[happy mondays]

The statutory minimum holiday entitlement for full and part time staff is currently 5.6 weeks including bank holidays, ie if they work 10hrs pw they get 56hrs holiday by law in the holiday year.

[Mike Halliday]

my wife is a nurse,(  sat next to me) she gets 6 weeks paid holiday and 8 bank holidays.

[derek west]

The statutory minimum holiday entitlement for full and part time staff is currently 5.6 weeks including bank holidays, ie if they work 10hrs pw they get 56hrs holiday by law in the holiday year.

shhhhhhhh don't tell courtney, he's got next thursday off and thats it.

[clinton]

Ya tight arse derek

[happy mondays]

The statutory minimum holiday entitlement for full and part time staff is currently 5.6 weeks including bank holidays, ie if they work 10hrs pw they get 56hrs holiday by law in the holiday year.

shhhhhhhh don't tell courtney, he's got next thursday off and thats it.

 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Tony 20 days holiday is based on a working week of 5 day week which is 4 weeks.

Shaun

[Neil Williams]

The voice of reason is back
If £200 is considered reasonable by so many on here to do a 24x12 room why aren't so many of the public out there willing to pay that figure?
Now I'm talking about the average carpet cleaner being able to get it not the smooth talkers out there who used to be used car salesmen in a previous life.

[Carpet Dawg]

Tony 20 days holiday is based on a working week of 5 day week which is 4 weeks.

Shaun

Ah i get it now my bad

[happy mondays]

I agree Neil, I dont think many would pay £200 for a room of this size, unless the carpet was very very expensive, I wud get laughed off the phone or out of the house if i said that price for an average lounge, but then again I dont look like brad pit or have the charm of nigel havers  :

[Shaun_Ashmore]

You called

Brad Havers 

[happy mondays]

You called

Brad Havers 

Might change it to that by deed poll, only costs a tenner, I like it, Brad Havers cleaning services Ltd our slogan would be "the best looking carpet cleaner in Mid-cheshire, or your money back"

[jasonl]

I started carpet cleaning age 22 , with a 5 day course at Chem Dry , only one of those days was in cleaning carpets , the rest were on business systems, carpet cleaning is not highly skilled at all ,, running a business ,and making good money with little stress is a skill.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

You may be right but are you a better carpet cleaner now then when you started? but no point of being the greatest carpet cleaner in the world if you can't make it pay.

Shaun

[garyfindlay]

Like you Shaun

[happy mondays]

You may be right but are you a better carpet cleaner now then when you started? but no point of being the greatest carpet cleaner in the world if you can't make it pay.

Shaun

With respect, I see what you are saying Shaun, but I stand by what I have said, who gets £200 to clean an average lounge? come on be very honest... even with protector, this is just a minimum charge job to clean, £50 - £60 plus vat, then maybe £50 max to apply protector BUT ONLY if ur good at sales... you get better at any job you do the more you do it, but it doesnt mean you get more money for it the next time you do it.  You have to price to suit your business needs. If a cc is in a position to price a room of this size at £200 and get the job, then well done, they must be doing something right.    

[derek west]

i think what every one is forgetting is this....

they pay nothing for the clean.
they get a high quality clean (apparantly)
they get allergy treatment
then it will be protected
it will then be cleaned and protected again in 6 months time, just the high traffic areas
they get free spotter for life
and any accidents they can't sort out themselves will be dealt with for free

plus anthea will reccomend this on there dvd player while mr fat tracker does the quote

all this for just £17 (+vat probably) per month

a superior job to the so called £60 cowboy as they would put it.

now, putting it that way to the right customer?

not so expensive now is it, well it is, but you know what i mean, its more digestable.

[happy mondays]

i think what every one is forgetting is this....

they pay nothing for the clean.
they get a high quality clean (apparantly)
they get allergy treatment
then it will be protected
it will then be cleaned and protected again in 6 months time, just the high traffic areas
they get free spotter for life
and any accidents they can't sort out themselves will be dealt with for free

plus anthea will reccomend this on there dvd player while mr fat tracker does the quote

all this for just £17 (+vat probably) per month

a superior job to the so called £60 cowboy as they would put it.

now, putting it that way to the right customer?

not so expensive now is it, well it is, but you know what i mean, its more digestable.

So you have all the hassle and time of signing a customer up to get them to agree to paying you £17 per month to do all this? then do the work for them, they might cancel the direct debit after 2 months, then you have even more hassle in trying to recover the other 10 months at £17 they have signed up for and never ever get it. I'm no top business guru by any means, but to implement something like this you need to be more than just a joe local cleaning company.  I'd rather just clean the carpet for £60.00 and go back and do it again the next year, and if I was Brad Havers sell em some scotch gard for £50 

[M.Acorn]

I charge between £150 and £200,for an entire 3 bed house ! And get people say that is too much !! I have been and quoted for people who have had pink flyer man in before me,and i am normally a third cheaper than him !!
I still make a good living,there are others who are much cheaper,but there is a limit,i have also been in and e cleaned for people who have had Mr cheap in,and still pulled out loads of muck from a supposedly cleaned carpet

[peter maybury]

there are a lot of monkeys off the street who have had little more that 15 mins training working in this field. They are so ignorant of what is acheivable that they will never be able to charge enough to progress any further that. Their buying decisions on equipment, chemicals and everything within their business will be decided on price. We have all got competitors like that, do not try and educate pork. It probsbly takes about 3 months to get anybody physically capable of doing a full week of shifts in carpet cleaning let alone teach them the technical neccesities needed to avoid claims against you. Let them carry on.
Peter