

75pence for a house and £10 fore a bank

[windows_chepstow]

75pence for a house and £10 fore a bank

I've just read some of your back posts - shocked at what I just saw - you're having a 'larf'.

Those were the prices when you first started in 1923.

[geoffreyspecht]

no 1973 prices

[windows_chepstow]

no 1973 prices

I was four then!  I remember our window cleaner used to charge my Mum 50p, probably about 1975(ish) for a three bedroomed house - easy access all round.

He was a big fat bloke, loads of tatoos, didn't drive and carried his wooden ladders over his shoulder, and worked all down our street.  He lived close-by.

He used a sponge to wet the windows and then squeegied.  I remember being facinated by the squeegie action.  It looked fun - when you're six years old.  Now, on occassion I'll give an interested child a 'go' on a patio door if their Mum says it's okay.

He never came during the winter months.  I haven't a clue what he did then.  I think it was a case of some extra beer money!

[geoffreyspecht]

i was 19 and it was my first year cleaning windows things have changed a lot since then.semi retired now just clean windows partime now 

[sparkles]

commercial ,£200 a week
domestic £220 1 mth
Ive got a lot of jobs like this. I use wfp and old style.

[Ian_Giles]

For me it is really 4 offices all next door to one another (or as good as) done monthly.
3 of them are £60 each, the other is £50, start 8.30am, finish 12pm.
I do have a separate £75 office-45 mins (monthly)

Domestic? £120, in & out, 4 hours...........Once a year!

Regards,

Ian

[Steve.D]

Only been going a few weeks but highest so far is two bedroom semi with 'lean to' type conservatory, inside and out for £60. Lowest is £3.50 for 2 front windows and 1 side window for an old dear. Mind you one customer suffers from short term memory loss. At the last clean she asked me at least 10 times if I had been paid, I could have said no and got £140 for the job :-)).

Bit off topic but I'm cleaning a 3 bedroom semi for £15.

Front:
2 (up) and 2 smallish bays (down)

Side:
1 bathroom window (up), 1 dining room window, 1 front door with side glass and 2 kitchen windows.

Rear:
1 bedroom window, 1 bathroom window (up), 2 patio doors, 1 kitchen window, 1 kitchen door, 1 utility room window and 1 garage window (down)

Frames and cills get cleaned as well. The job takes me hour and a 30 minutes without stopping. (timed myself yesterday). Don't know whether I'm spending too much time cleaning the frames or my squeegy technique needs tweaking as I seem to have a bit of mess to clean up after.  I wished I'd gone in at £22.50 + or am I doing something wrong?

[Ian_Giles]

Steve,
Couple of points: First off you are a newbie, therefore you are going to be very slow, it'll take several months to be really cracking along at a good pace. Now some may get up to speed quicker, and that helps if you are working alongside an experienced pro who can correct and help with technique.

Second point; If this is the first time clean for this house, and you are fastidiously cleaning all of the frames, then it is gonig to take an awful lot longer than subsequent regular cleans.

Third point is price, now if these are UPVC windows, I would say that the price isn't all that far off the mark, it sounds like a house that would take about 25 minutes for one of us window cleaners that have been doing it for donkeys years But that wouldn't include a thorough clean of the frames.
On repeat cleans the frames will only need a quick wipe over with a clean, damp scrim, so should only add 10 mins or so to the job.
In my area, considering you are using trad methods, windows + frames?....Mmm, maybe £3 more cos of the frames...hard to say without seeing some photo's.

When I took on lads, it would take them at least 3 months of solid work before they were working at a reasonable pace, th begin with, during the first 2 or 3 weeks I would be cleaning 3 windows to their one!
So you will get much, much quicker!!

regards,

Ian.

Oh, on reading the replies on page 2 I see roger (squeaky Clean) Mentioned a £90.00 account, which is the £120.00 account I also mentioned. he claims 3 hours...yeah, right! Lol I'll accept 4 hours! I know cos I did it Yesterday (wednesday 14th)
Rog is a bit quicker than me with Trad stuff, but that was made up with doing the outside with WFP.
Inside is a nightmare, as is the inside of the conservatory, hence the price, but still good money for a mornings work

Regards,

Ian

[Sir Squeaky]

Oh, on reading the replies on page 2 I see roger (squeaky Clean) Mentioned a £90.00 account, which is the £120.00 account I also mentioned. he claims 3 hours...yeah, right! Lol I'll accept 4 hours! I know cos I did it Yesterday

Alright. I'll settle for 3 and half hours. Definately done before 1pm!

