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Hourly rate

If trad and brand new to it maybe starting 15/20 an hour and building prices,work load and compactness.

Wfp..I've no idea.

 
Depends if you're working solo, commercial/domestic or with an employee, regular or one off

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So many factors I can't comment.

As I said to a friend who will be starting up in Feb, "charge what your time is worth"

Pick up good priced work, and then replace it continually with better priced work. Your time is more precious when it's rare. So once you have a round that fills your time, make your time worth more money.

 
Too right.

Grass cutter around here was boasting that he was going to be on £80 ph. Was quoting people £35 for cutting a lawn that was worth £15. I see him working maybe 1 day a week if that.

I clean his brothers windows and he tells me that most of the time his van is parked up outside his house. Gets a job but no-body has him back again. /emoticons/unsure.png

 
An hourly rate is ever evolving like pointed out. We start at what we are accepting of and build upto what we will be very happy with.

Not to say we should start cheap but expectation grows as reputation and busyness do. IE if your full you'll defo feel comfortable upping prices and replacing cheaper work. The experienced guys in here are using a traffic light system for example to weed out cheaper work.

As you get faster the speed will build too and so your hourly rate increases. £100 a day to start is easily achievable ,working upto £125 and then £150 and so on..

Area dependant yes but the above mentioned prices are minimum type expectations

 
Question for the old guard has the prices in window cleaning stayed the same for a long while or have you noticed them rise (have they stagnated) ?

 
Question for the old guard has the prices in window cleaning stayed the same for a long while or have you noticed them rise (have they stagnated) ?
They rise or stagnate according to one single person, you.

That's what being self employed is all about. My prices don't stagnate as my customers know that every other January they are going up.

I've had only one moaner in 22 years using this system, so it was just a simple "thanks for your previous custom, ta ta".

No reason for any prices to stagnate I.m.o /emoticons/smile.png

 
Depends on hours as well. I'd rather do less hours and crank up the rate over time.

For windows currently I seem to average 25-30 an hour although im no no where near a full round. I reckon I can get that up to 40ph over the next couple of years

 
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