[edward coller]

Hi guys, im a truckmounter with additional texatherm system. have a very good domestic customer who wants me to do their business offices. Tha polyprop glued down commercial carpeting is 20 years old, not too bad  condition but with various spots and obvious soiling on walkways.
Total area is 175sqmetres in average offices og 12sqmt.
would you HWE then pad to remove excess moisture, or primarily texatherm, or any other suggestions, and of course what sort of price would you experienced guys suggest.
Thanks Simon

[Mike Halliday]

Hi guys, im a truckmounter with additional texatherm system. have a very good domestic customer who wants me to do their business offices. Tha polyprop glued down commercial carpeting is 20 years old, not too bad  condition but with various spots and obvious soiling on walkways.
Total area is 175sqmetres in average offices og 12sqmt.
would you HWE then pad to remove excess moisture, or primarily texatherm, or any other suggestions, and of course what sort of price would you experienced guys suggest.
Thanks Simon

What's the access like?  Is it a ground floor? If you can get the TM  close then I would HWE.   all depends on the logistics of the job, same goes for the price with the access details it's hard to work out a price.

[edward coller]

thanks Mike, access vgood, 90% ground floor offices will be unstaffed when we do it. Concerned about drying using hwe as such low profile,  presume you feel that would do better job. Would you dry pad after, or is this ineffective. Thanks Simon. Im thinking around 700 plus vat,any thoughts.

[Simon Gerrard]

Simon,
If it is 20 years old then it certainly needs to hwse'd because it will need a restoration clean, you can think about other methods next time around.
Depending on the soling you could use a combination cleaning process.
Prespray, then (if you think it needs it - you find that out by extracting it and look at the result) run over it with a striped pad, then extract with plenty of drying passes and then dry pad it afterwards.
£700 sounds a bit steep to me, depends on how much you want the job.

Simon

[Radek Jablonski]

How you charge your domestics per meter ? As 4 pounds plus vat is quite much.
Most you will see 2-3 per sqm.
This saturday I am doing commercial for 3 euros (not pound) per sqm that comes to 700 euros.

[gwrightson]

Simon,
If it is 20 years old then it certainly needs to hwse'd because it will need a restoration clean, you can think about other methods next time around.
Depending on the soling you could use a combination cleaning process.
Prespray, then (if you think it needs it - you find that out by extracting it and look at the result) run over it with a striped pad, then extract with plenty of drying passes and then dry pad it afterwards.
£700 sounds a bit steep to me, depends on how much you want the job.


I   would say £700 is a bit steep,  £4.00 a sq mtr.  Who get that on commercial, certainly not me.

Have you measured correctly ? 4 sq mtr offices are pretty small .

Geoff

Simon

[Neil Jones]

Did one tonight. £3 per sq mt.
Encapped it all then went over main walkways and seating areas, door entrances etc with micro splitter and HWE and dry padded after. Jobs a good en.

Will be sending an email in the morning offering discount if they sign up to a 6 monthly clean, if they do I will be buying a Cimex and encapping it all.

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

Is 175sqm a large office job?

If it is then god help me because I have over 400000 sqft of offices to do in December!   

[Hilton]

Over 37,000 sq mts  now that is a job.

The largest we did was 35,000 sq mts over 6 floors took us a week and we charged £32000 or 90p a sq mt plus £500 for materials,parking etc. and that was 20 years ago or so I bet that price has not changed by much at today's figures.We had a rival company that I knew well at the time go in with a price of £1.50 a sq mt  , we heard after the highest quote they had was £2.50 they were never going to get it at that price.,has to be said the work it's self is very easy, sea of flat synthetic tiles on level floors so why people go in with silly prices is beyond me..

The cost for them to replace the Heuga tiles at the time was around £500,000 so it was a no brainer.Today that cost as an estimate around £1.5 million.

A lot of money in this work, if you can get it, so well done you.

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

It's not one building thankfully.  It's 3 large buildings at about 100000 sqft each and another about 60000 sqft and also a few smaller jobs. Just booked a large Altro floor job in this morning and domestic jobs looking good so December is looking great. Just need this bloody rain to stop! Not had much luck at Christmas, workers tend to get ill conveniently over xmas but determined to make the most of December and I have been really organised for once 

[edward coller]

Thanks for all the help guys appreciate it. Im not desperatly keen on the job as domestic is where my experience is at, the owners of the biz are good domestic customers so want to keep them happy if poss. Thank you guys and Happy Cleaning to you all. Simon

[Simon Gerrard]

You should give it a go, it's all experience and it's good money too.

Simon

[Ian Harper]

you already at a disadvantage as you have cleaned his home. I find most men will work out what an hour you charge and estimate what it will take you to clean his office. thats why he has asked you because you already have the job if you price what he expects.

[Hilton]

I would have thought it's the complete opposite he has a distinct 'advantage' having cleaned at the guys home, obviously he is impressed enough and happy with the work and charges to ask him to estimate his place of business.

[clive ware]

Yep - I was going to say the same.

[Ian Harper]

Edward hope this helps