[craignozza]

Hi guys I have a 200sq m2 room with an Axminster carpet to clean its not very dirty just needs a going over really but just wondered If anyone had an idea of what I should charge cheers Craig

[JandS]

Your registered as a TACCA member yet you
don't know what to charge. 
Having said that being "approved" is only one
persons opinion of a member, someone he's probably
never met and who's work he's never seen.
Who may or may not be insured and who may or
may not have the required equipment.
Weird.

John

[Ian Gourlay]

Why would you charge any different for an Ax minster?
.

 

[craignozza]

Should have stated before your flippant and pointless remarks it's a commercial and having not done much commercial work before only residential just needed to know a rough figure of what the guys who do a lot more commercial work are charging .. I thought this forum was for helpful advice if this is the kind of answers you can get on here then what's the point of this forum!!

[suffolkclean]

Should have stated before your flippant and pointless remarks it's a commercial and having not done much commercial work before only residential just needed to know a rough figure of what the guys who do a lot more commercial work are charging .. I thought this forum was for helpful advice if this is the kind of answers you can get on here then what's the point of this forum!!

Hello craignozza

if hwe then maybe anything from £1.00 to £1.75 per m square as a rough guide.

Obviously without seeing it , just a rough guide.

Hope that helps and dont worry about it being commercial.





craig

[Andrew Briscoe]

Should have stated before your flippant and pointless remarks it's a commercial and having not done much commercial work before only residential just needed to know a rough figure of what the guys who do a lot more commercial work are charging .. I thought this forum was for helpful advice if this is the kind of answers you can get on here then what's the point of this forum!!

Great place this is to learn, no matter how long you have been cleaning carpets.

It might of been better if you had given an answer nicely to the question John, like you did here, reply 8

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=146411.0

[Paul Moss]

Craig, i just work out How long its going to take me and then x that by 100 quid an hour. Or what ever your hourly rate is 

[AshWhite]

Should have stated before your flippant and pointless remarks it's a commercial and having not done much commercial work before only residential just needed to know a rough figure of what the guys who do a lot more commercial work are charging .. I thought this forum was for helpful advice if this is the kind of answers you can get on here then what's the point of this forum!!

If it's any consollation, I'm sure John wasted more of his own time typing out a pointless answer than you did reading it..

[Jim_77]

Loads of variables to consider that would add/reduce cost, such as furniture, whether it's a big square room or lots of nooks and crannies

One thing I will say though is that you might have under-estimated the attention this carpet needs.  Although it might not look bad when scanning over it at quote stage, you may find as you get into the job that it needs a bit more of a thorough job than you thought.  Bottom line is, you can't rush it during extraction and leave it too wet,you need to use plenty of drying strokes and work at a reasonable pace on it so soil level really isn't the deciding factor.

Don't forget wool fibre holds a lot of soil without you really being able to see.. if it was a polyprop it might look quite grubby!

I would quote for it allowing for a very thorough clean, and if it takes you a bit less time happy days

What's it going to be?  A day's work?  Price accordingly

[JandS]

If mine's a pointless answer then TACCA approved
is a pointless title.
How long will it take you to do 200sq m with, I presume,
a portable?
I work on 30sq m an hour so say 7 hours, or call it a days
work......depends on how much you want for a days work.
I'd personally go in at £1.20 per metre so £240.

John

[cleanability]

This is such an easy easy easy question to answer and this should put an end forever to the pointless "how much do you charge for ?? " questions which I find irritating and a complete waste of time.
To start with. The only person who can answer the "how much to charge" question is the person asking the question 
    HOW LONG YOU TAKE TO DO THE JOB  X  HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO EARN PER HOUR

   FOR THE DIMWITS OUT THERE, AS AN EXAMPLE          2 HOURS TO DO JOB  X  £50(PER HOUR)
                                                                    AMAZINGLY THAT EQUALS        £100
                    Its not rocket science 

[Jim_77]

uhmmmmmmm

[Mike Halliday]

qeustions like this are misleading

"Hi guys I have a 200sq m2 room with an Axminster carpet to clean its not very dirty just needs a going over really but just wondered If anyone had an idea of what I should charge cheers Craig"

becuase everyone will answer his question but what he really wants to know is not what he should charge but........ what we would charge.

we can tell his to work out how long it will take then times that by his hourly wage but again that will only tell him what he would charge, he already has a price in his head but he wants confirmation its the right price, he wants to compare his price with our price to reassure himself his price was right

[james roffey]

Interesting Mike ( Dr Freud) Halliday   and probably right too.

We may get irritated by what we consider "stupid" questions but no one is forced to reply to what they think is a stupid question. i sometimes dont reply to the guy who is just starting out and wants to know what the best machine is or if HWE is better than low moisture, buy i admire the guys that take the time to type out a couple of pages especially if they are guys who have been doing this for thirty years plus.
I have been cleaning for three years and i am certain that there is loads of basic stuff i don't know, but if i don't want to have a big insurance claim made against my business i know i can come on here and ask someone who may have encountered the problem i am experiencing.
Surely we dont want people being frightened to ask questions, with that attitude the guys with a lifetime of experience could turn around to the guy with fifteen years and be critical of him, we all have to start somewhere, personally i would not have asked the question that was asked for the very reason that i would get a negative response, i would have searched the forum instead for related articles but, why should i be worried about criticism we learn by asking questions, don't we.
I did a two day NCCA course and a two day spot and stain removal and rug cleaning course plus some practical learning, how can a few days training make us experts in our chosen profession, but we call ourselves professionals, in my book its better to have some knowledge and be willing to learn by asking, than sat at the back of class silent and stupid

PS the first commercial job i quoted for i just quoted the same as i do for domestics 35 pence p ft, i wondered why they never got back to me   :
 i should have asked on here, or maybe not

[Phil @ Extreme Clean]

i'd charge £1 per m2 using my DF it'd only take couple of hours i'd also be happy with the same amount if it took 6 hours so just price what your happy with.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Whether he gets the job or not, Craig will probably learn a lot more about pricing and what makes a commercial client tick if he goes back to the client at some point and asks some questions like

   You went for me, was it because I was the cheapest/most expensive/the one in the middle or was if for some other reason  you chose me
   
   You didn't use me this time. In order to improve my service in the future could you tell me why you  didn't chose me? Was it because I was the cheapest/most expensive or was there some other reason which made you not use me/specifically choose the contractor you did?

Whilst all commercial clients are different, over time it'll help give you a feel as to how to tailor your quotes.

Rog