What would you charge to clean this?

[captaincarpet]

This is silk. I was wondering what others would quote for this from this picture.

 

[XTREME1]

$110

 

[hogjowl]

Are those pigs ears sticking up from behind that pen?

 

[captaincarpet]

No Marty, more like a silk purse than a sow's ear... lol

 

[MarkCermak]

How many loose back pillows?, Any measurements? What is the condition of the arms, head rest, wear areas? Any spots? What is the customers main concern?

 

[captaincarpet]

Less than 6 months old, remodel / construction dust/dirt... I will be dry using dry cleaning / solvent / process. Very high end golf club community, no measurements.

 

[sweendogg]

We would charge $200.00 at least even for dry cleaning.

 

[minuteman]

A country club 10 to 30K memberships, $650. or more.

 

[captaincarpet]

I have already quoted $35.00-$50.00 per linear ft., Loose cushions / pillows are of course extra, but was wondering what others charge.
Mark, I know you charge more than I do, I'm trying! I tried to price this as I thought you would...lol

 

[hogjowl]

I don't know how you could price that so high while using a system that doesn't clean.

That'd be like charging 50 cents a s.f. to clean carpets and then pulling up with a Nordic 1. :roll:

 

[captaincarpet]

I fully expect to take as much or more time vacuuming than the actual dry cleaning process. I'm not just charging for the cleaning...I charge to generate a certain dollar per hour revenues, including prep time, drive time, production time , materials, as well as fixed and floating overhead, profit ect. IMHO this is standard business practice. Were you sleeping day 1 of SFS? I thought Mr. Violand was very clear about the numbers...

 

[hogjowl]

Yeah, but somehow, I just assumed Chuck had in mind actually cleaning something to justify those hourly figures.

 

[diamond brian]

What a beautiful home! I wonder how they pulled it down the road with all those windows?

Seriously, I don't get invited to homes with furniture like that. Price? Wouldn't know where to start.

 

[Ron Werner]

I posted a question about cleaning a silk sofa a while back, like over a year. Bob Foster was there helping me, we used his porty.
I charged $30/lin ft. It wasn't as fancy as that one. I steam cleaned it using an almost neutral cleaner, wetting the whole, then rinsing. I was using a Drimaster tool at the time. The Hydrokinetic would be beautiful on this with its teflon head, set it at ~200psi, would leave it almost dry.

 

[captaincarpet]

Marty,
FYI
Silk is used in more expensive upholstery fabrics and older period furniture pieces.
It is commonly used for moire, matelasse, brocatelle, and damask fabrics.
Some silk fabrics can be wet cleaned with caution, but more often they are dry cleaned. If wet cleaned, use mild solutions and beware of water spotting or water marks. Silk fabric becomes weaker when wet, tend to waterspot if not specially finished, and in some constructions silk fabrics have low abrasion resistance.

Ron, some can be wet cleaned, some you are better not too. I quote it like this, and after a real on site inspection (not just a photo), I may determine it to be safely wet cleanable...but to be on the safe side I will always quote on the side of caution.
P.S. Some of us have great success removing soil with dry solvent type cleaners when they are used properly on a variety of fabrics.

 

[-JB-]

That's hideous.

 

[Warren Wallace]

I have done it just like ron said, worked great was dry almost when I finished

 

[boazcan]

$50 ft , you can pay me to come up and help you. Wonder what a AT vacuum would do to that fabric?

Never cleaned anything like that, so no help on the price. I think you are on the right track. That would be a great job for the referrals and free advertising. Just drive around the neighborhood 4 or 5 times after you finish.

Go get'em.

 

[renegade_cowboy]

$250. Clean it in about 1-2 hours. Depending if there is spots.

 

[Jose Smith]

Wow. If a fabric is slightly soiled, or if there are no present water soluble soils to speak of, why would you not dry clean a fabric.

Vacuuming WILL remove dry soils. Dry cleaning solvents WILL dissolve oil based soils. To apply moisture to a fabric that can be damaged by moisture, or could very likely have finishes on it (sizing, metallic compounds) that can be easily damaged by moisture is extremely foolish.

I hope the person who thinks this method is not a valid cleaning method (which has a correct time and place to be used) is either kidding or stays away from fabrics until they get a better understanding of them.

Jose Smith

 

[Jim]

$325

 

[Desk Jockey]

$250.00-$300.00 depending on how long it would take to setup clean and tear down.

Cover the floor, Hepa vacuum and spray an towel OMS.

I'd have a little concern with odor if the homeowner planned on being home while I was working.

Easy work!

 

[billyeadon]

I hate dry cleaning. Hate the smell, hate the legal disposal, hate the PPE, and hate the results if it has any water soluble soiling

BUT I would hate replacing what must be at least a 10,000.00 piece even more so I would dry clean it if it is not heavily soiled.

I would be much closer to 500.00. All those throw pillows are going to be time consuming. This is one of those pieces that if you give a cheap price the customer will think you don't know what you are doing.

And if she is looking for a cheap price I would be long gone.

 

[Mikey P]

I'd take that Jon Don spotter, some Mint Pak and go to town for $89.99

 

[bob vawter]

If one of my custys had THAT....
i'd run... cuz i KNOW they jus robbed a bank.......

 

[hogjowl]

LOL!

 

[captaincarpet]

Thank You everyone for your responses...
Like I said, This was a send picture and want a quote deal, where they called me as the expert, so I gave what I thought was a fair response. Some responses here, I'm sure were meant as a joke (if not OMG), otherwise thank you all for just supporting my origional thoughts.

TLC