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How much do you pay for Window Cleaning?

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Retiredguy Fri 10-Apr-15 12:07:55

How much do you pay your window cleaner and for how many windows?
Up to retiring last year and moving we paid £11 once a month in Leicestershire for a four bedroom detached with conservatory.
Been quoted £20 here in Lincolnshire for a smaller ( 3 bedroom detached) house but bigger conservatory.

hulahoop Tue 01-Sept-15 13:30:57

We pat £6 for 3bedsemi. And he does sills comes every month we live off
Main road so windows don't get that dirty!

Mama4 Tue 01-Sept-15 13:28:52

We pay nothing. We do it ourselves!

Lesley1 Tue 01-Sept-15 13:24:41

£3 a fortnight, we have 7 windows and it's a terraced house. :-)

Grannycupcake Tue 01-Sept-15 13:22:27

We pay £5 a month for 2 bed det bungalow in Cumbria. Lounge windows are floor to ceiling.

HMHNanna Tue 01-Sept-15 13:13:31

We pay £6.50 a month for a 4 bedroom detached house with glass porch and a conservatory. Every second month we have the inside of the conservatory and the patio doors which lead into the dining room done for an extra £2.50. If it is looking like rain when they come that leave them until a fine day. They also clean the window ledges and door frames and do a very good job of it.They use a demineralized water pole system for upstairs and do the downstairs ones by hand. As we live on the coast our windows get very salty especially in winter. We always give them a good Christmas money present, but they are always embarrassed to take it. I know that we are lucky to have them and also the price but I am really shocked at some of the prices on this thread.

Minder Tue 01-Sept-15 12:56:27

£10 for a three bedroomed detached with an office stuck on. Cambridgeshire. I have them done monthly too.

Humbertbear Tue 01-Sept-15 12:55:48

We can't get a window cleaner. The house is on a busy road so the windows get dirty. The windows are very large ( curtain shops always tell me I must have got the measurements wrong). It is also on a slope so that a ladder is needed to clean even the front windows. Window cleaners find it all too much redouble and hard work. If they come once, they never come back.

Pamaga Tue 01-Sept-15 12:52:49

Seven pounds for two bedroom bungalow - extension at side has three big windows. They come monthly.

Judthepud2 Mon 31-Aug-15 14:40:10

£20 once a month for 16 windows, front and back door and sunroom (mostly glass with 2 skylights in the roof. He uses hose thing, no ladders. I think it is to do with insurance. We live beside the sea so windows usually covered in a salt deposit. I think they earn their money! I do my own inside windows, though I hate doing it!

Nelliemoser Mon 31-Aug-15 09:42:48

I was just feeling it was a bit much for ours to up his charge to £7.00. We have 12 windows of varying sizes. That is in the south of Cheshire. Probably a lot more up in very posh Wilmslow and Alderley Edge. (There they probably wouldn't consider they had been properly cleaned if they had paid less.) wink

Jane10 Mon 31-Aug-15 08:50:14

Erm is this an advert?

jonnyald Mon 31-Aug-15 08:48:53

i charge £1 per window whether its outside or inside and this rate seems to have remained stagnant in my area [Colchester/ipswich ] for about 20yrs! . im on ladders the squeegee and mop but i dont know how much the lads with a water pole charge

Retiredguy Fri 10-Apr-15 22:08:18

Thanks for all the replies.
Quite a range of prices for sure.

SueD Fri 10-Apr-15 19:14:56

£30 for outside and £60 for inside and out. We have windows that go from ground to roof level (4.3metres) on the front, French doors on the back and also one upstairs bedroom along with a glass Juliet balcony. They also wash all window frames, door frames and fascias and the glass in the balcony. We also have some Velux windows and very high windows from the lounge through to the hallway. It takes four of them best part of half an. Hour to do inside and out so I reckon we get good value for money. They do outside every three months and inside and out every six months so basically costs us £10 per month

harrigran Fri 10-Apr-15 17:59:24

Window cleaner washes 12 of the thirteen windows and charges £5, he comes once a fortnight and fills his bucket at the outside tap.

rascal Fri 10-Apr-15 17:57:36

Eight windows £8 but I give him £10 as it's very difficult to get a window cleaner here so neighbours are glad this one comes back!

numberplease Fri 10-Apr-15 17:11:30

Window cleaners are like gold dust in Boston, whenever one stops coming, it takes weeks to find another. We live in an end terraced, and the present window cleaner charges £7 a month for 6 windows and 2 doors (just the glass in them). There is another bedroom window, but he won`t do that one as it involves standing on the sloping bathroom roof, and he says it`s not safe, so that window is beginning to look a bit grubby.

mcem Fri 10-Apr-15 17:05:58

Ground floor flat with 10 large sash windows plus smaller kitchen window. £5.50 a month in Dundee. Another reliable one-man business. Can't remember last price increase but think atnleast 50p more would be fully justified.

Teetime Fri 10-Apr-15 16:18:58

I live in Leicestershire and I am charged £14 once month for a four bed detached house with a conservatory. I think its Ok especially as the cleaner is definitely eye candy!!

Katek Fri 10-Apr-15 16:01:23

£10 fortnightly for 3 bed bungalow plus front door and conservatory.

granjura Fri 10-Apr-15 15:47:31

Got a few too many windows to clean here- might put an ad in local shop and get some help actually!

granjura Fri 10-Apr-15 15:45:59

We pay nothing- zero, zilch, de nada.... because nobody here cleans windows for you, you just have to do your own. They open inwards so you can do that- got myself a karcher steam window cleaner- but I am procrastinating.

One old chap used to come and clean the windows of our quite large house in East Leicester, with leaded lights- about once a month (when he needed pocket money and needed a bit of tlc and a good natter, for £12- but that was 6 years ago.

Where were you in Leics Retiredguy?

Envious Fri 10-Apr-15 15:37:02

I enjoy reading about double glazing and regular window washing. It's foreign to an American.We seem to have no problem with dirty windows.They get washed twice a year? Maybe. sad

Marmight Fri 10-Apr-15 15:35:27

£12 once a month for a Victorian house with 2 huge sash windows, 6 average sized sash windows, french window and 11 bifold doors. He uses a long handled hose with a pump, so everything is dripping. At least they look clean; the last one cleaned them with dirty water from the previous job and left the window cills covered in dirty streaks and charged £10. I don't think here is such a thing as a perfect window cleaner - if there is, I have yet to meet him/her!

glammanana Fri 10-Apr-15 15:24:20

£1.50 every fortnight for our 1st floor flat,one large lounge picture window/kitchen/bathroom/large bedroom window and small dressing room,every 3 months he does all the plastic frames for me and I pay him £5.00 for that.He charges us all that price and even the 3/4 beds in the next Roads only get charged £5-7 depending on the size.he has had the business for nearly 40 yrs and is a legitimate one man band business.