[Pristine Clean]

Hi Guys,

Place is clear... No clutter. Low profile carpets - been down about 8 months.

To be honest there are only a few stains nothing major at all.

I was hoping that you would share your ideas on Price.

We would probably use LM technique but could use HWE as well or we could use Encap.

So easy access, clean any time day or night what would you suggest to remain competitively priced?

Dave

[markpowell]

If only light soiling and you can get away with LM 15p per sq ft, If HWE i would charge 25p Sq ft
Mark

[Pristine Clean]

thanks Mark for your input here.

Much appreciated

Dave

[gwrightson]

Dave ,
straight in with the encap  £1.00 per square yd    you will do it in a good day.

Geoff

[Len Gribble]

Dave

Network I hope you get my drift 

[Pristine Clean]

Geoff,

Thanks for the input on Encap.

I am meeting them again today as they telephoned early this morning and liked they way we gave a demo and the equipment we have. We gave a demo on Encap and the liked the results of that.

So 9000 sqf is 836 metres. £836 + VAT yes think I could do that in a day if I started early. 

Len

Network? Do you mean share it? If so, no chance...! Sharing does not buy me a luxury villa in Valencia Spain now does it?

Many thanks to all for the ideas

Cheers

Dave

[from edge2edge]

Dave i can understand the thinking of keeping the work for yourself if you are not a sole operator as you have people to cover if you are not available to service the contract yourself.If you work on your own it can be a good thing to have a regular tie up with a like minded professional to help each other out now and again this can ensure you can give the client continuity.I have an arrangement with Jon Tabbener which works well for both of us and i believe shows the clients that we can cover his requirements no matter how big or small. It also gives us cover when we go on holiday or one of us is sick/injured etc.Regards Alan (swindon)

[clinton]

The same here and i work with a few cleaners here and we help each other out..

Alwya better to get the job done sooner rather than drag it on over many days and looks more professional when a few of you turn up to do a large job..

[Pristine Clean]

Dave i can understand the thinking of keeping the work for yourself if you are not a sole operator as you have people to cover if you are not available to service the contract yourself.If you work on your own it can be a good thing to have a regular tie up with a like minded professional to help each other out now and again this can ensure you can give the client continuity.I have an arrangement with Jon Tabbener which works well for both of us and i believe shows the clients that we can cover his requirements no matter how big or small. It also gives us cover when we go on holiday or one of us is sick/injured etc.Regards Alan (swindon)

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the detailed reply there.

I was once a sole trader. That was many years ago. Our main line of work is office cleaning.

However we have expanded into many fields thats was just how things went and decided to go with the flow.

I now have over 40 staff directly employed by us and we have taken on another 5 staff this week so thats 45.

I totally agree with sharing (a tie in) if you are a sole operator. Please don't think I was just being greedy. But we use to sub a lot of work and found that we were losing a lot of money. So invested in the machinery and courses.

I remember about 18 month or more I purchased some basic equipment off of Len - a very nice chap in deed. 2 blowers and a sebo - Still going strong. Back then I only had about 15 - 20 staff so you can see we have expanded rather rapidly.

We are going strong in general office cleaning, WFP, TILE & GROUT CLEANING, Office setup i.e. we erect all the tables and chairs and unpack all the new PCs and place on the desks for new offices and painting and decorating offices.

We are hopefully moving to Spain in a few years and start a business over there while keeping the business here in the UK.

All the best

Dave

[M.Acorn]

it can be a good thing to have a regular tie up with a like minded professional to help each other out now and again

2nd that,I could often do with knowing I have help from someone else,not sure how it would work though,as I only have a porty,and if the person who was helping had a trucky,it would seem rather unfair on them.
I can work at an alarming rate though,prob around 50sm p/hr on a big commercial.
Have priced up some huge jobs in the past,and lost out,as they were too big for me.
Huntingdon garden and leisure centre,worked that out at 4 nights at 12 hrs a night,priced it up at 4 grand,normal rate would have been over 6 grand !!

Big bed manufacturing place,that would have been 3 or 4 days work,feel out of my depth with those sort of quotes.
Will be buying a rotary this week,finally taken my Visa payments,now the system is running,just got to wait and see that it`s in my bank account at close of business today

[Paul W Jones]

I always seem to lose out on the big ones too

[Len Gribble]

Dave

It appears you didn’t

I’m definitely not looking for more work! If I were you would have to wait till Easter,  what I often do is give the potential customer a few names and numbers of reputable cc’s that I know and trust (networking) I always seem to beat there inflated quotes.

Am still a one man band and some times a Wayne on the very big jobs then it 50-50 less costs ether way. I can’t grumble at that as we are the preferred contractor with deflated prices.

Nice to hear your business is growing and the machines are still going sebo and all.  I wouldn’t wait to long buyers market Spain

[Pristine Clean]

Did the job, HWE done in a day easy.

went in at £1.20

2 staff on site.

Client happy - have in place a maintenance plan.

A nice little earner that, plus we have also got all the painting of the office starts next week

Dave

[Paul W Jones]

Did the HWE go okay?  I've always done low profile with HWE with, generally, very good results.  I keep meaning to try a rotary but the time never seems right.  Second job today was 40 sq. metres of carpet tiles and I've got 90 sq. metres on Wednesday afternoon.  I really should try a rotary for comparison and I'm assuming it would be quicker too (?)