RESIDENTIAL PRICING TIPS | WINDOW CLEANING | 2023 

This guy is a real window cleaner that has taught me a lot. None of those wannabe salesman window cleaners you see on RU-vid

Thanks for everthing you do for the community brotha!

started up a window cleaning side gig last week and landed two residential jobs and have a property manager asking for a bid at a shopping center with 15 store fronts! These videos are gold! Thanks!

I approach to pricing from both ways, pricing itself and anticipating the time I will need to finish the job. Then I go by highest. For example, if my window pricing comes up to $300 , but my time is about 4 hours (a lot of bushwhacking etc), I go by my time ($100 per hour).

Great content! Thanks, SteveO.

Great content! Looking forward to the next vid!

Thanks Steveo

Thanks for your vídeos man..

Extremely helpful thank you

Thank you Steve. This video really helped me out.

Thank you!

Ok, so I need to charge more then. Thanks for the tips!

Really cool background and lighting, thank you for everything you’ve taught me SteveO. 😁

Huge help- thank you! Pricing can be confusing.

Awesome vid bro, thanks. Another thing about casements is that they have seals all the way around the sash (the part that moves) that need to be kept clean or the window won't seal right. Bad for the client in increased heating/cooling costs, and bad for us cleaners because it allows all kinds of debris to filthify both the sash frame and the surrounding area. I use those bad boys as a major upselling point.

Good job! Knocked it out of the park!!!

We are similar in Central Phoenix. I typically do add more for initial cleans (not necessarily CCU) but jobs where they haven't been cleaned in a few years. Then, we try to set up a route with the customer with a future slightly lower price. We do also have quite a few doors and windows with "bigger" divided lites or panes. They are around 18"x24" instead of your typical 6"x12". For these we charge quite a bit more as well.

Thanks for all the info you supplied in the video 😊😊

Omg I need you! Pricing new construction old windows

Thanks from Llanelli

Nice video quality 👍

Hey Steve O. Great video! What do you charge for glass railing. You should do a video on your technique for cleaning. Both water fed and trad.

Your honesty about the fact of life with quoting is refreshing. Thank you

Extremely helpful thank you 🙏🏼 If you ever find the time I would love a video explaining how to find out what the typical prices are based on my area. Making sure I’m not under or over bidding and staying within range of my competitors prices. Or at least a link to that information.

I charge $5 for full large screens. I use soap and the xero screen cleaner every day. I feel all that work is fair. I charge $4 for a casement screen

One of my first jobs was a house a with 8 French windows . We had talked over the phone and when he told me it was 8 windows I agreed to come by and knock it out for 50 bucks. I thought it was double hung and plus I wanted to secure any work. The job took me about 2 and half hours and I definitely felt like I under bid it! In the end he was really grateful I came by and gave him a price “ he can afford” hired me for more handy man work around his house and is one my favorite repeating clients to this day!

I see your prices went up from your last video. Understandably. Glad i watched this video. I have an exterior only with screens and track. Double hung. Probably be around $11 per double hung being its exterior only.

Do you know of a man named Josh Tolley? He teaches on entrepreneurship. You’re the only other person I have ever heard that has said you need to have 10% increase of business income every year to actually be sustainable other than him. Cool to hear you share that.

Love your content. What do you charge for inside windows? If the price is 199 for outside windows do you just double the price when doing inside windows?

Thank you so much for all the knowledge you share. I wonder about how to accurately bid window jobs nowadays where customers often use things like Yelp! and don't have a convenient way to convey all of the information necessary to make an accurate bid, especially when other companies are giving the customer bids at the same time. How do you work through this? Surely you can't visit every job to make an on-site estimate. Yet, asking for all this info could push away customers when other companies are giving out bids with less information.

I’m in Phoenix and I think the market might be a little skewed too far to the cheap side thanks to so many people low balling jobs. I’ve been bidding tons of jobs and can’t even come close to this pricing without people laughing me right out the door unfortunately. I have to go as low as $3 per pane per side to even come close to being competitive. But even that people still think is too much.

I really appreciate the info. What about large picture windows? Thanks in advance!

Best kit to start with the one on your website is a lot to just start from not much.

Love it! We’re spot on with this except for double hungs…we’re only charging $12 per. Sometimes $14 if they’re larger. But I’ve been thinking about bumping it. What do you charge for skylights and large geometric windows? Thanks!

