$ 2016 $

[Ron K]

2016 what are you raising your prices to?
Thinking of
20% per room.
.50 PSFT ORC
$25.oo Minimum Charge increase.
Not doing Upholstery anymore maybe. Seems to be a money loser.

 

[hogjowl]

50 jdb
0r 2.65%osm

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Raised our minimum $10 last year. Will hold the base the same and charge for some of the stuff we used to give away.

 

[ruff]

.......Not doing Upholstery anymore maybe. Seems to be a money loser.

and how about raising the price on upholstery cleaning so that it does allow you to make your "reasonable" hourly $.
There's no universal law, I'm aware of, that says it shouldn't.

Could it possibly be self imposed?

 

[Beeks]

similar to Lee...min charge is going up, and more firm on our pricing, less giving stuff away

 

[D Luke]

Not doing Upholstery anymore maybe. Seems to be a money loser.

Just thinking about that today actually. No furniture and for sure no vehicles.

 

[Jim Nelson]

No over the phone pricing. in home pricing only $25.00. Price going up from .65 to. $0.70 for cleaning, $1.01 for Cleaning & Teflon. No Furniture cleaning or moving .I will move one couch . More then that $10.00 ea. No more Min.

 

[Mikey P]

Raising our minimum $29 and the square ft .05 was incremental in an extra $60k this year..

 

[SamIam]

50 jdb
0r 2.65%osm

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JDB

what?

 

[Mike Draper]

At 8.99 per room people just dont want to seem to use me. I think I'm going to lower it to 7.99 a room to get the ball rolling.

 

[Kellie Hiler]

I raised our minimum charge $20 more, and have been slowly raising our sq. footage prices as well.

 

[hogjowl]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JDB

what?

I just figured I'd make up my own since many of you people post things that make sense only to yourselves.

 

[ruff]

No over the phone pricing. in home pricing only $25.00. Price going up from .65 to. $0.70 for cleaning, $1.01 for Cleaning & Teflon. No Furniture cleaning or moving .I will move one couch . More then that $10.00 ea. No more Min.

Nice Jim and impressive prices.
Just curious:
No over the phone pricing in home pricing only.- Why? Is that due to prices being high which may require the personal touch of in home estimate?

$25.00??

Price going up from .65 to. $0.70 for cleaning, $1.01 for Cleaning & Teflon. That's a very nice price, glad to hear that you can get it.
No Furniture cleaning- If you can get that price for carpet cleaning, how come not for upholstery, or do you just hate cleaning upholster?

No more Min.- Why?

 

[SamIam]

Fortunatley I live in the microfiber capitol of the world not a lot of real high end stuff, did a couple silk chairs for the mayor.

Seriously I raised my minimum $10, to $85, woohoo, and my per room pricing increased $5.00

Will run a 10 percent off across the board for Jan, feb.
then 10% off on a $100 or more spent for all repeats the rest of the year.
we offer all seniors and military 10 percent off all the time to.

 

[Ron K]

Could it possibly be self imposed?

Just always take more time then anticipated. Also TM running to drive a Saphire Upholstery tool ?????
Thinking of maybe just charging an hourly fee for it. I actually enjoy doing it but we may be too @n&l!

 

[Ron K]

At 8.99 per room people just dont want to seem to use me. I think I'm going to lower it to 7.99 a room to get the ball rolling.

That is kind of high for Brooklyn!

 

[Jim Nelson]

Nice Jim and impressive prices.
Just curious:
No over the phone pricing in home pricing only.- Why? Is that due to prices being high which may require the personal touch of in home estimate?
$25.00?? I like to see the job before I commit to it,and know what I'm going to make. I am done with free in home est.$25.00 is to find out who can afford me, If you can not afford 25 for 1 hour of my time and 1 gallon of my gas then you want SS.

Price going up from .65 to. $0.70 for cleaning, $1.01 for Cleaning & Teflon. That's a very nice price, glad to hear that you can get it.
No Furniture cleaning- If you can get that price for carpet cleaning, how come not for upholstery, or do you just hate cleaning upholster?
No more Min.- Why?

All customers have paid .60- .65 a sq for the last 4-5 years. I got tired of giving free est and have been for 30 years. When I went from .50 a sq to .60 I lost a lot of my free est. Now at 64 years old and after 41 years of cleaning I have gotten used to hearing that's a lot. The people who say that cant afford me and I don't miss them. And now on a lot of jobs I think I should have charged more. Now most jobs I clean are clean carpets if they don't have dogs. Most furniture has not been cleaned before it takes time and I never felt it was worth it I made more cleaning carpet and I like cleaning carpet.Now I'm BLESSED all glory goes to God not me. PS the wife is doing my taxes [late] she says I don't think you have made this much before in this quarter. It was hard to past .50 Now there is no looking back. I turn away more jobs then I take. Thanks for asking.

 

[Able 1]

I'm raising mine I have heard far too many times my prices were low from my customers.. Not sure how much they will go up but I just can't continue to take as much work as I do now, after 11 years it's time to weed out the cheap ones! I do an average of 100 jobs a month me and a helper with two vans, or we run together..

 

[Chris A]

$5 a room increase here, nothing major we are in a pretty good spot

 

[PrimaDonna]

Here's what we are planning:

2015 2016 FIrst number is 2015, second number is price for 2016​

Min. Charge $150 $175
Min Charge in shop $160 $180
1st two rooms $180 $190 (Room is up to 250 sq. ft, 15x16)
Additional Room $ 80 $85
Stairs $5 each same
Landing $20 same
Hall (small) $35 $40
Hall (regular) $55 $60
Hall (large) $70 $75
Scotchgard room $35 $40
Scotchgard stair $4 Same
Maxim room $55 $60
Maxim stair $5 Same

Couch $150 $175 (Haven't raised upholstery prices in 5 years, all upholstery prices include protection)
Love Seat $125 $150
Chair $85 $95
Loose back pillows $20-30 ea. Same
Tile & Grout (sq. ft) $2.00 Same
Sealer (sq. ft) $1.25 Same
Wool area rugs (sq. ft)$3.00 $3.25 (includes protection)
Wool in shop (sq. ft) $3.50 $3.75 (included protection)

 

[mirf]

We will raise prices in April. Let clients know and hope to get some beat the price wnter business.

 

[GeneMiller]

Upholstery is a huge winner especially with two people. Can't imagine not doing it. I don't generally raise prices based on a date but when the work load is to high and I need to do some culling. I started taking in rugs this year and it really boosted the bottom line for almost no effort. I have a rug cleaning factory down the street that does them for pennies just for the industry. So far the results are excellent.