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Post by Kevin on Jun 6, 2005 23:47:30 GMT -5
Listed below are the prices Purity Charges for Commercial/ some residential too. What are your average prices and do you advertise them? or decide when giving the estimate? Window Washing- homes $2.00 per pane, offices and storefronts$1.50 per pane Residential Cleaning Maid Service- Weekly .05 cents a sqft., Biweekly.07 cents a sqft. Monthly .09 cents a sqft. Real Estate Turnover- One Time Special Cleaning(Move-out or Move In) .09cents a sq.ft. -includes all general areas. Janitorial service- .035 cents per square foot- price break for multiple days. Carpet Cleaning .15 cents a sqft. Strip and Wax Flooring -.25 cents a sqft. Roof Gutter Clean Out - $75.00 based on the average 1200sq.ft. home Air Duct Cleaning $348.00 upto 10 vents/Video inspection $75.00 (refunded if you decide to have the work done through Purity) Chimmney Sweep $80.00 per chimmney Wall Washing/Ceiling Washing .25 cents a sqft Basement Sanitation. $250.00-$350.00 depending on conditions and size www.puritycleaning.com
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Post by Roman Cleaning Services on Dec 15, 2005 9:55:50 GMT -5
so, would would apt cleaning fall under real estate turnover, which would be 9 ct a sqft? also, how do u base price breaks for multiple night commercial?
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Post by AAJANITOR.COM on Dec 15, 2005 13:00:20 GMT -5
Listed below are the prices Purity Charges for Commercial/ some residential too. Janitorial service- .035 cents per square foot- price break for multiple days. Now down south we do thangs differently. I have a building thats 35000 sq ft with 60+ employees and another 30000 sq ft building with 200+ employees. When I do my first walkthru I'm also counting desk & Cans. Both above buildings are 5 nights @ week and the one with 300+ I charge $2,900.00 more than the one with 60+ BTW I switched all my clients to bi weekly I like those checks coming in daily. We took a calendar and made some clients due date each day of the week. Since the storms the mail has been terrible so I pick up most of them myself and it gives me an opportunity to speak to the person in charge and answer any questions or suggest more services (carpet/floors/parking lot). Louisiana Math
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Post by Roman Cleaning Services on Dec 17, 2005 10:18:36 GMT -5
well this is a physical therapy clinic. so u dont do sqft? i did u manage getting commercial accounts to pay weekly insetad of monthly. thats my biggest concern, waiting on monthly payments when I have employees to pay bi-weekly. my commercial mentor suggests a commercial credit company to pay the invoices on behalf of the client but it woub be nice if grt the client to pay on a weekly basis. please teach me
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Post by Kevin on Dec 17, 2005 10:33:30 GMT -5
I have never had any large commercial accounts pay on a weekly basis, only on special one time cleans or special work. I was suprised when I read Wrays post about bi-weekly. All of our accounts pay monthly, we used to have a reasturant that preffered to pay weekly though they would settle up in cash out of the register friday nights. Demand payment from your customers, the way that you want it and set the terms in your agreement. In most cases though you will be left up to your customers billing cycle, and the ever slow hand of accounts payable dept. You do not want to burden your customers with a rigid or demanding payment schedule that puts a burden on them.. at least not in our area where there is so much competition that does 30-60 days financing.
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Post by russo on Dec 18, 2005 0:44:13 GMT -5
i don't have any commercial accounts that pay weekly, either. that would be nice if they did. we bill all of our regular janitorial services customers on the first of the month for prior months services and they are due by the 14th. sometime when we are dealing with bigger corps. they only pay every 45 days and that is if we just about hand deliver our documents to them...lol it's very hard when starting out.... do doubt... nothing in life that is any good comes easy, though.
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Post by Roman Cleaning Services on Dec 18, 2005 9:03:15 GMT -5
kevin how much is the .35 reduced for multiple days?
