[dg-cleaning]

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[Scotbrite]

hi dg,
Don't know if it is any help to you but the company i work for does all retail cleaning contracts (most negotiated nationally region by region)and they tend to be priced at under £9 gross rate. Hope this helps,
Scotbrite

[Kevin White]

DG
Scotbrite is on the nose for the North East

[*Chris Browne]

under £9.00 ??.....How much would you pay your cleaners?

[brian@cov]

Hie guys I have just set up my cleaning bussiness, I have bought all the neccessities, for carpet cleaning,driveways, and offices.I dont even know how I can get my 1st contract even just a domestinc one.I have been emailing bussinesses around with a what I would term just starndard email and I havent got any responses yet.Can someone out there please help you can email me on ray@cov-elite-services.co.uk

[Mrs Nicholls]

Hi

We have 8 offices we clean, we popped in with a business card to 2 of them, and 6 months later had them signed up, these are 2 of our smaller contracts, the others hunted us down after they couldnt get in house staff to stick to the job, we were contacted via our website, and yell pages, yell.com

Our little contracts are worth between 23-24K without including supplies / consumables, we add these on as extra, with a bit of profit. plus we offer full laundry of tea towels at £15 per month.

I think we have been very lucky as these jobs have found us and not the other way around. we currently charge approx £9.50 per hour + consumables / supplies

Thanks
Lisa

[shelton]

As has often been stated, we don't actually disclose the hourly rate to our commercial customers.  We perform a site survey and then quote them a 4-weekly price, based on the number of visits they require - I think if we worked it out it would come in at around £15/hr, which is quite good.

Similar to Lisa, we received enquiries from our website (which is where all of our domestic enquiries come from too).

In fact, thinking about it, we've only ever paid for leaflets when we first started (and only actually dropped about 50 of them!).  All our advertising/marketing is via the website and we don't actually pay anything for that either!

[Bertie Boo]

I dont even know how I can get my 1st contract even just a domestinc one.

I'm not sure there is such a thing as a 'domestic contract' which is why i am always surprised when folk talk about 'selling' their domestic work or asking how much it is 'worth'.

All of my work is domestic (apart from the occasional one-off job that comes my way which may be for a business customer) and -in line with many domestic cleaning services- my work is all non-contractual and the repeat custom is due to a client being pleased with the work and not because of a binding contract.

Do any of you guys expect domestic clients to enter into a written contract of any sort? I dont mean terms and conditions,  i mean something they sign to say that they will take X amount of cleaning from you?

Stephen

[Mrs Nicholls]

We have a service agreement that new domestic clients sign.

its to ensure we agree on the service discussed and the fees.

It just says that they are signing up for a minimum of one month and if they decide to cancel services that we require 2 weeks notice.

All our customers have been more than happy to sign.

[brian@cov]

Bertie Boo I did not mean a domestic contract, I was just trying to say I have not even done one cleaning job, be it commercial or domestic since I registerd my company which I thought was the norm within the cleaning industry.I had no idea that I cld do it as a solo trader