Highest I've got now is 20quid.

[daniel b]

smallest 19.50,biggest 48k per year (4000 a month).

Daniel

[Thecleanerservice]

Only been going a few weeks but highest so far is two bedroom semi with 'lean to' type conservatory, inside and out for £60. Lowest is £3.50 for 2 front windows and 1 side window for an old dear. Mind you one customer suffers from short term memory loss. At the last clean she asked me at least 10 times if I had been paid, I could have said no and got £140 for the job :-)).

Bit off topic but I'm cleaning a 3 bedroom semi for £15.

Front:
2 (up) and 2 smallish bays (down)

Side:
1 bathroom window (up), 1 dining room window, 1 front door with side glass and 2 kitchen windows.

Rear:
1 bedroom window, 1 bathroom window (up), 2 patio doors, 1 kitchen window, 1 kitchen door, 1 utility room window and 1 garage window (down)

Frames and cills get cleaned as well. The job takes me hour and a 30 minutes without stopping. (timed myself yesterday). Don't know whether I'm spending too much time cleaning the frames or my squeegy technique needs tweaking as I seem to have a bit of mess to clean up after. I wished I'd gone in at £22.50 + or am I doing something wrong?

Agree with all Ian said.
You're not doing anything wrong Dave, price is spot on I think for time it takes.
You will get quicker then your money automatically goes up cos you do more at the same price you are now charging.
I'm in Norfolk too and, without looking at the job I would have said £20-£25 is good enough so you are spot on.  Keep it up
Pj

[windows_chepstow]

smallest 19.50,biggest 48k per year (4000 a month).

Daniel

Crickey, what's the 48k a year job?  How many lads and how long?

I'm glad I don't have your tax bill.

[rosskesava]

Hi Daniel

Was that you or your lot doing the hotels along Brighton Seafront today?

If it was that must be a huge contract.

Cheers

[daniel b]

Ross no that wasnt us mate brighton a little out of my way, Tosh its a LA contract ive got 4 on the books at the mo each 1 comin down in price a time with the lowest at 24k,there is a team of 9 inc me and ive got another 3/4 lads i use as an when,and your right about the VAT/TAX etc its a pain but aslong as you add VAT to your price and dont go spendin it instead of givin to them you should be ok,but it is hard at the end of every qrt to hand over the dosh but the interest charges are ridiculous so i try and have it for them.

Daniel

[rosskesava]

Hi Daniel

I thought it had the same name but as your in Wrexham... Also, they used exactly the same super high cherry picker as on your website.

As for the best paying work...

Our besting paying is £2. It is a weekly window of a shop in between other commercial jobs.

It takes about 30 seconds or less and they pay monthly (£8) by direct debit. I would be happy with loads more like that.

Cheers

[Thecleanerservice]

Highest paid?
Best paid?
I'm still waiting....It could always be better
I'm waiting for the Prince of Brunai to pay for me tofly over to polish his chandaliers
Pj

[martindrz400]

£150 for 6 stairway windows takes 30 mins but only clean every 4 months shame

[jb1975]

Although I've not been trading too long, commercially mine's £320 and residentially it's £35 every 4 weeks.  I picked-up a customer the other day as they'd recently got rid of their previous w/c for charging £32 to do a 3-bed house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe they employed him for 5 months before they realised!!!

I aint, cheap...but I'm certainly not that expensive.  It only took me 30 minutes to do all window/frames and then I was taking my time!!

Horses for courses!

I feel the previous window cleaner had the right idea...although perhaps £15to25 for a semi (about 12 windows) , including frames, is closer to the real the true value of a window cleaner's labour. If not, then certainly at least £10.

After all what is the hourly labour/call out rate for other tradespeople, a plumber, tree surgeon etc.... Starts at around £40 an hour

I remember hearing on radio a story about a comment that Babe Ruth, a USA 1950s baseball megastar (equivalent to pele, maradonna in football) player made while watching a then Division 1 English football match with a 60,000 plus crowd. Babe earnt millions of dollars a year playing baseball, and when he asked and was told the pittance being paid to the football players he was watching, he said "they're crazy". They were grossly underpaid

Only took 40 odd years for football players to be paid what they are truely "worth"

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

i'm suprised this thread is still active

my highest domestic is still £30 and commercial £100

jay