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Title: How Long
Post by: wayne zabel on January 28, 2013, 02:29:50 pm
Any ideas please - been asked to quote to clean a Jehovas Witness church hall thats apx 500 sq mts.

Going to look tomorrow.I intend doing HWE.Presuming medium soiling and not much moving of stuff,any ideas how long this should take?

Thanks

Wayne
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Deep Cleaning Solutions on January 28, 2013, 02:58:51 pm
That equates to 5382 sqft, are you sure it's that big, sounds very big for a church hall. I can do 2000 sqft a day hwe easily if it's one big run, a lot less if it's lots of rooms and that's with bonneting after hwe. I'd charge about £650/£750 for it.
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: wayne zabel on January 28, 2013, 03:22:32 pm
Im just going off info given on an Email,as I said Im going to view tomorrow.Is there a general guide line for Square metre per hour using HWE.Im sure Ive asked this before on here but Im not retaining info like I used to.Old age I think.
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: david@zap-clean on January 28, 2013, 03:38:21 pm
The first commercial I did was 200sqm; the full HWE process took me 6 hours of hard work.

It was a learning/turning point for me.  I now offer rotary cleaning to these types of (commercial) jobs and would expect to complete in less than half that time.

Incidentally, I recently won the contract from that first job.  They still want me to HWE it (not rotary), every 20 wedding events.  It should now take me about 4 hours to HWE properly... and there's still plenty of room to improve efficiency.

I'd suggest you cost it as a days work... by my standards it would have taken me a very long hard day (inexperience, inefficient, trying my very best etc).

Do a good job, with a smile, and leave them with your business card.
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Raymondo on January 28, 2013, 03:39:40 pm
Hi wayne

Cant see it being that big.

The hall we attend is 2,200 sq feet I cant see it being nearly 3 times the size.

Ray
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Deep Cleaning Solutions on January 28, 2013, 03:41:13 pm
Depends on the job, most of the time i work out how long it will take, then times it by my day rate. I get a feel for the customer also as this determines the price. If you were to go the sqm rate i would normally charge around the £1.20 to £1.50 per sqm for this size of job which would net you between £600-£750. I have different sqm rates for different size jobs ranging from 0.80p to £2.50 per sqm.
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: JandS on January 28, 2013, 03:41:26 pm
I work on an average of 35sq m an hour for HWE.
Sometimes it will be a bit less sometimes a bit more
dependant on whether there's stuff to move distance
to water etc.
More if your LM.
Does sound like rather a large hall.
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: garry22 on January 28, 2013, 04:18:52 pm
Could be right.

I quoted a mosque last year - 800+ square metres of Belgian Wilton!

Apparently I was too expensive at £ 2.00 sqM

Title: Re: How Long
Post by: benny d on January 28, 2013, 06:14:14 pm
a Jehovas Witness church hall

About 4 hours for the job, and another 6 hours whilst they try and convert you  ;D

Praise the Lord
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: wynne jones on January 28, 2013, 07:50:19 pm
a Jehovas Witness church hall

About 4 hours for the job, and another 6 hours whilst they try and convert you  ;D

Praise the Lord

These damn encappers are everywhere.   ;D
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: *Hector* on January 28, 2013, 07:53:23 pm
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: wynne jones on January 28, 2013, 08:08:24 pm
;D ;D

As you know Hector, you hear the same thing from more than three sources and you start to accept it as fact.  ;D
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: wayne zabel on January 29, 2013, 04:31:39 pm
Some people cant measure up properly.Went to this job today and the 500 sq mts stated in the email turns out to be 160 sq mts ;D ;D
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: james roffey on January 29, 2013, 04:53:17 pm
I did about 100 sq mtrs in a Catholic church just before Christmas managed to get £3.50 a sq mtr which was lucky, trouble was it had a lot of spotting for wax, used an iron and a cotton cloth which worked a treat, but whole job took about 8 hours.
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Simon Moat on January 29, 2013, 04:55:24 pm
160 sq mt works out about 500 sq ft
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: wayne zabel on January 29, 2013, 05:05:30 pm
Yes,definately says 500 sq mts on his email though - perhaps he got mixed up ;D
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus) on January 29, 2013, 06:29:47 pm
160 sq mt works out about 500 sq ft

Er I don't think so - 500 ft2 is 45 m2
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Len Gribble on January 29, 2013, 07:19:30 pm
Wayne

Let us know if you get the job most of there congregation are window cleaners come cc or you could hire the machine to them (which I have done in the past)
Title: Re: How Long
Post by: Simon Moat on January 29, 2013, 07:55:34 pm
160 sq mt works out about 500 sq ft

Er I don't think so - 500 ft2 is 45 m2

Er think your right Steve, 160 m2 is 1700 odd ft2, early start, long day!!!!!!!!!!