to think £200 to clean windows is ridiculous

£25 every 6 week, 4 bed detached, 2 sets of French doors, front and back door and all the sills. In surrey. Your quote is outrageous!

We pay £25 for a three bed house and he does soffits and the garage door. I do the inside with a window vac.

Rates are going to vary nationwide so there’s no point telling OP that yours cost £5 every month.

East Midlands 4 bed house all windows sills and doors £10 monthly here. From what I remember a one off clean was £15.

I have 5 sets of patio doors, 5 bedrooms (3 with full height windows) and a six metre stretch of full height glass in both sitting room and dining room. I pay £30. We are all ground floor but now I’m thinking I should offer him a rise. We are in the north east so not paying silly London prices.

I used to pay £20 a time for a two-bed house plus conservatory, inside only. It took half an hour to do. On that basis your quotes seem steep. I now leave my windows to it and just scrape off bird splats as and when.

I would suggest it’s the insides that is pushing the right up. That’s more for a domestic cleaner to keep on top of?

Committing to a regular just outdoors (every 4-6 weeks) is likely to help too. Mine is £10 and it takes them about 10 minutes

We pay £22 a month outside only, it’s a biggish house, 25 windows. The chap is here about half an hour and does nearly all the neighbours too so saves him travelling time.
We had the inside done after building works, the type where everything is covered in greasy dust, I think that was £150-200ish. And 10yrs ago so thats probably about right - the inside is a lot more work as its not a brush on a hosepipe!

Yep thats what inpaid for in and out for a 4 beds victorian terrace in london.

For context we have 13 large windows (Edwardian house) and patio doors.

Regular window cleaners just do the outsides. They can slop water about liberally and take a minute or two per window.

Inside windows are a whole different ball game, you can't just throw water about, or keep your wet outdoor shoes on. They need a cloth, more elbow grease and drying properly.

I wouldn't get the same company to do both, as others have suggested.

Yes, it’s the inside that’s the problem. Outside, they can do with the spray brushes, so it’s quicker and easier.

We have ours done very 6 weeks. Outside only, a 4 bed detached with large patio doors in kitchen diner. It’s £30, however it takes only around 20 mins. I don’t understand how it could take 2 hours to do inside and out!
Did you ask for anything else to be cleaned other than the glass like sofias, ledges etc?

I agree with pp - it's the inside that is adding to the price. Get outside only done.

I know rates near you won’t be the same, but for comparison, I pay £27 a month for a three bed two-storey house, with five large windows and five glass doors. When I was injured recently, I got a quote for cleaning inside, and it was £50 an hour. So at 2.5 hours, that’d be £125 of your quote.

I pay £25 for outside. Cleaner does indoors

I pay £30 every 6 weeks (four bed house with conservatory). I suspect, as people have said, it’s because you want the inside done. Maybe ask for a quote for the outside and do inside yourselves.

I'd get a quote for just the outside - and don't do the velux.

Then get a domestic cleaner for the inside windows.

Oh and avoiding the "don't worry he's just being friendly" 10st pit bull.

I was going to say exactly that!

My window cleaner does the outsides of my 2-bed semi for £12. I once asked him how much it would be to do the insides as well, and he said another £48!

When I asked him why it was 4x as much, he explained that they have to do them by hand, with a leather and a scrim, because they can't use the hose thing that's installed in their van. It means it takes at least 4x as long.

Indoors I would think is a real pain.

You have to move stuff that people put in the way.
Not damage valuable stuff people have.
Avoid damage to the curtains.
Not slop water all over the floor.
Avoid spilling dirty water over cream sofas.
Navigate tedious customers who may want to chat make the job more difficult.
etc

Also I suspect insurance for inside cleaning is different. More risk of a claim from say damage to property but much less from say falling off a ladder.

Outside you can just get a pole and slop water all over the place. Nothing to move to prepare the job, you don't need the person to get in etc.

It's because you want the insides doing. Window cleaners don't like doing the insides normally as it is more of a faff, lugging water back and forth, risk of knocking your belongings over, getting dirty water on your carpet, needing to dry the frames etc.

You might find it cheaper to use a window cleaner for the outside and find a regular cleaner who's happy to do windows for the inside. Presumably the inside windows don't need doing as often anyway.

£7 once a month. Windows front and back and one large door window.
I do inside myself. But you reckon to get a cleaner to do inside it would be a couple of hours work so maybe £50

Inside take longer than outside, and isn't standard for a regular window cleaner.

Try getting a window cleaner to do the outside, and then a domestic cleaner who can do the inside amongst other bits. It will probably work out better