[suffolkclean]

Went to look at a place yesterday, 3 bedroom cottage - Large Rooms, Bedrooms huge with old enamel sinks in bad limescaled taps, really deep skirting boards, small kitchen all cupboards inside & out,bathroom,the whole of downstairs ceramic tiled so to be washed,oven to be cleaned, all paintwork, inside airing cuboard, removing stickers off one of the doors!!. Quoted £175 for cleaning.

Windows are really deep and all little square panes would have to clean individually really dirty too quoted £25 insides + £25 outsides.

He speaks like someone from the royal family and thought it was a lot for what had to be done??

Did I over price

[myvanwi]

Sounds like alot of work. I think your price was spot on. How much did he think it was going to cost, 50p??

[suffolkclean]

I think he did expect 50p - It makes you die when they clearly don't clean regularly then the whole lot has to be done and its too much money.

I'm now quoting these kind of cleans from what I've seen on here so wanted to check I got it right

[Gerry Styles]

Clearly wants a lot wants to spend little.  Tell them if the want cheap then call someone else, if they want it cleaned then you will clean it......for the right price.

If you go to the supermarket will they drop the price of beans at the checkout because you do not want to pay that much?? no way. We all clean to make a living, we all have the same bills to pay - IF WE COULD MANAGE WITH JUST A HOBBY THEN WE WOULD ALL MAKE MODEL RAILWAYS

I would be looking for £15.00 per hour

[Janey]

You didnt overprice. I would have charged £350.  Dont forget its a large place and hard work!  It may take a couple of days. 
Janey

[suffolkclean]

Thanks so much for all your comments - really re-assuring

[steve_doyle]

How dare you earn more than the minimum wage, dont you know your place?


shame on you!

[hotsteam]

Yes have you added in your pay rise of 21 pence an hour for october already ?
Regards Hotsteam

[suffolkclean]

- I know, should of charged £10 per hour minus tax, NI, Insurance, Petrol & Cleaning Chemicals

It is just cleaning - anyone can do it!!

[suffolkclean]

Been told by the letting agents who are going to let the place he's a tight wad & probably will end up doing it himself - wot a waste of time, did he think I was going to say ohh it'll be £20 - YEA RIGHT!!

[The Great One]

Hi

No you didn't overprice.

If he is letting, then as is usual they want it done as cheap as chips.

As soon as someone quibbles about the price (outside of the usual negotiations) I then ask for the money before work is done as it can get difficult for them to pay up.

Regards

Martin

[Ian Rochester]

We would have probably been looking at between £350-£400 + vat, budget for two people full day.

There will always be people who expect to get cleaners in and only pay £5 per hour for it, they don't realise the other overheads that businesses need to pay out before actually making any profit.

[ollie]

I would have charged £280 ish. I did a one bed flat today for £165.00. Some people just dont appreciate the work that goes into it!

[suffolkclean]

Thanks for all your comments - He got a good price to start off with then - hope he's up all night scrubbing!!