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Not difficult at all - I remember paying £25 for someone to clean the 4 windows of a flat I was living in, which was on the 1st floor of a house.

How long do you think it takes to do 4 windows, exterior only, with a mop on an extended handle? (the answer is: not very long at all)

He was cleaning next door's windows, so I spoke to him as I walked past, and he dropped an invoice through the letterbox. And then 4 weeks later, he cleaned the windows again, as if I'd signed up to a subscription... So I paid £25 again, for not much.

If you can schedule a route of cleaning, you can do 12 houses in just a couple of hours.

12 x £25 = £300 (which isn't far off $500; $475 at today's exchange rate).

You'd need to deduct your van costs and cleaning equipment out of that though.



We pay £3 a fortnight to have about 6m^2 of window (ground floor) cleaned to retail spec including wiping down the paintwork afterwards and a free internal clean every 6 months or so.

It takes probably as long for them to take the money as it does to actually clean (about 5mins I reckon).




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