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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Pristine Clean on January 09, 2010, 06:07:57 pm
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For office cleaning,
How do you work out the time it would take to clean an area. Is the a mathamatical equasion..formula.
Apart from the average 1500sqr feet an area would take 1 hour etc.
So how do you work it out to remain competitive. Do you measure each room? If so tape measure? electronic device or just experience.
I know you can ask the client how long they want, or how long are the previous cleaners on site for.
Cheers
Dave
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Hi
You need to get some cleaning productivity rates - if you emal me I will send u some. Address in on profile.
Nick
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Email sent.
Many thanks
Dave
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Nick's offer to supply you with a copy of productivity rates is very generous, but you should be aware of the following:
Productivity rates are very dependent on the actual cleaning tasks that need to be carried out, nearly all of the complaints recieved by cleaning companies relate to work not being carried out. ie. things not been cleaned! It is therefore vital to understand which tasks have been included to make up these production rates.
Productivity will also be aided or hampered by the following:
Type of building being cleaned - A school, Hospital, Office (type), Factory (type) etc, will all have differing production rates.
Density of the area's to be cleaned.
Layout of differing area's.
Client expectations.
Budget.
Equipment & Training.
The above are just a few things that will effect the productivity rates that you may recieve from Nick. Please do not follow the rates blindly!
The answer is of course to ensure that you obtain all of the required information during your survey of any property that you are going to submit a quote for.
By taking detailed measurements, asking lots of questions, by accurate unit counts, you can then arrive at an customised productivity rating for each building that you survey.
Nick's, figures, I am sure will give you a reasonable place to start.
Regards,
Rob
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Hi
Robert is right - I think I covered all this in my email - Productivity rates should only be used as a starting point and are not gospel.
The ones I sent you give different rates for different types of buildings but again they are only guidance -as Roberts explains use your survey visit to asceratin as much info as possible.
Help this and my email helps
Nick