Window cleaning
Fits best: a people-friendly owner who wants a low-cost start and repeat customers.
Pros
- ✓Low cost, clean work, customers rebook twice a year
- ✓High margin per job
- ✓No special license to start
Cons
- !Ladders and heights; slower in winter
- !Reviews and steady marketing decide who wins locally
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 20 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 40 jobs a month in season. Add gutter cleaning for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Build an exterior-care membership with gutters, washing and lights.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Build an exterior-care membership with gutters, washing and lights.
The details
- Vehicle
- Car or van with ladder rack
- Repeat customers
- Medium
- Licensing
- Low
- Season
- Spring–fall
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
- Typical franchise
- Window Genie: $136K–$306K, 7% royalty
Pairs with gutters, washing and holiday lights.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (40), times 9 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.