[dirtbusters]

had an interesting call from a customer today. wanted carpets cleaned in an empty 3 bed house on one of the new estates. asked if she had any prices already.  yes she said £80. i expected it to be from a splasher and dasher but was gobsmacked when she said chem dry.
got the job in the end for £120 for the carpets and chucked in an oven clean at half price for one of my lads to do.
what happened to the days when a customer said chem dry had already quoted and you knew they had given a silly price and the job was yours for the taking.
i can only presume this homeserve business is starting to bite.

[PaulKing]

is it a good or bad thing do you think, what homeserve business is it exactly, i know they took them over but have they done something eles?

or maybe just a misquote?

[rs_cleancare]

Quoted on a job in January £168 took 3.5 hours Chem dry had quoted £390!
Would'nt mind one or two jobs a day priced at £390.
Rob.

[dirtbusters]

i mean that homeserve from what i have read and heard seem to be taking some fire flood work away from the smaller franchises. this means they will have to compete more with the independents, and may have to drop their prices to get the work.

[David_Annable]

Hi

The Franchises will set there price on the basis of whether they want the work or not.

So if they want it = resonable price. If they dont = silly price.

Why not try it yourself.

If you had said £250 you would have still been a lot cheaper.

Dave

[Mike Halliday]

My local Chemdrys quote

53m/2

silver-basic clean £201.65p

gold thorough clean £251.99p

platinum-most populer £291.23p

complete carpet care & maintence £350.23p

this is with the 15% advertised discount

[John Kelly]

Chem Dry overheads are horrendous. As well as the monthly license fee the chemical cost to clean a carpet is around £24.

[Robert Watson]

  What?. Realy?

[*paul_moss]

Dont knock Chemdry,they have done well over the last few years to raise the price barrier for all of us,and as John states thy get ripped off with fees.

[John Kelly]

The machine they use is a modified Kleenrite. They have to put 5 litres of solution A and 5 litres of solution B into the machine. When these mix it creates carbon dioxide, hence the bubbles. It was all started by a guy who cleaned his carpet with a soda syphon. He got the stain out and he believed it was the bubbles which brought the stain to the surface. That idea is now a multi billion dollar worldwide business, unbelievable.

[*paul_moss]

His name was Mike Tizer
Im sure we have all drank Tizer.

[rambly]

His name was Mike Tizer
Im sure we have all drank Tizer.

But like wagon wheels you cant face it now.

[*paul_moss]

Or was it Dan Dlionandburdock

[Matt Lindus]

Paul your making a sensible topic a farce with your stupid coments.

The guy who invented it was a doctor from New York -  Dr Pepper.

[Matt Lindus]

Luke Asaide.

i'll stop now.

[david holland]

wasnt he a ginger beer !!!

[Terry_Burrows]

some time ago we went to look at a small 2 seater 2 chairs,chemdry wanted
£190, without knowing the cost,she said whats the difference with you and chemdry I said,about £100  we got the job well done to them keep those prices going up boys

[calmore]

As Paul says, Chem dry have actually done the rest of us a BIG favour!

Any customer that dithers over price, recommend that they get a quote from Chemdry.

[Mike Halliday]

they haven't done me any favours i was expensive before I'd even seen their prices

[calmore]

Well, in future i'm gonna start comparing my prices to yours, when the custy starts to dither!