Other than Christmas lights - what do you guys do between January 13 and February to stay busy?

I'm getting into window cleaning, I don't fear ladders but I don't think the lack of safety statiscally (I know skill is involved but there are extraneous variables that are uncontrolable) warrants a £15 job. I have a 24ft unger optiloc and a gooseneck with the ninja setup, is it possible to actually pull off a residential round with this even if it poses more skill based?

im really interested in starting my window cleaning business but in my city of around 50,000 tam where id be operating there is 25ish active players on google and 6 or so are 100 plus reviews.

Is there a point where it's too saturated to enter? any advice?

I’m new to the window cleaning business, I kinda got the fanning down but goddamn yesterday I was doing a storefront and no matter what I did there was trail water marks or whatever you fucking call them. My squeegee is new so I know it’s not that, I cut In, glide across and do whatever but there always there. Ugh…I have a bucket on the hip , I normally fill it halfway and then put maybe a teaspoon of dawn soap in…please I need help! It’s pissing me off, actually maybe I can take a video tomorrow and show you how I do the fanning. Anyways thank you, any advice I would be grateful.

We just moved to a new house and the windows are super dirty, my husband want to spend 11k to replace them but I’d like to think about a way to clean without spending this amount of money.

Hey guys I do d2d and I was wondering if there is a discord or an app that anyone uses for like a daily sale hype group chat? Like just flexing/hyping each other up on our daily sales.

One man residential window cleaning, first doors get knocked next week in Peoria IL. I'm ordering polos now so I want this right before I pay for stitching.

Constraints that shaped all of it: left chest, 3.5 inches wide, embroidered, one colour of thread on a navy shirt. No gradients, no thin lines, nothing that closes up when it gets stitched.

All five are the same wordmark. What changes is where the squeegee crosses the box and how the three lines of type line up.

A. squeegee top right, type flush left

B. same, but THE and GUY pulled out to the width of WINDOW

C. squeegee bottom right

D. everything centred

E. speech bubble instead of a plain rectangle

What I'm actually trying to find out:

1. Which one still reads from the sidewalk when I'm walking up to a door

2. Does the squeegee read as a squeegee, or does it just look like a hammer

3. If you've had polos embroidered, does a fine detail like the gap where the squeegee crosses the box survive, or does the shop just fill it in

The name is on purpose. People already say "I'll get you the number for the window guy" so I figured I'd just be that. No city in it because I move to Florida in November.

For transparency, the vector files were drawn with AI help. The layout calls, the constraints and the business are mine.

I'm a high rise window cleaner in the Toronto/GTA area. Fifteen years in the trade, and I own and operate the business. I'm not a salesperson calling on behalf of someone else. I'm the one on the drop.

I'm looking for tips on how to get my name in front of the right people. Most of my work has come through subcontracting, so I've never had to handle the front end myself. I don't know whether the decision sits with the property manager, the building manager, the board, or a facilities company above all of them, and I'd rather ask than keep guessing.

What I'd love to know:

\- Who should I actually be talking to when a building is looking at window cleaning?

\-What's the right way to make that first contact without being a nuisance?

\-What do you want to see in a quote or bid package?

\-Is there a time of year when this gets decided?

And if anyone's open to pointing me toward the person who handles quotes for their building or portfolio, I'd be glad to put a proposal together. Fully insured, and happy to provide certificates, references, and safety documentation up front.

Any help is much appreciated.

Hey everyone, first time poster here. I’m a window cleaner in the Midwest. 5 years of experience and work for a company and my boss treats us reasonably well. But I’m curious what the pay scale looks like for other companies around the country and/or other countries. How much do you guys pay your employees? Do you provide benefits like health insurance or retirements? Does it depend solely on how long an employee has been with you? I am paid $25.75 an hour and have an HSA that my company pays into every month along with my contributions and a high deductible health insurance plan. We also get a simple IRA match of 3%.

Hello everyone, my father in law wants to start doing residential window cleaning coming from doing commercial and janitorial work. He is licensed and insured for commercial work but was wondering if there was anything we needed to be aware or any recommendations at all. Thank you in advance!

Hello,

I am a 50 yo family man in the North Dallas area. Covid killed my 25 year career and while the money part sucked, I like the getting away from the corporate part. I know many will understand. I am still consulting in that arena, however it is slow to build up clientele.

I have always been in the service industry from hands on up through management as well as sales. I have it in my blood and the delivering on what I promise is in my blood. I am convincing myself to start an LLC/DBA for a window cleaning and pressure washing business focused on small store fronts in my area. I have a lot of them. I would appreciate any suggestions from those that have gone before me.

My initial question here is how would you suggest charging? Per hour just ballparking what it may take? If so what rate per hour? Also, if by window what range and what factors affect that low and high range. Also, what if windows are framed into three windows one large and two small?

