I'm looking for some knowledge

High Rise
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Hello again everyone!

As many of you know by now, I know very much about working at height and rescue in different industries.

I’m happy to announce that I have officially completed my first High Rise window cleaning job as HIGH LINE WINDOW CLEANING. It went extremely well and the customer and their tenants were very satisfied with all aspects of the project.

I would like some insight as to how to land more High Rise projects. I am doing something wrong. I just don’t seem to be getting as many responses as I was aiming to get. I have a number of questions.

Here goes

  1. Who do you approach first and foremost (I just drop off proposals to buildings that I am interested in. Usually to management or a front desk)

  2. What should I include in my quote/proposal (additional info/documentation?)

  3. Pricing- I’m just looking for high-low range pricing e.g A 15 story building with 14 drops top to bottom using engineered anchor points that are installed at each drop. Each drop has 14 sets of windows and one set at ground level. Each set of windows is 2 large side-by-side and 4 small side-by-side (2 of which will not be cleaned due to screens that will not be removed.

This is one of the places I am about to put a bid in to.

If anyone doesn’t want to post their pricing scheme due to competition then please PM me. I live in Ontario, Canada so for many of you I will not be competing.

Any knowledge would be extremely appreciated and will not be forgotten.

Thanks in advance

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look for the management companies most firms rent there property’s so dropping a quote of there can be a waste of time as it will end up in some file. ask the receptionist who their property manager is and casual ask how often they get cleaned. if they say “never walk away” once you get the property manager ask if you can quote. you could save your self some time that way. Once you get a quote in remind them you would be happy to look at all their property for them.

I allays leave or add a copy of my wcb and insurance can make the difference when their is a tie between two quotes

Pricing is as much as the area can stand don’t under bid as you have to cover your own costs. when you bid work out your wages then treble it i find that is a good rule of thumb to give a idea

the bigger the building the more variables to quote.

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Thanks, I will try that.

So if they say never, I walk away. Is that because I could run in to a lot of problems on that building?

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So if they say never, I walk away. Is that because I could run in to a lot of problems on that building?

in this game what goes around comes around, a lot of buisness’s change for the sake of change, what you dont get this year you may well pick up next, so dont sweat on a contract.its always an idea to watch a company working on the windows. so you can see problems and if you bid walk the building and plan every drop or clean that way you dont have nasty shocks. some building dont clean there windows till you cant see out of them. these may well be bad payer’s

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Thanks. I will take your advice.

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Also, besides the manager it is a good idea to try to get hold of the building engineer if you can’t get the manager.

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Good to know. Thanks