How to price a window cleaning round in 2026

Price a window cleaning round by how long each house takes and how hard it is to get at, not by counting windows. In 2026 a UK terrace typically sits between £8 and £15 a clean, a three-bed semi between £12 and £20, a four-bed detached between £18 and £35, and anything with hard access from £30 to £60 or more.

Those bands are wide on purpose. The same semi is worth £12 on a street where you clean nine in a row and £20 when it is the only one on the road. This post sets out the bands, the rule behind them and a way to raise prices that keeps the street.

These are per-clean prices for a regular four or eight-weekly round. First cleans, one-offs and end-of-tenancy work are priced separately and higher because there is no repeat to spread the travel over. The bands come from the industry's own guides; see the bookmark below for the fuller breakdown.

Counting windows feels precise and it is almost always wrong. A twelve-window terrace with a front door on the pavement takes eight minutes; a twelve-window semi with a locked side gate, a conservatory and a pole extension for the back dormer takes twenty-five. Price the second at the first's rate and you have just paid yourself a third as much for the same job.

Time your next few cleans. Note when you leave the van and when you are back in it, including the walk. Divide your target hourly rate by the minutes and you have the price the house is actually worth. Anything that adds minutes adds money: gates, dogs, awkward parking, moving furniture on a conservatory roof.

The most profitable round in town is not the one with the highest prices; it is the one with the least driving. Nine houses in a row at £12 beat three scattered houses at £20 every day of the week, because you are paid for cleaning and not for the A31. Price lower to win a street, and hold the price on the outliers that cost you fifteen minutes each way.

This is why we show the round's value and route in the app rather than just a list. The window cleaning trade page shows how a round is planned nearest-first, and the report tells you what each day is worth so you can see which day needs filling in.

Every round drifts under-priced because you set the number years ago and added customers at the old rate. Raise little and often rather than a lot once. A £1 rise on a £12 clean is 8% and nobody cancels over it; a £4 rise after five years of silence loses the customers who were only ever staying for the price.

Tell people in writing, a month ahead, with the new price and the reason in two sentences. Send it with the reminder text so they read it, not as a separate letter that gets binned. Then raise every price the same day so the round stays consistent; the app's message wizard sends the same note to the whole round at once. If you collect by Direct Debit the new amount simply applies from the next collection, which is one more reason to read why GoCardless changes the round.

Once your prices and frequencies are in the app, look at the round's value per week and per month. That number is your business. If it is short of what you need, the gap is filled with either more houses on existing streets or higher prices on the outliers, and the report shows which. It also makes the case for the software: a £19 plan is less than two cleans a month, and the pricing page shows what the higher tier adds if you want to collect online.