[wayne zabel]

Any ideas please - been asked to quote to clean a Jehovas Witness church hall thats apx 500 sq mts.

Going to look tomorrow.I intend doing HWE.Presuming medium soiling and not much moving of stuff,any ideas how long this should take?

Thanks

Wayne

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

That equates to 5382 sqft, are you sure it's that big, sounds very big for a church hall. I can do 2000 sqft a day hwe easily if it's one big run, a lot less if it's lots of rooms and that's with bonneting after hwe. I'd charge about £650/£750 for it.

[wayne zabel]

Im just going off info given on an Email,as I said Im going to view tomorrow.Is there a general guide line for Square metre per hour using HWE.Im sure Ive asked this before on here but Im not retaining info like I used to.Old age I think.

[david@zap-clean]

The first commercial I did was 200sqm; the full HWE process took me 6 hours of hard work.

It was a learning/turning point for me.  I now offer rotary cleaning to these types of (commercial) jobs and would expect to complete in less than half that time.

Incidentally, I recently won the contract from that first job.  They still want me to HWE it (not rotary), every 20 wedding events.  It should now take me about 4 hours to HWE properly... and there's still plenty of room to improve efficiency.

I'd suggest you cost it as a days work... by my standards it would have taken me a very long hard day (inexperience, inefficient, trying my very best etc).

Do a good job, with a smile, and leave them with your business card.

[Raymondo]

Hi wayne

Cant see it being that big.

The hall we attend is 2,200 sq feet I cant see it being nearly 3 times the size.

Ray

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

Depends on the job, most of the time i work out how long it will take, then times it by my day rate. I get a feel for the customer also as this determines the price. If you were to go the sqm rate i would normally charge around the £1.20 to £1.50 per sqm for this size of job which would net you between £600-£750. I have different sqm rates for different size jobs ranging from 0.80p to £2.50 per sqm.

[JandS]

I work on an average of 35sq m an hour for HWE.
Sometimes it will be a bit less sometimes a bit more
dependant on whether there's stuff to move distance
to water etc.
More if your LM.
Does sound like rather a large hall.

[garry22]

Could be right.

I quoted a mosque last year - 800+ square metres of Belgian Wilton!

Apparently I was too expensive at £ 2.00 sqM

[benny d]

a Jehovas Witness church hall

About 4 hours for the job, and another 6 hours whilst they try and convert you 

Praise the Lord

[wynne jones]

a Jehovas Witness church hall

About 4 hours for the job, and another 6 hours whilst they try and convert you 

Praise the Lord

These damn encappers are everywhere.   

[*Hector*]

 

[wynne jones]

As you know Hector, you hear the same thing from more than three sources and you start to accept it as fact. 

[wayne zabel]

Some people cant measure up properly.Went to this job today and the 500 sq mts stated in the email turns out to be 160 sq mts

[james roffey]

I did about 100 sq mtrs in a Catholic church just before Christmas managed to get £3.50 a sq mtr which was lucky, trouble was it had a lot of spotting for wax, used an iron and a cotton cloth which worked a treat, but whole job took about 8 hours.

[Simon Moat]

160 sq mt works out about 500 sq ft

[wayne zabel]

Yes,definately says 500 sq mts on his email though - perhaps he got mixed up

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

160 sq mt works out about 500 sq ft

Er I don't think so - 500 ft2 is 45 m2

[Len Gribble]

Wayne

Let us know if you get the job most of there congregation are window cleaners come cc or you could hire the machine to them (which I have done in the past)

[Simon Moat]

160 sq mt works out about 500 sq ft

Er I don't think so - 500 ft2 is 45 m2

Er think your right Steve, 160 m2 is 1700 odd ft2, early start, long day!!!!!!!!!!