Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: cleaning co on January 20, 2006, 01:28:04 am
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hi,some pics for the people who showed an intrest in using a porty from a van like i do :)
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and more ;D this room was about 42ft long 20ft wide , setup time couple mins same for packup time, i used about 100 ltrs water , total time for job about 45 mins and got paid £140 pounds
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Hi Cleaning Co
Great pic's but the only thing that concerns me is how wet / clean you my be leaving the carpets! due to loss of vac / pump power with all those hose on your Ninja.
Regards Gavin
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hi gav, all i can say is i hav been working this way for last 6 years and i am yet to get a complaint from one custmer, people say they are not happy working with this length of hose, but hey who cares if the custy is happy !!
p.s i also think the high temp i get help the drying times,and most off all the cleaning
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Hi
Well if its working for you and your happy and so is the customer then crack on ;D ;D
Whats the longest you have your hoses?
Regards Gavin
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hi ive got a extracta excel. i must admit if i could do this it would save me a lot of time. extracta recon the max hose lenth is 35 m useing the scruba. do you fill it with water via a hose or do you use a bucket
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hi bill, if they say 35m u got no probs thats over 100ft, if u look at the pics again u will c the water tank in van which auto fills machine
gav i use just over 100ft
gary
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Nice setup must beat lugging a porty about
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£140 for 85M sq. :o I'll stick to setting my machine up just outside, take my time and charge £382.50 which I'd probably discount by around 15% for the fact that it's an open area. - Still over £332.
If you can get good money from a job (I don't often get turned down), then take your time and enjoy your work.
50 hose on a porty is far more effective than 100'. I've got exactly same machine as you.
If it works for you then thats great. Good setup.
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£4.50 per square metre alan ?...i know we should all charge more than we prob do but thats a bit excessive to my mind.
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well iam more than happy with £140 for 45mins work and i think most of us would imo , if i charged what u do my custys would tell me to fxxxxxf !!! lol
gary
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wath do you do with the electric wires
where do you plug it in
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wath do you do with the electric wires
in what way do u mean?
gary
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Hi Gary,
I charge £3.50 sq/m,which includes pre vac,pre spray,agitate,extracting,napping,
also the price takes into account the initial survey.
It would take me in excess of 45 minutes just to vacuum the area. :o :o :o
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hi cleaning co
bit of topic but what makes your van, looks nice just enough room for set up.
darren
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hi darren,its an dihatsu extol 1300 cc ,fantastic van 8) its got two high powerd portys in there u cant c the other one in the pics ,tank is bit big as i got a 250ltr should hav got 200ltr one
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hi cleaneast,do whatever u feel is right to justfiy u price mate 8)
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Hi Gary,
I charge £3.50 sq/m,which includes pre vac,pre spray,agitate,extracting,napping,
also the price takes into account the initial survey.
It would take me in excess of 45 minutes just to vacuum the area. :o :o :o
My point exactly. Now I get less jobs but better paid with similar pocketed referals. Much less hassle than chasing around although I admit I did used to enjoy the challenge ;D
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Hi Gary,
I charge £3.50 sq/m,which includes pre vac,pre spray,agitate,extracting,napping,
also the price takes into account the initial survey.
It would take me in excess of 45 minutes just to vacuum the area. :o :o :o
My point exactly. Now I get less jobs but better paid with similar pocketed referals. Much less hassle than chasing around although I admit I did used to enjoy the challenge ;D
well i recon u do do lot chasing around cause u are going to look at these jobs and at them prices must get one in 20 if theres that many mugs out there !! i worked out u are charging about £470 for 3 bed house!! yer right o ::) dont think so somehow 8)
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Good Morning Gary,
Unable as usual to see interesting pictures, as there is a quirk in the system.
I have just worked out, sado that I am that your List price is £3.20 a metre?
Enabling you to give 50% OFF.
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Hi Gary,
I charge £3.50 sq/m,which includes pre vac,pre spray,agitate,extracting,napping,
also the price takes into account the initial survey.
It would take me in excess of 45 minutes just to vacuum the area. :o :o :o
My point exactly. Now I get less jobs but better paid with similar pocketed referals. Much less hassle than chasing around although I admit I did used to enjoy the challenge ;D
well i recon u do do lot chasing around cause u are going to look at these jobs and at them prices must get one in 20 if theres that many mugs out there !! i worked out u are charging about £470 for 3 bed house!! yer right o ::) dont think so somehow 8)
Recently cleaned detatched four bedroom house including hsl and lounge and restretching hall carpet to fit grippers snug, couple of minor paint spots on stairs. Protected the whole lot after cleaning and dried it all off. 30 year old pale blue wilton. Fitted in 1974. Never been cleaned before. Loads of wool coming off with raking and so on (real top quality). Spent the whole day there and built up a good rapport with the client. Well over £600 - client has already booked me for next year.
Took me a long time to justify these prices to myself but the fact is I'm not holding the clients purse strings. I dont do the hard sell. I dont look for extra's. Unless they're really persistent, I turn down tips. (yes even at these rates). I present the client with all relevant information and allow them time to reach a decision. 8 out of 10 enquiries become jobs.
Try it! Honest, ever since i put my prices up (in some cases 3 fold) even past clients are coming back for more! No con just top quality work.
