Exactly what I thought. Some people’s estimates are plain wrong. That being said only you know your business running costs, travel time etc and what your targets are to stay afloat so each to their own.
Green your thoughts sound most similar to mine. There will be travel time involved as even though we have a round in the area this house is too big to simply be an addition to that round. We do £15 for the average 3 bed semi on maintenance cleans & i reckon water usage would be about the same as 4 semis including the back and sides so you sound like you’re in the right field. Sorry to bore everyone, i just thought i’d ask as haven’t been hitting the nail on the head with larger properties. we are do used to doing semis and small detached that sometimes it just seems alien to me. Always end up using more water and spending more time there than i anticipate. thanks for your responses it is nice to know what different people think.
The problem we have on here is you have people that are fortunate in having a full round and are looking to add cream to it. Whereas the people asking for advice probably need the job and are inexperienced at pricing biggish jobs. I can't see how that job, unless it's all glass at the back, could take an experienced WF Poler an hour to do. Now my target price is £30 an hour, even on very lucrative commercial jobs I can get £60 an hour. Can't see how £100 is realistic
I'm originally from Jersey. Per capita in the UK it dont get much more affluent than that.
Im looking at that as 2 - 3 bed semis. My home is a 3 bed detached and has exactly half the glass on the front of that.
Ok dude [emoji106] you were right when you said 90 minutes first clean, and an hour maintenance. Maybe i am slightly slower wfp than others as i’m a backpacker and have to take a minute to wheel/fill from tanks. But thats just our business model which i dont feel like changing. Also, some of us work faster than others i’m guessing. When i’m actually cleaning, i reckon i’m 20% faster than my brother on maintenance cleans, he is very thorough, but we don’t get any grumbles and people are happy so i’d rather leave him to it & not change what he’s doing as it’s his business as much as mine. And i restore as i go whereas others take that in to a completely different category. Not that theres much restoration involved on the front as its all brown pvc, but on the back i think its all whites from what i can see from the sky. so the magic sponges & cream cleaner + ubik will more than likely come out
To me, the top left window is £3. There's 3 single rectangle windows, £1 a pop. Go across the house there's roughly 30 ish rectangles, so £30 give or take.
Yeah i hear what you’re saying fella. It sounds completely the opposite to things our end. People are more than happy to pay £15 for a semi here, if they have multiple velux windows, small connies, double sets of large patio doors etc sometimes £25. But at the other end of the scale, people in larger detached houses aren’t so ready to part, and more often than not i find that they expect to pay the same as what a semi would be. The medium seems to be the good here. Nothing too low but not too high either. We were winning all work based at £30 an hour, also won 80% of work based on £35 an hour. £40 is risky round here.
I'm not easily offended so no worries... To me, I can clean a lounge carpet in under an hour for £80. Do 4 jobs a day on average that's £320 being indoors without weather restrictions and a nice cuppa. Less travel, no water bill or electric, just the product we use. Or, an average house at £15/20 say 16 times a day... To us, there's other and in some ways better work out there so we're able to take a take it at that price or leave it stance. We have one house that's £108 per clean every 4 weeks, the customer thought it was a steal! In the words of captain Jack sparrow, take what you can and give nothing back!
Yeah i know there’s money in carpet cleaning, our carpet cleaner does very well i reckon. He deserves it though, works some hours. Starts on the commercial about 6 am, then goes domestic from 8-5 and then hes back on the commercial til 10pm sometimes. Does it 6 or 7 days a week as well he is a machine. We literally see him everywhere. Sometimes hell be walking out of a house as we show up to clean the windows its hilarious. He said he gets lonely and im not surprised lol. I dont think he’s a stranger to £400 days but maybe he’s trying to earn for two? I have no idea if his wife works but theyve just bought a new house & renovated it so i imagine they have big outgoings. Anyways, thanks all for the input. Midnight is way past my time zzz
