honest?
would that take a day? Jim how long have you been cleaning for? are you in the south?
I'am lokking at cleaners in the north to get price examples, the papers round my area look very cheap compared to you but they do look crazy cuts prices thoogh.
Leeds in a good area I may look to advertising there.
S.
Totally honest! That'd be around 4-5 hours work for me with a portable set up. Plus VAT.
I'm in the midlands, a small-ish town with some affluent areas and half-decent rural prospects. I also have Corby on my patch, which is like an overgrown Glasgow council estate (they shipped all the jocks down there in the 50s and 60s to work at British Steel). I don't do much work in Corby itself but the peripheral parts are OK.
I've been going a while but nowhere near as long as some. However, don't get into the mindset that you can only charge cheap when you first start and then charge higher when you're established. As long as you are
properly trained and are providing
good value for money then charging premium prices is a no-brainer.
Absolutely IGNORE those bulls**t adverts, they are either con artists who have no intention of walking away with 10 quid for cleaning a carpet, or unfortunately they are in the other category. I think this is going to be a real problem for our industry over the next year or two... guys new to the game who are honest and want to do a good job, will see these ridiculous low prices advertised and think that this is the industry average.
They are going to start up charging the same or possibly a pound less.... but will be trying to do proper work for those prices and end up either going under or giving up on doing a proper job and become a cowboy like the others. They don't realise that the low price adverts are complete BS.
Don't think of what you earn in an hour as being your "wage" because it isn't. It'll take you a couple of years to fully realise just how much of that job price gets absorbed by your costs. If you can run at a 50% profit margin you're doing OK.