Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Mike Halliday on April 06, 2012, 09:49:56 am
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anyone watch it?
a landscape gardener was on but what I thought was wrong was what the 'expert' said about price. firstly he said "times are hard"... so this is a days works..... so the price shouldn't be over £350 and then he said that man has earned a £100 an hour as though this was a total rip off
So what an 'expert' on watchdog is telling the general public is........
if 'times are hard' you should expect a lower price
don't pay more than £350 for a days work
and if the tradesmen makes £100/hr he is ripping you off
I don't want to start another argument about price but he shouldn't be allowed to make such generalisations on TV
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Unfortunately it sells tv, it also sells advertising which is 100 times £100/hr :(
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He was only expressing a view, so what.
Simon
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I personally think matt alwright is a rubbish , lazy , sensationalistic journalist.
On a side note , big line up of vans for sale outside enterprise cleanings HQ yesterday. not much sign of life
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Did you pop back to the warm part of the country for a while then Jason ??
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He was only expressing a view, so what.
Simon
but when he is introduced as an 'expert' then his view is seen as 'fact' and he was stating facts "a days work should not cost more than £350"
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Landscape gardiners labour costs round here are a lot more than £350 per day....good ones are anyway, guess this "expert" doesn't have to "put his back into it" or get "his hands dirty" :)
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Hi guys
It's the usual confusion about takings and earnings.
A contractor with 50K worth of kit is going to charge more than one with 5 but will either be a lot quicker or better or both.
I don't watch rogue traders because it is very amatuerish.
Cheers
Doug
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Hi guys
It's the usual confusion about takings and earnings.
A contractor with 50K worth of kit is going to charge more than one with 5 but will either be a lot quicker or better or both.
I don't watch rogue traders because it is very amatuerish.
Cheers
Doug
Like the difference between CCers with a portie, Vs truckmounts, you mean?
On that bombshell, I'm off out :)
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Hi Ash
That could be an example but most of these so called experts have little idea of running a business or what's involved.
Look at the guy who was the expert on the CC one, didn't have a clue!
Cheers
Doug
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i have been spending the cleaning out the back yard shoved all the crap in the shed hope the mrs has not got hidden camera .
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I think the difference is for these 1000 pound a day carpet Cleaners like Doug , Mike , and Shaun is they do several jobs a day and have to find at least 4 customers.
A Garden Contractor Brings in a Guy at £7 an hour and Charges £350
I doubt if many of us would be happy paying a tradesperson more than £150 for Gardening
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I doubt if many of us would be happy paying a tradesperson more than £150 for Gardening
Why? Is it because gardening is easy, if so do it yourself.
Likewise carpet cleaning easy enough and cheap enough to hire a machine if you really wanted to, and have the time to spend all day doing an 18x12 when a professional with the gear can do it in an hour.
As it turns out our back garden is on quite a slope and we want to get it more level. The question is do I (a) spend two weeks with a shovel, pickaxe and barrow or (b) pay someone £1000 to get it done in 3 days using industrial machinery and knowledge of drainage etc
And this is what Joe Public and his TV rep doesn't understand >:(
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2 examples of peoples different idea to what is a reasonable price...
I'm doing an office next week for £650, the woman arranging it asked us to come in at 4.30pm an then the cleaners can lock up when we finish at 7.30pm.....she was happy to pay £650 for just 3hrs work
last monday i did a job for my minimum charge of £65, it was a phone quote for just a small kitchen so said i would do some small stains so i 'would give them their moneys worth' when i turned up they had a big list of what they wanted me to do including 4 dining chairs, i said there was a morning work there, to which he said with a stupid look on his face....yea??? .......he thought for £65 i would work for the full morning
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Takings are vanity...profits are sanity... ;)
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He was only expressing a view, so what.
Simon
but when he is introduced as an 'expert' then his view is seen as 'fact' and he was stating facts "a days work should not cost more than £350"
So what? I don't see how you think people will take the slightest notice of him, let alone remember what he said for more than a minute.
Simon
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Bankers earn £1000 an hour, but the BBC are not secretly filming them to see if they have earned it! >:(
Oh it's ok for them because it's performance related pay.
What about the top BBC executives what's their day rate?
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What get me is when you invest 1000's on kit and training to get results more quickly only to have someone sniff at you when they work out what you have earned per hour. Yet a Karcher Boy could spend 3 times as long, get a worse results yet custy thinks it's a fair rate for his time.
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;D ;D ;D benny d ... love that saying.. takings vanity ...profits sanity... good old duncan b saying! ;D ;D ;D...
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Turnovers vanity, profits sanity, cash is reality. ;)
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All I am saying is round here the going rate is £15 an hour . Landscaping would be more.
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Prices should not be the important part for the show unless the tradesman had done a poor job del ;)
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What got me was he charged £12 to come round to give you are quote.....are we missing a trick here ??
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wouldn,t it be nice to see a programme showing the good guys ,the well mannered honest tradesman that will go the extra mile for the custy,they could use hidden cameras then name and praise,wouldn,t it be refreshing in this sad world of woe..
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Good news doesn't sell, just look through any newspaper to find out how many pages it takes before you get to a 'good storey' article.
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There are some programmes like that Neil. Like when Melinda Messenger walks into a builders merchant with a camera crew and says you're on national television and it would be really nice if you could donate £10k worth of materials to help a down on their luck family.
They always cough up. :)
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Yes there are a few progs around but spend a fair amount of time initially playing on the bad side of a storey.
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I sell my service by the item I clean, if there's a small item to clean and it doesn't seem value for a money I'll explain that they could have some extras cleaned within the min charge but price is definately on arrival and I'll give them upto their budget ie the min charge if the extras go over then I will inform before I start I NEVER mention time unless asked it can be a problem area so I change subject, I like to sell my service like products customers get what they ask for and a price.
Shaun
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same as shaun
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except less poor :)
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It's been hard work but I think Jim has the idea now.
Shaun
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Hahaha your secret's safe with me ;) ;)