Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jasonl on April 21, 2008, 09:39:39 am
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A single room £35
lounge/ Diner £48
Hall/stairs/landing £29
3 piece suite £80
B Carpet cleaning £2.00/m2
upholstery cleaning £15.00/seat
C Carpet cleaning £4.00/m2
Upholstery cleaning £20/seating position
D Single room £15
Through lounge £25
Hall/stairs/landing £18
3 piece suite £50
E Lounge £52
Through lounge £70
Hall/stairs/landing £42
Three piece suite from £130
All price lists:
Protector add 50% of cleaning price, subject to fair size policy.
Commercial,large or non standard items, free on site quotation.
YP and Thomson both now allow pricing in thier directories.
I get overwhelmed at times with price shoppers, and will publish prices next year , in the hope of just recieving calls from people mostly wanting to book jobs.
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Hi
The only time I have seen prices in adverts they are allways very low ones.
ie £20 a room, £50 3 piece.
Dave
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Its very difficult, I find, to do this sort of thing ie pricing for an advert. So many variables.
for instance - minimum charge - mine is £48 for fairly local jobs.
also the more I do in one premises, the more efficient pricing.
ie I may start off at £2.50/m2 (subject to minimum), but by the time I get a bedroom it gets cheaper per m2. (on the basis they are generally cleaner, therefore quicker)
Hall/stairs/landing - you range from £18, £29, £42
HSL on its own and assuming its a smallish hall and smallish landing would be £40 (£48 with minimum charge).
but one house I do the landing is like something from Dallas - wraps all around the front of the house.
Not much help to your dilema I know - buts its the complexity of listing prices that keeps me from advertising them - but I see where you are coming from.
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I wouldnt waste my money with either.
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Had thomson trying to sell me space today, Crfedit card size advert in colour £456 + VAT.
I said i'll do it for £100.00 as thats all its worth. got all the blah blah blah from her about it.
She said that the £456 thats the best she could do, I said good buy.
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This year so far I have spent 11k on YP and had 28k of work, and there is still 8 months life in the directories , so I do not consider it a waste.
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Jason is your main business flood or carpet work as this will make a lot of difference. Thats a great return from Yell/Thomson
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Mainly flood, though carpet cleaning is important to me, I dont wish to have people answering the phone to priceshoppers all day.
I think I will be running 2 ads with different company names , one with list A and one with list E , it will be interesting to see what happens, and the return I get.
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Sounds like you are doing OK out of YP already, if I were you I wouldn't change a thing.
Andy
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I wouldnt bother with 2 different ads with prices on. its bad enough competing with all the other cleaners without competing with yourself.
the prices in list E look ok but maybe the suite could be brought down to the £100.00 mark.
Good luck Mark
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I think you will find you are in the minority of YP sucess stories, but good luck to you anyway, long may it continue.
Justin
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There was a guy from Halifax advertising prices on here last week, I believe he said £95 a suite and £40 a carpet.
Shaun
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Guess that must be me then ??? ???
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Hi
I had a look in the Halifax YP & coudn't see an ad with those prices.
Dave
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Had thomson trying to sell me space today, Crfedit card size advert in colour £456 + VAT.
I said i'll do it for £100.00 as thats all its worth. got all the blah blah blah from her about it.
She said that the £456 thats the best she could do, I said good buy.
'Good buy' or 'goodbye'.
Funny... I do well out of YP but nothing out of Thompsons.
Told the Thompsons rep this. Their response was that when you ask a customer where they got your name from and they use the reply 'Yellow Pages' they say this as a generic term like people use 'Hoover' instead of 'vacuum'!