I know this a bit of a personal question but as we are all friends here.
How profitable is your business for you? As an owner / operator how much does your business put in your back pocket say monthly? I just kind of want to get a feel for what the average window cleaning business with a few trucks and owner operator makes for them selves? Dont answer if your not comfortable but for the sake of conversation share if your open.
Right now since mine is in the start up stage iv made anywhere from 300 bucks a month sometimes to $2300 and sometimes none…lol, so if you have a chance cheak out my other thread see if you can help me out with any and all advise on getting this business off the ground!
Take care guys,
this fourm is pretty damn useful.
I have another thread on here regarding how to help market my business more, please cheak it out if you have time.
“ALL WCR FORUM USERS I NEED YOUR HELP?!?!? please”
I would love to but seeing that I am still in the process of purchasing my company and have been for 3 years the numbers are just to hard to lay out. I make a nice living now and hopfully once everything is paid for I will be set. till then…Debt Sucks!
I’d say that’s doable also Matt. Of course not here in Iowa, but we don’t get as high a price per pane as alot of places. I guess I’d should ask where Crown is from huh?:eek:
lets say you do 2 houses a week…easy…and those are an average of $250 a job…that’s $500 a week or $2,000 a month. That’s SUPER EASY to do as a person starting off. That’s not a good income but at least it’s a picture of someone maybe just getting in and they need a base.
After 6months to a year full time 5K-7K a month is not to hard
We are from Victoria British Columbia, its a city located on vancouver island just off the coast of BC.
I usually average about $200-$250 a house depending on the house. But here for some reason people freak the hell out “THIS IS RIDICULOUS ITS ONLY WINDOWS” being a businessman I put up with it but i just want to respond " This is just a finger" lol.
Demographics include:
-average house pirce of 487g probably down to 445g range,
-an large senior presence
300,000 homes in the city
average house hold income is around 95g
-14 Listed Yellow page window cleaners (including me)
A few bucket and pole guys
If that helps make any help in guessing the potential income.
My current set up is one Dodge Ram 1500, a crew is just me and my business partner. We seem to be quite slow though, I am not sure if its our techniques or what, but a typical house can range from like 2-5hrs, some houses have taken us 2 days. One problem we have is on some houses the water poles leaves marks, on some it doesn’t. So when we have to get up on a ladder to complete all the windows it eats up time really easily. I think if we improved our timing and technique we could knock out 2 houses a day if we could book them.
Only two houses a day and $250 each? So, $250 each per day, then?
It sounds like you guys need to work on the technical side a bit more, and increase your speed, or jack up your prices, or both. Sounds like both, actually.