Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Simon Wilbraham on May 27, 2015, 10:18:20 am
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Hi,
I have been asked to price up cleaning of approx 160m2 of pub carpet.
No chewing gum or blacktop but chairs and tables are required to be moved.
Any advice on price per m2 or would you just go in for a set day (or night rate) as the case may be?
Thanks in advance.
Simon
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Simon
I would charge between £350-400 insist on cash and would probably crack it off in 2-3 hours some would say that is too cheap but that's what I would charge
Stuart
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Hi Stuart,
Would that be totally hwe with a quick bonnet over to dry?
How many man team would that be for 2/3 hours?
Thanks.
Simon
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A pub with no chewing gum, are you sure, didn't think such a thing existed. My record was 350 pieces @50p.
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A pub with no chewing gum, are you sure, didn't think such a thing existed. My record was 350 pieces @50p.
I know I was shocked as well!
It was probably all attached to the underneath of the tables but I am not concerned about them! :-)
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A pub with no chewing gum, are you sure, didn't think such a thing existed. My record was 350 pieces @50p.
50p to do 350 pieces of gum .....may as well have done it for free. ;)
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Dont underestimate time spent moving the tables and chairs, and the logistics of moving them.
All to one side and clean then swap over is great but sometimes this isnt possible which can greatly slow you down.
I did an indian restaurant recently and the gum was all disguised under the dirt. A quick swing of the rotary with spm uncovered around 20 dabs of gum id missed on the quote, a free curry for mrs and me and I called it even ;)
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50p per piece, did that hoping the brewery would just say don't bother but they went with it anyway. That was on top of the cleaning charge. Absolute ball ache.
I remember speaking to a lad a while ago who did his first pub and didn't notice the chewing gum as it was black the same as the carpet. Then he cleaned it and all these shiney white blobs appeared.
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Had a similar situation with an Odeon cinema cleaned the carpets and hundreds of gum spots appeared , they said we had to remove them as part of the cleaning quote and we said no chance.....the manager threatened we would never work for Odeon again
but he did not have the the authority any way to make such a call.
The did eventually replace us with a foreign out fit who cleaned carpets for nothing (seriously) if it was a 10 screen cinema they only charged for 8, if it was 6 screen only charged for 4 etc.
We saw them attempt to clean a carpet without the vacs on, it was brilliant the carpet was saturated and they could not understand why. ;D
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Simon
I would charge between £350-400 insist on cash and would probably crack it off in 2-3 hours some would say that is too cheap but that's what I would charge
Stuart
I wish I could earn up to £200 per hour cleaning a carpet :-[
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Its hardly £200 per hour ! £133 -£160 per hour which is nowt for a pub
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Errr no ....... it is £200/hr if you do ( as you say) charge £400 and do it in 2hrs
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If you can get that then good luck to you but I guarantee they won't stick with you at those prices the pub trade is on its arse and someone will under cut you in a breath I'd be happy at £240 paid in cash on completion, pubs are generally an easy clean if you know what you are doing. We have 4 pub chains we work for and love doing them because they are always amazed St the result. War charge extra for gum removal. Do my local pub £150.00 takes me 2.5 hours every 3 months and another local pub/restaurant takes a morning including main track of 4 bedrooms £265.00. I don't think that's bad money but again I am there every 6 to 8 weeks but the place is quite high end.
Joni
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Errr no Mr Haliday
I said two to three hours ! ! Not two hours
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I made a very easy £450 this morning, cash in hand 50 sq mts of carpet tiles and about same of lino/ thermo plastic floor clean and four coats of seal , started at 9am finished a little before 12.00
I would rather do optical practices like that any day tnan a filthy pub, I didn't even break into a sweat
Stuart
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I know... 2-3 hrs, so if you do it in 2hrs then £200.
by saying 2-3hrs you are saying the job could take anytime between 2hrs & 3hrs, if there in not the possibility doing it in 2 hrs why use a starting point of 2hrs? :D
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Well Mike, as I said in my reply above yours, I would far rather clean an office or a shop or even a sheltered complex than clean a pub ! Think ive only cleaned about 6 pubs in the last 12 months, I do regular comercials where I regularly earn £200 -£250 per hour, but I dont go looking for pubs, there is fare easier and more lucritive work out there
Stuart
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I've never seen so many willys waved it's unbelivable.
We need some females over here. Home Clean nailed it. Charge what your business requires to make a profit and grow, not listen to what other people are (so called) charging all over the country.
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I cleaned a pub early march this year, there was no furniture and gum that I saw, it was 100% polyprop BW I used my Cimex with boosted DS2
I charged £375 it took me three hours to clean
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Neil, well said.
Stuart you are doing 3 bedroom houses for around 110-120. I say you would ask for maks. 300 for these 160m2, 400 is showing off.
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We have all done the high priced job that takes 2 hours but you have to be able to justify the cost against work involved to the customer, they may be pleased with your work but when times are tough they will shop around, speak to friends and you will be under cut by someone who will do an equally good job at less money. I would rather encourage the customer to use us more frequently at a Lower cost per clean. I find this generates more profit because 3 or 4 cleans at £250.00 if better than a one off at £400. I have found this also leads to add on's , upholstery etc.
John
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Radek
where on earth do you get your information from ? I charge £130 for a lounge/ diner and staircase with no bedrooms
but at least 75% of my work is commercial so I dont worry about one offs ! I am not interested in cleaning pubs for nothing, if you want a filthy pub for £250 or less go ahead and do it,
I get better quality jobs that pay good rates
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special offer on this website I guess is yours?
We all know the special offers, just a prices we want.
http://www.clarkscarpetcleaners.co.uk/
3rooms plus stairs and landing is 115.
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As John said beware chewing gum.to help you
£2.50 a square metre. Hot prespray, agitatation and hot water extraction. You should be able to do 50sqm hour, and it will take you 3 to 31/2 houirs to do properly. Never used a cimex but I would have thought that encap would not be the way to clean the pub. I would also consider how much extra it would take to move the chairs and you can always ask nicely if there would be anyone else to help you move the furniture. I would give them say 10 pieces of chewing gum included in the price then charge 50p a wad for any more that is found after that.
I would then finish off with a bonnet with a little surround or dynamall to shine it off.
As for doing it cheap and hoping you get it next time I would offer to do a test clean so you see what happens and then sell it as the finished product. It then tells you how long/hard it is. If you do a cracking job and they are bowled over by the result the price is worth paying especially if you test clean first.
I clean a real ale pub and they want a quality job......I have also missed out on pubs that want a cheap job and then moan that it was not very good.
If you take the trouble on the first few quotes and dont be frightened then you will get the job.
One last point on some of these carpets you need real heat to tackle them. That is why most of them are done with a truckmount and even then it can be a pain.
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Like I said good luck to you if you are achieving those prices, I suppose it boils down to how busy you want to be or how many jobs a week you are doing. I base my cost for commercial on several factors, a big one is frequency of clean. I like the fact that I can predict my work due to the number of cleans I do, for instance I have some offices I do 6 hours a month at £352 per month fixed cost, add to this office chairs at £5 per chair (prob do 30 a month) and then the dinning chairs at £3.00 each 3 times a year and I am happy at this.
Your marketing and sales must be well targeted to reach customers who are prepared to pay.
John