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Personally, if I were starting up, I’d just get my water from spotless to start with. If after a few months you think you can make a go of it, and your starting to build a customer base, then I’d start thinking about producing it yourself 👍🏻 Then your not wasting money.

Ask X-line, they’ll know more than we do👍🏻

Working out of a car is fine?? 50lts of water isn’t ?

I text customers an invoice, if they don’t pay cash at the time, but it’s not like an official invoice that I give to commercial customers.

I’m uneasy about just stopping work one day, and never doing anymore at 67 or whatever. I’m planning to start cutting down much earlier while I’m still fairly young. It’ll mean I’m still doing a bit in my 70s, but window cleaning is the perfect job for that. Even a couple of easy mornings...

No chance. They can’t even scrap the triple lock (even though they’d like too). Any government that tried it would be out of office for decades. ?

The idea is that an Nic cut helps working people only. Whereas a tax cut helps everyone who pays tax. Including pensioners.

Redbacks all year round. The non steel capped ones. Tough, comfy, waterproof and last for ages. Always wear them with Darn tough socks as well. Lightweight in summer, thicker ones in winter.

Is it a one off, or a regular job?

Yes. Medium sized modern 3 bed semi. 3 windows and a door at the front 1 down the side and 4 at the back. £16-£20. 10-15 mins work. South only though?? Obviously there are other factors in play. Do you need the work, do you have work close by , is parking and access good or bad, all these...

If I recall correctly, you wears shorts all year which is daft. You’ve got no chance of staying warm. If your body is cold it restricts blood flow to your extremities, so your hands will never warm up. Likewise when it’s hot it does the opposite. Gloves certainly help but are no substitute for...

Remember a lot of window cleaners won’t do insides, so you can price accordingly. I charge 1.5 times outside price, more if it’s a one off. So a £20 house would be £30 for the inside. So £50.00 total. I tell them I’m not insured to touch ornaments etc so they are removed first. I was trad...

I push everyone back a week. When you’re full it’s almost impossible to keep an exact schedule. Bad weather, holidays, illness etc. So for domestic stuff I don’t bother. Just do what’s most overdue. Most customers don’t care if you’re a bit late anyway.

Ignore it. Keep a decent float in the bank ( you should have that already), and worry about it if and when it happens ??

The hourly rate looks good, when you take into account-no holiday pay, no sick pay, no pension contributions, bad weather , van overheads, cleaning equipment and unpayed work, such as accounts, filling tank, changing resin and filters, etc it’s nowhere near as good.

In the last 2 months I’ve lost 1 customer ( husband made redundant). And 1 has asked to go every other. Other than that nothing has changed, I’m still picking up the odd house here and there.

Might want to start building up your own work now, if you get a few days of work, it’ll help when you speak to him??

I used to do them years ago. Always worked on 15 mins per Window minimum . And adjusted it upwards for difficult or big ones. Made really good money at the time. Hard work though.

1st rule of investing, “ never put all your eggs in one basket”. Just stick some money each month in an All World Tracker, forget it and get on with your life.

The definition of a good business, is one that does what you want it too. If that’s to earn good money in a short time so you can do other things, or running 5 vans , so you can earn lots. Or earning £100 a week to top up your pension. If it does what you want it’s a good business. If it...