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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: garyfindlay on April 18, 2013, 09:45:01 pm

Title: Good price if you know how
Post by: garyfindlay on April 18, 2013, 09:45:01 pm

I clean communal area carpets, but think I charge too little. I clean 1 flight of stairs (15) + a corridor 1 metre x 3 metres. I charge £65 per block. Clean with encap will take a morning to do. (for 4 blocks) Was speaking with a resident who had phoned me for a price to do the work, cos the property management in his opinion were taking the pi55. If someone can give me the property managements fee for this work, I will buy them a raffle ticket for the nacca day. I am also welcome to here your fee for this work.

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: stuart_clark on April 19, 2013, 12:22:02 am

£260 for a mornings work isn't bad is it ?

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: Mike Halliday on April 19, 2013, 06:39:04 am

By themselves I would say the price is slightly low, but as you are doing 4 of them   On the  same site with no travel betreen then your price is ok.

How are you encapping the stairs?

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: Steve Gunn on April 19, 2013, 07:20:09 am

I do one like this where the resident committee arrange it as the management company wanted £325 per building,I charge £75 to £100 as one has spiral staircase and bigger lobby.The tenants already pay £75 a month management fee for upkeep of grounds,bin washing,windows etc. They have now taken it on themselves to arrange everything themselves including decorating,curtains,daily cleaning etc   

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: garyfindlay on April 19, 2013, 05:08:09 pm

Mike

I use an Oreck, 12 inch cimex pad, OR 8 inch with minitex  and Releasit DS.

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on April 19, 2013, 05:43:40 pm

TBH is it going to take a morning?

Shaun

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: Paul Moss on April 19, 2013, 07:43:50 pm

Gary, i was talking to dave l about a similar thing to day with another cleaner. His answer in usual style was brill. Ask him next week end ;)

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: Neil Jones on April 19, 2013, 09:15:19 pm

£260 for a mornings work, you're definitely underselling yourself  ??? ??? ??? ???

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: garyfindlay on April 24, 2013, 02:10:24 pm

 :oThe property company charged the residents............£1800  :o

Title: Re: Good price if you know how
Post by: John Kelly on April 24, 2013, 03:38:12 pm

When we first started doing flood restoration for a utilities company, on the first job I met one of their engineers. It was only a small job pressure washing silt off a driveway. He asks how much the job would be and I replied about 150 + vat. He nearly collapsed. :o


They had been getting charged 3k for similar jobs by a facilities maintanence company and that was 12 years ago.