I carn'tunderstand these people who are nothing but busy fools. A guy who is local to me cleans a house 3 beds for £75 and a three piece suite for £29. For me to clean a suite properly takes four hours, at that rate he would be better packing ready meals.
These people make this industry an undervalued service, but then if they are claiming social, work with old gear out the back of an old ford escort what can they expect.
I always have people trying to knock down my prices or do the job for cash. I won't shift on either. I tell them you want a professional service, you must expect to pay for it. If you want cheap try someone else. The are sometimes needed to be reminded that a carpet is only a thing that needs a cheap clean until it requires replacement, then its the most expensive piece of furniture in the house. Some people don't like this, but the one's who except this are always over the moon.
Just today we cleaned a set of stairs at some offices, which had oil on. A total of 15 steps. We said £90+VAT. They wanted to pay £60inc VAT. We told them to think about and give us a call. The did accept the price and were absoulty delighted with the results.
Those guys in my area, who are operating, without; insurance, a licence to dispose of dirty water from a truckmont, doing the double , without proper training, using elecrical equipment not PAT tested will soon realise that they carn't work for nothing
& operate with all the above requirements.