[Shaun_Ashmore]

I'm fed up with single carpet cleans, must admit old customers always go for 2 at least,

but a single carpet with a TM !

I decided to put my minimum charge up to £59 this covers most small rooms/jobs.

Have had no resistance yet!! but only been doing it about 10 days.

What's your minimum?

Shaun

[craigp]

mines £40.

couldnt agree more, little jobs are a bl**dy nuisense! how do they think we make a living.

"oh how much is a bedroom please? you can go around the bed"

[Dave Parry]

£ 50 for most, £ 40 for OAP's and some regulars if close to home.

[Nick Johnston]

My minimum charge is £55, but I would like to increase it to £100!

[the red carpet]

£35 but thinking to jump to £49

And if small job with only one carpet in the house, you know the ones carpet on the stairs and everything else laminate, say this

Well im afraid the minimum charge is £49 and my usual charge for stairs is slightly lower, so why dont i clean, condition, deodourise and protect them for you, all for the mimimum charge.

Gotta sound better than, £49 take it or leave it.

[rich hand]

£35 but thats in merseyside where people often thinks thats too much. If I am lucky enough to get a £35 job it takes me 40 minutes in and out - not splash and dash but you can certainly forget the vac and agitation.

[the red carpet]

Craig, dont that you can go round the bed rubbish drive you mad, its all iv had today.

"there only small rooms"
"there not even that dirty"
"you can go round the bed"

So far today iv had one bloke ring me, telling me "£10 for a bathroom? its only small cant you reduce the  price"

Another woman bidding me down from £131 to £130

And another bloke telling me "but my hall is really small" "im laying down in it now and my toes are touching the door, and i can touch the skirting board at the other end with my fingers"

All from a certain ethnic group, strangely enough.

[Damian]

I'm fed up with single carpet cleans, must admit old customers always go for 2 at least,

but a single carpet with a TM !

I decided to put my minimum charge up to £59 this covers most small rooms/jobs.

Have had no resistance yet!! but only been doing it about 10 days.

What's your minimum?

Shaun

Shaun thats more than John (you know who) charges for a suite  :

[craigp]

hi red,

yes and when you get your TM it will annoy you more cus you think, they want me go miles out with thousands worth of TM just to clean up a little tea stain or clean poxy 3ft rug ! lol.

[Dave Parry]

But at least he wont have to fill his porty up and wait for it to get hot.

[craigp]

i wonder if we should just say to custy;

 "what! thats all you want cleaned!! hardly worth me coming out, make it worth me while and have a bit more done, what do you think i live on air?"

how do you think that'll go down?

 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Damian, for what John charges and the amount of time his worker spends then it's about right! not that he does a bad job but you may find a missed bit or 2 but hey you wouldn't expect too much for that price to be fair.

Shaun

PS where's Dave Liohan he doesn't go out for probably less than £200 that's the way to do it.

[Damian]

Damian, for what John charges and the amount of time his worker spends then it's about right! not that he does a bad job but you may find a missed bit or 2 but hey you wouldn't expect too much for that price to be fair.

Shaun

PS where's Dave Liohan he doesn't go out for probably less than £200 that's the way to do it.

Made his money tho Shaun!! 

[Neil Grainger]

Minimum Charge for me is £60

Driving to Job
Taking Freephon call from Customer
Unloading and setting up
and finally the cleaning

If thats under an hour of anyones time i'd be supprised

[craigp]

thats it, actall cleaning is hardly any time, i often drive 25 mins to get to job other side of town and 25 mins back, hardly worth it somtimes for just a bedroom, (which are always cheap crap carpets in bedrooms, that never clean to well)

[angela carlton]

I bet you all complain about other peoples, minimum charges for supplying services and products.

It's the industry you choose to be in, stop moaning !

Of course, we'd all love to live in the dream world of, full house cleans, day after day, but the reality, is, some single carpet jobs will come along.

As any marketing pro' will tell you, smile and do the work to your highest standard. You don't know whoyou're dealing with. The single carpet can, if you're alert, to other work and if you don't do it, you are missing a marketing opportunity.

Have a nice day

Angie

I am just leaving, to clean a single carpet, but it's in a huge semi, sheltered housing, block of flats. This to my mind presents an opportunity.

[Ian Gourlay]

Angie,

While you are  cleaning carpets who is running your other companies.?

[Neil Grainger]

If they wont pay your minimum charge they are not worth having as customers.

Pass them on to the spash and dash because thats what they are looking for.

Angela, you need to take some happy pills, do you ever say anything positive.

[AquaMagic]

£45 us, but thinking in chaning it to £50 and £45 for OAP's.

All my new promotional literatire pushes 3 for 2 on carpets so hopefully will get more multi room cleans in the furute.

Dene

[bennymon]

hi folks my minimum charge is £50 and if i got 2 a day at the moment i would be happy ive only got 1 job this week £160 on friday