I'm 100% traditional and I get stopped pretty much every day for a quote and they usually add that they've just got rid of or are going to get rid of current WFP cleaner. So I always add extra on price and tell them because it will take longer and better clean. Today what I gather is I'm making at least 4-6 quid more per house. I've tripled my money by sticking to my price and not being a soft. Good video again bro. 😎
Hi probably your best video as yet as its all incredibly valuable advise to anyone out there....dont forget folks its not just the labour your pricing in its a service you are providing and reliable clients like that feeling of professionalism and trust when on site. Thanks Peter a brilliant channel, Andrew 😁
Great video Pete. The only trad I do is insides so I always charge more for that. If a customer was to ask for a specific type of cleaning trad/wfp I would charge extra as they are looking for something particular otherwise I would charge the same as at the end of the job you get the same results. 👍
I’d like to reprice pretty much all my work if I could. I’m not the cheapest in my area but I’m not the most expensive either. I actually had a lady today ask me to price her bungalow, (pretty standard). I charge 50% more for a first clean so I said £18 & then £12 maintenance cleans. She nearly choked on her cigarette & said “mine only charges £8” I said u should probably stick with him then..... another one looking to save 50p or a pound 😂.
@@TradMan where can I get those plastic sleeves to protect my squeegee channels and rubbers I remember you did a video on them but cant find it for the life of me😔
Great video Pete with some very sound advice and good information👍🏻. I’m in the process of building up a new round after moving to a different area, I’ve always had a flat rate per window pricing structure with the thought that the “over priced” smaller windows would offset the potentially “under priced” larger windows and it would even itself out that way. But I’m thinking I should adjust that and do as you do and have set prices dependant on size and type of window. As you say it’s much better to have a smaller well priced round than a massive round that’s all far too cheap. I’ll definitely be using that app on my next few quotes to give it a try and see what the conversion rate is like. Thanks again Pete👍🏻
Great video, i agree charge more for trad work to. Really good advice- just be confident in your pricing. I need to, im just starting, but im nervous everytime. A friend of mine said, always price a bit more, you can always come down if you choose to
Yeah it's not easy to stand your ground sometimes with haggling customers, but what I find helps is just to say, ok no problem thanks for letting me know, I'll leave you with our quotation today and let you have a think and hopefully see you in the future. That way your standing your ground in a polite way and letting them know that you are confident in yourself and your company. Those that really try to haggle, I'm already thinking I don't want them as a regular customer anyway. They are basically telling you that they think you and your services are worth less than they are, so I'm thinking, thanks for your time... bye! Stick to your prices if your delivering a good quality job, there are always plenty more good custys out there. 😉
This is the only reason I'd never do window cleaning full time I refuse to rely on customers to stay loyal to me if joe soap up the street will clean windows on a 2 bed semi for £6 giving me the option of telling the customer to shove it where the sun doesn't shine 😁. Also I like to use wfp on upstairs and traditional on downstairs it saves on water
I use the same counter, thought I was the only one😅. Edit: in terms of pricing I always charge more for WFP because the filters for my areas hard water has to be changed more often. I always automatically tack on $50 for the cost of WFP supplies and I charge about 10% for wfp work vs traditional. Of course construction cleanup is whole other ball park in pricing, always charge 3x (or more) your normal rate.
I wouldn't over promise on service. I hate sales'y selling. So generally just give my price a leave it with them if they hem and haw. Serious question to you tradman how many windows would you have had to clean 10 years ago to earn the equivent of the mimimum wage back then, and how many now with your current pricing. I think the biggest problem window cleaners have is trying to keep pricing relevant over the years, with exsisting customers.
