Window Round Pricing Calculator
A window round is not a list of jobs, it is a cycle that has to keep happening. Put the customers you have against the cycle you work and this shows what the round is worth a cycle and a year, how many days it takes to get round it, and what an hour on it turns over.
Window Round Pricing Calculator
What the round is worth a cycle, a year, and an hour worked.
a year, from 60 customers on a 4 week cycle
- Average price a visit
- £19.60
- One customer, over a year
- £254.80
- Hours to work the cycle
- 38.3 hrs
- Days to work the cycle
- 5.5
- Days a week to hold the cycle
- 1.4
- Turnover an hour worked
- £30.68 before costs
This is turnover, not profit: the van, the water, the insurance and your own hours come out of it. Check the cycle against a real month of weather before you promise a customer a date.
The round, on a rota that redraws itself
Book a customer as a repeat and every visit lands on the calendar the moment you book the first one, weekly, fortnightly or monthly. The day’s round is on the cleaner’s phone with the access notes, working with no signal. A customer who has gone quiet against their own rhythm is flagged before they ring somebody else. Four-weekly and six-weekly are not settings you can pick, and the window page says so in full.
A round is priced per visit and earned per year
Every window cleaner knows what they charge for a house. Far fewer can say what the round is worth, because the number that matters is not the price on the door, it is that price multiplied by how many times a year you go back.
That is the whole arithmetic here. A terraced house at £18 on a four-week cycle is £234 a year. The same house on an eight-week cycle is £117. Two businesses can charge the identical price per visit and be twice the size of each other.
It is also why the cycle is the first question on this page rather than the last. Lengthening a round from four weeks to six is a 33% cut in turnover, and it happens by accident, one slipped week at a time, to businesses that never decided to do it.
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Where the opening prices come from
The calculator opens on CleanFlo’s own Window Cleaning shelf: the starting prices and times a new account is offered in the services catalogue, which you edit before anything is added. They are a starting guide rather than a market survey, and the file they live in says so of itself.
They agree with the only range this site publishes for the trade, £15 to £35 a visit for domestic window cleaning depending on property size and frequency. Nothing here is a survey of what your town pays, and the fields exist because the round is priced by the person who drives it.
| What is being cleaned | Starting price | Starting time |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced or semi, exterior glass | £18 | 30 min |
| Detached house, exterior glass | £28 | 45 min |
| Flat or apartment, exterior glass | £15 | 25 min |
| Conservatory roof | £35 | 45 min |
| Frames and sills, alongside the glass | £8 | On the visit |
| High-level reach above the ground floor | £15 | On the visit |
The two extras at the bottom are the ones most often given away. Frames and sills are the difference between a job that looks finished and one that does not, and on a round of sixty they are worth more than a new customer a month.
Four weekly, six weekly, eight weekly
The cycle is the single biggest lever on a window cleaning business and it is usually set by habit rather than by decision. These are the visits a year each one produces, and what one £18 house is worth on each.
| Cycle | Visits a year | One £18 house, a year | 60 houses at £18, a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four weeks | 13 | £234 | £14,040 |
| Six weeks | 8.7 | £156 | £9,360 |
| Eight weeks | 6.5 | £117 | £7,020 |
Four-weekly is thirteen visits a year rather than twelve, which is the difference between a four-week cycle and a monthly one, and it is worth knowing because most software, this one included, repeats monthly rather than every four weeks.
The argument for a longer cycle is that the glass does not need it and the customer will not pay for it. The argument against is that the longer the gap, the more the customer thinks about whether they want the service at all, and the dirtier the first pass is when you get there.
The round has to fit in the week
The number this calculator gives that most round sheets do not is days a week. It is the hours the cycle takes divided by the hours you work in a day, divided again by the weeks in the cycle. If that comes out above five, the round does not fit, and the arithmetic does not care how organised you are.
Leave slack in it deliberately. A four-week cycle worked at five days a week has no room for rain, a broken pole, a funeral or a customer who wants moving. Rounds are lost in the fortnight after a bad spell of weather, when the catching up never quite happens and two cycles quietly become three.
The other reason to know the number is hiring. The point at which a second person pays for themselves is not a feeling, it is the day the days-a-week figure passes what one person can work, and that day arrives one customer at a time.
What software does about a round, and what it does not
A repeat booking in CleanFlo is weekly, fortnightly or monthly, set once, and every visit is written onto the rota the moment you book the first one, for as many visits as you set or until a date you pick. The day’s round appears on the cleaner’s phone with the access notes attached to the property, and it works with no signal, which matters more on a round than on any other kind of cleaning.
There is no four-weekly or six-weekly setting, so a four-weekly round is either run as monthly, which is twelve visits a year rather than thirteen, or booked as dated visits. There is no route optimisation either: nothing orders your day by drive time or re-sequences the round when somebody cancels. The window cleaning software page lists all five of the things it does not do, before you buy rather than in week three.
What it does do about a slipping cycle is flag the customer who has gone quiet, judged against their own rhythm rather than a fixed number of days, so an eight-weekly customer is not reported as overdue for six weeks of every eight.