Do You Clean Garage Doors As Standard ?

[rcproperty]

I've done the odd garage door at times. I initially did a few off my own bat to see how long it takes to do them properly on average. I would say that in my experience it takes around 5 minutes and may even take a little longer sometimes.

If you did a complementary garage door with each house you cleaned and you clean 15 houses a day, your 5 minutes each starts to mount up to 75 minutes per day 'wasted' - time you could better spend on doing a couple of extra houses.

You may think you are doing the customer a service, but you are actually doing yourself a dis-service in my experience. Firstly, only one of the customers I did the garage door experiment for thanked me, and that person was my brother in law. Most won't even acknowledge the clean, probably scared they will be charged extra for it.

I put the brush over the front fascias of a couple of bungalows next door to each other every 6 months or so. I took about 2 minutes and as these were end of day cleans - night shift worker, it didn't matter if it cost me an extra 5 minutes.

I have now past that work onto my son in law and the one lady cancelled as SIL didn't clean the fascias.

Now I won't do a thing that isn't part of the clean. If they want it, they pay extra for it.

think that about sums it up! lol

 

[Posh]

No. Don't clean garage doors. Totally agree with the comment above. Frames yes but when are garage doors part of windows. A painter painting a garage door or fitting one doesn't clean your windows. Next it a be clean all the PVC as standard. I understand about keeping custies happy but there is a limit.

 

[harunh]

In a day i might so 3,4 doors average /emoticons/smile.png sone are dirty n sum arent sum take 2 mins sum take 5 mins

 

[spruce]

In a day i might so 3,4 doors average /emoticons/smile.png sone are dirty n sum arent sum take 2 mins sum take 5 mins

If you just run the brush over them then you will probably be looking at 5 minutes. If you do them properly they will take longer and £5 is about right.

Harun, you haven't got a full customer base yet, so you think you have time to fill. I would suggest using that time you spend cleaning garage doors to knock on a few doors each side of your current customers to expand your current customer base.

One day when you are full and struggle to complete all your customers on schedule, especially in winter time, these free complimentary cleans are going to get you down. You are going to hate having to do these cleans. They will expect free cleans as part of the service and if you stop doing it they will probably cancel you.

So if I were you I would tell each customer nicely that you have been cleaning garage doors for free to promote your business and that its not part of the regular window cleaning routine. If they want you to continue to clean them, then there will be a small charge for doing these in future. The other option is to put in a price increase next spring to include your cleaning of their garage door.

I certainly wouldn't be offering this service to any new customers from today.

Sorry to 'rain on your parade'.

 

[CNS-southwest]

See the way I would do it is include it in my price but tell them its free so I wouldn't be loosing money out.

If that makes sense lol

 

[Dodger]

If you just run the brush over them then you will probably be looking at 5 minutes. If you do them properly they will take longer and £5 is about right.

Harun, you haven't got a full customer base yet, so you think you have time to fill. I would suggest using that time you spend cleaning garage doors to knock on a few doors each side of your current customers to expand your current customer base.

One day when you are full and struggle to complete all your customers on schedule, especially in winter time, these free complimentary cleans are going to get you down. You are going to hate having to do these cleans. They will expect free cleans as part of the service and if you stop doing it they will probably cancel you.

So if I were you I would tell each customer nicely that you have been cleaning garage doors for free to promote your business and that its not part of the regular window cleaning routine. If they want you to continue to clean them, then there will be a small charge for doing these in future. The other option is to put in a price increase next spring to include your cleaning of their garage door.

I certainly wouldn't be offering this service to any new customers from today.

Sorry to 'rain on your parade'.

Sound advice mate..

 

[harunh]

When i quote customers i price them includibg garage door mate