How To Quote For Cleaning Windows
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2018
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These days I normally price jobs up at £2 per window and then round it down slightly. I don’t see the point of charging low prices, it is easy to forget that we get no holiday pay, no employer’s pension contributions, no sick pay and on top of all that I calculate I lose about six weeks per year to bad weather. There’s plenty of work around (I’m currently two weeks behind), low prices tend to attract low quality customers in my experience.
Yes, good point. I live in a cheaper area of the country, but my prices have gone up since I made this video. It’s important to at least have a method to work from when quoting.😃👍🏼
That's a true business man right there! You sound like you know that there is more to running a business than the few hours you send at someone's home cleaning. As a drywall estimator in Canada, I've learned that a good business has a lot of other costs right down to the software you use for your accounts, and holidays as you mentioned (I used to window clean in Ireland) ;-)
Curious how much you charge per window now in 2023?
That’s cool price. And the price you’ve just said is spot on. .... we was working yesterday on round in Liverpool big house converted into flats ground floor second and third we clean the second floor flat (wfp). For £10.00 (4weekly) ... there was anoth window cleaner doing ground floor (trad) I know the guy he said you taking on anymore work so I said year he said you can this one because it’s out my way i asked how much he said £2.00 I said ste I wouldn’t get out of bed for that mate told him we charge minimum £10.00 so if she wanted them doing she’s gunna have to pay £10.00 and he looked at me like I had 2 fucking heads ..... some window cleaners haven’t got clue on what to charge this is big problem here in Liverpool when new customer phoned up and you tell them minimum price is £12.00 but I’ll have to have look before quoting up they always say my old window cleaner was only charging £5.00 I say if you want professional services there’s our the prices
We charge. ....... there’s 2 many cowboys out there doing trad and wfp and something needs to be done. ..... cool 😎 video once again. 👍Liverpool
Flats are a tricky one if they pay individually. Better if it’s managed and you know you can just do the whole lot. There are always those guys going around doing it dead cheap but I like to think you get what you pay for. Quality job = reasonable price. 😃👍🏼
Its surprising how quickly you can work out exactly how long a window clean will take, right down to the minute. I like your thinking Ashley.
Cheers Ashley another useful video especially for newcomers, its always a slight balancing act with prices especially as you say its depending on the area, distance, downtime with driving in between etc, i guess best to know your minimum per hour is very essential as never go below that.
Good luck everyone especially with challenging months ahead.
Cheers Andrew,
Stamps Cleaning Services.
Thanks for your comments!😃👍🏼
I heard it said once 'If you're too busy, you're too cheap'
Yeah, that’s not a bad saying to remember.😃👍🏼
Hi everyone. I clean windows in North London . I would charge about £22 ish if it’s every 8 weeks with wfp . Trouble is lots of people want to wait till there windows get really dirty to get them cleaned so they hang onto there money . They ring me every 4 months but still don’t want to pay much. I cover myself by cleaning common areas in flats and domestic cleaning which pays good money round here. I’ve been cleaning over 30 years.
Nice one. Keep up the good work.😃👍🏼
I clean a house with 8 small windows and a patio door the same size as the one in this video and I get £20 every 4 weeks for it. I think I over charged but they went for it, feel a bit bad but they obviously don’t mind as I’ve done it every month for over a year and no complaints.
Luke W Good one! A job is worth whatever the customer is willing to pay for it at the end of the day!😃👍🏼
Always better to be cheeky, if they say no knock £2 off ,if they say no again leave it l.It a loverly job for the right money and a horrible one working hard all day for £60
I would charge £22/23 for regular 8 weekly clean, (+£5 for first clean) in my areas
Handy to know you quote nearly the same way as me :)
Glide Cleaning Limited I would be nearer that if the job was out in a village. This job is near town, so is much more competitive. I have a days worth of work already in the street so it’s no problem to fit in one more. Thanks for commenting.😃👍🏼
Definitely worth getting customers close together! Enjoyed the video. I found it reassuring to find someone quotes the same way as me. Looking forward to the next ones :)
Yes quoting for the reg repeat job price then explaining there is extra for first clean is a great way of not loosing out if they back out of the reg clean.
