Living The Dream
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We bought a new home and move in on the 17th. The home is roughly 3000 sq ft. There's a few updates and changes that we would like to have done, so we've been getting some quotes. The quotes to paint the interior of the house blew me away. One was $12k and the other was $14k. Approximately 3 days of work. I believe people should absolutely charge what they are worth. It just caught me a little off guard that I was so far out of touch on what it would cost.
I do find it kind of fascinating that a typical single truck carpet cleaner probably has around $100k into equipment, tools, ect. To hopefully pull in at least an average of $1k a day and a painter probably has a fraction of that cost in their setup and equipment and is pulling in $4k-$5k.
I didn't write this to rag on painters or bitch about their prices. Good for them on making a good living. I wrote this because it was an eye opener, and that we as carpet cleaners should probably be charging more.
I do find it kind of fascinating that a typical single truck carpet cleaner probably has around $100k into equipment, tools, ect. To hopefully pull in at least an average of $1k a day and a painter probably has a fraction of that cost in their setup and equipment and is pulling in $4k-$5k.
I didn't write this to rag on painters or bitch about their prices. Good for them on making a good living. I wrote this because it was an eye opener, and that we as carpet cleaners should probably be charging more.
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