What’s the going rate for window cleaning at the moment?

Posted by Mystic_L@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 49 comments

Had the window cleaner turn up today, I nearly fell of my chair when he posted the bill through the door.

We’ve do have a decent number of windows. Looking at the doorbell footage he was here 30 minutes, 45 quid! Don’t begrudge paying a fair amount at all, but this strikes me as somewhat high end?

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Martinonfire@reddit

£12 every four weeks though we give him £15 because he does a good job.

Takes them all of 10 minutes though

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H16HP01N7@reddit

I used to clean windows for a living (ok, it was nearly 2 decades agao, now), and I just gave birth to a kitten, seeing how much cleaners are charging these days...

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Kitchen_Owl_8518@reddit

£30 every 8 weeks. The guy came to the house last week and I signed up. I will reserve judgement until they've paid their first visit. 3 bed semi in South East.

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cuppachuppa@reddit

£35 in Hertfordshire for a house with about twenty windows.

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Mystic_L@reddit (OP)

This seems about the closest to what we have. A quick count puts us at 18 windows plus 3 4-pane bifolds, so not a million miles away.

Thank you

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RevolutionaryPace167@reddit

You can buy a rube with a retractable long pile and a built-in eclectical sucker/ scraper. Easy to use. And 2 washes boys the machine. I use mine on any surface

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JoeyJoeC@reddit

£6 for about 8 windows here in Kent. Not really a proper company, guy turns up with a ladder, bucket and squidgy. Takes him about 4 minutes.

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Birdman_of_Upminster@reddit

£1.50/minute - exactly the same rate as OP

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MokausiLietuviu@reddit

Manchester - £6 front and back for a 3-bed semi. Sounds about right.

They're not here for 30 minutes though like OP's. They really don't have to be....

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Enchanting_puddles@reddit

£4 for just front of miners terrace in South Wales. Door and three windows. It was £3 until last summer and had been for almost a decade.

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Next-Project-1450@reddit

£8 for 4 windows front (one of which is the door/porch), two side, and four back (one of which is a double patio door).

He also does gutter clearing for £20 (compared to the £300 the door knockers quoted).

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SomethingMoreToSay@reddit

Berkshire. 4 bedroom detached house, with a 5-metre wide sliding patio door and some Veluxes on the single-storey extension. £15 plus two cups of tea, every 5 weeks or so.

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Suspicious-Movie4993@reddit

£17 for 9 windows, 2 doors and a patio door.

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BrieflyVerbose@reddit

I paid £10 yesterday front and back, Victorian mid terrace. Fucker put his prices up from £9 last month!

Others around charge more. I only asked him as he does my neighbours and he seemed like a nice bloke. Thought it would cost a bit more than but I'm not complaining.

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Captainpinkeye3@reddit

North west £4 all in for front and back on a mid terrace

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£14 13/14 windows 3 of which are bay windows & 1 patio window, 3 storey house, he doesn't do the veluxes on the rear roof, but he gives the front and back door the once over. North East England, he uses purified water and a brush on a pole.

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CammyCozy@reddit

We used to charge £5 for the front and £5 for the back if it was just your normal residential

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Annabelle_Sugarsweet@reddit

£10 central London, 3 bed front only.

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UnknownTerrorUK@reddit

We have a 2 bedroom house, 4 windows on the front, 4 on the back and like 2 random ones. He charges us £10 every 4 weeks. He pretty much does the whole area.

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SlickAstley_@reddit

One round my way charges silly money and he flat out told a neighbour he's "not taking new clients"

Literally a 90 second walk to get 40 more quid every week it's effing mad

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SpaceTimeCapsule89@reddit

We pay £10. There's only 5 windows though, 3 of them are doubles, 1 is a small bathroom window and the other 1 is a single bedroom window. He also cleans round the front and back door. He's here about 5 minutes

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Personal-Adagio-7089@reddit

£40/ hour for a good water fed pole window cleaner.

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MoodyStocking@reddit

£16 for a 3 bedroom semi - Somerset

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PoinkPoinkPoink@reddit

£6 ish for the front of a 4 bed detached in the north west (5 windows and a side door). Does a shit job though

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Some_Pop345@reddit

I pay about £1.50 per window. Usually every six-eight weeks

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dwigtshrute1@reddit

Manchester - £12 every 3 weeks detached 3 bed.

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SmileyTab@reddit

Yorkshire - 10 large windows, about 15 minutes - £7.

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Athena_x@reddit

£6 for a 3 bed detached, but he does an absolute crap job.

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Pyriel@reddit

£24 for a four bedroom detached, with conservatory.

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WarWonderful593@reddit

£20 for a four bed, Wales

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Alternative-Ad-4977@reddit

£8. Front of house only. Which is only one door stairs window and two upstairs.

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londonflare@reddit

£30 for 4 glazed doors and about 25 windows. Hampshire.

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huskydaisy@reddit

As with all the other posts on the same topic I remain baffled by the people who give the number of bedrooms but not the number of windows which is the relevant part.

Anyway: £20 East Anglia, 8 windows, one door and a 3m x 4m conservatory.

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Unfair_Original_2536@reddit

£9 front and back up and downstairs and he always does the front door window as well. Aberdeen.

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dmada88@reddit

Central London - £100. Flat with big windows (high ceilings) includes doing the bathroom mirrors. Sitting room: bay window tryptich with two sides around the bay, kitchen two windows , study two, bedroom windowed double sided door to balcony.

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Mystic_L@reddit (OP)

Mirrors?? You have a window cleaner that does inside as well? Amazing

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Mystic_L@reddit (OP)

Piped water with a brush, kitchen diner is a one storey extension so have no real choice sadly

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Reignbeaus@reddit

We pay £9 for a 3 bed detached, it takes him about ten minutes. How many windows do you have that it took him 45?

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Kamoebas@reddit

£9 Front £18 Front and back

4 Bed semi

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