tmiklethun
Member
Just did a cleaning on a house that 2800 sq ft of carpet and 2 - 16 step staircases. It was referred by one of my Realtor Partners, who until now has sent be a bunch of tiny condos. They are complaining about the price I charged on this large house. Even though the price is consistent with what I have charged them for everything else I have done, just on a much larger scale. Do you give extra discount for extremely large homes.
Here was my price breakdown on this job. My standard cleaning included: furniture moving, prevacuum, prespray and pre spot, agitation, hot water extraction, Ph Balancing, Grooming and speed drying.
This package runs and $.35 a sq foot and $3 per stair
On this job I did not have to do furniture moving, prevacuum or speed dry.
Standard Charges for cleaning $1076
Discount: No furniture, prevac or speed dry -$196
Discount: Sq footage discount -$30
Discount: Referral of Realtor Partner -$85
Total amount billed $765
I give all Realtor Referrals a 10% discount and I gave the square footage discount because I didn't have to drive to multiple jobs to get that much square footage. The job took about 7 hours so am at about $117 a production hour. I really don't like to ever go below $100 a production hour, I am often closer to $125.
This realtor does send me a lot of work, but the majority of it is really small, almost no profit, jobs (condos). She said her last cleaner only charged $500.00 for the house, .17 a sq foot. I told her that may be why he went out of business., but that I would look at my numbers and make sure they were right.
Sorry for all the details, but I figured someone might ask.
Here is my question for such a big job would you go ever further on the discount, or default to your minimum hourly target rate? I can't go to 500, but I could probably get to $680 and still hit $100 an hour, but I am afraid it will send a negative message about my pricing.
Here was my price breakdown on this job. My standard cleaning included: furniture moving, prevacuum, prespray and pre spot, agitation, hot water extraction, Ph Balancing, Grooming and speed drying.
This package runs and $.35 a sq foot and $3 per stair
On this job I did not have to do furniture moving, prevacuum or speed dry.
Standard Charges for cleaning $1076
Discount: No furniture, prevac or speed dry -$196
Discount: Sq footage discount -$30
Discount: Referral of Realtor Partner -$85
Total amount billed $765
I give all Realtor Referrals a 10% discount and I gave the square footage discount because I didn't have to drive to multiple jobs to get that much square footage. The job took about 7 hours so am at about $117 a production hour. I really don't like to ever go below $100 a production hour, I am often closer to $125.
This realtor does send me a lot of work, but the majority of it is really small, almost no profit, jobs (condos). She said her last cleaner only charged $500.00 for the house, .17 a sq foot. I told her that may be why he went out of business., but that I would look at my numbers and make sure they were right.
Sorry for all the details, but I figured someone might ask.
Here is my question for such a big job would you go ever further on the discount, or default to your minimum hourly target rate? I can't go to 500, but I could probably get to $680 and still hit $100 an hour, but I am afraid it will send a negative message about my pricing.