I earn more than double now than when I first started self employed which was almost 6 years ago now. Before that I worked for 2 large window cleaning companies and was paid an hourly rate below £10 per hour
Yeah I think increasing your price a little each year is a good idea, especially if your prices are low. Fortunately I've priced my work quite well so no need to increase at the moment, but it's something that I would address in future as prices of everything slowly increases
For a hard water area, how much would I spend to maintain the pure water system? Would you be able to tell me an estimate of how often I'd need to change filters and resin for DI/RO system? Many thanks
Great information very informative (👍Trad-Man). My name is Brian I'm from Ireland and starting a new business, I understand that you charge more for a first clean but I wanted to know how you develope our convince a customer to make it a regular thing ? Basically how do I create a proper round ..I'd appreciate any advice you can give me.. Thanks
Yeah so basically I just say we are a once per month cleaning service and there initial clean will be a bit more. Let them know what services you offer if more than just window cleaning 😉
Just bought a unger hydro to make some pure water for my containers now and again used your discount code on WCW so thanks for the help! Do you know if I’m meant to drain the water out or leave it in with the resin to persevere it for longer?
It's entirely up to you what you charge per hour buddy, but I would say your very very cheap, most window cleaning business I know locally charge at least double if not quadruple that amount. It's your business though pal so totally your call 😊👍🏻
Yes Id agree with Trad man you are extremely cheap, Or need to work a little more efficiently or faster, Ive been cleaning from no experience for 2 years now followed Trad man got all his advice and practiced and yes he's correct I earn 3 times that an hr day in day out and quadruple or 5 times that if the houses are compact in the same street, Keep going you will get there, this channel has some great advice
@@imsteveoneill Thanks kindly buddy!! Yeah its amazing what you can earn as a window cleaner, just need a few good ingredients 1. Price your jobs well. 2. Have the most efficient tools you can afford. 3. Master your tools to become as efficient and effective as possible. 4. If possible keep your work as close to your home/place of work as possible. 5. Treat it as a proper job, have set hours and work hard 😉 Doing these things will really help anyone who wants a full time business in this trade. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I'm quite new to pure water fed pole,doing OK with just over 30 regular customers I have the opportunity to price up a school but not got a clue how to hourly rate myself🤔any help would be appreciated
Been putting my prices up this week, the majority have been no problem but one customer text and said ‘ I appreciate you have to put your prices up however I think it’s too expensive seen as I only have 5 windows’ they actually have 10 windows and the price was going up from £6 to £7 once a month 😂😂😂😂😂
The other problem with new ones they calling you asking for the price to clean their windows you are polite answering let them know the price your question how many windows do you have them you go to their property their counting are different on the phone that you can see in real time !!! Sorry are more it costing a bit more !!! WELL you telling this price now are different and excuses and excuses they always avoiding the quality of the job no to pay accordingly ...!!!!
I'm 100% traditional and I get stopped pretty much every day for a quote and they usually add that they've just got rid of or are going to get rid of current WFP cleaner. So I always add extra on price and tell them because it will take longer and better clean.
Today what I gather is I'm making at least 4-6 quid more per house.
I've tripled my money by sticking to my price and not being a soft.
Good video again bro. 😎
Hey Steve! Hope your well
Yeah sounds like you got things going well for you 😊
Glad to hear your doing ok 😁👍🏻
Hi probably your best video as yet as its all incredibly valuable advise to anyone out there....dont forget folks its not just the labour your pricing in its a service you are providing and reliable clients like that feeling of professionalism and trust when on site.
Thanks Peter a brilliant channel, Andrew 😁
Thanks buddy!! Really appreciate the support 🙏🏻😊
I'm hoping videos like this will help a few folks out 👍🏻
As always a great video Peter. Thanks for the time and effort you put in to making them. 👍
Very welcome, hope it helps 👍🏻
You signed off perfectly there Peter. WORK SMART........
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Great video Pete. The only trad I do is insides so I always charge more for that. If a customer was to ask for a specific type of cleaning trad/wfp I would charge extra as they are looking for something particular otherwise I would charge the same as at the end of the job you get the same results. 👍
I’d like to reprice pretty much all my work if I could. I’m not the cheapest in my area but I’m not the most expensive either. I actually had a lady today ask me to price her bungalow, (pretty standard). I charge 50% more for a first clean so I said £18 & then £12 maintenance cleans. She nearly choked on her cigarette & said “mine only charges £8” I said u should probably stick with him then..... another one looking to save 50p or a pound 😂.
