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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steven Butler on July 28, 2015, 08:23:03 pm

Title: What would you charge?
Post by: Steven Butler on July 28, 2015, 08:23:03 pm
Gents how much would you price up a 5 seater sofa corner unit???
Cheers
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: Neil Jones on July 28, 2015, 09:32:34 pm
By how much I need to earn per hour
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Post by: Lewis Newby on July 28, 2015, 09:35:15 pm
Similar to a 3pc suite. They can be tricky to work on due to size and weight but with only 2 ends and the rest standard seating positions they're not too bad
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: Jennifer w on July 28, 2015, 09:56:44 pm
Hi guys,

£150 minimum.

Regards

Jen
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: Robin Ray on July 28, 2015, 10:13:24 pm
Between £125 and £250 depending on condition, fabric, and construction. Maybe more if its really expensive stuff.

Some corner suites have no removable cushions which make them a very easy clean. others can have millions of bits and pieces with zips and all sorts which make life a nightmare. Most break in two with hooks in the corner join.
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: Simon Gerrard on July 29, 2015, 05:26:24 pm
Steve,
The only price that matters is the price you want for the job.
If you have used the  financial planning system I sent you, you should have been able to  work out your break even point and the system will have shown you the sales required per day to reach that. Knowing that figure you can then decide how much profit you want to make on top of your break even hourly rate.

Simon
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: jasonl on July 29, 2015, 05:34:04 pm
£100
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Post by: SteveAllan on July 29, 2015, 05:43:02 pm
£75
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Post by: Radek Jablonski on July 29, 2015, 06:03:14 pm
120-150 euros
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Post by: clive ware on July 29, 2015, 08:25:17 pm
£150
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Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on July 30, 2015, 07:05:47 pm
Do any of the cushions come off?
Fabric type?
Amount of soiling?
Reclines at either side?

Some are so easy to do it's embarrassing and visa versa, a few more bits of information would be advantageous.

I dry cleaned one today £275

Shaun
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: JandS on August 01, 2015, 02:32:05 pm
What you use out of interest Shaun for dry cleaning 3 piece.
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Post by: Dave_Lee on August 01, 2015, 03:51:12 pm
Perhaps a new topic should be raised re: Dry cleaning, but I find the general misinformation about it, interesting to say the least.
Going back more than 30 years when I started, there were many Cotton Velvet and Viscose Velvet suites. The only way to Safely clean these is by Dry Cleaning, ie: using solvent, either by machine or hand. I used to hand clean them, until it became obvious that this was not only very unhealthy, but also leaving a solvent wetted suite in someones house was not the best thing to do.
Today there is much talk and promotion about dry cleaning, when in fact some if not all the processes include the use of 'Water', either as a concentrate in the container, or diluted in a sprayer or machine solution tank. No matter how fast these methods dry, they are not Dry cleaning, they are wet cleaning. They get away with it because no one has yet challenged them on the issue, it costs money to do so.
Following the Trade Descriptions Act some 30 odd years ago, carpet cleaners had to refrain from calling 'Hot Water Extraction' method 'Steam Cleaning' as the only steam generated was from the hot water and not a cleaning method. Some still ignore this fact today.
Title: Re: What would you charge?
Post by: Jonathan Evans on August 03, 2015, 07:19:13 am
I think I must be too expensive I would charge £220. £300 if they wanted it protected.
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Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on August 03, 2015, 07:11:46 pm
Craftex dry solvent cleaner, brushes and towels, in an ideal world I'd like to have used a machine that Paul Pearce used at Tacca which is the ultimate cleaner from US Products.

Shaun