How to Make a Million Dollars Cleaning Commercial Carpet With a Cimex and Releasit

[Kenny Hayes]

Contrary, there’s just a lot of places that truckmounts aren’t conducive in commercial
buildings.

 

[Cleanworks]

I've done up to 20 floors with a truck mount but it all depends on the set up. I have some buildings that are 150 ft just to the door. The high rises we do often don't have continuous stairwells. The only way to do it is with a portable or Cimex etc.

 

[Mikey P]

Yes highest building 7 floors and that's the next town over. Ours only has 5 floors. Clean lots a time wif 500ft a hose out. During the summer we do 3 floors at a time with 1 truck.

and you think your one wet and (maybe)one dry pass, is removing much, if any more than a scrub and run?

 

[Dolly Llama]

. Start charging a respectable rate for the trashed jobs(.30 to .50persq)

how any com accounts over 700sf do you have that pay 50 cent a ft, Harley??

..L.T.A.

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

Won't say we get it all but ur socks don't turn black walking on da capet

 

[Fat Mike]

wam bam thank you maam.

we knocked out a hotel on base 100 rooms, with vlm plus drapes and powerwashed entire bldg and cleaned windows.

their maintenance guys do a phenomenal job, vlm was awesome and they had rooms put back together very quickly.

great acct came as a referral.

not a fan powerwashing off a lift @ 40' though. bout wet my britches more than once lol

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

I have no accounts that high. But I bid them. If they let the carpets go and want a 1 time clean, I price myself out of those. Not interested in cleaning somebody's filth because they choose to ignore it for free or for McDonald's wages. Now if they want to clean it up and prevent it from becoming that way again, I'm all about it.

 

[DAT]

Who walks on commercial floor wearing white socks?

Even if you did clean with HWE on com floors, how long does it hold up before blackening the white sock since ya only clean one time a year?

 

[Fat Mike]

wish i could get .50/sq

after drapes and carpet sq ft we were around .22 combined.

 

[DAT]

.50 is extremely unlikely... Not if you want reoccurring accouts.. you would get laughed out of the building cause they can find someone to do it for .06 sf at 4x/yr

 

[Fat Mike]

.50 is extremely unlikely... Not if you want reoccurring accouts.. you would get laughed out of the building cause they can find someone to do it for .06 sf at 4x/yr

i know its very unlikely

ive been self employed 10yrs

 

[DAT]

I know you know... Im talking along with you to the cleaning hotshot.

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

.15 is a high rate, .05 is normal rate, maintenance accounts in between. The only way to make any decent money is by doing a lot of sqft in a day. And that we can do.

 

[DAT]

...even better with a cimex....

 

[Desk Jockey]

.15 is a high rate, .05 is normal rate, maintenance accounts in between. The only way to make any decent money is by doing a lot of sqft in a day. And that we can do.

You are thinking with cleaning your way. We make far more per hour cleaning commercial carpet for commercial rates. You have to be able to be high production.

This kind of carpet cleaning is usually not very soiled, beyond entries, the funnel areas are only moderately soiled. No need to flush them every cleaning. Flush the entry and maintenance clean the rest.

It's all about budget, and fitting in what systems you can implement to keep their facilities at its highest level of appearance.

You do however need to be more than a one trick pony. You also have to think be able to think beyond the residential rate mind set.

 

[Fat Mike]

You are thinking with cleaning your way. We make far more per hour cleaning commercial carpet for commercial rates. You have to be able to be high production.

This kind of carpet cleaning is usually not very soiled, beyond entries, the funnel areas are only moderately soiled. No need to flush them every cleaning. Flush the entry and maintenance clean the rest.

It's all about budget, and fitting in what systems you can implement to keep their facilities at its highest level of appearance.

You do however need to be more than a one trick pony. You also have to think be able to think beyond the residential rate mind set.

Orale
my beaner friend!

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

We have our share and get a fair hourly rate only because of the cleaning style and sqft per hr. We are more interested in maintaining the carpets for the long haul. And have proven that we can extend replacement 5 or 10 yrs beyond their previous intervals plus the overall condition of the floors stay clean. Subsequent cleans are never as bad as the first. After several cleans the floors hardly show any traffic patterns except for turn areas. We have created a proven system that works.

 

[Acp]

did 2 buildings yesterday with 2 trucks... I prefer VLM for that kind of commercial that was some mindless endless boring ass labor wanding for 7hrs straight, I would get a normal job before I did that all day everyday.

 

[Desk Jockey]

We have (8) Cimex's, (2) Orbots and a Vibe. We will clean to the conditions of the carpet. Sending multiple machines on larger projects to get in, get it done and out of there.

I've never had a facilities manager ask what method we are going to use. If there is ever a question of results, we will do and test cleaning. That always locks them in. We do work for lots of large corporations, government offices, city, state, country, banks and churches.

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

Some days we are at it for 12 hrs cleaning 30,000 ft. It's just work to us. Tiresome yes, boredom not so much.

 

[Desk Jockey]

We'd send 5-6 machines and do it in a morning. We don't want to inconvenience the client. This way it can go back to use faster.

 

[DAT]

Orale
my beaner friend!

Que viva la VLM!

 

[Desk Jockey]

I have no clue what you are talking about but you better learn to yell it. Sound does carry well over a beautiful wall.

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

If u lined them thangs up and marched them down the hall like a herd of goats the dust be so bad hazmat shut the building down. Only thing I see is you bought the marketing

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

Most corps jus care about the bottom line on the invoice, until they have to replace the carpets. We take the jobs that want them clean not cleaned.

 

[Desk Jockey]

If u lined them thangs up and marched them down the hall like a herd of goats the dust be so bad hazmat shut the building down. Only thing I see is you bought the marketing

I'm sure it's tough for you to see anything with that narrow mind. Hard as it may be for you to believe there are many ways to skin a cat.

I know we tried you way using 6 TM's and 12 men to process the same building that later we cleaned with 6 men in 1/3 of the time. To top that, the results were better with the low moisture. Been cleaning that same account for 10 years that way.

The only dust you'll see is when someone that knows what they are doing comes and takes your accounts from you. It would be easy, we can do it faster, cheaper and it would not only look better but stay cleaner longer!

What town did you say you lived in?

Get with it Harley, old goats can learn new tricks. lol

 

[Desk Jockey]

Letter that truck too! Ya look like a fly by night! Or is that really who you are?

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

LOL we loose accounts all the time to the lower price. 6months a yr later I get the call "hey this is such n such can you come look at our building? The company we been using can't seem to get the stains out and we would like to see if they can be cleaned or do we have to replace them again? That's a real conversation we get every few months. Over and over yr after yr. The next time I clean this one large building I will take a pic of what's on their wall. Something to the effect that if any carpets need cleaning in this building they must call ACC. Kinda funny to me though. Lost that account fer a yr had it back now for about 2.

We have signage on all vans. Don't need to be stickn out loud if yer work is good. We b stayn busy as a one legd man in an ass kickn contest.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Easy...take it easy. I was just funnin with ya. I wouldn't take accounts from you.

Now my cousin that lives a town away might, if he knew you was a pony. But I won't tell him.

 

[The Cleaning Artist]

In all seriousness we target homes and high end commercial. Try to keep commercial to 5000ft and up. Lotsa work from carpet stores. Lots of high end work from Interior Designers. We don't want it all, we'll maybe but no apartments