[Simon Payne]

Hello all, I hav been asked before to provide ideas on pricing per sq ft, we have not found it easy to find information on this, I know some companies price two prices one for toilets, kitchens ect and one for offices, has anyone had experience of this ??

Help please with some guide ideas

Thank you

[Pristine Clean]

Hi Simon

We generally price per square feet.

On average but this does vary from company to company you should be looking at 1500 - 2000 square feet an hour.

If the office is open plan and neat and tidy and very easy to clean I would go with 2000 psf an hour. If its on 2 - 3 levels then this will slow you down considerably.

We have an office that is 1300 square feet exactly and it actually takes 1.5 to 2 hours to clean. Its over 3 floors. Small offices but lots of washing up in the kitchen and no dishwasher and you have to collect all the cups and and take them all to the 2nd floor where the kitchen is.

Now I will give another example we have another office that is 7000 square feet. We can complete in two hours. Simply because 1 floor is a huge boardroom of about 2500 square feet with a very long table and lots of chairs.

So you have to learn about the environment that you are cleaning as this will have a big impact on the time it takes to clean. 

If you quote for 1500 psf an hour over the telephone and then find out you quoted for a company that brings in muddy boots and leaves about 45 items to wash up by hand you may find you will have difficulty. So yes you have to compensate sometime for extra chores and the environment.

I hope this helps.

You can always email me and I will try to help as best as I can.

Dave
 

[Ian Gourlay]

Just curious on how you standardize the speed cleaners work.

[Pristine Clean]

Hi Ian,

Thats exactly the same as if a client asked you for an average time to clean a 4 bed house or 5000 square feet of low profile commercial carpet.

BICs has a book on how to work out timings on cleaning buildings.

We work on an average of 1500 square feet but that does depend on various things like floor coverings, what type of clean etc.

In the toilets its an average of 3-5 minutes per fitting.

Washing up varies especially if by hand -- most have dishwashers.

So in the end it comes down to experience. I will agree we have various production rates from staff. - If they are too slow then the Go!


Dave

[martin19842]

hi there

the big boys look for productivity rates anywhere from 2000sq ft per hour upwards, this will be on larger sites that have x number of operatives on them.  they will more than likely have ride on a pedestrian machines covering floors, and therefore productivity rates can rapidly increase depending on the machine being used.

small companies usually work on prod rates of say 1300sq ft through to 1800sq ft per hour,  the other factor that plays a part is that one operative on a site will clean at a dimishing prod rate if time on the site exceeds says 2 hours, therefore you need to consider that, instead of putting one operative on a site for 4 hours, split it 2 ops for 2 hours each.

costing work on a per sq ft basis, is a simple enough process, purely by allocating time to tasks, multiplied by area = times, x costs etc = rate charged.

regards

martin