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welcome to my channel Steve of the window cleaner today we are going to talk about commercial pricing yes I'm in my car I try to film videos like I did the last one where it was like really nice background in my office but there's just no time so I spent a good amount of time driving so back to the car I just came to the car is what it is so commercial and storefront pricing last video about pricing talked a lot about residential pricing the main reason that I'm kind of remaking this video or updating it it's not going to be as thorough as my old videos that I made in 2021 where I showed a lot of pictures of residential different storefronts different commercial buildings and kind of what I would do because I feel like some of it is pretty simple as far as commercial and storefront goes let's start with storefronts storefronts what I do now is I price the average window pane let's say anywhere from like three feet to four foot uh something around there an average door at about two dollars per side now the trick with this is that you're cleaning this on a regular schedule so that's for cleaning it like every single you know month or every two months if you're not doing that then I would just revert to my residential video and basically charge it like a residential because it's a one-time thing um and then if that window is a super large window let's say five feet by eight feet five feet by ten feet I would charge at least three dollars per side or maybe even four dollars per side but oh when you start getting up there in prices too high with storefronts it is a quite competitive market you're dealing with a lot of franchise companies who can do it for Less so that's one thing to think about when doing that there's a lot of I I put restaurants I put everything in there except for mid-rise buildings into pretty much storefronts because restaurants you can do on a regular service um you know dentist offices doctor offices like different stuff like that so what I find is a good charge is right about that two dollars per side and I find you can get a lot of work that way now you might be watching this video and you're saying oh man I get like I get seven dollars a window that's great your seven dollars will know you're a heck of a Salesman good job I have just found from the market and what I've seen that there's of course your bucket Bobs that are going to do it for a dollar altogether so 50 cents for each side of a window pane I'm not going to do that but I find that once you're efficient and pretty Speedy that two dollars per side works out really really nice um some other things that can happen with you know storefronts or commercial stuff I'm going to say like we'll talk about mid-rise commercial but like commercial one story stuff is like garage doors if you're doing garage doors that like uh you do an automobile Place typically I charge like a dollar to a dollar fifty aside um for those kind of Windows because I find it's pretty quick it's pretty easy you're pretty much gonna pull everything and all of my prices is doing everything with a pole so like I don't take out like my three foot or four foot step ladder or my stack ladder or my extension ladder for pretty much any storefront I pull everything that's why you can keep the price low that's it let's say you're doing a liquor store and I I do a couple liquor stores and you're cleaning the cooler doors right you're not going to do them as regular I do mine like every eight weeks on the places that I do same exact prices two bucks aside now like I said earlier this Market is very skewed so you can find that you could have a restaurant that has 65 Windows say to you oh we're getting it clean for 65 bucks inside and out that's just not even worth it to compete with so for that I would leave them my card and let them know hey if that window cleaner doesn't start you know starts not showing up then give me a call but that's really it as far as storefront pricing I keep it really simple I like simple basic pricing commercial uh let's talk more like mid-rise commercial one to three stories uh one to four stories so I think of it a couple different ways all right so one if the building's really dirty you're doing outside only I would pretty much start at ground floor four bucks and either go up by two dollars every story or go up by a buck every story I don't do it as in like oh I'm gonna do five dollars for each one no matter what story it is no matter what floor it is um I find you know if you can reach that third tray at the water fed pole you should charge him for reaching that third story with water fed Pole now here's the kicker once again commercial mid-rise is the most skewed Market as far as window cleaning I can always remember this one building I bid in and it was about 5 000 windows I forget I think my bid was like fifteen twenty thousand dollars something like that this was like quite a few years ago and a person came in and bidded it at fifteen hundred dollars this job required a lift this job required a lot of different stuff can't compete with that and that's what happens uh in that market is that not all the time is it going to make sense and a lot of the time with mid-rise commercial they are literally looking for a company just to make it look better so if you're going into it thinking oh I'm really going to impress these people and I'm going to clean this thing like they've never seen before I'm going to polish it real real nice I would leave that mindset for this kind of stuff they're literally looking for good maintenance so typically mid-rise commercial buildings you're either going to clean quarterly by yearly yearly or every two years or you have your ones where they just get cleaned like randomly every five to ten years if they're doing that I would almost charge at much of the home now for inside windows if it's all easy to get to I'd pretty much charge like about three dollars per pane uh for the inside of it if you have a bunch of vaulted glass inside of a large entryway I would pretty much start at three dollars for the ground floor and just price it by Buck every story up or by two dollars every story up so three five seven nine um and then also if you're using any kind of lifts scissor lifts always always always always be charging the customer for that you should never have to pay for that um if you're doing construction clean you have tons of supplies you got to get I don't think there's any issue in adding that as well construction clean on all of this kind of stuff I just either do it um if it's mild construction I times it by two if it is really really heavy construction debris I times it by three if you've talked to me before about construction cleans I always say this every time I used to time it by three it really didn't work out that well so I would suggest that if you're gonna do that be really good be a really really good salesman to try to sell that or um I was talking to some about this the other day you could just move to an hourly rate for commercial cleans um not that you'll always know exactly how long it's going to take you may not be able to tell that customer exactly what it would be but that's another good way to do construction clean so maybe at least 125 to like 150 an hour for your time and just to make sure that you know you're getting what you should make from that job trying to think of any other kickers for like mid-rise commercial mid-rise commercial I've always found either water fed Pole or pole work traditionally works pretty well once again it's really just about getting that place clean not Perfection if they want hard water removed typically on commercial buildings hard water is the worst because they have a lot of plants and different stuff right by the windows and the irrigation system just sprays water on it and so they just get horrible hard water stains so if the customer wants that removed go into that but I have done commercial buildings for literally every single window has hard water on it to the point where you're like what's the point they literally just want it to be shined up that's it if you disagree with me you disagree with me on that but I think plenty of people who have done this for a long time in that part of the industry will agree that yes that is the general consensus is that they overall wanted to look better so I wouldn't stress about it too much that's really it I keep storefront and commercial mid-rise commercial stuff very very simple comment below with any questions if you want a really thorough video about all that stuff I did a storefront bid guide I also years ago I did this kind of video where I went around a commercial building and just kind of gave my ideas on what to price if you see things that are really hard to get to once again just like residential there's no problem adding on a little bit extra cost if you think it's going to take you a bit to get to that window and it's going to take a lot of extra effort right so also one more thing with any you know storefront businesses commercial is that make sure that you are insured make sure that you have general liability insurance that you should be making sure for the same thing for residential but a lot of these companies are going to ask you for your COI which is your Certificate of Insurance so make sure you have those things done before ever going out and ever trying to do you know buildings like that because they are going to ask you for that information if you have any more questions or you have your own thoughts on Commercial bidding or storefront bidding please comment below I'd be happy to hear your opinion on it and everyone else would as well once again I'm just resource if you guys need anything feel free to text me at 970-599-1437 or you can email me at Stevo windowcleanresource.com peace