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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Neil Grainger on January 14, 2007, 08:30:23 pm

Title: Curtains
Post by: Neil Grainger on January 14, 2007, 08:30:23 pm

Hi all

How do you price for curtains and what do you charge.

Always passed on curtain cleaning but regular wants it doing and dont want to pass it on.

Thanks in advance

Neil

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: maxcarpets on January 14, 2007, 08:37:05 pm

Hi Neil,

Did you get the call from the lady I passed on to you? Could you help her?

Regards

Justin

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: Len Gribble on January 14, 2007, 09:11:32 pm

Neil

I have enough trouble with their carpets (draft marks/bleaching etc) so I don’t get involved, thanks for reminding me, got to send wife down to DC to pick them up £35 hope they haven’t shrunk. Got new ones for lounge and they dropped wife strait on the phone, I’m keeping out of it

Len

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: Neil Grainger on January 15, 2007, 09:10:35 am

Cheers Justin, yes I did speak with her, was going to see her sunday morning but Husband got involved and wanted to go down Insurance route.

they did not like my minimum charge I think for Sundays, Big house in Farnham though but obviusly dont like spending money.

Thanks again

Neil

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: Mark Lane-Matthews on January 15, 2007, 09:30:08 am

Hi Neil
I price cleaning curtains by working out a premium  hourley rate on how much time i think the cleaning would take including setting up times etc which i find much easier ,obviously if you are cleaning more than 1 set of curtains it will be cheaper for the customer as setting up times will be less  e.g 3hours work x £50 ph =  £150 ,you could start this way before introducing your own price structure

                                                       Mark

                                                         

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: david_m on January 15, 2007, 11:55:07 am

Hi Neil

the way i price is by the width of the curtains

1. width is 42 inches wide average curtain is about 2 widths
average full lenght curtain 2 widths £8- £10 per width = £16- £20 per curtain  our £32 - £40 per set.

pelments are extra any thing from £10- £30 depending on size and if they are pletted or not pletted.

  Davy

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: cleanability on January 15, 2007, 03:38:55 pm

I've not a clue about cleaning curtains and to me they sound like a problem. But surely you cant beat the clean of taking curtains to the dry cleaners?

Chris

Title: Re: Curtains
Post by: john rees on January 15, 2007, 03:58:47 pm

Hi Chris
            you can when customers with pale coloured curtains complain about having them back from the dry cleaners complete with a grey or yellow discolouring because they have been cleaned with other items in the same batch or runs many loads with the same dry cleaning solvent to save money! at least the fluid we use is only for that item,some pelmets are actually fixed by staples and the home owners don't even want to attempt removal for fear of not being able to re-fit them properly! some curtains we do would not even survive in plant cleaning either due to the sunlight,humidity,heat and pollution oxidising them,and some pelmets are reinforced by cardboard which would never survive;D






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