[mark_roberts]

JandS

The cowboy I was refering to are those who do poor Quality work and dont care regardless of the price they charge.

If you do great work then great but i dont see how anyone can run a good business AND make good money and charge £70 for a suite which takes two hours.  Just my opinion.

Having said that your newish to the game so time will build confidence to charge more which you deserve.

Upholstery cleaning is back breaking work.  If I could Id charge £300 for a suite.

Mark

[Ricky M]

Clinton By Ek ya got sites now 

[yorky]

JandS

The cowboy I was refering to are those who do poor Quality work and dont care regardless of the price they charge.

If you do great work then great but i dont see how anyone can run a good business AND make good money and charge £70 for a suite which takes two hours.  Just my opinion.

Having said that your newish to the game so time will build confidence to charge more which you deserve.

Upholstery cleaning is back breaking work.  If I could Id charge £300 for a suite.

Mark

All depends on your overheads in the end. It costs very little in solutions. I would say up this way the average for an independant is £70 a suite.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Where you from Yorkie?

Mark I think you need some fitness training I don't find that upholstery is physically challenging or back breaking more of harder to sell for the work and risks involved compared to the ease of carpet cleaning.

Shaun

[derek west]

got to agree with shaun

this cleaning lark is a doddle.

[yorky]

Where you from Yorkie?

Mark I think you need some fitness training I don't find that upholstery is physically challenging or back breaking more of harder to sell for the work and risks involved compared to the ease of carpet cleaning.

Shaun

I'm north of Glasgow. I charge £110-120 but still lose a lot at that price. Franchise set ups are charging between £80-130 with the independants anythihg from £50-90.

I don't know of a single cleaner that charges more than that for an average suite without protectant. I would love to get £160 per suite and don't mind the work but I can't get near that price without the conversion rate hitting the floor.

[clinton]

Ricky

Were getting all mod cons up here just ask shaun

Thats cheap for a franchise to clean for prices starting at 80 pounds..

[Hilton]

We charge £35.00

£35 per seat 

[garyhumphreys]

£30 - £35 per seat. Any less and you're mugging yourselves.

[derek west]

i'm mugging my self

[yorky]

£30 - £35 per seat. Any less and you're mugging yourselves.

Never going to happen in Scotland. The Scots are far too tight.

[Ken Wainwright]

Does the customer buy?

Or does the businessman sell?

Safe and happy cleaning
The Ken

[derek west]

bitta both innit ken 

[yorky]

Does the customer buy?

Or does the businessman sell?

Safe and happy cleaning
The Ken

Both, and trust me we all do our best up here but it's a funny market and I don't know of anyone who manages to achieve those prices (and I know a lot of people).

I think if enough cleaners managed to get the average up things would be easier, but when the average is so low you are totally out on a limb with those prices. My local Servicemaster is £80.
Great if you get it but the real world in my area is different.

[robert meldrum]

Presume from your comment Yorky you're a " white settler "or you would know from travelling abroad which countrymen are regarded as tightest with their cash. A clue....... within the UK and south of Hadrian's wall.

[yorky]

Presume from your comment Yorky you're a " white settler "or you would know from travelling abroad which countrymen are regarded as tightest with their cash. A clue....... within the UK and south of Hadrian's wall.

Ye we Yorkshiremen are just as bad 

[colin thomas]

j & s, that seems very low to me also but i suppose it depends a bit on your area  and how you sell yourself to the customer. i am daan saath so perhaps my customers have a bit more lolly to spend but to be honest i don't really like cleaning furniture, unlike shaun i think they are hard work, it sometimes feels like i've done 10 rounds with ricky hatton when i finish a big old beast of a suite, i charge around £140 every time, if they don't like that price, fine, use someone else.  

colin

[davep]

But if they do use someone else, say at £100 are they earning more than you while you are sitting at home?  How many a week do you that charge £30+ per seat get through?

[JandS]

There's at least 5 other cc's within a 5 mile radius of me, a Rainbow and a Chemdry as well.
The other 5 all charge between £60 and £80 so banging my price up above the £100 mark
is just a no brainer.
Don't know what the 2 franchises charge, in fact might give them a ring.

John

[yorky]

There's at least 5 other cc's within a 5 mile radius of me, a Rainbow and a Chemdry as well.
The other 5 all charge between £60 and £80 so banging my price up above the £100 mark
is just a no brainer.
Don't know what the 2 franchises charge, in fact might give them a ring.

John

I would guess around the £125- £130 mark for your area.