window cleaner shock

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I don't want to know. Ours cost £60 (inside and out, lots of windows and french doors) last week.

Then dd1 crayoned all over them.

We have always paid £6.00 for ours, we are above shops in a 2 storey maisonette so kids rooms (3 floors up)at front remain out of their reach, they do 6 very large windows and a door (badly)
They recently got upgraded and now can do the third floor
They want £11.00 now for two extra windows!!!
DH said get off your arse woman, we have special double glazing that you can clean yourself by turning it inside out... joke on him DH only just noticed! 1.8 yrs of someone else doing what I could have
SUCCESS!

I think it must be better money than plumbing, minute for minute, but OTOH I spose they spend a fair bit of time trudging around with ladder on shoulder. Ours had been £4.50 for the whole house for several years, he put it up to £5.50 this month. 11 windows (6 upstairs) plus French doors.

£10 - conservatory plus 14 windows & patio doors

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Oh you cow! I thought you'd had rampant sex with him or something!! How dull, but yeah, great bargin!

8gbp here for 15 windows/doors. MI, did you really mean 60gbp???

We pay £4 for 2 - yes just 2 - bay windows (upstairs and downstairs). I've always thought it was extortionate but that seems to be the going rate round these parts. So that's £2/window. After MI (unless she has more than 30 windows) do I come second for having the most expensive window cleaner?

debster, I count our bay window as 3 - front and 2 sides. (Not that he has to move his ladder as it's only on the ground floor.)

Does anyone have small-paned windows? Do cleaners charge any extra for doing those? They take ages!

harrrumph - £20 here for outside of 20 windows (ok, some big ones, but still..)

ours is four pounds for 10windows

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you lot are being ripped off. I pay 3 quid for 10 windows, that includes 2 bay windows and they are all original leaded lights so a bitch to clean. The bloke who does them looks the spit of the bald bloke who used to live upstairs (or was it downstairs?) in bottom

Ours was £3 for front of house... so 2 bays + one more. I always thought that was ok.

My DH used to be a window cleaner. It is a lot per minute but you have to remember nobody wants there windows done in the rain and at other times it is too dangerous to work, snow/ice or just simply too cold.

I think we pay £7 for two bays and one ordinary window, a light over the front door and two/three windows at the back, there are three windows he can't get too so I think they will just stay dirty forever!

Obviously that should be 'their' and not "there"

Just another thought, not many of them actually carry their ladders from job to job, most of them use a car that needs maintaining and it is shocking what damage those ladders do to a car's suspension. On paper it always looked like a nice earner, in reality we were always struggling.

£5 for nine windows (inc one bay), two doors (partial glazing and light down side of one door) and patio doors. Well worth it when I look at how long it would take to do any of it myself. Ladders needed for all but kitchen window and patio doors because we are on a slope. He comes once a month.

Previous house was £2.50 for six windows (including one bay) and french doors. BUT he came once a fortnight.... so I ended up paying as much as I do now. I think once a month is more than enough personally.

I can't believe what I'm reading!!! We have a 2 bedroomed semi detached. 7 windows, 1 of them is large. We pay £2 to have them cleaned every 3 weeks.
.... well we used to until a neighbour told us the window cleaner had had an argument with me apparently (I've never spoken to him??!) and decided not to clean them anymore!

My Parents stay in quite a posh area and live in a 4bedroomed semi with a sun lounge and glass porch.... they pay £4 a time.