[Gavin Reardon]

Hi All

I did a carpet protection job yesterday, the carpet had just been laid so all I had to do was sray and go. I did the job and handed the customer the bill he replyed "thanks ever so much the carpet company wanted more than twice this!!)    

It costs me 36p per sm for the product plus other costs etc so I charge £1.50 plus vat per sm. I still made a very good profit for twenty minutes work,    but could not belive this big household name could get away with charging £3.50 per sm 

What do you guys charge?

Regards Gavin

[John_Flynn]

£1.75 sq yd, but I would have sprayed with water first.

[mark_roberts]

What protector are you using?

MArk

[Doug Holloway]

Gavin,

Between £2 and £2.50 depending on area.

Cheers,

Doug

[strakercleaning]

I use SoluGard and charge £3 a sq m, reduced by 20% if applied at the same time as a clean.
I do not charge for re applying next time i clean the items though. As we know, Solutions will not remove the protection so all is needed is a top up. Customers love that they only have to pay once as those that had ScotchGard in the past, had to pay again after each clean.

[Adrian Makel]

2 pounds a square metre.

[HolmansUKLTD]

Sologard at £2.50 or £3.00 plus 12mounths free stain removal and a free stain removal kit.

Beat that Straker

[strakercleaning]

Already have................same price without running round for nothing each time they spill something 
Thats why I sell them a No3 or No5 spotter for £9.95  :
 Look forwards and UPwards Mr Holman 

[Kevin_Gare]

Hi Gavin

£3.00/£3.50 per sq mtr and thats Scotchgard.


See yer Kevin

[HolmansUKLTD]

smart ass

[strakercleaning]

Kevin,
Not that Scotchgard stuff that was taken off the market and lets stuff soak in within a minute or two 

[Len Gribble]

Nick

Not that smart!  I sell for £9.99 always get keep the change, pennies make pounds and the pounds the wife looks after!


Chris

Yes but it’s called branding (Joe polish take note it dose work)

Len

[strakercleaning]

Len,
At £9.95 I rarely have to give change, that means i get a 5 pence tip 

Less effort and more reward............................greedy and lazy  :
Prefer to call it 'conserving energy' and 'excellent value' 

Is it possible the 3M stands for the reaction when called back to a stain.............................MMM, thats not supposed to happen, MMM

[Len Gribble]

Chris

But in some cases I’m £o.o4 in front

Another trick I always add gratuities to the bill restaurants do it so do I!

Nice one about the 3m’s come on kev would like to know you must have a Q card to read from.

Mine would be so you want a chieftain tank that will be £12m thank you very much! But it is not nuke proof!

Len

[strakercleaning]

Would the 3M product be able to seal the carpet bowl for 4 days, as did Solugard ??

[Kevin_Gare]

As with most of the post's on this Forum there are the knockers and thats most of the membership. All get on the band wagon and knock. If most of you spent the time that you do on this forum on your busniess you would not have time to moan.

You use what you think works for you and what is the trade name of the moment and let the people how have been in the game a little bit longer than most of you get on with what has made alot of people that was in the 3M network very happy with the returns.......
And yes it does work, Your're not appling it right, thats where training comes in.

Thats what being in a network is all about.. Watch this space??

Happy spraying
Kevin

Sorry got out of the wrong side of the bed today been a bad week in more ways than one.

[HolmansUKLTD]

You may not do all the running around I do Chris but it keeps me in the customers mind, reciprecation is the word im looking for nearly every time i give a free stain removal they ask me to price something else so it works

Anyway Chris you have been trading a lot longer than me when im your age i would have built a big business by then and retire not STILL scrubbing carpets and helping people with their alergys

See ya OLD boy

[strakercleaning]

Kevin, Not knocking ScothGard as i used to carry out work for John & Linda Lodge, who you know, just asking as i last heard it was removed from the market 

Nick, You wont make it to my age so spend it now 

[HolmansUKLTD]

STRAKERS BACK

[strakercleaning]

Trying to do tiling in bathroom and popping next door to pc every 10 minutes.  :