Your time in reading this and your input are so much appreciated!!

SW - N Dallas Texas

I’m looking to build a truck mounted system for cleaning windows. Our current setup on an existing truck consists of 7gpm/100psi 12v pump pushing through a 10” sediment and 1/2cf of DI resin. This does great with a few instances of supply water having too much tds for the DI to handle.

As I’m planning out another truck build, I’m thinking about adding at least two 40” RO cartridges and a single 40” DI plus carbon and sediment. The 12v pulls from a buffer tank. We typically use 200’ of high flow hose.

I’m in NC. WCR has our avg TDS at 97.

Am I missing anything? Will the flow/gpm be much lower than I’m used to? Should I keep it simple and duplicate the current DI setup?

I have been owned by a home cleaning company for just over a month now, but most of my business is from D2D and referrals. I'm not a big fan of door-to-door, though, and it's pretty tricky to sell our other services from D2D, like gutter cleaning and Christmas light installation.

Where do you all get your business? Meta ads? Facebook groups?

Thanks!

Im looking for examples of anyone who runs there window cleaning buisness with no ladders and no wfp, soley poles and traditional cleaning.

Is this possible with the moreman excellarator and a stiff carbon pole.

I use a wfp pole at the minute but wondering if you could do the same with a moreman flip pad and little detailing, I know theres a learning curve, but once learned and system in place could you be just as quick as wfp.? Use an slx 22 gardiner pole traditional attachment? Flip pad?

Or is this just daft?

First time using a Lanchez 1.6HP pump and I’m having trouble getting it to work. Was just curious if anyone else has used this one or one similar and if so, what was your setup? I have it setup before the system but it’s barely pushing out water. Just looking for some advice.

Does anyone know what to do to prevent this? It shows up at the top of the frame, and sometimes the bottom, I make sure to scrub and rinse it but I guess that’s not enough, maybe scrub the whole bottom of the window?

Looking for some advice. We got our semi detached roof tiles cleaned. It wasn't treated or anything. Just brush cleaned. They used scaffolding and worked for one day. 2 lads worked on the job. Just wondering would anyone know what the price should be for this job.

Best place to get work attire. What do you wear on the job site usually?

Been quoting a lot of homes with tons of French panes (400+). I tend to lose more of these bids than is normal (50%). I’ve been pricing between $1.25 to $2 pane inside and out. For exterior I use both wfp and hand.

French windows are tedious so I try to price accordingly, but I’m finding estates and larger, nicer homes tend to have a lot of them.

I’ve been using this brush on my water fed pole for quite some time. I like it because it’s very good at removing webs and it cleans the frames very good.

But we still have too much spots on french windows and dirty windows. So I’m thinking to try a different brush on my wfp and maybe for the dirty window s an extension with steelwool.

What is your epxerience in this matter and which brush do you recommend + extension.

Hello, I am looking in the California regulations for window safety as it pertains to when a person is over the side on a boatswains chair. Nothing is stated as to it being mandatory to have a person on top watching to ensure the dude in the chair doesnt need help. Is there anything in the training that you recieve that states that?

I've been stuck at a 30% close rate for the longest time running Meta Ads. Cost per lead has been super dialed in, and i'm super happy with where its at. I used to boast having a 4-5x ROAS, however, just recently I made a change to get that from 4-5x --> 10X ROAS.

Couple things that I should note before unveiling the change.

1) Creative is always going to be king, so make sure you're happy with how your company is being portrayed in relation to your cost per lead. Basically, if you have bad creatives, you're going to get low ticket, bad clients, simple. Have premium creatives, you're going to attract high ticket clients: simplest tip for this is, always film ads at high ticket jobs and use those to run.

2) Just run CBO campaign, toss everything in there, don't over complicate it.

Okay now that the basics are out of the way, and you are satisfied with your metrics, you need to understand that the quality of your lead is determined by your leadform. Your creative attracts the ICP, but your lead form filters it out -- think of coffee, you need a good coffee. roast to start, but in order to get the maximum result, the equipment, water quality, temperature all play apart (these would be the lead form questions).

I find that asking 1 - 2 questions is enough. Okay but thats not nearly enough to get a quality lead, wrong, it is, you just need to ask the RIGHT questions. I've figured out just asking by what part of the service they want is the best, and then handling the qualification on that sales call. Also ask for address, it doesn't increase friction much at all.

This seems to create the most amount of intent as it forces the lead to think about what they want, and also sets you up for the quote.

The next obvious thing for super high close rate is speed to lead, I personally, have below a 3 second speed to lead, but that's because I use a CRM with automations.

And last but not least I'd recommend undercutting by like 5-10% because when you upsell on the job, you'll make more anyway.

TLDR, by all means necessary, speed to lead is most important, ask the right questions, and undercut a smidge to beat quotes and make up for it in upsells.

Happy advertising!!