[Mrs Nicholls]

hi
we have been asked to quote for some holiday cottages.
saturday change overs, could be 1 2 or all 3 at one time.

we have 10.30am-3.30pm to get them to 4 star sparking standards.

anyone have any ideas of the best way to price this as it is a new type of clean for us.

we were thinking just £? per hour for the total time 10.30-3.30 per sat, or should we charge per cottage?

thanks
Lisa

[Art]

Charge a set amount per cottage

[Mrs Nicholls]

what sort of bracket should i be aiming for? should i charge higher than my everyday domestics, as it is a higher standard in some ways?

[shelton]

Hi Lisa,

We had a similar situation a few weeks ago, where a regular domestic custy asked us to look after her holiday let in Sandbanks, Poole.

It's a changeover once a week (sometimes once a fortnight).  When pricing, we considered the location of the place (as Sandbanks is sometimes a pain to get to at the weekend) as well as the work/time constraints.

We ended up charging our regular hourly rate + 50% which she was happy with.  Upon reviewing it, there's not a great deal of work and she has regular customers each year, all of which are respectable & elderly and therefore unlikely to have wild parties!

I agree it's a difficult one and we, maybe, were helped by already having a relationship with our customer so we knew what would/would not be acceptable.