lol, standard vistaprint format
I donât waste time making phone calls to fools. Lol. What make you think I want to call you?
I donât care how you squeegee a window. I already know how to squeegee windows. The fact you laugh at oxidation mean you donât know what it is to clean aluminum framed windows or windows that have aluminum screens that havenât been cleaned in a considerable amount of time.
That just tell me you really are full of crap. You lack of experience show and your dirty vehicle tells me you donât care about your image.
You donât know shit about aluminum, thatâs not oxidation, thatâs paint.
You also donât know shit about sales. Cool story though.
Lol. You are a fool. I know what it is.
When there isnât paint on the frame, how did the paint get there, oh wise one?
Youâre not getting white streaks on silver frames.
Oxidation doesnât spread like powder paint when wet. Powder paint does. Which means the frames need to be sealed with clear.
This is oxidation on an unpainted aluminum frame. Ya know what happens when you mop it? Nothing. Because what youâre talking about is powder coated aluminum that needs to be sealed, because the clear wore off.
The fact that you didnât know that is why you should have called. Youâre clueless.
The offer still stands. Call me and Iâll increase your profit margin.
Why would I waste my time? And why would a troll post his own phone number on the internetâŚ
Morons, the whole lot.
By the by, I charge by square footage on mansions, by the pane on normal average square footage homes, and by the hour for commercial work over an hour, with a 20$ minimum, and by the pane up to 50 minutes.
If you charge by the pane for a millionaire, than you arenât getting what their willing to pay, if you charge by the pane on commercial work, youâre getting shafted.
I charge 10$ per pane in average sized homes, 12 per sliding glass door pane, 12$ for a normal mirror, 15 for a ceiling to floor mirror pane.
Screens and tracks are always included, but for mansions, Iâll clean their glass tables, light fixtures, ceiling fans, and all of their mirrors if they complain about the price, they usually donât though and I get that for straight glass cleans.
No lies, just smart business. You can lose money all you want working for pennies with million dollar purses if thatâs how you want to do business.
I donât like to lose myself and my customers are always happy.
Window cleaning isnât a product, itâs a service. You might hire a personal assistant for 10$ an hour, but to be John Travoltaâs, youâre making a cool million a year. Price has to scale to your client.
Ever see arrested development? Familiar with âWhatâs a banana cost, 10$??â
Guess not.
If you donât ask for money, you donât get money. First rule of sales.
Also LOL 18 seconds per face, And you think thatâs âtoo fastâ to do a good job?
You should get out of the window cleaning game because 18 seconds a face for a normal residential pane is EXTREMELY slow.
Sure is, but itâs nice, way nicer than 99% of the industries plain white cards.
still waiting on those videos
Most readers here have three section alu poles. OK up to 14 feet. Along with these they have carbon WFP poles up to 40 feet and some more.
You will find most posters are humble guys willing to share info. I am the most humble in my opinion
So to make things more upbeat as itâs early days- let us know what pole/squeegees/rubber do you use and your views on various options?
Correct if im wrong but did nt he say he worked for FISH previously?
Now ladies if you donât stop swinging your handbags at each other like tina turner you ll leave me with no choice but to squeeze this nonsense out of you with a big,friendly irish hug!!
Why would you only charge $2 more for a sliding door pane? A sliding glass door pane is about double the size and you have to bend down, which makes it more work. Why do you charge $12 for a normal size mirror when you only have to clean one side? A sliding door pane is bigger and you have to clean both sides.
cause heâs trolling
Where I am, most houses have more sliders than Windows. I charge 10$ a window and they feel they get a deal on the sliders. Most residential homes that arenât in the high end areas have around 5 Windows with entire slider rears. Different geographical locations have different build styles. Category 5 hurricane glass is expensive. The bottom line is the average home should cost around 200-250. And thatâs what I get when I do them.
If I charged 15$ a slider pane weâd be at 250-300 instead of 200-250 range.
I charge 12$ a mirror, because where are mirrors? Usually found in bathrooms, what does the average bathroom counter look like? Bottles and perfumes and soaps and tooth brush stands and decorations that have to be moved to clean the bottom. And there is usually one or two per house.
I walk through a house and I see what I should get, and work backwards to get that.
Sometimes I charge 15$ a slider if they want tracks on the sliders. Which is 3$ a slider track.