Yeah that's exactly the costumer I avoid like the plague!
@@TradMan where can I get those plastic sleeves to protect my squeegee channels and rubbers I remember you did a video on them but cant find it for the life of me😔
@@angliscsaxon1288 the rubber tidy. I got it from window clean centre online
Great video Pete with some very sound advice and good information👍🏻. I’m in the process of building up a new round after moving to a different area, I’ve always had a flat rate per window pricing structure with the thought that the “over priced” smaller windows would offset the potentially “under priced” larger windows and it would even itself out that way. But I’m thinking I should adjust that and do as you do and have set prices dependant on size and type of window. As you say it’s much better to have a smaller well priced round than a massive round that’s all far too cheap. I’ll definitely be using that app on my next few quotes to give it a try and see what the conversion rate is like.
Thanks again Pete👍🏻
Happy to help! Let me know how you get on 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Great video, i agree charge more for trad work to.
Really good advice- just be confident in your pricing. I need to, im just starting, but im nervous everytime.
A friend of mine said, always price a bit more, you can always come down if you choose to
Exactly, if you feel you've over charged a bit, it's easier to come down than if you have to put the price up.
Glad the video helps!
Good video again Trad man 👍I usually fall for the old chestnut " my last window cleaner charged me such and such and was here for over an hour " 😔😔!!
Yeah it's not easy to stand your ground sometimes with haggling customers, but what I find helps is just to say, ok no problem thanks for letting me know, I'll leave you with our quotation today and let you have a think and hopefully see you in the future. That way your standing your ground in a polite way and letting them know that you are confident in yourself and your company.
Those that really try to haggle, I'm already thinking I don't want them as a regular customer anyway. They are basically telling you that they think you and your services are worth less than they are, so I'm thinking, thanks for your time... bye!
Stick to your prices if your delivering a good quality job, there are always plenty more good custys out there. 😉
This is the only reason I'd never do window cleaning full time I refuse to rely on customers to stay loyal to me if joe soap up the street will clean windows on a 2 bed semi for £6 giving me the option of telling the customer to shove it where the sun doesn't shine 😁. Also I like to use wfp on upstairs and traditional on downstairs it saves on water
I use the same counter, thought I was the only one😅.
Edit: in terms of pricing I always charge more for WFP because the filters for my areas hard water has to be changed more often.
I always automatically tack on $50 for the cost of WFP supplies and I charge about 10% for wfp work vs traditional. Of course construction cleanup is whole other ball park in pricing, always charge 3x (or more) your normal rate.
It's a handy little app 😊👍🏻
I wouldn't over promise on service. I hate sales'y selling. So generally just give my price a leave it with them if they hem and haw.
Serious question to you tradman how many windows would you have had to clean 10 years ago to earn the equivent of the mimimum wage back then, and how many now with your current pricing.
I think the biggest problem window cleaners have is trying to keep pricing relevant over the years, with exsisting customers.
I earn more than double now than when I first started self employed which was almost 6 years ago now.
Before that I worked for 2 large window cleaning companies and was paid an hourly rate below £10 per hour
Yeah I think increasing your price a little each year is a good idea, especially if your prices are low.
Fortunately I've priced my work quite well so no need to increase at the moment, but it's something that I would address in future as prices of everything slowly increases
For a hard water area, how much would I spend to maintain the pure water system? Would you be able to tell me an estimate of how often I'd need to change filters and resin for DI/RO system? Many thanks
Best bet actually is to ask my friend squeaky clean dave on TH-cam, he has hard water so will give you a closer approximation.
th-cam.com/channels/m1Z0dnqfzqsHj1_55iNRmw.html
My water is very soft so for me it's really cheap.
