Woodman, to clarify, the job for £600 was done by John Kelly which is why I said I hope he didnt mind
me saying. The first commercial job I did was for approx 400 square meters of which I charged £11:50
per square meter. I was the last resort and the fourth cleaner to try to clean the carpet. I simply
doubled the third cleaners price as I would have to clean out his mess as well as the first 2 and then
clean it properly. As I saved then a £60,000 replacement cost, then a little over £4000 wasnt too much
to ask for, nor did they question the price. ........ I try to only work 1 or 2 days a week but that isnt
always poss so sometimes I will work the third day so my average if taken over 2 days would be higher.
I am looking to do a job in London of which John Kelly has helped me no end as to various "stuff" that
needs to be sorted. I am hoping to clear at least £20k over two weeks but I am allowing for it to take 3.
Either way it will boost my average up a wee bit. I am 99% sure of getting the job and the 1% will be
sorted out by next week.......... Sort of a point.....Most plumbers, carpenters, brickies, plasterers and
the like all make £1000 a week. In most cases their tools of the trade save maybe the plumbers are a
few hundred at most. The fact that I have over 35k invested for me just to turn up at a customers
house I will be daxned if I am not going to make 2, 3 or 4 times what they make. Even a mickey mouse
portable or low moisture machine costs more than their tools so why should we settle for less money.
With refference your comment on 75k being the top earning bracket of any industry in the country,
you are having a laugh. Mr Saunders makes that out of less than 20 fast trackers....... A customer of
mine in London who buys and sells diamonds, makes that in a month. I may do well in this cleaning
market but compared to industries in the country 75k is a mere pittance....... When I was in the states I
often would speak at the I.I.C.R.C. courses. Nothing to do with the course but I knew the company
putting on the course and they knew how I did what and what I charged for doing so and felt it would
be an interesting 20 minute diversity. My point is or at least one of them is...... you get what you ask for
on the whole. If you ask for a measley 50p a square foot to clean something then the customer will pay
you 50p. Thats why I charge what I do, which is considerably more. If we all charged the same price
we wouldnt be having this conversation. By the way I would never charge anything, ever to do with
talking about this business. Unless thats all I did but of course I dont. In this country as well as the
states most of the problem is that we as cleaners need a kick up the bum to do things. I just dont need
the kick. I am sure we or most of us all do good work, then why the hell not charge good money for it?
Someone on here was so proud he cleaned a sofa for I think 70 quid or something stupid like that as
he got the job off of another cleaner who had charged 400. As long as the 400 man gets half what he
quotes for he is still doing so much better than the 70 man...... and wouldnt have to work past
Wednesday afternoon if you get my point. Again, Woodman, you nor anyone else should pay for
anything anyone has to say, we know too bloody well what we need to do. I feel there is nothing I can
teach you, just kick you in the ass to do it. Nothing hardly is difficult in this business, nothing, save
doing it!!!!!! Hope this helps, best as always, Dave.
