How many slurpins or paddins a day?

[Mikey P]

I SERIOUSLY can not for the life of me recollect how I ever "cleaned" more than two homes a day back in my yoots.

I really prefer just doing one in the $800 range, but its two a day season right now. Got me thinking about my Mullers and Coit days where I would do ....something... at 5 to 7 homes a day..

Something...


I honestly just cant phantom what the hell that something included.


I suppose if I never conversed with the homeowner, left my phone at home, did half a dry stroke in the traffic lanes and didnt bother with runners and F'n corner guards, I could do three...

 

[darcie smith]

People around here don’t have a lot of money so we have far more minimum jobs than we’d like but Scott said yesterday he thinks his average ticket is around $300 right now

 

[Numero Uno]

We did what we needed to do .
An when exhausted,wet from sweat.
We stood tall an carried on the mission.
That's why the bb is powerful now...
Run by those who talk an walk the walk...
Regards to all who fit the above description...

 

[Mikey P]

People around here don’t have a lot of money so we have far more minimum jobs than we’d like but Scott said yesterday he thinks his average ticket is around $300 right now

So what did he say when you gave him the real number?

 

[darcie smith]

So what did he say when you gave him the real number?

He’s actually extremely accurate. It’s $309.13 for this year. He’s a numbers guy

 

[Desk Jockey]

I SERIOUSLY can not for the life of me recollect how I ever "cleaned" more than two homes a day back in my yoots.

I really prefer just doing one in the $800 range, but its two a day season right now. Got me thinking about my Mullers and Coit days where I would do ....something... at 5 to 7 homes a day..

Something...


I honestly just cant phantom what the hell that something included.


I suppose if I never conversed with the homeowner, left my phone at home, did half a dry stroke in the traffic lanes and didnt bother with runners and F'n corner guards, I could do three...

Dude you were a young pup back then. You didn't even feel it.

Now you're an old dog like a lot of us. You can still do it, but you feel it.

You need a helper, someone to hand the wand off to, while you yak with the customer.

 

[hogjowl]

I can go from 1 job a day to 6 a day in just a matter of an hour this time of year and visa versa.
I prefer those days when Brady has three and I’m at home in my recliner.

 

[Mikey P]

He’s actually extremely accurate. It’s $309.13 for this year. He’s a numbers guy

What is the upselling to get to that price?

And what is your minimum charge if you don't mind me being nosy

 

[hogjowl]

Since when does it matter?

 

[Mikey P]

Since when does it matter?

I actually respect Darcie.

 

[darcie smith]

What is the upselling to get to that price?

And what is your minimum charge if you don't mind me being nosy

All of our pricing is available on our website so I can share. Our current minimum is $155 but that will be going up soon. That usually covers up to 3 areas or 600sq ft. Our average ticket is higher because we do more than carpet cleaning. We upsell Scotchguard, extra rooms, upholstery, etc, but the average ticket is $309 because we do a lot of housewash and air ducts, which we charge a lot more for. Minimum for housewash is $275 and I haven’t seen an air duct job under $300 I don’t think

 

[hogjowl]

Oh
Well that explains it

 

[Trip Moses]

I try to keep it at three a day. Sometimes I screw up and put on a fourth. I hate myself on those days. Strictly Monday through Friday. Except for the random commercial job

 

[Nomad74]

Yeah, I'm happy with 2 a day. Three a day is my max. Today I have three and same tomorrow. I need a Starbucks.

 

[darcie smith]

Today there’s an $800 housewash and a $260 commercial carpet scheduled

 

[Trip Moses]

Wow. I just had today’s last job canceled. They called and wanted me to move it to Saturday. I said sorry but no I can only do today. They said fine. They called back about 10 minutes later said they found somebody that would do it on Saturday, plus the other company is going to do five rooms for $150. Whereas I was only going to do three rooms for $150. I just laughed, told him thanks and hung up the phone.
I think we all know the rest of the story.

 

[Numero Uno]

Turn the Page by Seger eases the way home...Regards...

 

[Numero Uno]

You Need a helper...
I need to clean like a man possessed.
One cancer Ridden **** will work for free.
When I beat this...
Never flown there.
Book a solid week or weekend or day...
I'll build u Up Buttercup,so much there handing you blank checks.
An when you go home,make sure you got a full night of work for me...
I maybe bony but I'll make you mony

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Settle down!

 

[sassyotto]

Ive always been a 1 to 3 house per day guy. Mostly 1 big or two medium. Make the same or more than the guys that do 7 to 10. Why wear yourself out?

 

[Mikey P]

Ive always been a 1 to 3 house per day guy. Mostly 1 big or two medium. Make the same or more than the guys that do 7 to 10. Why wear yourself out?

Yeps

 

[Hack Attack]

2-3 a day generally, happy to let other guys work harder

 

[ImperialCC]

@Mikey P, do you use corner guard when you padding?

 

[Mikey P]

Of course!

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Truck mounts and glides have made cleaning into your late middle aged years, and with some men, senior years, still doable.

In the days of portables, a carpet cleaner had to have employees who could lift machines that were the weight of small refrigerators in and out of trucks all day.

If you weren't a "non-working" owner-manager by your 40's, you were out of the business.

 

[Mikey P]

The SSti 12" may keep em going into their 90's..

 

[hogjowl]

It’ll take me that long to get a free one

 

[Jim Pemberton]

The SSti 12" may keep em going into their 90's..

The record we have here is 83.

The fellow died a couple of days after cleaning a carpet while mowing his lawn.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I lost a good friend Tuesday morning, he was 59. Went to work and had a heart attack and died. Left behind his 43 year old wife, 16 year old daughter and 24 year old son.

Shes devastated, its shocking, he was thin, not heavy and looked to be in good health. The neighbor commented she had just seen him shirtless mowing the lawn and he was tan and slim.

I've know them for 24 years, she worked for us for 8 years before staying home with a baby.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

That ranks up there with Diana losing one of her nieces at 54 this past week. She too worked for us for years until striking out on her on. She climbed a roof just before going to work in the rain, slipped, fell off and snapped her neck, both legs and arms and bruised her heart She was trying to adjust a tarp