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How Much Would You Charge To Clean This

tbh i think £55 is well over the top! its just a domestic house afterall, ok its 3 storey and old sash but still, i would be done and out of there in 30mins quite comfortably.

each to their own and good luck with it but personally i think thats quite high

 
£30 trad or pole for me.

some of these guys on here are

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yes dodger know you like this my son /emoticons/wink.png

 
even better when you get it' date=' clean it for the same time and get paid £55 for it!!![/quote']
but rc mate no 1s gonna pay that .... u remember htat big office block mate that i sent u and u helped me do a method statement etc ?

i quotedd that for 80 quid mate... u told me ud do it for 200/300 ! ! lol

someone got it for like 60 quid ! lol
 
but rc mate no 1s gonna pay that .... u remember htat big office block mate that i sent u and u helped me do a method statement etc ?
i quotedd that for 80 quid mate... u told me ud do it for 200/300 ! ! lol

someone got it for like 60 quid ! lol
It's the difference of getting it done safe and well or by a fly by night one that's just doing it for beer money.
Remember that hotel I quoted £180 for half a days work and they said I was to cheap and they was paying a lot more than that to get them done!! They said they was worried that at that price that the work wasn't going to be that good!

 
its as important to be as fair to the customer as it is to be fair to yourself when pricing, i personally think too many WCs including quite a few on here charge far too much and use health and safety as a justification for it. i know for a fact i can do a top quality job and do it safely without having to charge extra.

£15-£30 an hour on the glass is GOOD money, but people are greedy, quoting £55 for half hours work on a domestic house?

its up to you, you can price high and end up with customers that resent you coming each month or you can price too low and end up resenting the work yourself. if you price fairly everyone is happy, including the customer which breeds loyalty and gives you a business with longevity...turtle and the hare if you like

 
its as important to be as fair to the customer as it is to be fair to yourself when pricing, i personally think too many WCs including quite a few on here charge far too much and use health and safety as a justification for it. i know for a fact i can do a top quality job and do it safely without having to charge extra.£15-£30 an hour on the glass is GOOD money, but people are greedy, quoting £55 for half hours work on a domestic house?

its up to you, you can price high and end up with customers that resent you coming each month or you can price too low and end up resenting the work yourself. if you price fairly everyone is happy, including the customer which breeds loyalty and gives you a business with longevity...turtle and the hare if you like
i know what you are saying there and i do agree, on domestic side. £15- £30 an hour is good money, but you can earn more, like on one of my commercial jobs it takes about 4-5 hours to do it and i charge £400 for it, i was one of the cheapest of the compaines that quoted for it.

Commercial side of it some business has to use someone that is trained for the job and have all the health and safety etc, to make sure they comply with the law etc. for this you can get away with charging more because it has cost you more to get all the right things in place.

its like someone fitting gas boilers etc, you have to go to a trained gas safe plumber to get the work to to comply with the law, and they charge more for it as they know you have to have it. a normal plumber can do the work to the same standard and just as safe, but you cant use them for safey reasons to cover you own backside,

 
i agree with you completely on the commercial side of things but too many people expect to charge commercial rates for domestic properties, thats my issue

 
i agree with you completely on the commercial side of things but too many people expect to charge commercial rates for domestic properties' date=' thats my issue[/quote']yer true, all depends where the domestic is really, that one on this topic, to 100% fully comply with h&s you might have to apply for the road to be closed down due to the fact you have to go into road to work and that costs money, so that cost would have to be passed on to the customer.
 
its as important to be as fair to the customer as it is to be fair to yourself when pricing, i personally think too many WCs including quite a few on here charge far too much and use health and safety as a justification for it. i know for a fact i can do a top quality job and do it safely without having to charge extra.£15-£30 an hour on the glass is GOOD money, but people are greedy, quoting £55 for half hours work on a domestic house?

