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The Window Cleaning Works

How to build a £60,000 round, from scratch.

144 pages, a complete operating manual, a working toolkit, and a refund policy without friction. £29. No upsells. Free updates for life.

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Instant download · PDF + Excel · 144 pages · 12 spreadsheets · prompt library

The promise

The Window Cleaning Works is the operating manual for one of the last honest, modern, profitable trades a person can start this week with the contents of one car boot. 144 pages. The equipment. The customers. The pricing. The routes. The tax. The tools. The route from a £400 starter kit to a £60,000 round, in two years, written from the inside of the trade.

What's inside

144 pages, seven parts, fifteen chapters.

The full table of contents below. Every chapter is structured the same way: what to do, when to do it, how much it costs, what it earns.

PART ONE · THE FOUNDATIONS
  1. 1
    The Window Cleaning Opportunity
    Why this trade. Why now. What's possible.
  2. 2
    Is This For You?
    An honest look at who succeeds and who doesn't.
  3. 3
    Setting Up the Business
    Sole trader vs limited, registering with HMRC, the £85,000 VAT line, insurance.
PART TWO · THE CRAFT
  1. 4
    Equipment: The Traditional Method
    Squeegees, applicators, scrims, ladders, buckets. The £200 starter kit.
  2. 5
    Equipment: Water-Fed Pole
    The modern system. Pole brands, pure water, backpack vs van mount.
PART THREE · THE CUSTOMERS
  1. 6
    Getting Your First 20 Customers
    Door-knocking, leaflets, Facebook, referrals. What works.
  2. 7
    Pricing, Quoting & Getting Paid
    Base-and-modifier pricing. GoCardless. The first-clean premium.
  3. 8
    Doing the Work
    Route planning, the four-week cycle, the eight-week cycle, frequency strategy.
PART FOUR · COMMERCIAL
  1. 9
    Commercial Window Cleaning
    How commercial differs. Margins, contracts, frequency.
  2. 10
    Winning Commercial Contracts
    How to quote, who to approach, the cold-call script that works.
PART FIVE · GROWING
  1. 11
    Scaling the Business
    Hiring, vehicles, when to stop being the operator.
  2. 12
    Specialist Work
    High-rise, conservatories, solar panels, post-build cleans.
PART SIX · THE MODERN OPERATOR
  1. 13
    The 2026 Tech Stack
    Round management software, scheduling, customer comms.
  2. 14
    The First 90 Days
    Week-by-week plan from registration to your first paying customer.
PART SEVEN · THE MOAT
  1. 15
    Drones, AI, and the Decade Ahead
    How the trade is changing. What stays the same. What you should care about.
APPENDICES
  1. A
    Toolkit Index
    The 12 spreadsheets shipped with the manual, and when to use each.
  2. B
    Prompt Library
    A working set of AI prompts for quotes, comms, and admin.
  3. C
    Supplier Directory
    UK trade suppliers, with international equivalents.
  4. D
    Glossary
    Every term in the manual, defined.
  5. E
    Sources & Further Reading
    Where the facts come from, and where to dig deeper.
Who this is for

Four people we wrote it for.

  • You are in your forties, fifties, or sixties and the corporate world has stopped working for you. You want an honest trade with weekly cashflow and no boss.
  • You are a younger person who has noticed that university and a graduate scheme is not the only way to build wealth, and you want a starter business that pays from week one.
  • You are already cleaning windows and you want to stop guessing about pricing, scaling, and the right way to run a route.
  • You are running a different small physical trade and want a model for how to build a round-based, recurring-revenue customer base.
Who this is not for

Four people who should not buy it.

  • You want a business you can run from a laptop on a beach. This is a trade. It involves ladders, water, and weather.
  • You want a £200,000 idea. The honest ceiling on a one-van operation is around £80,000 a year. The £60,000 round in the subtitle is achievable in roughly two years of disciplined work.
  • You want a coaching membership. There is no membership. There is one manual and a refund policy.
  • You want to read about window cleaning. The manual is built for someone who intends to do the work.
What £29 gets you

The complete package.

The manual

144 pages, structured into seven parts and fifteen chapters, plus five appendices. Plain prose, no padding.

The toolkit

12 working spreadsheets: the round planner, the quote calculator, the financial model, the route optimiser, the cash-up sheet, and eight more. Already filled in with worked examples.

The prompt library

A pre-built set of AI prompts for the operator who uses Claude or ChatGPT: drafting quotes, handling customer comms, working out the tax, planning the next month.

Free updates

Every revision, every supplier directory update, every prompt change — delivered to your inbox at no further cost.

Refund policy

No questions. Same day.

If this manual is not what you hoped it would be, email refunds@theworksco.co.uk and we will refund you, in full, the same day. No questions, no friction. Keep the materials.

The full refund policy is at theworksco.co.uk/refund.

Honest questions

Things people ask before they buy.

Is this for me if I have never run a business?
Yes. The manual is written for someone on day one. Chapter 3 covers the registration and tax setup from scratch. The 90-day plan in Chapter 14 is a week-by-week sequence designed for someone who has never traded before.
What if I have been cleaning windows for years already?
Two-thirds of the manual will be familiar. The third you may not know covers commercial contracts (Parts Four and Five), the 2026 tech stack (Chapter 13), and the prompt library. If you read it cover to cover and don't find a single method that pays for the manual on a future quote, ask for the refund.
How long until I make the £29 back?
A single residential window cleaning job in the UK in 2026 averages £14–£22. The manual pays for itself on the second clean of the first customer.
What if I read it and it is not for me?
Email refunds@theworksco.co.uk. We refund the same day. You keep the materials. The refund link is on every page.
Are there upsells, bundles, or follow-on courses?
No. Brief §11.2 of the brand book says — explicitly — that we will never. There is one manual and one price. If we publish another title, it lives at its own URL with its own page.
Will this work outside the UK?
The principles, the customer-acquisition method, the pricing model, the route planning — all transfer. The specific suppliers, the VAT threshold, the insurance brokers, and the GoCardless integration are UK-specific. Appendix C lists the global brand names you can use as search anchors for your country.

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