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My elderly neighbour, 83, asked me to clean her windows. 2 bedrooms, conservatory, 28 windows.

She had a quote from a local window cleaner of £110.00 per clean!
I was, am, horrified.

She demanded to pay me, so I said £20.00.

Is £110.00 the going rate for a window clean? Is it extortion? Or am I out of touch here?
 
I live in assisted housing with quite a few elderly people and a bloke told me this morning that he was quoted £45.00 to have his toenails cut. :eek:

Luckily, I know a woman that only charges £25.00 including a foot soak and massage.
 
I’ve rang him myself just now, asked him to come round to me to quote, similar bungalow.

I‘ll update this post tomorrow ;)
 
Detached house and it costs £14 but we can't be faffed with coins so give him £15. In return,now and then, he does the patio doors inside. He uses a brush on a long pole and purified water.
 
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I live in assisted housing with quite a few elderly people and a bloke told me this morning that he was quoted £45.00 to have his toenails cut. :eek:

Luckily, I know a woman that only charges £25.00 including a foot soak and massage.
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My wife has a pedicure for £30 at her gym. She eventually persuaded me to go one day and it was L-O-V-E-L-Y.. :) It took 45 minutes. Now, in addition, I always book to go before any holiday.
 
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Detached house and it costs £14 but we can't be faffed with coins so give him £15. In return,now and then, he does the patio doors inside. He uses a brush on a long pole and purified water.
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End of terrace Victorian cottage, so quite small, we have paid a tenner a time for ages and double it in December
He also uses the long pole and purified water method, bit messy, but he can't climb ladders anymore
Insect curtain over the back door for eight months of the year so that gets left at my request
 
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Norkie said:
My elderly neighbour, 83, asked me to clean her windows. 2 bedrooms, conservatory, 28 windows.

She had a quote from a local window cleaner of £110.00 per clean!
I was, am, horrified.

She demanded to pay me, so I said £20.00.

Is £110.00 the going rate for a window clean? Is it extortion? Or am I out of touch here?
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28 windows or 28 panes?
 
28 window panes, sorry ;)
 
4 windows costs us a fiver. Used to be a proper squeegie clean but is now a brush on a stick so not quite as good but still well worth the fiver a month so I don't have to go up the ladder!
 
It may depend on what the conservatory clean consists of. Just the glass or plus the roof or plus the frame, if it includes the pvc? frame they sometimes quote for cleaning it with something like T-Cut first. Still seems expensive though.
 
We have 18 front and 15 back, my (Hungarian) chap charges £18 for the lot or £10 just the front, monthly. He sometimes does extra bits like the conservatory roof for free. Obviously I give him £20 each time unless it's just the front.
 
Well, I’m thinking I shall ask my lovely neighbour to ‘pay’ me £10.00 ;)

Plus I do clean her gutters and other bits and bobs (y)
 
@Norkie - So how long roughly did it take to clean your neighbours windows ? Even IF it took you 30 minutes that would be £40 per hour for 2 houses , £320 per day not a bad little earner

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I'm just lost for words over that £110 quote.

Did she hear him right? He deffo said £110?

If he did I think he needs shaming on social media.

For a semi detached with two bay windows but no conservatory we get charged £5. This is east Cleveland between Middlesbrough an Redcar.
 
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I pay £15 every two weeks for a four bedroom detached. He asked for £12 and I found it easier to give him £15 to be honest so we settled on that.

Find out who wanted that extortionate amount and shame the bastards on Social Media. :mad:
 
5 bed detached. We have a great window cleaner who comes every 6 weeks. He uses some sort of magic water that dries without streaks. £30 including conservatory. We probably pay more because we're the nice part of town :)

However, he also came and did a one off clean of the top of the conservatory, cleared all gutters made all facias and soffits sparkling (previous owners had clearly never cleaned any of these). The total bill including regular clean was £300. It took him 2 days.

Unless it's an annual deep clean of conservatory then £110 is getting towards Trading Standards area......
 
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My elderly neighbour, 83, asked me to clean her windows. 2 bedrooms, conservatory, 28 windows.

She had a quote from a local window cleaner of £110.00 per clean!
I was, am, horrified.

She demanded to pay me, so I said £20.00.

Is £110.00 the going rate for a window clean? Is it extortion? Or am I out of touch here?
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The determining factor here seems to be the size of the conservatory and the number of roof panels that it has.
 
£110 is a rip off. I pay £20 in an expensive area of an expensive town. This is for about 35 panes. From time to time we have asked them to clean out the gutters for which he charges an extra £18. These two guys are well organised and always check before starting and have a large tank of water in their van so are self contained; this boosted their trade during lockdown. As with most good tradesmen, they get more than enough business without advertising just from local recommendations.

Dave
 
2 bed semi - 5 large windows plus front and back doors - £10 once a month.
 
OK, she must have miss heard window man!

Full deep clean, inside and out. Curtains taken down just in case. Frames washed and polished. Gutters cleaned. Coney roof cleaned. £110.

Standard window cleaning, £15.00.

Sounds good to me (y)

Thanks for your help guys, appreciated.
 
What I find really “interesting” about threads such as this one is the “Shoot First Ask Questions Later” attitude. As usual, the “usual suspects” are baying for blood without ascertaining the facts first.
 
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What I find really “interesting” about threads such as this one is the “Shoot First Ask Questions Later” attitude. As usual, the “usual suspects” are baying for blood without ascertaining the facts first.
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Rather than finding responses from the "usual suspects" "interesting" why not simply question it as I did.

The posts above seem in line with those I'd expect if the quote was for anything like a run of the mill window clean but I'm sure no one here would bay for blood without ascertaining the facts, as the OP did.
 
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