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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:03 pm
by Edgecraft
Hi Andy
I'm in "Hyde" not a million miles from you !
For crazy paving, flags, concrete.. etc We charge a rate of £1.50 per sqaure metre, unless it's absolutely appauling then we may charge a little more, but on average for the Manchester area you should be looking at between £1.50 - £2.50 per Sq/m.
Darren
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:13 pm
by RAPressureWashing
Andy,
I would bite Darrens hand off, with his prices.
Don't mean to be insulting Darren, but down here it would be double.
A ball-park for concrete, sandstone etc is £3.00 per sq. mt, I will discount over a certain size, and also have a minimum charge.
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:41 pm
by Edgecraft
Hi Roger
I know what you mean, but up here people really don't like parting with their money.
You would be amazed at the amount of times we've quoted £1.50 Sq/m and the home owner has turned round and said for that sort of money i'll do it "meself wif mi Karcher" !
Oh stupid me I could have saved a fortune, I never thought of buying a domestic Karcher instead I went and wasted all that money on my Brendon washer :p
On a more serious note though Roger, we had 5,000 flyers printed with the pressure washing on one side with a £1.50 start price and our continuous concrete edging on the other, so the pressure washing is really a bit of a loss leader to push the edging, although we still make some profit.
Darren
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:58 pm
by RAPressureWashing
Edgecraft wrote:Hi Roger
I know what you mean, but up here people really don't like parting with their money.
You would be amazed at the amount of times we've quoted £1.50 Sq/m and the home owner has turned round and said for that sort of money i'll do it "meself wif mi Karcher" !
Oh stupid me I could have saved a fortune, I never thought of buying a domestic Karcher instead I went and wasted all that money on my Brendon washer :p
On a more serious note though Roger, we had 5,000 flyers printed with the pressure washing on one side with a £1.50 start price and our continuous concrete edging on the other, so the pressure washing is really a bit of a loss leader to push the edging, although we still make some profit.
Darren
Darren,
As I said didn't mean to be insulting or anything, but I also know what you mean, my answer is this, you set-up your homebase bought Karcher etc and I'll set my rig up and I'll let my work/cleaning say it all. It won't take all weekend, you won't get covered in s**t I will, and it will look a lot better then you could ever make it, so that is the price. Sorry but I take a pirde in my work and it does pi** me off when home owners think that what me and you do is some sort of hobbie.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:07 pm
by eazybarra man
totally agree rodger.
You get a proper job done with professionals and proper kit.
And the job gets done in a fraction of the time with very little mess.
There are still some people out there who will pay the price to get a proper job done.
with the proper kit and rotary cleaner, 3 years ago I used to get £1.50 to £2mtr for cleaning flags large areas,and £2.50 - £3mtr for monobloc no problem. On small areas it was £3 - £4 for slabs and £5-£6 for mono. and that was Scotland.
Anybody who wasnt prepared to pay that price didnt get the work done.simple as that!
And quite honestly the smaller jobs were the best ones, ( higher rate, in-out, job done, happy customer, next.) Should never have sold the kit.
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:25 pm
by lutonlagerlout
there is not a snowball's chance in hell i could have done anywhere near the job roger did with our petrol karcher.
i am a firm believer in every man to his trade,i would rather go and lay some flags on a saturday to pay for something else to be done right than waste time bodging it myself,and regretting it later
LLL 
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:47 pm
by Rich H
Note to Roger: I got all but three of the bays sanded before the rain started coming down on Friday afternoon! Have to go back now to do those...
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:54 pm
by RAPressureWashing
Rich H wrote:Note to Roger: I got all but three of the bays sanded before the rain started coming down on Friday afternoon! Have to go back now to do those...
Rich H, Yes I was wondering did you get it done before the rain.
Thank you also for the nice comments, it was a pleasure to work with/for you, really glad the cilent is happy too. We just need to get the rest of the area now, to make it look the part. :;):
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:04 pm
by lutonlagerlout
as the topic says "roger knows cleaning" i wish us builders could make people happy like you do roger
its good to see some brew cabin irregulars spreading the word in the real world
cheers LLL
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:38 pm
by matt h
well impressed yet again roger. Remarkable difference.
