I was cleaning a Karate studio yesterday when a Vietnamese
women approached me and asksed me to clean her store front windows. This is not a big deal but she knows everyone in this plaza. There are probably 30 small businesses. She wants the windows done once a month. $30 a pop. She is going to introduce me to all the business owners. Do any of you guys do windows. This is not a direction I want to go into, but a couple of small jobs can't hurt. The job should only take 15 mins.




Window man

P.S. I am afraid of heights

We mostly resd windows, have a food lion store we do once a month 70.00
ea time you do you will gain time, ie can do it in less time.

When you do windows you need to be very low priced. I found out that there is always someone out there waiting to do the job for 15.00 or even 10.00 or less a pop.

I would go around in our town years ago and give out my card to the store owners and they would ask how much to do my three front windows and I would say $10.00 and they would come back and say they have a guy that does them for $3.50.

And ya know what, they did. I saw this older man and his son doing this one day and they would go through town do most of the windows and go to the next town and do the same.

I talked to him one day and he said it was how much he did in a day is how he made his money.

I could not in no way keep up and charge $3.50 or even less but he was albe to make a good living at it from what I saw.

Good luck and I hope you keep making that $30.00 for her windows.

I used to be afraid of heights, too. I still am afraid to go too high! However, when someone wants to put green stuff in my pocket, I've found it makes it alot easier to shinny on up a ladder as high as 3 stories!

We've done both residential and commercial for 20+ years. It's good filler work if the weather cooperates. We have a route where we do business windows every two weeks. Some are jani accounts, others stand alone accounts. Not huge money per account but if you can do several in a day then it will pay. The lowest one we have is $7.50 per month but it has led to others and it's our local computer store so we get some consideration there.

Dave Bigler
When It Comes to Cleaning - the BIGLER the BETTER!!!

I started doing windows for my father's window cleaning business when I was stil in high school. That was the 1960's. We charge anywhere from $6 to $70 per store. Did most of the stores in town. Went right down the block. Some family members still do that route. They gross about $80 per hour with a relatively small investment to get into the business.

J Racenstein was one of the main places we purchased our window cleaning equipment. For small amlunts of equipment try your local distributor. Unger was the brand name we liked, but also used some Ettore products.

Scott Warrington

Scott Warrington
Tech support Bridgepoint & Interlink Supply

That’s what I started my business for, $109.00, when I was a sixteen year old kid. I had been helping my brother with his cleaning company, doing mostly offices at night. Back in high school there was this woman named Mrs. Saperstein that was called an “Occupational Counselor”. Her job for the most part was getting kids after school jobs and trying to teach them some measure of work ethic. I told her that I was starting my own window cleaning company so she hired me to come clean her windows. I think I got a whopping $2.00 a window; that was for both sides and cleaning the screens. That was 10th grade. I don’t know which was more exhilarating as a young entrepreneur; landing my first “big” job or just making it there and back without getting pulled over for driving my own car without a license. You might say I had a slightly unorthodox approach.

I went to a local JanSan supplier, Sun Sanitary Supply, and bought Unger’s window cleaning kit. It came in a green Styrofoam box nearly five feet long, six inches high and about eight to ten inches deep. Boy it just had everything one could want; a 4-8 foot poll, quick release handle with a 6”, 12”, and 18” channel and some extra squeegee blades, this cool little razor scraper that came with a guaranty to draw blood the first dozen times you used it, as well as a giant alligator clamp, deck brush and sponge that I don’t think I ever used. Man I was big time. Being that I was so much smarter than not only the kids at school but the teachers as well and taking into consideration that it was either go to school or eat; I opted for the latter. I worked four days a week doing stucco work and one day a week cleaning windows. Of course I made more money on the one day than I did the rest of the week. Then I started cleaning offices and the rest is history. What a long strange trip it’s been. It’s kinda funny, to this day I’ll still stop a window cleaner and talk to them about the trade as well as different techniques; they get a kick out of it and I still love when I get a chance to clean windows.

David Gelinas
Marbleguy

Thanks David, I love reading post like yours. I would tell you about my first experience earning money, but it goes back to WWII and taking ashes out of the basements for .10 a bucket (from coal furnaces) and knowbody wants to hear that.