[Jonny jones]

hi ive been offered  a contract to clean static caravans at a local caravan parc, what should i charge per caravan, and how long will it take to do one caravan so i can organise staff there is about fifty on site please help.
can i make money out of this?

 

[Jan K]

Hi!

I live down in sunny Plymouth, holiday heaven part of the world!  The contracted caravan cleaners down here make a fortune, but you have to watch the staff as they tend to slip into lazy mode....and in fact they have been known not to clean at all and just sit drinking tea and watching TV......they all get caught out in the end and there is a high turnaround of contractors

Good luck tho

Jan

[Mike_Boxall]

I don't think there will be a 'standard' price per caravan. I expect it's much like any other pricing whereby it can go from one extreme to another.

What tasks do they expect you to do? What sort of facilities do they have in these caravans. One would assume you have to vacuum (or do they all have hard floors nowadays?), dust, spot wipe surfaces, clean the bathroom and cooking appliances and do the windows.

Carrying cleaning materials and equipment from one caravan to another will take a certain amount of time. My guess would be that it should take about half an hour each for 2 people. Some would do them in 20 minutes and others may take 40 depending on how good / bad they are (caravans and staff!).

You're obviously at an advantage because you say you've already been offered the contract. If I were you I'd tell the customer that you may be forced to take on the existing staff under the TUPE regulations and you need to know how many staff currently do it, how many hours they work and what they get paid. From then you can estimate how long it currently takes and then work on pricing without risking over or under estimating the whole job.

Regards

Mike

[CMS]

I would charge by the foot!.......and probably about 40 pence per foot.

i.e. a 26 foot caravan would be charged at £10.40 and would take an hour to clean. A thirty foot van would be charged at £12.00 and would probably have an extra tiny bedroom and would therefore take about 1 hr and 10 mins.

I would have thought that vacuuming carpets would be enough but I would have a carpet cleaner on site to deal with any 'emergencies' (chargeable as an extra).

I would imagine that the biggest problem would be the logistics of getting it done within the cleaning window. Most sites ask visitors to check out by 11 am and new visitors to check in from 2 pm. Therefore you have three hours to clean 50 vans.

At an average of an hour per van you would need 17/18 staff!!

Good luck.

[Jonny jones]

cheers thats great help i must go to see the people first and the site
i dont think that i can get such a big staff as 17 - 18, it depends if they are allready there,  i had a hint from the person that offered it to go to about 15 per van.

thanx jonny

[anne]

hi   what normally happens with caravan sites is depending on what type of caravan you have   you check out at 10 am  and can check in anytime between 2pm and 4pm      so if you have a bronze caravan you leave at 10am     and cant check in til 4 pm....if you have gold   you leave at 11pm but can check in a 2pm     so cleaners tend to have a mixture of these so they have between 10am and 4pm to clean them    and prices are usually  between £11 and £15....   depending on caravans again as some need the beds making and others dont................i know this as i was given inside information once     but i still couldnt take the contract on as i couldnt get enough drivers as i was fairly new to it all...........so roll on the next offer !  hope this helps

[nlaservices]

I know the feeling, I was offered a good contract some time back, but could not get the staff, the price then was about £14.00 per van, there was some three hundred vans on site and at any one time you would clean a third a week. but £1400 a week and could not get enough staff, also bear in mind that most of the work is done on a friday or saturday.
offerring top hourly rate of seven pound per hour only got four replys to job advert.

So before you accept anything make sure you have enough staff available and plenty of time yourself.
If you get it right there is good profit to be made. get it wrong and you are in trouble.

 

[clifford]

hi, i have a few caravan parks that i do and one is a 5* site and obviously u have to clean to a high standard!nobody wants to pay 3-4 hundred pound for a weeks holiday to have a dirty caravan,i find that when u are working out a price structure u want to estimate that it will take u at least an houtr per caravan but work it out it will take u an hour and a half to allow yourself extra time.i charge £15 per caravan and pay my staff 6.50 an hour with a bonus if they deserve it ::)believe me when i tell u that u need an onsite foreman to watch over them as i have caught people watching tv,drinking tea,and even using the bed to there advantage if u know what i mean.caravans are a good thing to have but u have always got to be on ya toes!a caravan park will not hesitate to sack u for a cheaper quote unless they are getting quality for there money.hope this helps
cliff