[slb]

Hi,

I need to quote 150 office chairs,whats the right price for that normally we charge 10 pounds per chair.

Thanks
Sergio

[Barry Livingstone]

STANARD OFFICE CHAIR AT £10.........IT TAKES 5 MINS TOP TOP CLEAN ONE.....AYE GO FOR IT

[Joe H]

You will come back and tell us if you got the job or not ?

[mitch2810]

Sergio, If you get £700 for the job then you are doing well. If you get £1500 then you are doing incredibly well. Good luck
Phil

[mark_roberts]

It might take 5 mins to clean but add another few minutes for chair management.  Have you ever seen 150 chairs in once space.  Its a lot.  Also you might find this is over a few floors etc etc.

Id say you price is fine.

Mark

PS. if they can move all the chairs into one big room so your cleaning rows of chairs then offer a discount.

[slb]

Hi Joe,

of course I will.
When this company called last week they told me that last year they have been charged only 5 pounds per chair.Is that a normal price for a large quantity?

Regards
Sergio

[Joe H]

What is a standard office chair?
High back, low back, arms or none?

If manager was happy with last years £5 (assuming it to be true) and if that cleaner is about again then he is going to be setting the pace.

[derek west]

love to know why he's not using the same cleaner?

[Joe H]

Maybe he HAS to get competative quotes every time.

[robert meldrum]

You need to determine what's an " office " We have office chairs that cost less than £20, but others might cost £120, also some have very little upholstery to clean, others might be like a small lounge suite.

[Barry Livingstone]

Ive done call centres in ther past you find there all in the one room Seat and back thats it......

[clinton]

Dont forget takes longer with each chair you clean as you get tired and as the above said are they in all thesame area

If there not too bad you couls always pre spray and use mits and bonnet them thats what i do on some of my commercial

There again would you be happy with 5 pound a chair

Dont forget once your in with this company they are more likley to use you again if you did the right job

[Barry Livingstone]

Dont forget takes longer with each chair you clean as you get tired and as the above said are they in all thesame area

Dont forget once your in with this company they are more likley to use you again if you did the right job

So why they not using the cc from last year???

[dave123]

Sergio,
 Depending on whether its just bum /bum and back/bum back and sides ,also are the chairs stained? coffee, tea, food etc .If it's just bums, I'd you 'd go for a fiver/chair.  Also if you do get the job and it's wooden floors make sure you have a dust sheet with you .Did a restaurant job a few years back with some other guy ,the section he was working got absolutely soaked and the floor bowed (he didn't use a dust sheet needless to say )

[Ken Wainwright]

I've recently done an 80 chair clean @ £4. just squab and one side of backrest.  Regular custy, not very dirty (regular job) all chairs moved for me to one big conference room. Two of us (me and daughter) 6 hours.

Tip of the day.
Use polythene base sheets and cotton drop sheets on top, or some similar arrangement. You can get a lot of overspray from the prep.

Safe and happy cleaning
Ken

[clinton]

James

I said they are more than likley

Maybe they were not happy with the cleaning.

This is how i have built up my commercial and office jobs.

[Jim Gibbard]

I'd go with Ken on the floor protection, would not trust just cotton sheets.
As far as the price is concerned, I'd go in at £6 each and try for protection treatment as well at £3.  You should easily manage to average out 6 chairs per hour if they are all in 1 room, and you have a chair moving person.  

They get a bit monotonous after the first 6 hours don't they Ken.  But a very nice profit.  Of course the replacement value of the chair should be taken into consideration when pricing.

Jim G

[mark_roberts]

Youll be charging more next time then Ken

Mark

[Ken Wainwright]

Nah Mark

Not with the amount of carpet work they give me.

If the chairs had to be cleaned both sides of the backrest and had arms too, then I'd be charging £6 for that with volume, and more if we had to fetch and carry ourselves.

Safe and happy cleaning
Ken

[Jim_77]

I think they'll laugh at you for £10 a chair, to be honest.

I did 52 chairs a little while ago, seat and one sided back pad.  All in one room (a village hall) with plenty of space to work in.  I charged £4 per chair and it was at least as profitable as carpet cleaning, and the chairs were very grotty too - thorough pre-spray & extraction needed, not just a quick "whip over".  I'll charge them similar next time but benefit from having less work to do for my money

I'd have gone in a little higher if it was on a different job and the chairs were all in different places.  These chairs I cleaned would cost about £22+VAT to replace, that was the first thing I checked before quoting!

As said above DO NOT underestimate the handling of the chairs!!  You'll probably end up picking up and putting down each chair at least 4 times by the end of the job.  It all adds up!

I prefer to line up two rows of 5 chairs facing each other, spaced out a little bit. Then go along them vaccing, pre-spraying and extracting.

You can choose to either get a sore back by standing behind them and leaning over to do the backs, or sore knees and wrist-ache by kneeling down in front of them to do the backs, using horizontal extraction strokes

The most annoying thing about cleaning small chairs is that the bloody things move around whilst you're trying to clean them.  The ones on castors do my head in!  I've even considered making some sort of jig to put them in so they can't move!  That starts to really pee you off after about the 30th chair.

Good luck