[kinder clean]

Yes I know its a 'How long is a piece of string' question, but based on your average job of 1 - 2 carpets being cleaned per house.

Also what time do you deem acceptable to turn up for your first job ?

If I turn up at 8am, I average 2 1/2 hours for an average 2 room clean, which is from knocking on the door to getting back in the van.

Allowing up to 30 mins driving between jobs the best I can do is 3 jobs per day myself ( If I'm lucky enough to be booked for the whole day )

Just wondered if other porty users do more ? Am I too slow !!! 

Obviously this is the advantage of having a truck mount. ( The only advantage because my porty is just as good at..........blah blah blah  )

Paul

[daysdeepclean]

My best was 3 empty whole house carpet cleaning 2 x 2 bed and 1 x 3 bed and that was without rushing the jobs.... I neded a few pints when I'd clocked off at 5:30....

That was with the Exel and Scrubba......

[JandS]

Average time for 2 room clean for me from arrive to depart is 2 hours max.
If empty 1.5 hours max.
I don't start before 9.15 as generally find that people who want them done on a morning want to get the kids to school first.
I also miss the school rush hour as it is murder round here from 8.30 to 9.
Did an empty bungalow on Friday, 2 beds 1 large, large lounge, hallway and a conservatory of average room size in 2 hours 10 mins arrive to depart.
I would rather have a lie in and work till 7.30ish than the other way.

John

[davep]

2 rooms with a tm (for comparison) would take about 1hr 15 from arriving to leaving.   

[Shaun_Ashmore]

When I had a porti I'd say that 2-2.5 hours was about right for me, there's so much to consider though, slow running tap heavily soiled rooms, with a TM you can clean more or less just as fast irrilivant of the soiling, st up is usually quicker but you have water to hand but you do get those days when you have to ask people to move their cars or you can't get on the drive and are double parked on the road, horses for courses, but to answer your question a cleaner doing a good job on 2 carpets is around 2 hours ish and then set up set down.

Shaun

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

For me I would say 3 jobs a day starting at 9.00 and finishing at about 5 with a half hour break

[Paul Simpson]

Most I've done in a day is 4 seperate jobs, 1 was a single room, another lounge with HSL, the others were 3 or more rooms (1 an empty flat).
Wasn't through choice, had 2 booked in and 2 more ringing me on the day with the "any chance you can come today" plea, otherwse they would have tried elsewhere.
Was a long day and tiredness crept in which mean't I took shortcuts. Will usually try to keep it 2-3 per day (depending on size) so I don't compromise standards.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Usually between 4 and 5 a day. Week in week out.

Having said that there are a couple of things in my favour. Firstly, I only spend about 15 minutes a day on marketing at most. Secondly most of my clients are repeats so you know how you are going to tackle the job before you get there and because in many cases they are regular cleans the level of dirt isn't too bad to start with. Finally travel time between jobs averages no more than 10 minutes.

It has been known to do upto 9 jobs in a day. Usually this is during December when they are long, long working days (if short, short daylight hours ) and if you can find an assistant to load and unload the van whilst doing the chatting up of the client, and to fill and empty the machine then productivity would I am sure go up for many.

The only problem is finding that number of jobs........

[COLIN BRIGHT]

even with a truckmount i'd find it bloody hard to do 9 jobs in a day

[David williams]

The most ive done in a day with a prochem powermax was 5 pubs about 2 years ago.. 42 pubs in about 14 days. hard work but well worth it.

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

9 jobs a day sounds like a real classy outfit

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I've done 9 in one day, 2 of us cleaning, it was Xmas and I was being greedy but the thing is we all expect January to be quiet but it never really is anymore.

If you can clean 3 carpets at 3 houses why not? with 2 people shouldn't be a problem, late for tea! or just intime for supper but why not?

Shaun

[clinton]

Prob about 3 or 4 a day and usually fin in the early afternoon myself,must say roger said it all when he said its mostly repeat and regular work so we know the level of soiling to expect.

I dont travel miles and miles either so i keep the driving time down to my limit.

I too dont spend too much time on marketing as thankfully have a good client base,but i did years ago when i started and used to quote most jobs :

[richyp]

skywalker


can i come out with u for a few jobs, i am in south shields

[Peter Sweeney]

A TM is only quicker on a big job. Set up times on a tm are drawn out as there are many more cosiderations but thats justs me, I do a hell of a alot of prep work. (and before you ask, yes I use both)

[Simon Gerrard]

I've done 7 jobs in a day with a TM and earned a small fortune doing it but wouldn't do it on a regualr basis as it's a one way ticket to the graveyard. Wouldn't even consider it possible to do the same amount of work in a day with a portable.
Sy

[mark_roberts]

Around September I do a lot of rental work where you can clean in 10+ different houses in the one street.  Anything from one room to 5 rooms.  Long hard days but relatively easy as theres little setup/down and driving.  Although 1-2 weeks of this is enough.

So moving this on a stage imagine if you could get a few neighbours to organise themselves to get their houses done on the same day.  Saves a lot of driving time and setting up time.  Offer a discount of course.

Anyone tried it.

MArk

[robert meldrum]

Like Roger I used to average around 7 jobs per day including suites..............highest productivety was the CFR which I loved to use................

Now 65 and in pretty poor physical condition ( nothing to do with c/c ) I can still manage three, or four jobs in a day. Not the big ones.

For example....................on Friday I cleaned a fabric suite, leather suite, fully carpeted two bed flat. Not sure I could handle that too often nowadays but was pretty easy even 10 years ago.

[COLIN BRIGHT]

sorry if i am not getting this
do you mean 9 carpets in a day or nine jobs ,at seperate locations, using a porty ina day?

[Darren O]

Most ive done in a day is 5 with a porty and that was enough.