I want to do a video showing you how to bid a window cleaning job okay so if you're a
homeowner you might want to watch this if you're someone who wants to charge for window cleaning
you might want to watch this okay I've been doing window cleaning for years so here's the
deal you want to take and you want to figure out how much you want per hour okay so if if you want
sixty dollars an hour then you figure out how many minutes they'll take and you want to be bringing
in a dollar a minute you want thirty an hour you want to bring in about fifty cents a minute okay
so you figure out how many minutes so you're going to write right out these windows you're going to
need a stepladder or maybe a water cut pole so you want to figure out how many minutes let's just say
that's four minutes two minutes and four minutes so 10 minutes and then 2 4 6 8 10 so 20 minutes ok
for that so that would be 20 dollars so then you come over here and you you got to understand this
you need to think about the customers expectations okay are they expecting you to clean the screens
you need to charge it differently for that are they expecting you to come up here with a cobweb
duster and to dust around you know the edges and get stuff out of it you need to charge differently
if you have to go around the edges you need to you know are in the really big one are they expecting
you to clean inside and outside or just outside it's very very important to specify with the
customer exactly what you're going to do so the expectations are in order so with this you need
to figure out how long it would take you to do it I want to talk to a video about scraping glass but
yeah you know are they expecting me to scrape it or just mop and squeegee it so let's just say this
would take four minutes by the time you took the screen out and did the window and you know I did
it right with the mop and squeegee so we go and then you so we go four and then there's another
four and then you need to think about bushes how accessible this is not too bad okay there's a big
bougainvillea Bush or cactus and you're doing it with a mop and squeegee and not a water fed pole
or whatever it might be harder you know there might be things in the window that you can't
take off that easily looks like that one doesn't have a screen but here we go we go this is um if
it's for four minutes each is four dollars each so one two three there's another window four five
six so right there we're at six times four is 24 plus twenty okay so 24 plus 20 is 44 and we come
around the building and you know this might sound obvious and there's a two more so at eight you
know but you need to be looking very carefully that you're not missing any windows okay these
are up these are upstairs it looks like there's something on the middle window on the lower part
something whatever it is so what you need to do is you need to talk to the customer and you need to
get the customer two different prices if you're not sure if you can do some windows like you
may or may not be able to walk on the roof you know it looks like maybe there's dirt or algae
or something on that roof so you need to talk to the customer you need to say this is one price and
maybe I can go up there and maybe I'll be able to clean it and so you know that's that's the other
price okay but keep the customers expectations in line so you need to figure out how long will it
take to put a ladder up walk across the roof with your tools and to clean those and come back down
the ladder okay let's just factor in seven minutes for each window is 21 right so add 21 and we're up
to about 73 right now so then you come around the building and you look over here and these
are some windows up high okay and so what you need to do is you need to figure it figure out how long
will take to go up the ladder is there a huge awning in the way then you know will is there
room on the ground for the ladder so you factor in about ten minutes each by the time you move a
lot of go up the ladder do the window come back down ladder factor in about ten minutes each so
one two three thirty minutes and then four and four so we got plus plus 38 so we're up to like
111 right now so we come around here we got 1 2 3 4 so you add 40 minutes and then right here we got
1 2 3 & 4 4 windows at 4 minutes each is another of 16 minutes so dollar VIN it would be 16 dollars
and then you come around here and you just kind of just think about you know how long it'll take
and maybe you'll get it right sometimes the more you do it you might get write quicker so how long
would they keep doing this okay so factoring like if you have a ladder so maybe like 5 10 15 20 25
just call it 30 and then right here go 32 34 36 38 40 so then we go past 40 so we're at two
hundred and seven dollars right now so come over here are there any upstairs you need to always
be like looking looking looking are there any you don't want to miss any windows so there's two up
there so factor in 10 minutes a piece okay ten seven minutes apiece whatever you know this is
odd let's just call these 10 whatever but um you call it seven 10 well let's just call 20 minutes
total okay so add 20 and then you got 1 2 3 4 5 6 so 6 times 4 it's going to add that plus 24
we are at 251 so you come around and you want to make sure that you have access to the bushes and
stuff and you you know you really need to specify to the customer like what kind of clean are they
expecting oh here's another here's another one here's four plus four like if they want really
clean windows they might have to have a mop and a squeegee in addition to the scraping if they
just have them up and squeegee you know there's stuff on there you know you might need a scraper
to take some of the stuff off okay so it's really really important and when you scrape there is the
possibility of scraping a window maybe the glass is perfect maybe it has imperfections or something
on it so it's you know you need to have the customer's expectations right oh there's there's
another one that's four let's go around here so so I was one two three four five five windows times
four dollars is 20 so for this job we're looking at about 275 now you know what maybe you're really
fast window cleaner baby or not you know you just got to figure out how much you want per hour and
you know and go with that you might be able to get those windows done in like three point five
minutes or two minutes or two minutes and 15 seconds apiece or whatever but however fast you
are you just figure out how much you want to make per hour and that's what you do and I want to go
ahead and show you this window right here and give you an example here excusing so we're right here
at this window can you guys see these black specks right here so yeah that might not come off with
mopping and squeegee we need to use a razor for that so if you tell the customer a price and in
your head you're planning on mopping and squeezing the windows and that doesn't come off the customer
might not be happy with you so you know is she expecting you to clean that so you know what about
this stuff in here so just make sure you specify to the customer very clearly what you intend to
do and if you do scrape who knows if I've ever even done it but it would be a good idea to get
them to sign a waiver let them know there is the possibility to scratch the glass let me have that
customers know you know the possibility is there but uh anyways guys do you have any other better
ways to bid the windows if you have any better ideas you want to add anything please put in
the comments thank you for watching I would really appreciate it if you liked the video
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