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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: drive surgeon on June 27, 2008, 12:31:24 pm

Title: just wondering if you guys have minimum charge for a job.
Post by: drive surgeon on June 27, 2008, 12:31:24 pm: do you guys have a minimum call out charge? do you charge for a quotation?

one fella by me charges 3.50 a sq metre for blockpaving. ???
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Post by: trevor perry on June 27, 2008, 02:40:48 pm: we just priced a job at about £1 a metre and was considered to expensive, it was very dirty and not good drainage either ???
Title: Re: just wondering if you guys have minimum charge for a job.
Post by: drive surgeon on June 27, 2008, 03:12:55 pm: jesus thats cheap! most people i know seem to charge at least 2.50 a sq m. ???
Title: Re: just wondering if you guys have minimum charge for a job.
Post by: lowesdarwen on June 27, 2008, 05:01:55 pm: £1 ......whats that clean only

what sort of price are you doing clean & resand for?
Title: Re: just wondering if you guys have minimum charge for a job.
Post by: drive surgeon on June 27, 2008, 05:05:33 pm: i have seen that guy charging £3.50 a sq metre just for cleaning and he said he was chokker blokk. he said if your cheap people think your gypsies or something, a good firm usually is dear for reputation and quality work. prob agree with him i suppose.
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Post by: trevor perry on June 27, 2008, 06:57:38 pm: with the machine i use i could of made very good money at £1 a metre, the site was over 1000 square metres and on jobs this size i dont think you would get anywhere near £2.50 a metre but i may be wrong but i havnt got the balls to ask them sort of prices.
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Post by: DavyP on June 30, 2008, 09:39:18 am: In a street with alot of brick drives I would always give the first customer a price of £2.00 sq m and free sanding, explaining that i'm doing a special price for them as I usually get most work whilst on the job.

Then take my time doing the clean. ideally on a sunny Saturday morning and wait for all the enquiries from nosey neighbours.

Works a treat.
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Post by: TVCS on July 01, 2008, 09:09:20 am: we charge 2.50 psm. with sanding.
Title: Re: just wondering if you guys have minimum charge for a job.
Post by: BDCS on July 01, 2008, 10:32:13 am: £2.25 - £3 clean and sand, the art is reading the customer and selling yourself to them, adjust the price depending on the amount of work you have. I aim to get about 2/3 of jobs and loose a third on price
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Post by: dandandan on July 01, 2008, 10:44:10 pm: I don`t charge by the metre now,i work out how long job will take,if there is a nice border to aim crap at and if it has good drainage.I measure some of them to get a marker to work off ,multiply by £2 then add or take away depending how long it will take and how hard it will be.
Title: Re: just wondering if you guys have minimum charge for a job.
Post by: TVCS on July 03, 2008, 09:30:18 pm: I agree with dan.
When I price a job i never really get a tape and measure the whole area. A rough idea is close enough. guesstimate time to do it and like others have mentioned check for decent drainage. We got cought out a little while ago with a small patch of blocks. No drainage at all. It took ages and made the hourly rate look pants. Luckily half way through they decided they wanted the patio area doing too so we made up our rate by charging slightly higher than normal for the slabs, which took not time at all with a whirlybopper.