Do you agree with these numbers?
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Jim Pemberton
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Who did the original research? I know that this was shared on FB by a respected member of the cleaning industry, so I'm not looking for his name, but instead the study that gave his company this information.
I have an idea of where it came from, but will withhold comment until I know for sure.
I have an idea of where it came from, but will withhold comment until I know for sure.
Old Coastie
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The square footage numbers are about double what I do for encap and portable, but then I am old and feeble with barely enough strength to lift my coffee mug.
Papa John
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Bottom line:
You can get high production rates if you DGAS!
My production rates are lower then those.
You can get high production rates if you DGAS!
My production rates are lower then those.
Steve Lawrence
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Yeah, those numbers are for doing shitty work.
Mikey P
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The dry vacuum rates sure stand out as....off.
Jim Pemberton
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The problem with "industry standards" (still holding back till I know the real source) like these is that the uninformed may make costly mistakes in bidding their work because they will accept this at face value and not look at their own records and be realistic about what THEY are capable of doing, not what others say that the should be able to do.
Also, it would be easy to say that a 10,000 square foot job would take 10 hours at 1000 square feet per hour. However, few of us are in the physical condition to be able to clean for 10 hours straight and be as productive as when we started.
While I find even 1000 square feet per hour for hot water extraction a stretch, if I accept it, its more fair to call it 1000 square feet the FIRST hour, with a declining production rate until the first break.
Also, it would be easy to say that a 10,000 square foot job would take 10 hours at 1000 square feet per hour. However, few of us are in the physical condition to be able to clean for 10 hours straight and be as productive as when we started.
While I find even 1000 square feet per hour for hot water extraction a stretch, if I accept it, its more fair to call it 1000 square feet the FIRST hour, with a declining production rate until the first break.
Brian H
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I don't understand the rate for furniture density versus vacant rate. Get a good helper and only in very heavy density situations will it slow you down.
Cleanworks
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With the walk behind extractor, they are forgetting that you have to stop and fill/dump often. You will never get 2000 sqft per hour or else I'd own one.
Papa John
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I bet these numbers were fabricated by equipment salesman.
hogjowl
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Does "heavy furniture density" mean you're moving and cleaning under the furniture?
Cleanworks
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Dense.
Lee Stockwell
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NO I don't buy these numbers, the reason they were published, or any real value in such "benchmarks ".
There is quite an industry in 3rd party brokering of our services that DOESN'T really benefit US at all.
They don't have the actual skills or the expenses in labor or tools locally to actually DO any project.
However sitting in their out of state offices they light up the phones trying to get our accounts and con us into legitimizing them by doing the work for less than half.
There is quite an industry in 3rd party brokering of our services that DOESN'T really benefit US at all.
They don't have the actual skills or the expenses in labor or tools locally to actually DO any project.
However sitting in their out of state offices they light up the phones trying to get our accounts and con us into legitimizing them by doing the work for less than half.
That's why being a small business means being very efficient. Big 18 inch hoover for the large areas and a POS 16 inch castex. Using a 300 speed buffer to bonnet clean covering 4 k an hour gets it done!
I can be done in half the time as you losers so I have more time to take a nap!
Or is that LOOZERS?
I can be done in half the time as you losers so I have more time to take a nap!
Or is that LOOZERS?
hogjowl
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Get your own act
They don't have the actual skills or the expenses in labor or tools locally to actually DO any project.
However sitting in their out of state offices they light up the phones trying to get our accounts and con us into legitimizing them by doing the work for less than half.[/QUOTE]
There is quite an industry in 3rd party brokering of our services that DOESN'T really benefit US at all.
They don't have the actual skills or the expenses in labor or tools locally to actually DO any project.
Sounds like the group over on the Potomack.
However sitting in their out of state offices they light up the phones trying to get our accounts and con us into legitimizing them by doing the work for less than half.[/QUOTE]
There is quite an industry in 3rd party brokering of our services that DOESN'T really benefit US at all.
They don't have the actual skills or the expenses in labor or tools locally to actually DO any project.
Sounds like the group over on the Potomack.
Mark Saiger
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I don't think I could pull off any of those numbers really.
Just too fast...
The rotary numbers also stuck out and really don't think can do that either. Don't think could get a rotary to plant down and clean well.
I think even the HWE numbers are high with a truckmount and Zipper.
Was trying to read them on my phone but they all seem off
Just too fast...
The rotary numbers also stuck out and really don't think can do that either. Don't think could get a rotary to plant down and clean well.
I think even the HWE numbers are high with a truckmount and Zipper.
Was trying to read them on my phone but they all seem off
hogjowl
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Thank you
Mark Saiger
Mr Happy!
They vacant areas with a truckmount and Zipper I could do but that would not include any prevac....
Mark Saiger
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And I am referring to doing these numbers if I was alone I guess
ruff
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Why, I believe it. I even saw it right here:
hogjowl
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He was doing so good without visual aids so don't tempt him
Old Coastie
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Is that the JATO model for short runways?
