Sheesh! Just had my windows cleaned - wont be doing that too often!

[royKinnear]

£40 !!
I am pretty damn sure that when the previous owner had them done it was £12...
what a nightmare

so- where are you - how many windows/type of house and how much!

maybe it' helped' her with the deed!

We have just had ours cleaned for the first time. £8 for 8 windows, 1 french window & 1 glass paneled door

We pay £18 every 6-7 weeks which I think is pricey. (£40 ) We have a conservatory though which adds to the cost although he doesn't do our loft conversion windows (of which there are 3 dormers and 3 velux) or DS2's window as it is over the conservatory so they claim they can't get to it. That leaves 10 windows, 4 of which are tiny, a patio door and 2 half glazed doors.

Certainly in Essex, 3 years ago, we had much bigger windows and they were cleaned once a month for £12 - no conservatory there though.

We are in Hampshire now.

Perhaps she couldn't hear the ladder for the buzzing
I pay £5 for all windows and double sliding glass doors, I am in the North East.

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Nobody willcome and do ours as we are on 4 floors, something to do with health and safety, so I have to make do with windolene and contorting my body in all strange ways, for the top 3 floors

A friend does ours, for mates rates. £15 for about a dozen or so windows.

He charges what he thinks he can get away with, and will only take on regulars, who have them done every 6-8 weeks. So for example big house, posh cars will pay more than the pensioner in a bungalow.

all they used was those splashy brush system things!

Mine were done this morning as was my sitting room carpet so my house is very shiney. (£45 for the carpet, quite big room, boys are banned!!)

We pay £15 (just gone up from £13) for 15 big sahs windows and two sets of French doors. £40 is an incredible amount. Where did yiou find this window cleaner ?

just a local firm!

I pay £40 every 8 weeks. We have about 28 windows and an orangery, plus he clears the gutters of leaves and washes the garage doors. He is normally here for about an hour and a half so I suppose it is not terribly unreasonable given that he has to bring ladders and kit in a van. We used to pay £15 to a different chap but he just squirted dirty water over them and squeedged the dirty water off with a wiper blade [hhmm]

15 windows for 15quid here...I thought that was a lot considering it takes them about 5 minutes.

have you name changed caroline?

NDP -did yours do the velux windows then?? We've got 5 veluxes but they've never been cleaned as you'd have to get onto the roof to do it so wondered how they did yours!

We pay around £10 I think which is a bargain I think as house is 2.5 storey, awkward to clean french doors behind a rail upstairs, another window over a single storey pitch roof etc.

ooooh an orangery!

sounds so lovely!

£8 for a 4 bedroom house in Streatham. The window cleaner only comes when he's run out of better-paid building work though.

BettySpaghetti, it used to be possible to buy magnetic sqeegie/wiper blade gadgets to do high or otherwise inaccessible windows - however, they only work if you can open the window to get the outside section outside and the window isn't double glazed.

£40 !!!!!!!!!!!!

Flippin' heckkkkkkkkk.

4 bedroom detatched her, we pay £8.50 about every 5 weeks or so.

am thinking its because they were so dirty

Was 11 windows for £8 but my window cleaner has just died after an accident at work. I am because he was really friendly and did a good job.

Hallgerda -we can get to them with a ladder from inside but they are double glazed (I presume so anyway as new ones put in within last 5 years) so probably wouldn't work?

No, the magnet doesn't work through double glazing I'm afraid.

Betty, mine had to come in and swing them around to clean the Velux.

He was a cheeky b*stard.

TBH Roy, I'd expect to have to pay more for the filtered water systems (those brush things) as the equipment is very expensive for the window cleaner to buy. Also I think they changed the law/legislation recently (within last 12mo?) to improve health and safety issues for window cleaners (I don't think they are allowed to use ladders anymore? Or maybe that's just for windows over 2 storeys up ?)

4-bed extended semi.
Front and back, up and down, incl patio doors and glass doors.
£6.00 once a month. He does a good job too - even scrapes off the mud where the dog's been asking to come in, and carefully cleans around our spiderweb in one window because dd loves watching the spider.

NDP -aah that explains it. Trouble is our veluxes would still need someone on a ladder to get to them from the inside.

Re: use of ladders /H&S , our window cleaner uses a ladder for the windows 2.5 storeys up. He also has one of those pump driven cleaning systems from his van which I've seen him use on other peoples houses but not ours but thats probably because he can't park a vehicle near enough to our house.