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[Williams Jet Wash]

View attachment 6731 Hey all neighbour of mine has asked me for a quote to do all the path around his home he has a fair paid and I've been round to measure up I'm getting 120m2 do you give breakdown on quote staying 120m =£240 or do you just say to include all pathways around home =£240and let them wonder how you got to that figure? Thanks in advance JakeView attachment 6728

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[Green Pro Clean Ltd]

I keep the equations to myself.

If I tell them the math they can call the next firm and before they even come out they are asking ' can you better £2 per meter?'

 

[SPCleaning]

I would just give the figure. I have never given the workings.

 

[mark]

quote what you are happy with,thats a fair price

 

[Williams Jet Wash]

Thanks all I'm just going to go with a price and keep workings to myself

 

[Williams Jet Wash]

handed my neighbour his quote and had no reply /emoticons/sad.png i wonder will he hold on to this for while and get in touch out the blue /emoticons/sad.png

 

[Taxlossloz]

£240 ? Seems overpriced to me

There's nowt to it

 

[Williams Jet Wash]

No outside tap- 120sqm2 equals 240

 

[aceman]

£240 ? Seems overpriced to meThere's nowt to it

Is £2 a square meter not the going rate then?

 

[mark]

hes lost out then,some of the people are muppets

 

[Ben23]

someone will always do it cheaper (and generally worse, slower and with sub standard equipment and experience) its great when you get the job but it isn't going to happen every time. I charge a similar rate and often higher depending on the access, water availability and general state (is there loads of furniture etc to move). £240 is perfectly acceptable for 120m2

 

[Williams Jet Wash]

someone will always do it cheaper (and generally worse, slower and with sub standard equipment and experience) its great when you get the job but it isn't going to happen every time. I charge a similar rate and often higher depending on the access, water availability and general state (is there loads of furniture etc to move). £240 is perfectly acceptable for 120m2

Yeah i doubt anybody local will go there with no running water or will be a pain of a job supplying own water- never know some people are laid back an leave it a week or 2 before ringing back either way I've forgotten this job and moving on to the next one!!

 

[Ben23]

yeah I've had a couple of people pass me over latley and one or two come back to me after a couple of weeks, you know the score, its best to know your worth/what you aim to make in order to make the job worthwhile than to go in cheap and make next to nothing after expenses. nothing worse than being known as the "cheap" option as it attracts the hagglers and non payers

 

[sllab]

I tend to put lots of quotes out there at what I would be happy with and then just leave them. I charge £2+ a meter to clean + hypo + re-sand where applicable and people seem to be accepting it. 2 quotes in the £500 range accepted this week + a tennis court cleaning at 1k+ accepted + someone wants me to quote chem and hose off a resin drive to go with their already £1300 quote for other works.

All a consistent £2+ /m and all getting accepted and booked in.

 

[sllab]

yeah I've had a couple of people pass me over latley and one or two come back to me after a couple of weeks, you know the score, its best to know your worth/what you aim to make in order to make the job worthwhile than to go in cheap and make next to nothing after expenses. nothing worse than being known as the "cheap" option as it attracts the hagglers and non payers

I think the worst thing you can do in most cases is compete on price. You will get a higher value of work + a higher pay rate + higher customer retention if you compete on service and the standard of workmanship. This is the difference between you having a job and having a business.

 

[Williams Jet Wash]

Well said... I do want to be know as the premium service in my area

 

[Ben23]

Absolutley, cheap = desperate! I always aim to get the work but never waver on price, also theres a lot of ways to give an edge to your business that promotes the quality of your work, proper written quote forms, logo'd shirts/apparel, signwritten van etc. all these go a long way to show your a professional and not just a cowboy with a pressure washer in the back of his van making sums up out of thin air. for instance if you needed a wall plastering, would you use some guy whose knocking doors in his vest and jeans or would you go with the person who is traceable (contact details on quote forms, business card, invoice) looks like he knows what he is doing and has a portfolio of previous work he can show you? (I had a load of before and after pictures of various surfaces made up on a4 photo paper laminated and stored in a folder for those customers who dont have access to facebook/elderly people) I know who I would book regardless of wether I could get it done cheaper /emoticons/smile.png

 

[aceman]

I'm just looking to get started with patio/ driveway cleaning so learning as much as I can. My thought was also £2psm for say patios/ pathways but was thinking more for block paving to include going back to resand?

Is it just say an extra £1psm to include resanding?

 

[aceman]

I think the worst thing you can do in most cases is compete on price. You will get a higher value of work + a higher pay rate + higher customer retention if you compete on service and the standard of workmanship. This is the difference between you having a job and having a business.

Good post.

I apply the same ethic to my window cleaning business and will look to do the same in this market (if I ever pluck up the balls to actually let loose with it - don't remember proscrastinating so much when I went into the windows?!)

 

[Williams Jet Wash]

Any suggestions on quality sealants as alternative to resiblock and smart seal?

 

[sllab]

I'm just looking to get started with patio/ driveway cleaning so learning as much as I can. My thought was also £2psm for say patios/ pathways but was thinking more for block paving to include going back to resand? Is it just say an extra £1psm to include resanding?

I do £0.5/m to re-sand. a wide broom, decent weather, a dry surface and a leaf blower and you can get it done really quick. still making £50+ an hour to do it. Especially if you don't take much sand out in the first place.