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Mike Halliday

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Re: How to price stairs?
« Reply #40 on: May 09, 2010, 02:55:33 pm »
Roger read the third reply to this topic ;) ;)

great minds think alike.

 but people don't want the simple answer they want complicated algorithms & Biometrics formulas to work out how much they should charge :D :D
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)

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Re: How to price stairs?
« Reply #41 on: May 09, 2010, 04:26:35 pm »
Hi Paul

Why should we be offering a discount?

Many clients think that stairs are far more complicated than we know they are to be. They are usually far dirtier than a lounge as they take more of a hit. Far be it for me to tell the customers thaty are easier than they think. the cost of buying and fitting a new stair carpet would suggest to a client that cleaning will be proportionally more expensive.

Roger

(that said I might be persuaded to give a (nominal) discount if the customer is angling for it as a condition of a far bigger job ticket. I wouldn't offer it though.)
Diplomacy: the art of letting other people have your way

Reno's Carpet Care

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Re: How to price stairs?
« Reply #42 on: May 11, 2010, 11:31:09 pm »
let me step up by saying I have done it three ways
Per step, landings free
priced as a room
included with the whole house price

right now, I include it with the whole house price.  35% of the homes I clean are 2 story.  It all evens out in the end.
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