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Post by AAJANITOR.COM on Dec 18, 2005 11:19:30 GMT -5
my commercial mentor suggests a commercial credit company to pay the invoices on behalf of the client but it woub be nice if grt the client to pay on a weekly basis. please teach me We were playing the waiting game also, then I bid on a job that I thought might turn into a slow or no pay so I quoted bi-weekly in case they never paid I'd only be out of a few weeks payroll and supply. We liked the checks coming that way so we sent out a letter to all of our existing clients that we were going bi weekly be cause of our accountant (Jamie) no one balked and we have been doing it ever since. If you do this just make the week end on different days of the week for each customer... Company A ends on a Monday Company B ends on a Tuesday and so on and so on. this way if you have over 14 clients you get a due date each and everyday of the week. Now for the tricky part. If you have an existing client that's $2,000.00 per month x 12 months that equals $24,000.00 per year. But if you convert them to bi weekly $1,000.00 X 26 payments = $26,000.00 Thats $2,166.67 per month instead of $2,000.00
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Post by Grizzly on Dec 18, 2005 11:29:59 GMT -5
We have done things a bit differently. Most of the commercial clients, at least the office buildings , in Ontario want the quote presented the following way. They want a fixed price for common area costs ie. public washrooms, common hallways, lobbies etc., then a price per square foot for cleanable occupied office space, and a price for cleanable space non occupied. This is a great challenge and one of the reasons we have stepped away from commercial. Number one, the margins have narrowed so badly we are looking at a net profit margin of from 2-4% on commericial business. The headache involved in doing an 80-150,000 sq. ft office building with multiple tennants, the staff involved etc. is worth more than 2-4% net margin. As well, we ran into serious problems all the time deciding what was cleanable occupied space especially if clients moved out on the 13th we'll say. Pricing per square foot does not take density into account, it takes longer to clean 5000 sq. ft. if it is occupied by 100 people for example than 5 people. I've rambled here suffice it to say no more office highrises, still some smaller commercial of less than 15,000 sq. ft.
Bill
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Post by Kevin on Dec 18, 2005 11:51:54 GMT -5
Discounted roughly 20% more than 3 days. 30% on 7
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Post by debi5257 on Dec 30, 2005 15:48:30 GMT -5
Kevin,
Is .35 sq. ft. for janitorial services for each time that you go? I had my first call today for cleaning an office, approx. 800 sq. ft, and a trailer that is on the property, approx. 300 sq ft. They wanted a price for once a week cleaning, and bi-weekly. I have no idea what to charge. I am good at figuring residential but I am lost with commercial. Please help!
Debbie
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Post by logan5127 on Dec 30, 2005 21:49:51 GMT -5
Debbie, You can also estimate time and bid by hour plus supplies. If they want it done more than once a week just adjust the hourly rate down a little. Just another way to bid. We charge form $20 to $40.00 hour for labor only in our area. one example, we clean an office area 7 nights a week. it takes about 4 hours a night- one person. We get $600.00 week for Labor Only. That comes to about $21.45 an hour.Also get paid for off holidays. On another job we work 1 1/2 hours a week for $55.00 time, $36.66 hour. You have to be a little flexible according to location, job descriptions, finding employee , hours having to perform job,client tolerence and so on. Good Luck on what ever way you decide to bid. There are several ways that work well and you will figure out what works best for you and get good at it after bidding a few. Dan
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Post by AAJANITOR.COM on Dec 30, 2005 23:49:32 GMT -5
Here's how we do it at one of our locations. This is the price before the hurricane, the contract is up in March and we will go up about 10 - 15 percent.
This is an Automobile dealership 4 buildings. 4 people 2 hours 6 nights per week = $1,850.00 bi-weekly, we pay for all cleaning chemicals and labor, customer pays for all other supplies. This same crew then goes on to other buildings in the area, we try and give each employee 6 - 8 hours per day.
On each team we have 1 person who just does bathrooms, kitchens and lunch rooms, another person just does Vacuum and mopping, the rest do trash, wipe down and anything else. But they are trained that everyone does what ever it takes to get the property right. They also know that Jamie or I will be at each location every day/night and IT BETTER BE RIGHT or they get FINED.
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Post by logan5127 on Dec 30, 2005 23:59:25 GMT -5
Double A, How do you go about fines. Do you right it up in company polices? Sounds interesting.
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Post by russo on Dec 31, 2005 2:11:47 GMT -5
do you pay travel time or does that not apply because of account locations? also, very interested about the fine thing too. how does that work and is it an invention of Double A or is it something you have learned from anther cleaning company?
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