Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Kevin Edwards on September 29, 2010, 01:44:13 pm
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As a relatively newbie, I wonder if you could advise as to how long you think it should take to clean say a 4 bed bungalow, thru lounge, dining room hall, 3seater sofa & 2 chairs. This would be using a Scorpion (Porti) & microsplitters. Few stains on living room carpet, nothing major & rest is general clean/freshen up. It would be nice to have some kind of bench mark so that I have some idea as to how I am doing. Great forum. Thanks everyone
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Depending on your skill, you would be looking at around 3 - 3.5 hours.
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Thank you - that will give me something to aim for...
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Don't even aim for any time.... Just get in and do the best job you possibly can, it's not a race fella. If you feel you need to beat the clock, you'll be too stressed and will miss things...
Speed will come with experience...
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well if you start listening to replys like that your going to get a little bit misled ::)
3 to 3 .5 hrs give over Nick .and with a porty.
For a start a 3 seater and 2 chairs depending on numerous factors will take you around 2.5 hrs,
4 bedrooms providing you are not moving beds but moving all the other items around 1 .5hrs,
through lounge, an hour, then dining room and hall another hour so added all up 6 hrs and that is if everthing goes according to plan.
Now I know some of us could do it in a little less time but we are not having to fill and empty all the time, and I dare say some may even suggest it takes them longer, nothing wrong with that but an estimate from Nick, no way.
The question I am asking my self is have you not cleaned any of the above before ? obviously yes . so how long has it been taking you? I bet it isnt what has been suggested.
Geoff
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Hi Guys - thank you for all your replies. Something of the size & quantity I mentioned I would at the moment do over 2 visits. I get the results, but I have been concerned that it is taking me too long.
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Hi Guys - thank you for all your replies. Something of the size & quantity I mentioned I would at the moment do over 2 visits. I get the results, but I have been concerned that it is taking me too long.
It doesn't matter how long it takes you, as long as you're doing a good job and getting a good name for yourself, you don't need to be concerned about the length of time it takes.....
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If its your first job it will take you 4 hours to do the suite maybe ;)
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well if you start listening to replys like that your going to get a little bit misled ::)
3 to 3 .5 hrs give over Nick .and with a porty.
For a start a 3 seater and 2 chairs depending on numerous factors will take you around 2.5 hrs,
4 bedrooms providing you are not moving beds but moving all the other items around 1 .5hrs,
through lounge, an hour, then dining room and hall another hour so added all up 6 hrs and that is if everthing goes according to plan.
Now I know some of us could do it in a little less time but we are not having to fill and empty all the time, and I dare say some may even suggest it takes them longer, nothing wrong with that but an estimate from Nick, no way.
The question I am asking my self is have you not cleaned any of the above before ? obviously yes . so how long has it been taking you? I bet it isnt what has been suggested.
Geoff
What Geoff said
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5 hours 42 minutes piont 3 seconds or ignore all that and take note of collins post i would
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Kevin, welcome to the forums. If you're more comfortable doing it over 2 visits for now i'd stick with that. Would take me 6/7hrs to do that. Colin is right it is not a race.
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Thank you everyone - some great & very welcome advice
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Depending on your skill, you would be looking at around 3 - 3.5 hours.
3-3.5 Hours :o All i can say is i must be doing a different job completely, or i am very slow because if that job came to me i would not book anything else for the day unless it was a very small min charge job.
Unload van and set up, move furniture back and forth, vacuum, prespray, agitate with envirodri, and extract with Airflex put gear away.
A 4 bedroom bungalow and 3 pc suite the suite alone would take probably 2-3 hours i would allow at least 6 hours maybe more to do it the house and furniture, plus a chat with the customer over a coffee or two would you like paying good money then see the guy rushing to get off.
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I'd do it 2.5 hours to 3, anyone beat that ;D
Some jobs take longer than what you first envisage some shorter, but I couldn't match 3-3.5 hours but that doesn't mean a good job couldn't be achieved. that old duffer Robert Meldrum may tell you this.
Shaun
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I am relieved to see i am not the only one, i thought it was me being slow, i have often thought why are these guys so quick when i am never, not doing something like setting up hoses when the agitation is done, or vacuuming while i prespray another room ready for extraction.
even if i do a single lounge it takes me 30 minutes to set up and put away and 45 minutes to clean is that slow.
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What Nick doesn't add is if the cleaning is done as a 2 man team which could easily be achievable.
Shaun
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Kevin
As you can see, it's very much " a piece of string " Not a massive job as you describe it and should be achievable in 5 - 6 hours, dependent on your stamina, your knowledge and the tools available, as some greatly out perform others.
Having someone to assist with moving / filling / emptying, etc, makes a huge difference in a job like this as you can spend a surprising amount of time on these tasks.
PS
Young whippersnapper Shaun Ashmore posted as I was typing, but I'll stick to the above
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Depending on your skill, you would be looking at around 3 - 3.5 hours.
If this is based on a one man job then I can just imagine the quality of this, splash n dash springs to mind ::) Even a 2 man then it is still too quick!
Anyway, if I was on my own:
2 sofas.....2 - 2.5 hrs
4 bed with lounge/diner and hall (if moving furniture, which it probably is)........3hrs
Total: 5 - 5.5hrs.
However if there is 2 of us (which there always is)........4hrs
Price: £415.00
Mark
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Don't forget it's cleaning around the beds, a well versed 2 man team would get this done in 3-3.5 hours easily.
Shaun
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buy a TM and half the time!
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Don't forget it's cleaning around the beds, a well versed 2 man team would get this done in 3-3.5 hours easily.
Shaun
Who said going around the beds ??? Therefore it only seems sensible that it would involve moving as much as possible being the whole place.
No chance for 2 men to do this in 3 - 3.5hrs Shaun. 4hrs yes, unless a lowish quality clean. And anyway, who said there were 2 men aswell ??? We always operate as a 2 man and there is no way we could do it that quick - unless we bodged it. But then our price reflects that.
Like I said we can only presume that this is based on one man because the original question was from someone that is probably on their own (like most CC's). I think if the question was based on it being 2 men, then we would have known about it.
Mark
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Don't forget it's cleaning around the beds, ..................
Shaun
I'm disappointed, Shaun :o Don't clients in Sheffield want the dead skin & whatever else from under the bed cleaned. COuldn't get away with that attitude down here in the south of the country ;) ;)
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A haaa I was reading a simular post on another forum with a simular post, you are right it is under the beds.
Mark you state that you could do it in 4 hours with 2 people, I'm thinking 3.5 hours with 2 so it's not that dissimular, being Truck Mounted would be faster than a porty.
Shaun