Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Aquakleen Restoration Services on October 20, 2008, 07:48:19 pm
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I am just wondering what everyone's minimum charge is. Mine is £50 but I am beginning to realize this is not enough! Look forward to your votes!
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mines £50 so i don't know which box to tick, youve not thought this survey through have you, try again with £40 to £49 / £50 to £59 allthough you might get someone saying "i charge £49.50" so stick the 99p on just in case.
derek
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My Min charge is £48.00.
Mark
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I think it only polite that if you've voted you should post a message to what you voted ;)
I voted £40-50 but I'm flexible with OAPS and regulars.
for this they would get a kitchen, or hallway maybe a big stain.
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£75 inclu vat but like Mike flexible with OAPS and regulars.
Try to do room if only a stain to give them value for money
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About 50 pounds for me :)
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£40-£50
its better than the £25 min ive had to come up from !
R.T
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mines going up to £55 soon ish then £60 at the start of my second year,
if all goes to plan that is.
slowly slowly catch a monkey
derek
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I try £59 but on the smaller ones for OAP's or just stupid jobs where free is not relivant £49.00.
In the US they have a higher min charge ($100) to get the customer to have more done in one trip.
Shaun
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50+Vat but going to put it up soon because I'm getting a lot of piddly little min charge jobs at the mo.
The amount of work I do for that varies considerably. I don't have any problem doing 20 mins of work for that if I've rescued £££'s worth of carpet/upholstery for someone.
Last week I spot-cleaned a few bitumen marks off a lounge carpet in about 30 mins, which considering I had to drag my porty round the back, set up, have a coffee, chat, then pack up, meant very little time with the machine on!!
In contrast, one of my OAP regulars wanted her kitchen lino floor doing because her cleaning lady was away. It was so small I did it with a minitex and literally about 10 passes with the wand! I wouldn't have been able to sleep that night if I'd have relieved her of almost 60 bucks for that little work, so I vacuumed the lounge & hall and spotted some marks with a terry towel. I was there over an hour but left feeling good about myself. It filled up the last part of my Friday afternoon.
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Moving up from £50. I have always increased it a little bit every year so no big hikes for regulars and nor does it sound so drastic to me.
Some flexibility like others where there is a good reason to do so. Often will offer to do something extra so custy gets value for money.
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mine is £50
but thinking of raising :)
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the best way would be to have no M/C for new customers and a M/C for existing.
if you think about it every time the phone rings with a new customers you have to remember the life time value of that person ( I hate using those americanified quotes >:( ) so if you have a M/C of £50 and they go elsewhere then you've lost all the money they would have ever spent with you, but say you do it for free you lose £50 but the next time they want their suite cleaning or all their carpets you make £100s
so in the long term not having a minimum charge will make you more money :D
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£40.00+ vat Had this price since started two years ago, this gets you in the door.
Bri
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how long is your average single job
Bill
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£35.00
Not in a posh area and dont like to take the p*ss.
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£150 + Vat, Ariel, Sat Fitting Business. £40.00 for Carpet Cleaning.
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20 - 30 pounds for its a good way of getting a new custy and the rest of there family ! i never push anything else when im there , just turn up do the best job and leave lots of cards job done ;) better then any marketing
how ever they would only get a hall or a small room done for 30 pounds , and maybe a fire side half moon rug for 20
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$85-$104
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Mine is £100
In the interest of raising what we earn for all of us ;D ;D ;D
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Ours is 45 -70 depending on travel, as in a very rural area,
looking to raise to 50 in spring
Andrew
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With the credit crunch and the SERVICE INDUSTRY getting the brunt of the ression according to the news....will the 50plus mins charge drop them when the work slows down ???????
Rip off ENGLAND....thats what ws said a few years ago........
If a plumber comes out to stop a leaking tap and charges 30per hour min charge.....how can you expect to get 50plus for cleaning a carpet stain?????
Yes its good to do less work for more money but thats what caused this in the banking Industry also....charge more have less customers.......and look at the state of the banks now!!!
Just a thought really :P :P :o ;D ;)
And its funny that some of the people that do charge under the £50 mark have more than one VAN on the road...does that not tell you something
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Mine is £45, though I get very few jobs at minimum rates and this wouls only be for a smalll kitchen or a rug. However as most of my work is repeats, if a customer calls because of an accident, like a drink spilage, I will often do it for nothing.
Dave.
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my minimum charge for wool cream carpets has just gone up, 1hr and a half!!!! and it still wasn't perfect, custy was happy though so phew!
derek
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for me its 60 but i will be going up to 65 in april :)