its up to you, you can price high and end up with customers that resent you coming each month or you can price too low and end up resenting the work yourself. if you price fairly everyone is happy, including the customer which breeds loyalty and gives you a business with longevity...turtle and the hare if you like
well said
 
i know what you are saying there and i do agree, on domestic side. £15- £30 an hour is good money, but you can earn more, like on one of my commercial jobs it takes about 4-5 hours to do it and i charge £400 for it, i was one of the cheapest of the compaines that quoted for it.
Commercial side of it some business has to use someone that is trained for the job and have all the health and safety etc, to make sure they comply with the law etc. for this you can get away with charging more because it has cost you more to get all the right things in place.

its like someone fitting gas boilers etc, you have to go to a trained gas safe plumber to get the work to to comply with the law, and they charge more for it as they know you have to have it. a normal plumber can do the work to the same standard and just as safe, but you cant use them for safey reasons to cover you own backside,
i see your point here as well,but on my garden side of business i find that commercial work is very poor pay and nobody is willing to pay a fair amount never mind decent.ive got a couple of commercial contracts one on a bar and one on some very nice flats,they are worth jack **** but i still do them as it makes the number up at the end of the month and theres always a cheque there but they are worth double but nobody will pay so you have to take it or just keep losing out if you know what i mean,personaly i wont be going after any more commercial work.
 
yer true' date=' all depends where the domestic is really, that one on this topic, to 100% fully comply with h&s you might have to apply for the road to be closed down due to the fact you have to go into road to work and that costs money, so that cost would have to be passed on to the customer.[/quote']hahahahaha, omfg are you serious? closing down a road in order to clean someones windows? what planet are you on?
 
hahahahaha' date=' omfg are you serious? closing down a road in order to clean someones windows? what planet are you on?[/quote']it happens, there is one street that gets closed down so people can clean windows down there, cant remember where it is now.
 
no it doesnt happen' date=' not on domestic rounds, your living in a dreamworld neo![/quote']im not at all. its a street in a town centre, its shops and flats etc, they have to shut the street down so that they can get all the equipment in to clean it,

it wouldnt happen on a housing estate,
 
im not at all. its a street in a town centre, its shops and flats etc, they have to shut the street down so that they can get all the equipment in to clean it,it wouldnt happen on a housing estate,
lol, so they would close the whole street down just to clean 1 persons windows? that is what you suggested for the house in the first post in this topic.i try to ignore most of your posts now as they seem exaggerated at best and full of s*** at worst but lately their getting worse, alot doesnt add up with you

 
thats why that guy had to leave R.C just talks **** and makes everything up he told me other day he's cleaned windows on the moon?

 
lol, so they would close the whole street down just to clean 1 persons windows? that is what you suggested for the house in the first post in this topic.i try to ignore most of your posts now as they seem exaggerated at best and full of s*** at worst but lately their getting worse, alot doesnt add up with you
a everyday window cleaner wouldnt do no, i wouldnt do, but if a h&s officer did a risk assesment of that job them they would say that half the road would have to be shut off to protect the workers.

when you have and go on all the training like the large cleaning companies have to go on by law to comply with all this stuff then you would understand what im going on about, its the diffrence between a one man everyday window cleaner and a company that employees loads of people and deal with £10,000's contract,

like a firm in the next town to me they havejust priced a £750k a year contract and in september they won a contract for £600k a year, at the moment they are pricing up these:-

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thats why that guy had to leave R.C just talks **** and makes everything up he told me other day he's cleaned windows on the moon?
trust me i dont talk **** as you put it, and it was mars not the moon!

 
a everyday window cleaner wouldnt do no, i wouldnt do, but if a h&s officer did a risk assesment of that job them they would say that half the road would have to be shut off to protect the workers.when you have and go on all the training like the large cleaning companies have to go on by law to comply with all this stuff then you would understand what im going on about, its the diffrence between a one man everyday window cleaner and a company that employees loads of people and deal with £10,000's contract,

like a firm in the next town to me they havejust priced a £750k a year contract and in september they won a contract for £600k a year, at the moment they are pricing up these:-
id do them for £500 some windys just take the **** :lol:
 

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