[Simon Wilbraham]

Hi,
I have been asked to price up cleaning of approx 160m2 of pub carpet.
No chewing gum or blacktop but chairs and tables are required to be moved.
Any advice on price per m2 or would you just go in for a set day (or night rate) as the case may be?
Thanks in advance.
Simon

[stuart_clark]

Simon
I would charge between £350-400 insist on cash and would probably crack it off in 2-3 hours some would say that is too cheap but that's what I would charge

Stuart

[Simon Wilbraham]

Hi Stuart,
Would that be totally hwe with a quick bonnet over to dry?
How many man team would that be for 2/3 hours?
Thanks.
Simon

[John Kelly]

A pub with no chewing gum, are you sure, didn't think such a thing existed. My record was 350 pieces @50p.

[Simon Wilbraham]

A pub with no chewing gum, are you sure, didn't think such a thing existed. My record was 350 pieces @50p.

I know I was shocked as well!
It was probably all attached to the underneath of the tables but I am not concerned about them! :-)

[Hilton]

A pub with no chewing gum, are you sure, didn't think such a thing existed. My record was 350 pieces @50p.

50p to do 350 pieces of gum .....may as well have done it for free.

[Lewis Newby]

Dont underestimate time spent moving the tables and chairs, and the logistics of moving them.
All to one side and clean then swap over is great but sometimes this isnt possible which can greatly slow you down.

I did an indian restaurant recently and the gum was all disguised under the dirt. A quick swing of the rotary with spm uncovered around 20 dabs of gum id missed on the quote, a free curry for mrs and me and I called it even

[John Kelly]

50p per piece, did that hoping the brewery would just say don't bother but they went with it anyway. That was on top of the cleaning charge. Absolute ball ache.
I remember speaking to a lad a while ago who did his first pub and didn't notice the chewing gum as it was black the same as the carpet. Then he cleaned it and all these shiney white blobs appeared.

[Hilton]

Had a similar situation with an Odeon cinema cleaned the carpets and hundreds of gum spots appeared , they said we had to remove them as part of the cleaning quote and we said no chance.....the manager threatened we would never work for Odeon again
but he did not have the the authority any way  to make such a call.

The did eventually replace us with a foreign out fit who cleaned carpets for nothing (seriously) if it was a 10 screen cinema they only charged for 8, if it was 6 screen only charged for 4 etc.

We saw them attempt to clean a carpet without the vacs on, it was brilliant the carpet was saturated and they could not understand why.

[derikraven]

Simon
I would charge between £350-400 insist on cash and would probably crack it off in 2-3 hours some would say that is too cheap but that's what I would charge

Stuart

                      I wish I could earn up to £200 per hour cleaning a carpet

[stuart_clark]

Its hardly £200 per hour ! £133 -£160 per hour which is nowt for a pub

[Mike Halliday]

Errr no ....... it is £200/hr if you do ( as you say)  charge £400 and do it in 2hrs

[homenclean]

If you can get that then good luck to you but I guarantee they won't stick with you at those prices the pub trade is on its arse and someone will under cut you in a breath I'd be happy at £240 paid in cash on completion, pubs are generally an easy clean if you know what you are doing. We have 4 pub chains we work for and love doing them because they are always amazed St the result. War charge extra for gum removal. Do my local pub £150.00 takes me 2.5 hours every 3 months and another local pub/restaurant takes a morning including main track of 4 bedrooms £265.00. I don't think that's bad money but again I am there every 6 to 8 weeks but the place is quite high end.

Joni

[stuart_clark]

Errr no Mr Haliday
I said two to three hours ! ! Not two hours

[stuart_clark]

I made a very easy £450 this morning, cash in hand 50 sq mts of carpet tiles and about same of lino/ thermo plastic floor clean and four coats of seal , started at 9am finished a little before 12.00
I would rather do optical practices like that any day tnan a filthy pub, I didn't even break into a sweat

Stuart

[Mike Halliday]

I know... 2-3 hrs,  so if you do it in 2hrs then £200.

by saying  2-3hrs you are saying the job could take anytime between 2hrs & 3hrs, if there in not the possibility doing it in 2 hrs why use a starting point of 2hrs?

[stuart_clark]

Well Mike, as I said in my reply above yours, I would far rather clean an office or a shop or even a sheltered complex than clean a pub ! Think ive only cleaned about 6 pubs in the last 12 months,  I do regular comercials where I regularly earn £200 -£250 per hour, but I dont go looking for pubs, there is fare easier and more lucritive work out there

Stuart

[Neil Jones]

I've never seen so many willys waved it's unbelivable.

We need some females over here. Home Clean nailed it. Charge what your business requires to make a profit and grow, not listen to what other people are (so called) charging all over the country.

[stuart_clark]

I cleaned a pub early march this year, there was no furniture and gum that I saw, it was 100% polyprop BW I used my Cimex with boosted DS2

I charged £375 it took me three hours to clean

[Radek Jablonski]

Neil, well said.

Stuart you are doing 3 bedroom houses for around 110-120. I say you would ask for maks. 300 for these 160m2, 400 is showing off.