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paul searle

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Office pricing HELP
« on: March 09, 2011, 09:07:58 pm »
Hello everyone

Just looking for some advice. I tend to do mainly domestic properties and have been asked if I can price an empty office approx 3000 sq ft. I haven't got slot of experience in pricing this kind of job but was thinking 25p per sq ft. Does this sound about right or am I way off the mark?

Deep Cleaning Solutions

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Re: Office pricing HELP
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2011, 10:13:06 pm »
I've not done that much commercial work myself as i have been going less than a year.If it helps i will give you a few examples of prices of commercial office work i have done since i started.Last year i treated com work as a bonus,still do to a certain extent as com work is usually done at weekends or late at night.Last year for example i did 2000sqft of office for £270,which i did in a day 9-5.30 ish.Like i said i treated them as a bonus and allways put in a high-ish price because i had plenty of domestic and tbh i find office commercial work mind numbing.I got a fair amount of comm work from april 10 to august 10 at high prices then it went dead.I chased up most quotes i lost in the new year and most said i was far to expensive,so something seems to have changed in there mindset.This year has been better than i expected as many have said on here that jan/feb/march is pretty dead compared to the rest of the year.With this in mind i have quoted far lower than normal for office comm work this year and have got 6 decent commercial jobs since the begining of the year. To give you another example i'm doing a office job over the next 2 weekends(about 9000sqft) for just over £800,far less than i was getting last year,but if i pull my finger out will still work out at £20ish ph,some on here will scoff at that for working a weekend but as i look at it,there is no such thing as a weekend when you are self employed,just days off.The way i look at it,is we need to keep the work rolling in, in this climate,beats working at maccy ddddsssss anyway.  ;D
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Joe H

Re: Office pricing HELP
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 03:23:46 am »
A lot of commercial work gets done at £1 sq yd or even less.
Seems though that some also manage to get it for much more then that.
Suppose it depends on area. timing, competition etc

Paolo

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Re: Office pricing HELP
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 07:19:12 am »
My commercial rate is about £1.50 to £2.00 a Sqm.

Commercial work is usually larger areas, no moving of furniture and no difficult "unknown" stains to deal with.


clinton

Re: Office pricing HELP
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 07:20:05 am »
Maybe another guide line is to see how long it might take you and set yourself a rate ie if the job will take you a day..How much would you want to charge for your daily rate etc..

Jon b

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Re: Office pricing HELP
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2011, 01:11:10 pm »
Hi all. I've not had much commercial experience either but the few offices I have done have all paid the first price I gave (and I thought was high) without batting an eyelid. So my advice would be to take the figure you want and then add another big chunk on top, but it depends how badly you need the work at the mo