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I've also heard of a guy who's nickname is 'fluffy walker'. He charges £9 !!! per M sq. He is officially the highest charging carpet cleaner in the country. I think he's one of alltech's fasttrackers.
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hi there,
Alan
totally agree, sell sell sell, there are too many posts on here at the moment, talking cheap and discount.
if the cleaning industry was such an easy, unskilled job then either everyone would be doing it, or everyone would be cleaning there own carpets, suites, houses, offieces etc.
many people come in to this industy and then leave quickly, its either a love or hate career path.
so why not charge premium price for a premium service.
regards
martin
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Amen ;)
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Great idea, wish id done it. One question though; Do your customers think your portables in your van is a genuine truck mount, and do they ever look? One guy in my area is advertising that he uses a truck mount just like on c4s how clean is your house, but looking at the narrowish trailer he has, i don't think it is.
Waiting to find out though
Dave
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spot on
what part of the sunny UK you from ???
James
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99.5% wouldnt no diff between a truckmount and porty and dont care to know !!!, no they never look if they did they wouldnt know what they were looking at apart from something making lot funny sounds lol i say it again like i allways do "all they want is thier carpet cleaned with the min of fuss at a time that suits them and price what they can aford " there said again ! lol
gary
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Well said Gary. Again ;D ;D ;D
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James
Spot On is in Newport. Plenty of wool carpets down our way due to all our sheep
Dave
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;D there now i hav more posts than than SNA 8) 8)
12 MORE TO GO TO THE BIG 500 LOL
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Dave was just wondering ::)
The machine used on "how clean is your house was a max deisel" by funny enough Dave.
have seen a couple of leeflets claiming the same ::) ::) ::) ::)
theres been a few truck mounts fitted to trailers by Hydramster, and please dont buy a porty and stick it in your van like Garry :o :o :o :o :o :o
No offnese Gary, prob just jelouse ::) :o :o lol
all the best
James
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OU!!! one r james if u dont mind old boy ;D
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??? ??? ??? ???
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my gary your garry
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do beg my pardon 8)
PS whos my Garry, I dont know a Garry ::)
James
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dunno i dont know a garry do u know a garry? if u dont know a garry and dont i know a garry then who is this garry?and who knows this garry ?
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interesting comments more on the pricing than the subject.....Alan Brooker has the right idea, the job is worth at least 300 although 400 pounds should have been the start point. Something must be amiss if you are taking only 45 mins to clean that amount of carpet.....but hey, good on you.......
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nothing amiss lol its cleaning a carpet not rocket sci
gary
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Message to Alan, not Gary because he really doesnt get it, I know the said Mr. Walker and you will find I believe he has raised his prices now. When I met him we discussed pricing and he was pleased, unlike the afore mentioned, that I was charging £1 per foot.....As this was more than he was and he was known as the highest pricing tech he felt he was to raise his pricing..... Yes he is a fast-tracker. The big difference between "Fluffy" and myself is that he goes back in 6 months and doesnt charge for the clean whereas I do. But then he gets paid up front which is awesome. Best, Dave......P.S. I would like to post pictures of the system I use but I dont know how too, please advise.
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karl get a life, u are such a sado !!! lmfco
o and by the way i ve bin doing it 12 years now only ever done one course ,never bin sued and havnt been asked to reclean anything by a custy for years mmmm must be doing something right.
so do us all a favor matey and get yourself a life !!! and dont pester us 8)
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karl, dont waste time and effort mate, as long as there are companies or individuals out there that operate in that way it will always make others who dont look so much better. Best, Dave.
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operate in what way ? i giv my custys i good job every time at a good price so whats u problem dave ? u charge and do it your way and karl, but dont knock me u no nothing about me or my work and any chance of u not using me as refrence in every post u put on here !!
gary
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fair comment to a degree and accordingly I will try my best to make no further reference to what it is you do and how you do it. You are right I dont know you but I have an idea of what you do as you so often tell us on here hence my previous comment. You suppply the rope and hang yourself by the comments that you yourself make, nothing to do with what else is said by whom ever says it. Maybe if you were a little more constructive in your comments you wouldnt get the abuse that would appear to be warrented......Best, Dave. P.S. I will leave any other comments left unsaid now or in future....
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if i hang myself for saying i believe in charging a reasonable amount for what my custys say is a good job and not over charging them, then so be it,
end of. all best gary
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Moderators
Get a grip of these personnel remarks about people, We dont want it on here. Let each do there own thing and be done with it.
I really thought that this site was different but am getting a little concerned about all of this, does every thread have to end up with Gary and Liahona going on at each other. Its boring!!!!
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Hi Guys,
Neil is right we have had enough of this debate so I am locking it.
I will not delete it but leave it as a testament to differences which will always arise in any industry..
Please can we try to be positive , nobody is always right and sometimes there are more than one right answers , and more than one wrong answers for that matter.
Please move on to a new subject.
Cheers
Doug
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Neil,
I agree.
I read through this thread before I went out and thought it has been going on and on. and was going to lock it but decide not too
We try to avoid Cencorship etc
But it is with reget I have decided to lock it.
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Looks like Doug beat me to it.