I have a professional sprayer which I take with me and spray weedkiller where I clean the windows. I also have a pair of secateurs and a battery jigsaw to cut away some branches, no one has every complained. I'm trying to make it easy for me when cleaning windows but many of my customers are OAP,s and have to rely on their gardener.
We are now in a position to be very fussy with who we take on I am having to get rid of work to take on new customers as we are full to bursting point . If what I said came over as arrogant that’s not how it was meant I am just stressing we don’t need any more customers so I am very fussy who I take on as I can afford to be like @Green Pro Clean Ltd Once said the customer has to meet his profile , I thought he was being arrogant but he’s right , Ime not interested in taking on every job that comes my way , I want nice houses , easy access , no dog poo , no locked gates unless we have keys or codes not interested in txt or phoning , good prices and nice customers I am in a lucky position to be able to pick and choose after 22 years or so doing this job , we are currently getting around 30 + enquires a week Ime struggling to keep up with the emails and answer phone massages , again this isn’t boasting Ime just sharing my experience and I know several other window cleaners in my area are experiencing exactly the same as I am . Housing estates with hundreds of new homes are being built all over the place and there simply isn’t enough window cleaners that are any good or reliable to keep up with the demand . I am not interested in disorganised customers that’s my whole point problems in the making ,
Mine are Japanese and cost £50 so I don't let them out of my sight. Got the tidy metal shelfs now so every thing has its place.
I'm getting enquires every other day regarding window cleaning then when I go and clean them I usually pick up the neighbour. I think the virus has conditioned folk to look after their home and see it as a piggy bank. The other thing is cleanliness, folk have went all ocd regarding touching and cleaning things, which is pressing the trend.
Once you have been attacked by a bramble bush or worse Berberis then you don't want it to happen again.
Mine are from my grandads shed..let's meet up and have a bramble cutting race...?
Aww come on, just having a bit of banter with you. Don't be so serious all the time.
if a window is partly obscured by an overgrown shrub i just clean what i can and leave the rest,sod pruning it for the customer!also customers can be very precious about there plants so giving them a chop could be very annoying to them without their consent....
I do exactly the same if it’s a rose bush go do what you can without knocking petals off , the silk is usually out of the question
I think I remember Scottish saying he cut down a small tree not so long ago, problem was it wasn't the customers it was the next door neighbours ?
The problem is we already have approx 4,500 regular customers as well as add on jobs and we don’t have any spare time to take on theses new jobs , I agree totally with what you are saying it could be a good new revenue earner , but we are now booking add on jobs going into November, some won’t wait that long but most are prepared to so we just have to turn so much stuff away , it’s a shame but I cannot take on any more I am dropping our lesser paid stuff and replacing it with higher priced work on a drop a job and take a new one on basis . I have never known anything like the volume of enquires we are getting don’t understand why it’s suddenly gone like this .
Sounds about right ?????
Yeh we get it, you’ve mentioned how busy you are in your last four thousand post ??
Have you put your prices up this year? I'm charging roughly 20 percent more now. So a £25 job is now £30, a £40 job is £50, a £100 job is £120 etc. I was always on the high side anyway but they're paying more now. If I was in your position, which is a great position to be in, I'd be whacking the prices up as you can afford to lose a lot and still be full with work.
I haven’t put up many this year as most are very good anyway but did put up prices last year by quite a bit , but all new ones are 50% higher than existing work , gets a bit difficult when quoting next to existing customers so I just say I yours will be dearer than next doors , so they don’t come back later saying why’s mine xx amount more than next doors