Hi Ashley. This video has been very helpful. Could you please make a video on how to price for softwashing/render cleaning. It is something I would like to try and progress on using a DA component and a Gardiner backpack. These are future goals but it would be good to get more of an idea. I have watched other videos but none are as comprehensive as yours.
Thanks. I usually try to measure up an area like that for a quote.👍🏼
I’m just starting out so this is great, been binge watching your vids, I did get a few jobs but I under charged I think, Im thinking to just check other windys in my area what there average rate per certain house is and go off that, great video btw.
Starting with my car 🚗 and trad hoping to grow quickly so I can afford wfp tho looks fun
I wish you all the best with your business plans. I’m glad you find the channel useful.😃👍🏼
@@aemackintosh cheers buddy, I do too, if I can grow and have even 1/4 of happy clients as most of you guys on here I’ll be more than happy!
Hi mate, hope you're well. Can you make an updated video about pricing during these current times? How do we stay competitive and profitable? Thank you
The psychology of pricing is interesting. I have talked more about sales more recently, and on my podcast. If you get your business approach right, you will be able to charge more.
Good morning Ashley...how do you quote post building window cleaning in/out? Regards
Lucas Kaminiecki For a builders clean, I would maybe add 50% to the standard price.😃👍🏼
I'm currently working full-time as a window fitter Mon-Fri, I'm so driven to earn as much money as possible and become as successful as I can. I'm trying to think of a little side hustle I could do on the weekends to earn a little extra money Do you think it's realistic that my friend and I could start a window/fascia cleaning weekend business? I have no idea how the business works, how to gain customers, how it'll work just doing saturdays, how much to quote etc. Just hoping you could give some advice.
looking to start and i want to go for the wfp backpack only to start eventually get some trad gear (feel wfp provides more options and access to awkward windows) before i heard your price i said £20-25 full scrub of frames and Sills with a pole. would you recommend just going backpack route from my car as viable would only be doing weekend or 1 day in the week at the moment until viable to transition full time.
where i currently work there are 139 windows all poled and takes them around 2-3 hours @ £400 every 8 weeks. (not a window cleaning job outsourced company)
Sounds good, you got to start somewhere. Go for it!😉👍🏼
always good stuff here, dont forget to charge more if they give you gray hair
Dave The Window Licker Thanks. Always a pleasure.😃👍🏼
An old boy who had recently retired in my area gave me about 15 odd decent sized bungalows, he wouldn't tell me how much he charged which I found a bit odd and just told me to go round and price them up how I feel they should be priced, sills and frames were absolutely filthy on everyone so he'd literally only been cleaning the windows the whole time, most of them had conservatorys too so I priced them between 20 and 25 pounds the first clean and between 12 and 15 pounds from then on, he'd been charging £3 for those without conservatories and £5 for those with, his prices hadn't gone up in over 20 years, all but 3 of them totally got where I was coming from and were more than happy to pay, the remaing 12 initially were reluctant but saw the job I'd made of those 3 and 2 years later their all satisfied customers
Nice work!😉👍🏼
In terms of a conservatory, how do you price that up,Ash? thanks
I set a minimum charge, maybe £50 for example, for a small conservatory, and I go up from there for larger ones.👍🏼
Can you do an updated price video for 2022
Hi pal you say you charge more now, how much compared to £1 or £2 per window? Also do you collect for your owed or other method thx
The smaller windows used to be £1, now a smaller one is more likely to be counted as £1.50, or even £2. Most of my customers pay via direct bank transfer, I just give them my details.👍🏼
If the customer wanted the inside done as well, how would you go about pricing it?
Do you just double the price or just under double?
I imagine the inside is more time consuming than the outside so I can see that being a reason to just double it.
