To pay this much for my windows to be cleaned?

[NinkyNonk1]

A family member arranged for a window cleaner to clean my windows at my request. He has cleaned 4 windows and 1 lot of patio doors. He's charged my £60 and been here 30 minutes.

Don't know if I'm being naive but I did not expect it to cost that much! I was only expecting £20 at most!

AIBU to think this isn't reasonable?

I have the worlds cheapest window cleaner

£3.50 for a 3 bed detached house

But she had no reason not to Eminybob
He did the jobs he was asked to do

I’m not debating that (although I think it’s a major rip off and price should have been agreed before hand). I’m just wondering why she decided to pay full price after saying she wasn’t going to.

I agree Eminybob
Perhaps the OP came to her senses
If you want a service you pay their going rate not what you think they should be paid

I pay £25 monthly, lots of windows on a large detached house, takes 2 men approx 45 mins- 1 hour

This is a really educational thread! I'm in the SE and pay £25-£30 (admittedly approx 1 per year) for a modern 3 storey town house, 11 windows and 1 french window......I had not idea I was paying over the odds

We pay £17 for 8 normal windows 4 bathroom windows and 5 metre bifolds !! £60 is a ridiculous amount

Why do some of you expect window cleaners to come and scrub your windows for pennies. Bloody cheek, they have families to provide for too!

We pay £7, I was once quoted £50 by the same window cleaners who now do them for £7 because we'd just moved in and the windows and windowsills clearly hadn't been done in years.
It depends on the difficulty.

Flipping heck caperberries do you live in a mansion?

Must take my window cleaner minutes and it’s a big house. However he does use the h2o squirty thingy so no ladders required.

Blimey, £50 per hour works out at about a £100k pa salary (presuming they declare it all and pay all appropriate taxes).

That's surely not the going wage for a window cleaner? I would have thought that about a quarter of that is reasonable.

I need a career change!

@NinkyNonk1

Piss take. I have 13 windows, and only get charged a fecking tenner! (Takes him 15 minutes.)

For £60 you could be a pissing ladder and do it yourself.

You are being well ripped off OP.

@NinkyNonk1

Piss take. I have 13 windows, and only get charged a fecking tenner! (Takes him 15 minutes.)

For £60 you could buy a pissing ladder and do it yourself.

You are being well ripped off OP.

My window cleaner does 3 other houses as well as mine within an hour - so he gets £40, cash, for an HOUR's work. (And a cup of coffee and some biccies from one of us.)

I pay £12 for 4 bed house includes skylights and patio doors!

When I said £50 per hour I may have been overestimating. They are a team of 2, so perhaps the 50 is between them.
But the prices people are saying on here sound about right.
My point was simply that they charge by time, so if they are charging more for a first clean then you'll know, because they'll be there longer. No way should the OPs window cleaner have charged £60 for 30 minutes!

I paid the £60 due to the messages on here saying I should. It's my own fault for not checking first. I do believe he was a chancer as others in the area have quoted £10 just for usual windows and £10 each side of house for guttering - which would be back and front for me.

Mines £7 for a 4bed

We pay £20 for a four bed house, and they clean the frames and sills.

We pay £25 per month for quite a big house, South East. He charges £10 extra to periodically clean the gutters.

To be honest.. I don’t know how he makes a living. Even assuming 10 houses a day (which is probably pushing it) that’s £250 per day for van, equipment, often an assistant, accounts etc.

You live and leArn op. Next time, get quotes.

I live in a cheap part of Scotland
12 windows
No patio doors
Window cleaners charge between £15-20

Hmm this is making me think I’m being had as well? Big house with a conservatory but I pay £45 every six weeks and two of them are here about 20 minutes.
Frustrates me that they just use water (special water apparently!) and a weird little brush on a long pole but never use a cloth for marked areas or sills or anything.

Maybe I should try someone else? I did get another similar quote tho when I first moved here.

I am mystified why the first clean of a window would take longer. Surely it takes the same time to clean a window properly regardless. Especially using one if those water pole things.
Round here they connect them to the garden tap so I'm not sure about purified water. And it left my windows all streaky so never had him back.