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I have been looking at pricing for office cleaning etc and thought of using a 35p per square foot per month formula,
What do you guys think? (be gentle with me lol)!!

[martin19842]

hi there

you could so easily go wrong on pricing, i havent quoted offices for a couple of years now,  but you need to look at  quite a broad spectrum of factors.  when considereing the pricing

regards

martin

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Thanks Martin,
but what was your formular?

[Tim Downer]

Trial and error helps!!

You could have a 1,000 sq.ft office with 2 toilets and 10 desks.....and an identical 1,000 sq.ft office with 4 toilets, kitchen and 30 desks.

One will take much longer timewise to clean.....but surely using your formula it will cost the same to clean??

Either that, or i do not understrand the 35p formula

Regards

Tim

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The second one might be a bit cramped tim but i take your point, seemed a bit quicker than some of your systems though! (joke)

[martin19842]

tim,

the method of pricing per sq ft does work
we used to look at say vacuumiing that would take a certain number of minutes to vacuum a 1000sqft, in  s midium density office.

and toilet blocks would be costed at x minutes per pan, basin etc.  then you can calucualte the daily , weekly, monthly annual charge however you want to present it.

the difficulty comes in the work rate of staff.

the big boys in the commercial market would expect one person to clean approx 2-3000 sq ft in an hour on  two hour shift. productivity then drops after that two hours.

the small boys may do their costings on say 1500 sq ft per hour.

whatever your hourly rate is, you can calulate a minute rate times the activity time per day starts to buiild the costing.

i did have it all on excel a long time ago.

regards

martin

how times change im now quoting complete house reinstatement works, plaster, decoration, flooring, kitchens.

[cleanall]

surely the i-clean costing method based on BICsc performances and allowing for furniture density etc is the one to use? Thats the basis of the big boys formulas with overhead and then profit added on. I think you need acuracy not approximation to be competitive.

[martin19842]

hi there

but the big boys will work on  a higher productivity rating than smaller clenaing companies, and becuase they are larger contracts, there percetnages, for profit and materials will differ.

regards

martin

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thanks for all your replies. looking through the question of price always comes up and i think as a guide the price per square foot per month gives a idea especially up to a couple of thousand square feet.

Regards Rob.