Thank you! I started my business 3 weeks ago. On my 3rd job and just undercharged without realizing there was hard water stains. Watching your YT helps, thank you!

Hello SteveO, first, I want to thank you for this really good in-depth video; when you have a slider or double-hung window that has more than just a 2 X 2 grid (sometimes inside or outside), how would you go about bidding for them?

I keep it simple. $5 per pane per side. Larger panes are 2 to 3 times more. Really dirty glass counts as 2. After calculation, I add on $20 to $60 depending on the PITA factor. I include screens in this price. I do a great but slow job and people always comment that I'm cheap. I get tipped a lot and average 50 to 100 bucks an hour. I'm still a newb.

Hi StevO, thank you for your great advice over the years, how do you factor in Travel cost per job, ie Petrol, Diesel, travel time to & from job ? Best regards Larry

Aloha stevo, my wife and I have a cleaning business on maui. I do all the glass in our units and was thinking about doing strictly glass. Since these condos are mostly view friendly, clean windows are a necessity. With the high cost of living on island. How should I go about pricing. Your videos are awesome btw🤙🏾

How should I quote a stand alone business. Not in a shopping center type deal but a restaurant

Do you do in person quotes then? Or adjust when you arrive to do the work

Im 15 years old and me and my friend just started window cleaning a couple days ago (we only clean the outside though we dont go inside but we clean windows sills tracks and screens). We have been charging about $5 per window but its not set in stone. My question is, you have mentioned in pervious videos that you charge extra for tracks, but im not sure if that would be benificial to us as we have only had 3 clients (which took ~7 hours to get); one for $70, one for $25(duplex so very little windows), and one for $145 which was our biggest client and it took about two hours. We have included tracks and screens in our window cleaning price and since we are kids i feel like people arent willing to pay as much even though we do a great job. Should we be charging extra for tracks or should we keep it included? We currently have Squeeges, Scrubbers, Towels, and a vacuum, and any basic equipment but nothing fancy. We have been going door to door and dont get many people to say yes and im not sure if the best plan would be to charge more for our very few clients. Is the reason that we get so few clients because we are young or because we have a bad pitch? sorry for such a long comment, just hoping to get some info. Thanks! Edit: forgot to mention, at the moment we are only doing single story houses as we don't have the equipment or experience to do 2 story ones yet.

Love your content SteveO. Wondering what your hourly target rate is. Have heard Jersey mention he is $85-$100/ hr. I have also heard you at $125-$150/hr. Ultimately, bidding individual windows should result in your target hourly. I was at $100/man hr but seeing that $125/man hr seems to be our target for 2024. Looking for your professional opinion. Thanks!

How and when do you approach the minimum charge conversation? Do you tell them it's the same price to do 10 Windows as it is to do just 2 or do you just tell them this minimum charge and do whatever they ask?

What kind of towels do I need for window cleaning

How do you adjust pricing for second or even third story?

Can you please show how to clean a Juliette sliding glass door. One overlaps the other with a tiny gap between the two. There are no videos on how

SteveO, how much extra would you charge for tinted windows?

Hi. I’m new to all of this. Do storefront window cleaners clean only the exterior? I never see anyone cleaning storefront interiors.

I have a service fee for driving depending upon the miles driven

My prices are like yours.

4th!

me n all my homies hate french windows

Shit, am I too cheap. I charge $10 per double-hung window or single window or simply $15 inside and out. I use a water fed pole so rarely need to use ladders as I do mostly high-end homes.

Has anyone ever used a telescopic ladder

Help

I know a guy who have one of the best crew in my state and always charge so little. It’s sad to see how this dude kills the market. Like for a house you will charge 1500$ he only charges 700$ 🤡🥊 17:03 17:03

You charge considerably more to R&R combo storms. I cut my window cleaning teeth doing these in the Twin Cities, so they are not much of a challenge for me any more. Our pricing is almost identical. $3 - 4 is where I am at on screens that I put through the water-fed screen scrubber. I got a $110.00 tip on 03/14/2024 doing a full day job cleaning gutters and exterior of windows and screens. I was at $190.00 for gutters and $450 for exterior of windows and cleaning all the screens. It was a first time clean on an 8 year old house. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WOovQ8l8RIA.htmlsi=9yE55Y_zVTquo-tI This customer asked if I would clean the exterior of the windows and clean the screens for $400. I said yes and then when they saw how good of a job I did, they gave me a $110.00 tip.🙂