[Simon Gerrard]

Yeah, I think there's a good bit of exaggeration for reasons of bravado going on from the few that seem determined to tell us all how much they are charging / earning. Personally I think it is a mistake to mention job prices on a public forum, you never know who's looking in.
Anyway, I've got to go, I've got three full houses at £650 each to do before lunch and then an office to do  for £2101.00 by tea time, all on my own with a Rug Doctor, coz I'm that good.

Simon

[Billy Russell]

Yeah, I think there's a good bit of exaggeration for reasons of bravado going on from the few that seem determined to tell us all how much they are charging / earning. Personally I think it is a mistake to mention job prices on a public forum, you never know who's looking in.
Anyway, I've got to go, I've got three full houses at £650 each to do before lunch and then an office to do  for £2101.00 by tea time, all on my own with a Rug Doctor, coz I'm that good.

Simon

Don't forget to put your rotary in as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Simon Gerrard]

Oh yeah, sorry, the rotary - we charge £2 per rotation for it, plus vat 

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Just as a matter of interest, with all these prices being tossed around, do all the contributors mean they are charging these figures plus VAT or are these figures inclusive of VAT?

 I appreciate that the answer will probably be different for each contributor but it does have a significant bearing on how an impartial reader of the thread may interpret the prices quoted and in comparing the different contributors quotes.

Rog

[Simon Gerrard]

Rog,
It's plus vat at an exaggerated rate of 32.75%

[Billy Russell]

Rog,
It's plus vat at an exaggerated rate of 32.75%

Simon,

Your on a roll this morning!!!!!!!!! Did you have your weetabix this morning? 

[M.Acorn]

Only 2 jobs today  first £131.00  2nd only £45.as it's just a rug,knocked a bit off as I am doing the entire house in the week,and the rug will be going with the removal men,so needs doing first .

Thing that makes me laugh,these 2000 ft+ jobs,they must be paying close to 2 grand a month to rent the place,so even £560 is a small amount when compared to that,I got the reply,oh we don't want to pay much,we are only renting !! Don't make sense to me

[Simon Gerrard]

Billy,
No, mate in had 16 shredded wheat with 6 pints of milk in 4 bowls and answered the phone and booked in another £500 job while still eating

[Helen]

Only 2 jobs today  first £131.00  2nd only £45.as it's just a rug,knocked a bit off as I am doing the entire house in the week,and the rug will be going with the removal men,so needs doing first .

Thing that makes me laugh,these 2000 ft+ jobs,they must be paying close to 2 grand a month to rent the place,so even £560 is a small amount when compared to that,I got the reply,oh we don't want to pay much,we are only renting !! Don't make sense to me

Could be because it's not their own property

[Helen]

Just as a matter of interest, with all these prices being tossed around, do all the contributors mean they are charging these figures plus VAT or are these figures inclusive of VAT?

 I appreciate that the answer will probably be different for each contributor but it does have a significant bearing on how an impartial reader of the thread may interpret the prices quoted and in comparing the different contributors quotes.

Rog

I would hope that the figures would not include the vat, as the contributer who puts gross price up is only fooling himself.
Should only talk in nett figures when discussing earnings
But hey that's just me

[Steve Rothwell]

Very weird. I had a call from an American (are they all going home?) 2300 sq/ft and got it at £989.00
It'll be empty so should get it done in a day

think they are all going to Cambridge they have heard that the carpet cleaners there are cheap..... 

[Neil Williams]

think they are all going to Cambridge they have heard that the carpet cleaners there are cheap..... 

Well nearly all of them

I had a classic phone call this afternoon. It was something along the lines of they had had a quote from someone who quoted £250 for a 3 bed 3 storey town house. Then when they said it was EOT he stuck the price up to £350 and that was the end of their business association
I've said I'll do it for £220 but I'm not holding my breath on it.

[simbo]

well maybe its just me but what a load of crap is talked on here!! £600 quid for a days graft is a joke 99% of customers would laugh in your face and the other 1% must be like trying to find rocking horse poop. Its just carpet cleaning nothing more nothing less it can be cleaned well very well cheaply, in fact i would be bored to death dragging jobs out to justify such silly prices, specialised cleaning and stain removal etc more skill needed but most customers could not care less. Maybe i should move area no reccesion in cloud cookoo land.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Simbo I have done a few £600+ domestic carpet cleaning jobs okay they aren't the norm but they do come along, some a recommend and some are new customers many are just moving in to include upholstery.

Shaun

[Simon Gerrard]

Take no notice of them they are just trying to impress us with their inflated job prices and volumes of work, when really they are sitting at home all day thinking up their next lofty tale. Amusing all the same  

[Steve Rothwell]

No need to give your trade secrets away Simon .......... 

 

[Billy Russell]

No need to give your trade secrets away Simon .......... 

 

ha ha ha 

[Simon Gerrard]

 

[The Great One]

Simbo I have done a few £600+ domestic carpet cleaning jobs okay they aren't the norm but they do come along, some a recommend and some are new customers many are just moving in to include upholstery.

Shaun

Same as Shaun, they happen but sadly not very often.

Did a hotel a few years back and was £400 for 200mSq of carpet, 4hrs.

Another was £685.00 for 4 hrs (£171.25 p/h) but again was a few years ago and liked the system so much they bought the thing themselves.

So yes they happen but infrequently.

Martin

[JandS]

And these inflated prices are just the reason
people shop around for prices.
Not that there's anything wrong with price
shopping, after all we all do it.
I've even had customers say they nearly
didn't ring anyone else after there first quote
because it was so high and they thought that
the price was the norm and unaffordable.
It's not just low prices that ruin this industry.

John