Encapping a Church what would you charge?

[Trip Moses]

Encapping a church today and tomorrow.
14,000 sqft. What special place will this put me? And what’s your rate?

 

[Mike Pailliotet]

In Jimmy's trailer park.

 

[Jimmy L]

You won't be going to heaven now

 

[Desk Jockey]

Encapping a church today and tomorrow.
14,000 sqft. What special place will this put me?

Hell with the rest of us. lol

 

[Trip Moses]

Nope. Gave my life to Jesus when I was nine. Then renewed my profession of faith in front of my church just a few years ago. Got dunked again also.

 

[Jimmy L]

Do it for free

 

[Trip Moses]

 

[Old Coastie]

Trip, charge your normal commercial rate. Mine is about half of residential rate, so If asked tell them “In a home this would be (double).”
Then tithe or gift your earnings as you see fit.
Just do the very best work of which you are capable.

 

[Trip Moses]

I have no problem asking for my rate. Funny thing is, I got this job from another cleaner who was to nervous to charge them.
I just wanted my fellow lurkers to realize that there is no reason to be scared of telling someone what you charge.

 

[Cleanworks]

We are all sinners.

 

[Jack Zipper Zerkie]

Your charge will be much less than replacing the carpets or having in house people do it. They pay less for in house but the cleaning is not even close to your service.You can give them longevity for the carpets. I had a local church that their man used Dawn to spot clean and raved how great it was. Then I truckmount cleaned and found out the truth. Their expert quit so now I can clean as needed with fewer problems. Explain the long term savings using your services. Pay a little now or a LOT latter and the down time for replacement. jz

 

[Trip Moses]

They probably have another 10-15 thousand sqft. I’m going to offer a 20% discount on that. If they’ll agree to a maintenance plan, I’ll do 35%. Right now they are at full retail.

 

[Bob Savage]

We just cleaned a BIG church Sanctuary (12,500 sq. ft.) a few weeks ago. We used HWE and ran dual wands. We charged .17 a square foot.

It was not our church, but we also clean our church for the same price.

Let's not forget that your overhead has a lot to do with what you need to charge for your work. Our overhead is very low.

 

[Trip Moses]

Nothing wrong with that

 

[Small town janitorial]

Up to you and your conscience. Not for anyone else to decide or judge.

 

[Trip Moses]

If you and the customer agree on a price and you provide top-notch service what’s conscious got to do with it? Unless you go around back and take a dump the shrubs.

 

[Jimmy L]

God is watching you

 

[BIG WOOD]

Once you WAKE UP to the FACT that a church is a BUSINESS, and not some holy shrine, you can charge what you feel is a decent price to feed your family. Isn't that what the Almighty wants?
Proverbs 14:23
No need to worry about how much you're gonna give a church. If they're humble enough, they won't be holding out their hands for any percentage.

 

[Trip Moses]

.35

 

[Cleanworks]

If you and the customer agree on a price and you provide top-notch service what’s conscious got to do with it? Unless you go around back and take a dump the shrubs.

Hey we're not talking Stanley steemer prices here.

 

[Trip Moses]

I have no idea what they charge.

 

[Cleanworks]

A jokes no fun when you have to splain it.

 

[Trip Moses]

A jokes no fun when you have to splain it.

I got it. I was being aloof.

 

[BradFenstermaker]

Normal commercial cleaning rate
Depends on the church. Some wait way too long and its ground in trashed.

 

[Lyman]

I see churches as a huge place to advertise my abilities. I charge 1/2 my normal rate and ask for a mention in the weekly bulletin. Were else can you impress hundreds of people for 2-4 hrs of work.

 

[Jimmy L]

Charge what you want and......give it back on sunday!

 

[Trip Moses]

Doing the Sanctuary today. 168 years old.
HWE today.

 

[Mike Pailliotet]

I see churches as a huge place to advertise my abilities. I charge 1/2 my normal rate and ask for a mention in the weekly bulletin. Were else can you impress hundreds of people for 2-4 hrs of work.

But does that work for you? can you track enough jobs to cover the half normal rate?

 

[FB19087]

and why not charge the normal rate and ask for a mention....

 

[Trip Moses]

I’m doing .35 and asking for a check