Great information very informative (👍Trad-Man). My name is Brian I'm from Ireland and starting a new business, I understand that you charge more for a first clean but I wanted to know how you develope our convince a customer to make it a regular thing ? Basically how do I create a proper round ..I'd appreciate any advice you can give me.. Thanks
Yeah so basically I just say we are a once per month cleaning service and there initial clean will be a bit more. Let them know what services you offer if more than just window cleaning 😉
Many thanks
Just bought a unger hydro to make some pure water for my containers now and again used your discount code on WCW so thanks for the help! Do you know if I’m meant to drain the water out or leave it in with the resin to persevere it for longer?
I leave the water in the hydro but I'm using it everyday, if I wasn't going to use it for a while then I would probably drain it
TRAD - MAN THE WINDOW CLEANER I will use it every 2 weeks? How come you would drain it?
@@alexmunn36 just to save water sitting in it and prolong the life of the resin
TRAD - MAN THE WINDOW CLEANER so let it dry out inside the machine will let the resin last longer yea?
That's what I use to do when I wasn't using it all the time. It would be damp like it comes but not sitting in a pool of water
I love the intro, always sound like your saying wfp windling wankers lol
Am I doing myself down at £10 PH ? all Trad work. Great Vid as always.
It's entirely up to you what you charge per hour buddy, but I would say your very very cheap, most window cleaning business I know locally charge at least double if not quadruple that amount. It's your business though pal so totally your call 😊👍🏻
@@TradMan Cheers Trad. Hmm, Double or Quadruple wow! I seriously need to look again. No Wonder my Customers Love Me Aye :)
Yes Id agree with Trad man you are extremely cheap, Or need to work a little more efficiently or faster, Ive been cleaning from no experience for 2 years now followed Trad man got all his advice and practiced and yes he's correct I earn 3 times that an hr day in day out and quadruple or 5 times that if the houses are compact in the same street, Keep going you will get there, this channel has some great advice
@@imsteveoneill Thanks kindly buddy!!
Yeah its amazing what you can earn as a window cleaner, just need a few good ingredients
1. Price your jobs well.
2. Have the most efficient tools you can afford.
3. Master your tools to become as efficient and effective as possible.
4. If possible keep your work as close to your home/place of work as possible.
5. Treat it as a proper job, have set hours and work hard 😉
Doing these things will really help anyone who wants a full time business in this trade.
🤜🏻🤛🏻
@@imsteveoneill Cheers steve o
I'm quite new to pure water fed pole,doing OK with just over 30 regular customers I have the opportunity to price up a school but not got a clue how to hourly rate myself🤔any help would be appreciated
Are you based in the UK bud?
i use the calculator as my windw cleaning app, but thn im a highly intelligent person
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Been putting my prices up this week, the majority have been no problem but one customer text and said ‘ I appreciate you have to put your prices up however I think it’s too expensive seen as I only have 5 windows’ they actually have 10 windows and the price was going up from £6 to £7 once a month 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah you gotta get rid of the bad to build on the good. Keep going buddy your spot on 😁🤜🏻🤛🏻
£7 for 5 windows I'd be charging a tenner you're way too cheap mate
@@angliscsaxon1288 personally I'm £10 minimum charge, but each to there own at the end of the day
@@TradMan I charge a tenner for a 2 bed semi and I clean the glass, frames, sills and the doors for that I think that's a fair price to be honest
The other problem with new ones they calling you asking for the price to clean their windows you are polite answering let them know the price your question how many windows do you have them you go to their property their counting are different on the phone that you can see in real time !!! Sorry are more it costing a bit more !!! WELL you telling this price now are different and excuses and excuses they always avoiding the quality of the job no to pay accordingly ...!!!!
Yeah I never let them tell me how many windows they have, very often they count it wrong, or "forget" a few windows 🤣
I feel your pain 😊👍🏻
hey mate is it only me or your beard is more orange than before XDDDDDDDD
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I had to much iron bru! Miss ya dude!
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Thanks for watching 👍😉