Reply With QuoteThere are some people on this thread who would have made good 19th century mill owners. Personally, I have a Kärcher window vac' and do the windows myself, inside and out, in about 20 minutes.
Sounds like a good reply when swmbo suggests we ( I ) do ours!Originally Posted by Robsmck
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
There are some people on this thread who would have made good 19th century mill owners. Personally, I have a Kärcher window vac' and do the windows myself, inside and out, in about 20 minutes.
Single port holed house? I cant get just the insides done that quickly & haven’t even ventured to the conservatory.
Trouble is a skilled tradesman probably wouldn’t do that job - So your gutter/window guy can can pretty much charge what he likes. I’m not saying its right, but the three quotes obtained says that’s the going rate at the moment. Sure there will always be a guy who does it cheaper, for cash, no public liability insurance, not paying tax/vat etc. I personally don’t like going up ladders so they can charge anything haha
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Site labourers in my area (Near Heathrow) earn between £70-£85 a day for an 8 hour day, so around £10.50 per hour.
Window cleaning is a fairly simple straightforward job, on par with labouring in terms of physical effort, ladders, weather dependency etc so I'd be expecting an hourly rate for window cleaners of less than £20 per hour.
I do our windows myself, so if I can do it, then pretty much any one can. 2 floor house 8 panes of glass and a front door at the front, 7 panes and 2 patio doors at the back, plus one side door and window.
It takes me less than an hour to do the windows, doors and frames, the longest part of the job is getting the ladders out, filling the bucket, find the squeegee etc, then putting it all away agan after, I'd guess the actual washing takes less than 40 mins.
Well bit the bullit today - got the 4m double out along with my drain rods, an old hand brush, cable ties and a bucket of sopy water
Result - gutters cleared , facia sofet and gutters cleaned front and back
Very satisfied
Last edited by lewie; 8th August 2020 at 18:49.
Sweet - and saved yourself £30 that should buy you a coffee and a cake to celebrate
Where's £30 come from?
Yeh I thought that
This is a job i tend to do myself, not to be cheap, but i like checking the guttering and fascias for any damage or required repairs, cleaning them is jus one part of the puzzle unfortunately!
Yes, before the pandemic, I rarely used the services of cleaners, and I always did everything myself at home. But when the pandemic started, I started working 14 hours a day, and I had only one day off on Sunday. After all, I work as the head of the department in the hospital, and I constantly need to monitor all the patients, and because now people have started to get very sick again, I began to work almost every day. And God, how tired I am, because I feel exhausted right now. It's good that there are different services for cleaning windows and carpets. Otherwise, I would live in a dirty house, and I wouldn't say I like this.
Last edited by fisher2; 4th November 2021 at 21:35.
£140 to clean a house's windows is absolutely bonkers.
We have quite a large detached home, with a lot of windows (it's an old house and access isn't the most straightforward to some of them) and our chap has just put his prices up to £29 for a clean, from £27 as it was previously.
Given that it takes him about forty minutes, using a long pole with a brush and pumped distilled water (so no ladders or detergents), I think that is perfectly fair.
Gutters etc we have done annually by someone else.
So clever my foot fell off.
We pay £20 a clean for our house which is pretty good value for a 3 storey old house with lots of windows (21 panes and door at the front, 25 panes, glazed door and patio doors at the back).
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I have mine done every two months, mixture of approx 30 windows and doors for £24.
Rain and an occasional wipe does it here. I suppose £30 on some vacuum mop thing my missus bought should be costed into the equation.
I also refuse to pay for car washing, a true Aberdonian.
Paid the usual £16 today. I'm not convinced that these pure water brushes on poles are any good but better than nothing & still worth £16 nonetheless.
Edit: 4 bed detached in Bath with conservatory.
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