Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: garyfindlay on December 29, 2010, 10:42:54 pm
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Watched a totally pants film yesterday, and my mind wandered. Has anyone cleaned a cinema before? 600 seats, how much would you charge per seat, and how long would it take you?
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Suppose you could clean some as a demo, then you know how long it would take...
Only thing is the carpet may be included and will be full of gum :-X
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600 SEATS :o :o YOU WOULD HAVE ARMS LIKE POPEYE AFTER ;D ;D
IF YOU CHARGE HALF AS MUCH AS THEY DO FOR POPCORN YOU COULD BE ON A WINNER ;)
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On a serious thought the chairs fold back up so this could cause a drying issue plenty of blowers underneath perhaps :-\
You cant place them up on a table which i like to do being 6ft 4" so the back wont like it.
Good thing is theres not much to them so £4 a chair??? maybe
As they spend most of there time in the dark, so you could be a bit slap happy ;D ;D ;D can't beleive i just said that ;)
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This could be a great Idea :)
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I've done one. They dont like paying alot, they want them dry instantly ready for next showing. Gum and sticky sweets are a night mare. Not really a good earner.
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It is very hard work is the first thing to state,
Dont worry about over wetting the chairs it gets so hot in the auditorium they dry in double quick time,
You only quote on the cleaning the carpets NOT gum removal which is priced separately and they very rarely take it up because of the cost.
Never had any problems with payment always on time but most cinema budget on this type of thing is in house so the manager has to pay out his allocated budget, which they are loathe to do, thats why so many are in an awful state and stink of pewk and dirt.
Most are cleaned so badly because its done on the cheap and nothing much is achieved as a result, I have witnessed my self one cinema being cleaned by a 'team' of carpet cleaners. They had absolutely no idea what they were doing or how to operate the machinery, they just basically wet the carpet and left it, no actual cleaning was taking place. I pointed this out to the manager and told him to expect the carpet to shrink back with seams splitting (which it did) and to create a strong odour (which it did).
He thanked me for my input but was 'happy' with how it was being carried out (he meant the price). 10 days later we were back under the instruction of his managers as complaints about the smell had a serious effect on the sales of the concessions ,which is where they make their real money.
We cleaned and sanitised and had the carpet repaired which HQ paid for and would take out of the cinema budget the following year.
We have also carried out screen cleaning to great effect but never ever attempt this with out knowing what you are doing, almost immediately you can ruin a screen worth thousands of pounds.
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Many years ago I did an AmDram theatre with about 200 chairs and the aisle carpets. The seats were velour and cleaned really well. Because it wasn't used day in day out it was not a problem to leave them to dry overnight.
The biggest bug bear was that because there is never much room between one row of chairs and the next, cleaning has effectively to be done sideways-on. And as Steve has said they are not at the optimum hight for working at either. Then there is the issue of fighting hoses in cramped spaces between the rows of seats.
I certainly felt as if I'd earned my money that day. It was lovely to straighten my back at the end of the day.
Never again.....probably :)
Rog
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They don't like to pay allot. The best way I found was to charge a day rate. Then give them a small % discount for a regular cleaning plan. This seems to do the trick
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As mention, most have BW that will shrink if you HWE.
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Watched a totally pants film yesterday, and my mind wandered. Has anyone cleaned a cinema before? 600 seats, how much would you charge per seat, and how long would it take you?
It wasn't "Animals United" by any chance..... Was it? What a load of....... ;D
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Colin,
It was meet the fockers, stay well clear you`ve seen it before. Chairs did seem a nightmare to clean, and time consuming. I thought maybe a chair a minute, for the first couple of dozen, then downhill. ;D
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For the ones who have done it, what sort of figure is exceptable to charge?
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Colin,
It was meet the fockers, stay well clear you`ve seen it before. Chairs did seem a nightmare to clean, and time consuming. I thought maybe a chair a minute, for the first couple of dozen, then downhill. ;D
Thanks for the heads up Gary, but I bet it couldn't possibly be worse than "Animals United".... ;D
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Fred the Movie, even the kids said it was pants.
Shaun
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Fred the Movie, even the kids said it was pants.
Shaun
;D
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As mention, most have BW that will shrink if you HWE.
Thats not been our experience, nearly all have been good quality contract wiltons.
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worked at the uci in cardiff several years ago, 3500 seats all in all, there was about 5 of us it took us 5 nights to complete. The rate was a couple of quid a seat. That was the largest single job that I have worked on.
Often do up to 500 or so banqueting chairs at hotels and conference centres prices are very low per unit but volume does make money as long as your productivity is high.
Peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.com (http://www.carpetcleanercardiff.com)
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the big barn cinema chains mostly want through the night works on their sites which gets painful about 4am
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i think you will be bored cleaning a 600 seat and you will forgotten how much it will charge!
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As a follow on from this,
we have a call today from a cinema, can we do anything about a screen that has had various objects thrown at it, 'they have tried to clean it themselves' but it has left dark patches on it :-X
There is nothing that can be done to it now its to late.Once any type of cleaning has been attempted its a write off.
Cost to replace £2800.00 :o and its only a small screen.
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i done 1500 seats back breaking and boring