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How do I make a window cleaning round more profitable without adding more houses?

Short answer

Density beats volume. A round where the houses are close together earns far more per day than a bigger round spread across a wider area, because driving time is unpaid and it is usually the largest single cost after labour. Drop or reprice the outliers — the customers who require a fifteen-minute drive for one £12 clean — and the same working day fits more paid work.

Window cleaning economics are decided by how many cleans fit in a day, not by how many customers exist. Two rounds with identical customer counts can differ by 40% in daily revenue purely on how tightly the addresses cluster.

The outliers are rarely obvious because each one felt worth taking when it was offered. Map the round and identify every customer more than a few minutes from the next nearest. Each of those is consuming travel time that no one pays for.

The options are to reprice the outlier to cover the travel, to move it to a day when you are already in that area, or to let it go. All three improve the day. Letting a distant low-value customer go feels like a loss and is usually a raise.

Domestic rounds are also chronically behind on price, and a rise of £2–£5 per clean is normally absorbed with a loss rate under 10%. Expect to lose a few; losing none means the rise was too small.

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