robert meldrum

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Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« on: December 01, 2010, 07:54:36 am »
That's to clean all the carpets !

ianharper

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 08:00:35 am »
Robert

The old saying goes time is money. if you dont have much work then yes. but with no stain removal (spots OK) and no vacing or moving furniture.

When your time is short your prices should again reflect that and be high.

Respect

Ian Harper

Colin Day

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 09:18:12 am »
In no way are my prices expensive, just realistic... But £75 is rather a low price IMO!

Paul Heath

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2010, 09:49:22 am »
Tooooooooo low for a 4 bed house


Paul Evans

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2010, 10:06:01 am »
I will be a new start up in the new year.
Doing a few courses in january. Whilst i dont have the most powerful machine i will have a decent one.

Offered to do my mothers for free, 4 bed whilst gaining experience, She is not the wealthiest of people and is very penny concious
but is trying to insist on giving me £100 (must say quite large house)lounge ,sep diner,study,3 d/b, 1 single

Paul

Mike Halliday

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2010, 10:53:04 am »
I cleaned my mate house last month took me 3hrs cost me £5 diesel and 50p chemicals.

he took us out for a meal which cost us £120 for 5 of us.

you can clean 4 bed houses for £75 but to build a business on this price every job has to be a 4 bed house,  because single rooms would have to be £15-£20 then the maths won't work
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

Ricky M

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2010, 11:07:55 am »
if your charging that then do you want some work from us ?
where do u live ?
www.ability1975.co.uk
                          www.carpetcleaninguttoxeter.co.uk  
              NCCA !? but why have non of my clients herd of them ??

MAX Carpets

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2010, 11:11:09 am »
more like £175 and thats too cheap!

fitz2kleen

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Helen

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2010, 01:01:00 pm »
That's to clean all the carpets !
Ok,
So are all the downstairs hall & landing laminated? with just a middle runner up the stairs. Are the bathroom (s), ensuite Vinyl or such like.  Is there only about 20 odd metres of carpets showing around the furniture (and they don't want furniture moving)....then yes that is a fair price. ;D

derek west

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2010, 01:20:01 pm »
if someone offered me 3 a day everyday, 6 days a week and didn't want any spots and stains treated, didn't mind the carpet being a bit wetter than normal no furniture to move and didn't want the draft marks worried about. oh and all within 3 miles of me. so thats 2 hours per house. i'd do it.

no advertising, £25 quid a day costs. and that includes a maccies. ;D

£1200 a week profit. thats more than most make on here so yeah why not.

MAX Carpets

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2010, 01:29:44 pm »
Its not that simple D, as you know

Matt Seymour

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2010, 01:32:46 pm »
£75 to clean a 4 bed house is VERY cheap, but if you are not busy and need the work then try and hold out for £100.

The customer will find it hard to get their house cleaned for less than that.

Helen

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2010, 02:21:59 pm »
if someone offered me 3 a day everyday, 6 days a week and didn't want any spots and stains treated, didn't mind the carpet being a bit wetter than normal no furniture to move and didn't want the draft marks worried about. oh and all within 3 miles of me. so thats 2 hours per house. i'd do it.

no advertising, £25 quid a day costs. and that includes a maccies. ;D

£1200 a week profit. thats more than most make on here so yeah why not.

If only ;D
What only one maccies? ;D

robert meldrum

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2010, 02:40:34 pm »
I also think it's on the low side and only posted as it's what's being advertised on a web site by what appears to be a network of carpet cleaners  around middle England.

I'm not knocking it as they may be a very professional bunch of people and do excellent work and may have higher tickets than the posted price suggests.

They have an excellent website with some interesting claims in it which should get their phones ringing.

markpowell

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2010, 02:53:03 pm »
Get real £75 for a 4 bed house is far too cheap, start doing jobs for that price what you going to charge for a through lounge £15?
Mark

Helen

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2010, 02:59:42 pm »
Get real £75 for a 4 bed house is far too cheap, start doing jobs for that price what you going to charge for a through lounge £15?
Mark

Maybe the through lounge is the only carpeted area in the 4 bedroomed house ;D

james roffey

Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2010, 03:31:58 pm »
Far too cheap  :(  to do a 4 bed house properly would take me the best part of a day how much is that a room ?
 no professional carpet cleaner should be charging such a silly price and if you think, well
its to build up a client base, they will all want it done at this price :'(

robert meldrum

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Re: Is £75 a fair price for a 4 bed house
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2010, 04:07:52 pm »
IT'S NOT ME........................this is a network of operators in South Yorkshire, but they might have a lot more to attract and retain customers than low prices.

Their site is good and they claim to have an interesting product.