What To Do When It’s Raining…
Hi Steve,
I have a question. I consulted How To Start Your Own Residential Window Washing Business, but didn’t find anything on this particular subject. Up here in NE Ohio, we get a fair amount of rain (Trivia: last year we got more rain than Seattle and Ohio is noted as being the second cloudiest state in the country). On Monday and Thursday, I have jobs scheduled and currently, the weather forecast is calling for possible showers. What do you recommend that I tell the customer?
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Unsure of Pricing…
In Response to a recent newsletter sent…
Hi Steve,
thanks for the inspiring e-mail. I love to learn and your motivation keeps me going. Just knowing you are just a phone call away gives me all the strength i need to keep moving forward. I have a few questions and are as follows:
1. I’m assuming the only way to clean a huge picture window on a 2 story house is by using an extender pole but how do you scrap with a razor blade to get all the bugs? I’m attaching the blade to the end of my pole with tape and it works, not super great and probably not the safest so do you have any other suggestions?
2. I’m brutal at estimating(although i just started and i am starting to get a tad better). Apparently here in BC we make a killing. I just can’t seem to wrap my head around it. I estimated one house and i bid $125 the lady called me back and said i’d never get any jobs being that low cause people would be leary as to why. She said she got 3 other quotes and the next one was $175 then $250 then $275. I nearly dropped dead i can’t seem to grasp this. I also want the work so i knew i was a bit low. Any tips?
Thank you very much Steve,
Maria
My Response:
Hi Maria,
It’s good to hear from you and thanks much for your comments. I appreciate ‘em for sure.
–As far as scraping with a pole, I would advise against this. There is too much room for error which means that the scraper could end up on an angle that would end up digging into the glass. This could create some scratches. You should really only scrape if you are directly on top of the glass because then you have full control over the scraper.
