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Evening,
The above quote was said to me the other week when I cleaned a elderly lady’s tiny bungalow. It’s 6Weekly, really really small and I clean the one next door as well so it’s just £10.
The actually cleaning (from first window to last window only takes 10-12mins. Then a couple of mins messing round with the hose etc. When I knocked, told her I was done she then says the above title comment, I guess she’s from the age where the job is worth 80p or something. But even though she’s sweet & I always chat to her through politeness, she’s doesn’t stop talking, and a lot of it is just repeating herself lol.
In in total I was there about 35mins from arriving to leaving. “ Cor you’ve earned some money”.... saying it like she was shocked! Yeh love laughing all the way to the bank ?
hmm a couple of mins drive and unpacking to the next job you’re talking well over 40mins just for a tenner lol (in a job with out goings/expenses while working (especially as I’ve been doing it for 4yrs now and 75% of my stuff Is well priced now)
Anyway, not my worst hourly rate, but reminded me of when we were all first starting out.
*Whats the the most underpriced job you’ve done??
mine was a house, small house with fairly big conservatory, they wanted in & out of all windows & roof cleaned. I had been window cleaning for about 9months (3 or 4 on my own as my own business) and I was using back pack & containers.
i quoted £130 as I was still pretty quiet, and wanted the ongoing window clean which I actually priced ok. (Looking back I’d quote £200 now no probs and I’d be a lot faster now)
anyway I got there for 8:30 sharp, thinking I’d be all done by 4/4:30. The inside of the roof took FOREVER! It was a really hot day in April or may, was sweating inside. I then did the outside of the roof, so annoying having to fill back pack up every 15mins, was a dirty roof but not as bad as inside.
Didnt stop for anything to eat till about 3:00. Still had inside & outside windows of house to do. 10 min lunch at 3 then after went hell for leather. Rushed the insides (didn’t do a amazing job tbh looking back) did the outsides, finished at 5:30ish. Got £130 cash Awful traffic home for half an hour. Was out the house for 10hrs, felt like I had abit of sum stroke as I didn’t have my cap or glasses and it was a hot sunny day, dehydrated, used every inch of my cloths got them filthy and used way more pure then I was expecting.
And when I went to say thanks & see you in 6 weeks he goes “Yeh well Don’t worry for now, we’ll ring you when it all needs doing again” hahaha ah man wasn’t funny at the time though. Oh well.
The above quote was said to me the other week when I cleaned a elderly lady’s tiny bungalow. It’s 6Weekly, really really small and I clean the one next door as well so it’s just £10.
The actually cleaning (from first window to last window only takes 10-12mins. Then a couple of mins messing round with the hose etc. When I knocked, told her I was done she then says the above title comment, I guess she’s from the age where the job is worth 80p or something. But even though she’s sweet & I always chat to her through politeness, she’s doesn’t stop talking, and a lot of it is just repeating herself lol.
In in total I was there about 35mins from arriving to leaving. “ Cor you’ve earned some money”.... saying it like she was shocked! Yeh love laughing all the way to the bank ?
hmm a couple of mins drive and unpacking to the next job you’re talking well over 40mins just for a tenner lol (in a job with out goings/expenses while working (especially as I’ve been doing it for 4yrs now and 75% of my stuff Is well priced now)
Anyway, not my worst hourly rate, but reminded me of when we were all first starting out.
*Whats the the most underpriced job you’ve done??
mine was a house, small house with fairly big conservatory, they wanted in & out of all windows & roof cleaned. I had been window cleaning for about 9months (3 or 4 on my own as my own business) and I was using back pack & containers.
i quoted £130 as I was still pretty quiet, and wanted the ongoing window clean which I actually priced ok. (Looking back I’d quote £200 now no probs and I’d be a lot faster now)
anyway I got there for 8:30 sharp, thinking I’d be all done by 4/4:30. The inside of the roof took FOREVER! It was a really hot day in April or may, was sweating inside. I then did the outside of the roof, so annoying having to fill back pack up every 15mins, was a dirty roof but not as bad as inside.
Didnt stop for anything to eat till about 3:00. Still had inside & outside windows of house to do. 10 min lunch at 3 then after went hell for leather. Rushed the insides (didn’t do a amazing job tbh looking back) did the outsides, finished at 5:30ish. Got £130 cash Awful traffic home for half an hour. Was out the house for 10hrs, felt like I had abit of sum stroke as I didn’t have my cap or glasses and it was a hot sunny day, dehydrated, used every inch of my cloths got them filthy and used way more pure then I was expecting.
And when I went to say thanks & see you in 6 weeks he goes “Yeh well Don’t worry for now, we’ll ring you when it all needs doing again” hahaha ah man wasn’t funny at the time though. Oh well.