I spend more time in wealthy homes because you make more money from people who have more money, pretty simple explanation.
Again, who trolls with their real phone number? Itâs not my fault youâre bad at selling jobs. Just because I get more than you with repeat maintenance schedules doesnât mean Iâm trolling.
I donât do apartments unless they are ground level, because I have too much higher price work to do them and I lose money.
So here is a concept for you, even though youâre in the green for a job doesnât mean youâre actually in the green. If I canât do a job that costs more because I took the time to do the smaller unit, puts you in the red for doing a smaller unit. Volume hunters lose money. Less higher price jobs will usually net you the same or more for less work. Eventually you will have enough work at the higher prices to not even want to do small units at all.
I have a 99$ minimum for residential and almost never do a 99$ job. Window Cleaning isnât a product you sell, itâs a service, i.e. itâs all labor. Go to a car mechanic, they will charge you for the product with profit built in, and then the labor with profit built in. A simple 4 hour job at a car mechanic will run you over a grand, because it has to. Because we donât sell a product doesnât mean we shouldnât make a living.
When I worked for Fish, theyâd charge 5$ a window 12 a slider and Iâd make 30% of that, which means Iâd get paid about minimum wage because he had no residential minimum. I went from 16-23k a year and have to pay for my own gas to around 200k a year minus gas.
Itâs not 1975 anymore, canât make 50k a year owning your own business, the average median income in the US is 53k per house hold, thatâs usually 2 people with 23k a year each. A home in 1975 cost 9,000. That same home today costs 353,000. It used to cost 2$ a movie ticket, now it costs 12. What it cost to go to a movie in 1976 for a family of 4 was cheaper than two today.
#doingitright
#facepalm âŚ
Who here pays a mechanic $250 an hour? I sure donât.
You know, everytime you post something, you DO end up looking like a troll. You claim to be doing 200K, yet are fooling around with 250 dollar jobs? Because you claim THAT is what is normal for a home.
#yawn #moveon #notimpressed
Letâs say you want to change your radiator.
You can do it yourself for about 68$, but a mechanic is going to charge you 400+. Theyâll charge you 140$ for the radiator, 200 for labor and 45$ for coolant, minimum. And that at an. âhonestâ mechanic. Thatâs one of the easiest repairs you can do.
You see, they charge you over double for the part, milk the labor, and about 15 over the anti freeze.
Where did I say they charge you 200$ an hour for labor? Show me a mechanic in any metropolitan area thatâs charging less than 120 an hour for labor, and Iâll show you a mechanic you should be using.
You know if they have to lift your engine 2 inches for clearance, thatâs a 750$ pricetag on just the lift right?
@300 days in a year, 200$ a house, you only need to do one house a day to make 60k a year. How many customers is that? 150 that go twice a year.
Yawn
Thatâs about 2 hours a day on the high side. Thatâs 11 hours a week or 600 hours annually, for 60k.
Yeah, #notimpressed is code for âwhy am I so bad at this.â
In my eclipse it was 63. In my Cadillac itâs 66$. In my 2012 Prius, itâs $63.35.
Iâd say the going rate for a radiator is firmly 63$.
There is also no such thing as âbook priceâ on labor at a mechanic. Their book price is whatever they wrote in their book.
But Iâm making stuff up?
A simple cursory Google search will tell you the average hourly labor a car mechanic charges is 80-125$ an hour. There are more mechanics outside metro areas that lower the national average. I live in Tampa. The average in Tampa is 120-180$ an hour. I look stuff up, thatâs called âmarket research.â
If you live in the backwoods of Indiana, my prices wouldnât work, nor would a mechanic who charges 140 an hour, but I donât. I live in a city where the cheapest rent is $1000.
You can barely work at all and still make 60k a year cleaning Windows. 11 hours a week can make you 60k annually. What happens when you work 40 hours a week? 60*4=240k thatâs at 44 hours a week, lol.
Yâall just mad because you flunked math.
Keep taking every low prices job, tell me how that works out for you, oh wait, donât â I already know it doesnât work out.
Whatâs actually entertaining is how stupid you are, working for slave labor and telling me Iâm trolling because Iâm doing better than you.
Keep your costs low, your profit margin high, donât take cheap jobs or overly complicated ones and your books will look excellent.