I'm starting up myself very soon and quotes are an important area I want to be sharp with right off the bat.
Thank you for your uploads, they're really well done and informative. 👍🏻
I charge the same as outside to do the inside, but politely ask them to clear the window sills for you, you don’t want to break anything.😜👍🏼
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Haha, Definitely. Ive worked as a WCer before and had to do the inside of a camera shop. Moving those £500 pound camera stands made the £7 job wayyy more intense than it needed to be lol.
Thanks for the reply mate. I will look forward to watching more of your content 👍🏻
Out of curiosity you would do that trad i assume? How would you do the windows above the roof? Im trad and i lose jobs as i wont go onto roofs due to risk of damaged tiles just wanted to know if there was a way around this? Great video again!!
Tom Navarro These tiles are solid and fine to walk on. I’ve maybe broken only one in twenty years. I wouldn’t walk on slate roofs and some similar if the tiles look delicate. Also avoid if they are too steep, and some are slippery when wet. Be sensible and careful.😃👍🏼
Tom Navarro but yourself wfp setup you trad guys need to catch up with the times we live in wfp all the way but trad does have its place as when needed guys ours is 90% wfp all store fronts are done trad.
There is definitely still a place for Trad. I find many domestic customers still prefer it, and I pick up work specifically because they want a Trad service. Plenty of work out there for all.💦😃👍🏼
A.E.Mackintosh Cleaning Services I have to disagree with you once you’ve explained how wfp works and when you’ve done amazing job the customer is more than satisfied it’s quicker more profitable and it’s safer than climbing ladders all day long. ..... wfp gets bad name only because the cowboys that turns up haven’t got clue splish splash and there away. I’ve got 989 domestic customers on the books at the moment every customers is 100% satisfied every clean. Every area we work in each round is getting bigger and bigger. The phone never stops. 👍
Dave monk Monk Cleaning services theres alot of splash and dash wfp in my area literally charging £10 a house inc conny so ive had to set myself apart from them, being trad allows me to charge more. I still average £30 an hour so i cant really complain. Im sure i will eventually go to wfp even if its just the tops to avoid the ladder.
Hi , a charge a rate of £2 for 5-minutes and I tell the customer that I time the work and then at the end of that will tell me how much to charge they are quite happy with that I will usually give them a rough idea beforehand.
I prefer not to charge per hour, or per minute. I quote per job so that if I can get it done more quickly, I can and I would earn more per hour. But everyone has their own approach I guess. As long as the customer is happy!😃👍🏼
I’ve genuinely never heard anyone use this method. I wouldn’t advise it myself.
£1 for the door glass Ashley , 50p surely !
Well I will clean the whole door, not just the glass.😃👍🏼
@@aemackintosh thanks for the reply Ash, respect, enjoy the good weather, hope your water doesn't evaporate too quickly, i haven't found a solution to that problem yet.
Any tips would be deeply appreciated. 😁
Graham Hoyle I use GG4 in my water, which helps to stop the water from drying out too quickly on the glass.😎👍🏼
@@aemackintosh thanks Ash, know where i can buy from please?
How much would you charge for this property now? 🙏
Probably at least £20.👍🏼
This can’t be real life - you are charging only 20£ to clean the exterior ? I’d charge at least 10x that + tax.
20 pounds doesn't seem like a lot...maybe because pricing is different in Australia??
I made this video a while ago. My prices have gone up since then. But a lot also depends on how you sell your service.👍🏼
I would want a least €50 euro for all them individual windows, Dublin Ireland.
Whatever you can get.😎👍🏼
I have a window cleaner and have 8 windows and 1 door and I pay £8 every mounth x
That’s cheap. I hope he does a good job.😃👍🏼
I would charge £18 in my area
Lovely Jubbly 😃👍🏼
£12 to £15.00 for that house here in Merseyside. Some would even do if for £10.00
PMA Window Cleaners Prices will always vary from place to place. But don’t forget they will also vary from business to business and you should charge according to your standard of work.😃👍🏼
Some would do it for a fiver in Wigan.mind you that would be a skank with a bucket and an old ladder lol
Garage door cleaning...
