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Window Cleaning

mpmtrash
mpmtrash Posts: 4 Newbie
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How much do you pay to have your windows cleaned? Where do you live?

We have bought a 4 bed seni detached in Berkshire and the window cleaner says the previous owners paid £30 per clean every two months! What do you pay?
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  • imho
    imho Posts: 2,515 Forumite
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    Blimey i want to take up window cleaning if they charge that amount ! Ask your neighbours what they are paying but i think you already know that £30 is too much.
  • mpmtrash
    mpmtrash Posts: 4 Newbie
    imho wrote: »
    Blimey i want to take up window cleaning if they charge that amount ! Ask your neighbours what they are paying but i think you already know that £30 is too much.

    Yeah - trouble is the window cleaner does the whole street and I am new to the area....
  • dander
    dander Posts: 1,824 Forumite
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    £30?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I pay £7 in Herts.
    My house has 14 windows including 1 bay and 1 pair of french windows.
  • olias
    olias Posts: 3,588 Forumite
    My cleaner usually charges £5 (and that is a 3 storey house - front and rear!) Last time I just wanted the lounge and hall windows cleaning as he just happened to be doing the next doors and the rest of my windows were OK - he charged me £1!

    If he does the lot, I usually give him About £8, even though he only asks for a fiver.

    I am in the Dales

    Olias
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
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    edited 26 July 2009 at 10:41AM
    £5 for top windows only window cleaner uses distilled water and a rod 5 double windows and 2 small. Area North Yorkshire
  • Bishop_Basher
    Bishop_Basher Posts: 130 Forumite
    mpmtrash wrote: »
    How much do you pay to have your windows cleaned? Where do you live?

    We have bought a 4 bed seni detached in Berkshire and the window cleaner says the previous owners paid £30 per clean every two months! What do you pay?
    :eek: How long does it take?
    In wood we trust.
  • mpmtrash
    mpmtrash Posts: 4 Newbie
    Bishop_Basher wrote: »
    :eek: How long does it take?

    They are all sash windows with lots of small panes so takes about an hour!
  • Bishop_Basher
    Bishop_Basher Posts: 130 Forumite
    mpmtrash wrote: »
    They are all sash windows with lots of small panes so takes about an hour!
    Window cleaner on £30 an hour, probably tax free too!

    If he has a bike tell him to get on it!
    In wood we trust.
  • fotokat66
    fotokat66 Posts: 30 Forumite
    I live Berkshire too, and I pay £13 a time - about every 2 months, but they'll do less regularly as well. It's with Premier window cleaning.
  • Vibrant
    Vibrant Posts: 311 Forumite
    My neighbour pays £14 for a small two bed bungalow!!
    Needless to say I do my own. :)
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