This is why I posted my actual phone number in this thread. Yâall are ruining the window cleaning business, and I could straighten you out real quick out of the goodness of my heart. But Iâm the troll?
Yâall some under bridge living scum, talking about BOOK RATE that doesnât even exist, claiming you canât get a radiator for any car for under 70$.
Yâall are so jealous you could be jarred, labeled, and sold as jam.
âTypical costs: Generally, window cleaning costs $2-$7 per pane. For a 1,300-square foot home with 20 panes, the cost would run $40-$140. For a 2,200-square foot home with 28 panes, the price would average $56-$196.â
Costhelper.com and those prices are the national average, just for standard window pane glass, no screens, no mirrors, no tracks, no sliders, no ceiling fans, no light fixtures, no glass tables.
200$ average is looking really accurate all of a sudden isnât it?
What you know is nothing. You know nothing about business. You donât even recognize that any radiator for any car that isnât a supercar is under 70$.
You think mechanics have a âBOOK RATEâ not realizing that the book is written by them.
You think 200$ an average home isnât the going rate when Google will tell you that it is the national average.
This means youâre bad at sales and bad at business because you neglected to do market research and canât justify a ~200$ average for residential. This means youâre taking too many small jobs, apartments and condos, or are drastically undercharging.
You might be also taking too many big and complicated jobs from people who have no shortage of money, who arenât going to be put in the poor house spending a fair price.
On top of that, youâre costs to do business are too high because you use gimmick equipment like water fed poles.
If I need a WFP to do a job, I just let the next moron do it instead and straight hard pass on the job.
Again, here is another source, this time from fixr.com instead of cost helper.
Average cost range for 1500 square foot, one story, in/out 20 panes; low 150-250 basic cleaning, high 450 - 700 screens tracks and extras.
Average 300-400. And Iâm charging 200-250.
Iâm on the low side of the national average and you think my prices are too high. That should be scary to you.
#youdonâtknowanything.
But Iâm trolling? But Iâm making stuff up?
How about Iâve done market research and I have skills in the sales department. I was a salesman for 6 years before I started doing glass, I worked for Fish for one year because my wife had brain surgery and I needed the flexibility to go to a million doctors appointments. The owner of my local fish in his own words âI donât know anything about window cleaning, I needed income so I bought the franchise.â -Mike Carter, Bradenton fish.
And even heâs charging 15 per mirror, 12 per slider and 5 per pane.
He canât keep a single employee thatâs not his daughter because 30% of a rock bottom price pays less than minimum wage after you factor in gas.
Fish only pays 30%, because 10% goes to corporate. The average window cleaning company pays their employees 40%.
When I use other cleaners, I pay 60% and keep 40. So if I have enough work for a full second route, thatâs another 200k, that I take 40% of, because I actually pay my cleaners. My annual with one other cleaner becomes 280k, while I pay my cleaner 120 annual.
In short my employee retention is 100%. They never quit and they never do a bad job, because I pay them well enough for them not to.
Impressed yet?
You should be. Iâm about to stop doing cleaning, pickup another cleaner, drop from 140% to 80% and buy a 900k apartment building that generates 145k a year and retire at 31 years old. Thatâs 10% the mortgage paid down per year, 45k in my pocket. In 10 years the entire 30 year mortgage will be paid off, and Iâll have raised the rents to pay me 200k per year ontop of 40% of 400k a year, while still paying my cleaners 120k a year. Then I could sell the property for a cool 2 million, and be worth almost 6. And invest 3 into stocks and parlay into 20 million over the next 10 years just trading in my spare time.
God Iâm a good guy to work for.
#mostpeoplearestupid
Iâm not one of them. Iâd have never got to where I am using a WFP system because all they do is bleed your money.
Hence why most cleaners in America donât use them, to circle back to the thread topic.
What I KNOW is a mechanic charges BOOK RATE for the hours for repairs. I also know none of the radiators in any of the vehicles I own costs 68 bucks.
Keep on making up crap. Itâs obviously entertaining youâŚ
Bump. Topic reminder.
Iâm still waiting to see that video of you cleaning a window inside and out plus tracks and screens in 28 seconds.
you said you do a $2400 job in 3-4 hours, that is $600-800 an hour. 200k is $100 per hour 40 hours a week 50 weeks a year. please explain the discrepancy (1 of about 12 in your post)
Why go off topic on an interesting theme?