Maxwell mc Yeah, that’s always a good little extra. I usually charge between £5-£10 depending on how big it is and how dirty it is.😃👍🏼
Good video! Your very cheap though, I’d charge £30 for that easy, all frames panes sills done trad.
Trad - Man That sounds more like London pricing! I live in a cheap area of the country. This job is close to town and it can be very competitive with lots of cheap window cleaners running around. Sometimes I have to give it a real hard sell, saying that I will be thorough, wipe sills, etc. Once I have the customer I make more money from the add on services.
A.E.Mackintosh Cleaning Services i have that issue here also with cheap guys up to 50% less than me but now I'm one of the main WC in the area. The way i do it is ask them how long did the previous lad spend on there home, normally it's super fast so hence the normally cheap price so i say how would you like me to spend 2 to 3 times longer and make your home look better than it ever has. Normally they have had issues with the last guy so the idea of me spending longer and making it perfect sounds appealing to them despite the higher price. If they still aren't looking convinced i tell them it's like getting car car washed by some guy for 20 quid that's gone in 15 or 20 mins compared to a car valeter that will make your motor look like it came from a show room, i explain thats the difference between your last guy and me. I normally get the customer and if not it's no biggy as they obviously just want a cheap deal. 😎👍😉
@@TradMan I have houses I do like this for £10 full service as well £12 with a conservatory I out them up £2 when I had the round from the last guy and that's just living in the Welsh valleys people won't pay the money for Windows like in other areas it's a shame and I price middle of the road but do a good job 😁
I like how you priced it quickly. I assume thats just for the outs. In New Zealand 95% of my houses are out and in, so i would want to see it to see whats in front of the windows, otherwise I'll explain that its just an estimate. I would charge $60 nz (£30), outs only to incl 10kms of travel + more if its out further. Or $100 (£50) if it's in and out + more if i have to remove and reset things on the sills or in front of windows inside and covering paperwork etc.
I built my window cleaning business mostly by referrals while i worked for someone else. So they're really happy to pay whatever i say so they can get the detailed results their friends got, so i benefit from all the jo average window cleaners that went before me. But carpet cleaners here still charge 4 times as much for the same time spent if it includes some stain removal.
You probably don't have many houses do you to wash all that down the frames the sales underneath the sales the windows the door pull them at out wash underneath the mat put the map back etc etc hosts like that you could get away with £14 you'll be gone within 10 minutes with a reach and wash
I don't understand, so you clean the entire house's windows and get only 20 pounds as payment? I mean is it profitable considering you are going to use gas, chemicals, etc? Plus your time lets say you spend 2 hours, 1 for cleaning and 1 for travel, your hourly wage is 10 pounds?
It’s going to take about 20 minutes, and I will have a dozen of these to do in the same street. The price has also gone up since I made this video.
Same exact sentiment here. I can’t believe what I am reading, how does one run a business on such prices. Can’t even imagine cleaning 5-6 houses for what, £120 ?
The fact i would probably charge no more than 12 for a property of the same size shows hoe out of touch i am and how much i am screwing myself over considering this video is 5 years old! 🙁
Yeah, prices have to go up this year for sure. Everything is going up so much. How you present your business can also make a difference though. I go over some things that could help you in my training courses:
www.aemackintosh-onlinetraining.com/collections
I still dont understand if you are sarcastic or not :D
Why would you want to charge people a lot more if you're busy I'm a good person I wouldn't do that to somebody that there are scum about
Steven Hensman It’s just good business sense I suppose. If you do a good job and your service is in high demand, the price starts to creep up. It’s supply and demand.😃👍🏼
@@aemackintosh yes I have a good business sense as well but I'm not small minded
U might as well do it for free
This is an older video now, and I live in a cheap area. It’s the general method for quoting which is the key thing here. I charge more now.😃👍🏼