[Mike Halliday]

everyone doing it?

I'm not talking an 8hr day earning £800.  I'm talking  pulling into the drive to driving away 1hr and earning £100 or 80minutes and earning £120.

I'm not posting this too brag but I do it often and I'm still doing a excellent clean which the customer is truly happy with.

within the hour I'd be doing a through lounge & kitchen.

please don't start preaching  'I would spend an hour vaccing before even starting' that's fine as long as you're earning an extra £100 for that hour.

and please all those aiming to make £35 an hour, don't comment I ain't interested in what you've got to say.

Mike
ps I don't want comments from those make £200 an hour either, cos you're lieing basterd

[Straker Cleaning]

I often do some big jobs that equate to £100+ an hour .............. if only i could do a few more. 

[Mike Halliday]

Chris big jobs are easy I do a few nurseries & nursing homes  that always, easily top the ton

its  the normal domestics that I'm on about

Mke

[glenda hollis]

I'm not posting this too brag

Why are you saying it then? Sorry but i couldn't see a point to your post, have i missed something?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Unless it's upholstery Yes I regularly get £100 an hour, never less than £80, percieved value for upholstery is different to the customer but I usually talk them into a carpet at the same time to up the hourly rate again.

Shaun

PS Mike she's doing good but not into this cold water clean though, ...very much 'Thanks Again'!

[Mike Halliday]

Glenda, I'm trying to stimulate lively conversation, the purpose of these forums

Mike

ps but to be truly honest I nicked the subject off the American ICS forum they are talking about earning $100 an hour which I though was a bit low

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Glenda I think it's called checking the water, sometimes it's getting ready for a price rise or seeing if out technique is slowing but not really an ego thing because knowone knows if A, you really are doing it B, what your expenditure is as you may need to get £100 an hour.

Shaun

[Ian Rochester]

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity!!

[Jason Hedges]

I think its all relative.

For arguements sake if your spending £10k a year on similar advertising to £1k your phone will ring more. So therefore you have to convert less enquiries to jobs, quote higher and make more money for your time.

However as we all know if your spending £10k rather than £1k your overheads are already so much higher the average price ticket has to be considerably more just to cover expenses.

Its swings and roundabouts really.

I have taken £100 an hour a few times in my relatively short carpet cleaning career but dont think I've ever earnt £100 an hour.

All the best,
Jason.

[prodry]

New England manager is earning 6.5 bigs one a year.

48 working weeks, five days a week in a year at 10 hours a day = 2400working hours.

6,500,000 by 2400hrs =£2,708 per hour. And he doesnt have a tournement untill 2010.

And when we do the odd £100 an hour we feel like big fish. More like tiddlers in a giant f£$%ing ocean.

[gwrightson]

Well.
what I do know is Mike regularly earns £100 per hr , as I have worked along side of him, and I must admit ,only on odd occasions had I acheived this prior to me getting my t/m .

I did acheive £1,400 in 1 day not to long ago using encap ,admitadly starting at 8am and finishing at 9pm , but since using t/m I have noticed  better hourly rates , aiming to generate £300 per steady day.

I,m not bragging either,   just meerly stating some facts

Today, 1 job equating to £560 should be home by 4 pm   


Geoff

[Straker Cleaning]

Mike, I meant the big ones are +......... getting into your realms of lying....... most jobs i do now are equating to a ton per hour!!  This mornings job is 289 and i know i will be there under 3 hours :............ tomorrows is around 5 hours work and was 520 last time i did it.
I only have 3 commercial clients so i was basing my claim on domestic averages. .................. people mock me for being home by lunchtime.......i am lazy, not greedy 

One commercial recently ( 3 monthly job ) ............ 6 hrs saturday and 7 hrs sunday ......... someone ahead with vacuum and me with my trusty Charly pads ................. job = 2727.00 ............ if i could do one a month then i would be laughing 

Talking to someone recently who works at a certain trust and the CC they use is on a contract..........regularly does 3 hours a day plus odd call for emergency and is a 56k a year deal  :

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

I don't manage 100/ hour on most domestics using a porty but I'm not too far off.

Job size management is important if we want the 500 a day money, I have steadily discouraged single room/1 rug jobs which allowing for travel etc might be lucky to make 50/hour.

Cheers

Doug

[stevegunn]

Like Doug I don't always manage £100 an hour on domestic work.More like £50-£60 on domestic but on commercial can easily hit the £100 an hour but not always.

Typical examlpe Thursday night travelled 60 miles to commercial job to be told they did not want it done.So 120 mile round trip billed them £189 but spent total of 3 hours travelling.Yet cleaned office carpets last week using d/f £180 was there just over an hour.

[Mike Halliday]

I appreciate that its all about profit but the higher your hourly rate the better your chance of earning a better income.

I was only joking about comments from the £35 hr earners, I know a good living can be earned from lower rates when you've got the workload.

At the moment I'm working as a 2 man team so nearly every job is over the £100hr but normally any job over 1 room tips the ton unless I chose it not to (eg; a particularly attractive customer who insist I have a coffee or tea  or an elderly customer who wants to show me pictures of the grandchildren )

My biggest profit earner is a  H/S/L , T/L & kitchen job.

Mike

[Mike Osbourne]

The more I read the more I think the key to earnings is speed. It's all very well charging a hefty £/SqM but if you take an age you are no better off.

I'm sure I must be faffing around somewhere in my method. Large 3 bed house, all wool carpets EMPTY I did yesterday.

Granted I had to clean out and extract the double garage which was a mess, but the whole job took 6 hours and I charged £230, and that included protector downstairs.


In need to speed up!

[Ian Gourlay]

If Mike is using a two man team that equals £50 per  hour although Mike has larger share.

We are also aware that the main advatage of a truckmount is speed

However a Good truckmount costs  unless you have one made of sticky plaster and rubber bands


Has high depreciation costs etc 20K van 20k truckmount

Depreciation 10K a year plus 5k a year maintence and repairs extra insurance


So im not beating myself up just swearing at this mornings canceled job.

[maxcarpets]

So you only want comments from people who agree with you. Ok, yes I agree,

[mark_roberts]

Just poped home for lunch to check my BT phone book ad as the plonkers messed it up.

Ian

Your figures are way way off.  10k a year dep. and £5k running costs.  Who told you that a portable supplier

I'll work something out for you later.

Mark

[Mike Halliday]

Max'' what are you agreeing to ??

Ian you're right about the 2 man team but it doesn't double the speed its more about  making things easy, I chat with the customer qualify want needs to be done and my helper sets up, I earn enough extra to pay his wage but its about having a easier day.

we are not talking about running cost or profitability we are talking about earnings per hr.