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Title: cleaning office chairs
Post by: gary evans on May 28, 2008, 05:35:07 pm

Hi Guys

Been asked to quote for office chairs, approx. 100 +. Done similar before at £5.00 per chair but whilst cleaning carpets. Reckon £4.50 but still seems low.

Gary

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: Mike Osbourne on May 28, 2008, 05:38:24 pm

How long do you reckon it will take you?

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: gary evans on May 28, 2008, 05:43:30 pm

I reckon about 10 mins a chair

Gary

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: Ken Wainwright on May 28, 2008, 06:47:03 pm

Don't quote "To clean office chairs   £XXX.00" as there are often extra appear from nowhere.  Add E&OE at the bottom of the quote and state "To clean 107 chairs    £143/12/6d" ;)

You can then add on, or subtract, to allow for discrencies in the numbers.

A colleague recently cleaned about 40 chairs extra which he couldn't charge for because of the way the the tender and his quote was worded :'(

Safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: gary evans on May 30, 2008, 05:46:45 pm

i gather nobody does office chairs

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: murky on May 30, 2008, 06:13:47 pm

Gary,

I had to do approx 400 for an office supply co near me. Well it started out at that but the results were so hit and miss on them that it was cut down to about 100 in the end.

Most of them are covered in polyprop/nylon mix and are usually very dusty so make sure you vac really well, dont forget that some will have loads of coffee etc on them and you will have to do arms and wheel covers (use a car bumper type wipe for those).

Some of the exec chairs had hair oil on the top of the back so I sprayed Prochem solvent clean, left it over lunch and the  grease had all turned to a greasy black mess and wouldnt clean off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Told them that you can never tell what has been done to them before (phew) and got away with it.

They can be fiddly because they allways roll around, I usually get someone to help me ie, vac and spray and them I extract off, results as I said can be hit and miss.

Good luck

Murky
 

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: Karl Wildey on May 30, 2008, 09:28:01 pm

just quoted £4.50 a chair for a job,  still not got the job, but that is probably down to slow office people. i think the price is ok, I usually just towel down the plastic.

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: richie on May 31, 2008, 12:31:31 am

Hi Gary,
£4.50 per chair sound ok however,  if you are going to spend 10 minutes per chair then i would increase the price to £10.00 per chair.  Why would it take anyone 10 minutes to clean 1 office chair?   I have cleaned many office chairs in quantities ranging from 1 to about 600.  The problem with them is the fabric.  Most are covered with the type of fabric that will last a long time but is crap for cleaning. 

Richie.

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: gary evans on May 31, 2008, 07:27:06 am

Thanks for that good info.

I,ll look into plastic, but, from what i,ve seen doing windos most are,nt bad.

10mins is a reassonable start , hopefully, they,ll be a lot quicker. You can get new for £40+ & half decent.

Thanks again

Gary

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: Karl Wildey on May 31, 2008, 10:53:35 am

good attitude Gary, £4.50 is a good price and will hopefully get you the job,

Title: Re: cleaning office chairs
Post by: richie on May 31, 2008, 12:30:00 pm

Hi Gary,

Sorry about my post.  I was been sarcastic when saying charge £10.00.  10 mins you should get 2 - 3 chairs cleaned.

Richie.