I was watching Keith Kalfas on a video where he was saying he used to charge $12 or $15 or $8 for a given window, but didn’t say if the quote was for the inside or out. I just watched a video with Luke doing the same thing. Is it just given that it is meant to mean the inside, out, or both sides of the window?
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Depends on you location, what the market is giving you. We charge 10.00 for standard double hung window with 2 panes of Glass. That’s i/o and wipe out the sill or track. We charge extra for screen cleaning.
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You should have a bidding system either electronically or hard copy. Break down your pricing for inside-outside-screens-tracks-frames. Probably the best one on the market is Responsibid
There are others on the market that are free or cost less.
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I agree with @SimplyCleanKentucky.
All depends on your market. We start at $8.00 a window inside and out. $2.00 per sill and $2.00 per screen. French windows are around $12.00-$15.00 and storms start at $25.00.
This is based off my market and based on our target hourly rate.
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Simple answer would be, if you are new to the game or you been around but you are competing with other companies, find out how the market responds.
However, I find competition is for sissies. Have the mindset of…yes be humble and wise when other cleaners tell you something. Stand out from the competition and start being great from day 1. Once you can do this, you can charge what you want. I have won multiple job bids and those instances I had the highest price many times. If you are in the business to make money but only make money, you will find success out of stock for you.
But, if you are approaching business as a problem solver and you figure what problems you can solve, make it obvious how to solve them but also you make it apparent that you want to add value too, that will make you stand out and success will always be on the shelf for you. Adding value doesn’t mean lowering prices to get the job. It could be as simple as doing something other companies in your area will not do. Or adding another service on and charging more for the total.
My prices are actually 3.00 per side and 75 cents per each French pane. Most sliding doors I don’t charge them more because its a larger glass. I stay at 3$ We all know we can’t wait till we get too a big easy window. especially if you doing a house full of French panes lol
Also, 2$ for window sills and 2$ each screen.
Hey I wanna know do you guys charge for the window tracks as well?
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Yes we do. We charge $2.00 per track.
Do you?
Some guys package it together but tracks and sills can be very time consuming so we always charge.
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I package sills, screens and window together. I usually clean the tracks because I just like to go the extra mile. Now I want to include window tracks as well for 2$. Im at about 18$ a window then, I hope that isn’t to expensive.
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That was an outstanding reply. Thanks.
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Hey if you’re landing jobs at those prices keep it up man!
Around our area 18.00 a window wouldn’t fly. But if your market is giving it to you, take it. We’d probably be at 13-14 tops, for cleaning window, track and screen.
Normally 18 dollars a window…it would have to be a huge standard double hung or some really big pane of single pane glass. You could definitely charge more for double panes, storms, et cetra.
However, around here, I have had people pay me slightly more for single pane glass because of 3 reasons. One, there is value they see in the service or they believe it can help them solve their problem. Two, they trust your company, your mission statement and what you are about. Three, they trust you and that you will take care of them. If you present yourself as an authority figure, with the utmost certainty…you could in theory price what you want if it is logical and makes sense to the prospect. Let me give you an example of logical real quickly.
Say you are in a city and you are thirsty and you can stop in many different stores and get water. It would be absurd to charge a ton of money for water, especially since its 1-3 dollars at most. You see the need for the product but the perceived value is not that great but it makes sense. It satisfies a need and you are done.
Lets say you are in the desert and there’s only a small shop and water is scarce and you need it to make it through the desert. The shop owner charges 20 dollars for a bottle of water. Seems outrageous right? But if you are dying of thirst and you are not sure if you will make it out of the desert anyways, you see that value as a very high value in your current situation, despite the fact you know you could get that for way cheaper if you were not in a desert.
Not trying to compare window cleaning to life or death situations, but the words you use may be logical and well placed. They have their time and place but they are not as important as your tone of voice, facial expressions, eye contact and body language. Communication is mostly if not nearly all of that, and words make up 10% or less of communication, especially effective communication. So in other words, play around with pricing a bit but try mixing up your presentation. You never know who might pay 18 or MORE for single pane windows (its happened to me many times).
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I live in South Florida in a town called Plantation, Florida. It’s a pretty upscale neighborhood and so are the surrounding towns. I’m at 16$ for the window screens, sills, and windows in/out. If it’s to expensive for the customer I don’t mind reasoning with them…but I feel my prices are very reasonable. I worked for my competition, I know the quality of their work. Also, I know what they are charging people…and my prices are lower than theirs. So far though, I’m a beginner. I got 5 residential jobs and honestly they loved me so far. I pray that God keeps this ship sailing, I’m going to always do my part and be his humble servant.
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Lower prices is great to start with to build volume. Once you get more confident, start finding ways to add more value and charge more than your competition. They will start turning heads once they find out you charge more and you are always landing work.
The 5 residential jobs, did you have ones you liked more than the other?
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I liked the first one I did the best. She found me on google, and I believe we were texting and I was telling you I might have landed my first job. She referred me to 3 people! She was pleased with the way I followed up a day before the job, the morning of the service, and a hour prior to me coming. I showed up early, smile on my face, and ready to work. She had standard double hung windows so it was easy and painless for me. The first client referred me to her bestfriend, her client, and a friend of a friend. 1 of the houses was next to a lake, had a bunch of bugs on the windows. Another, had French panes throughout the entire house, boy was that a job for one man. Then, I landed a small one story houses, that was the easiest one. Long answer to your question, I know. The first was awesome to me!
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Excellent, seems like you are following what we discussed. Referrals and follow ups are great. Also, make sure when you do follow up with happy customers, its for setting up the recurring appointments.
Just keep perfecting your craft, eventually you can add on more services. I closed 3 deals in a single day which is a record for me right now. Basically I closed a complete window cleaning package with gutter cleaning for $599.99, closed another $119.99 gutter cleaning deal with the prospect coming on for window cleaning in the spring when they get back from vacation (another $249.99 in the follow up) and outside cleaning only with screens for $279.99.
Glad everyone is doing well.
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It’s all you bro. Don’t give God credit for your hard work! Keep it up man. YOU will keep the ship sailing.
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