A Closed Mind

Carpetologist wrote: Steamer,   Getting 20 cents a sq. ft. on commercial is next to impossible and getting worse. Why doesn't a carpet cleaner purchase a Cymex, get rid of 20 cent thinking and charge what they want to hear...4 cents per sq. ft.   One man Cymex 3500 sq. ft per hour = $140.00 per hour.   I could live on that.

IT DIDN'T LAST LONG...THAT PERSON LOST THE CONTRACT...LOL

Such crap, the only thing destroying the commercial carpet market is uneducated cleaners/janitorial services, over 300 million sq ft of commercial carpet in the GTA alone.  You need to prove your worth to these people charge a fair price and go clean. .20 cents for large commercial work is highway robbery, I don't care what you say. If you don't understand the commercial market than don't get involved, some large companies do rather well in this market . Don't forget they have a lot more fabric to be cleaned than carpet, fabric panels, upholstered chairs, leather furniture etc. and one can make big money doing these speciality cleanings, almost all our commercial accounts hire us for our expertise in this field, and don't really care about the cleaning methods we use, they want clean looking carpets,want us to respond to emergencies, and just service the account in the manner we promised, yes there are some buildings that will do their own, but they are few and far between 300 million sq ft is a lot of carpet and the most a small sized business could effectly maintain in a year is about 2 million sq ft, and that would have you working every night and most Saturday's all year long. 

Edited by cleanex - 01/August/2006 at 4:02pm

I think I just did!

Nothing is easier than a bonnet cleaning machine and I have never had a building owner ask where to get a machine like that, we run Cimex's all the time in a wide range of commercial accounts and have never run across a situation such as you refer to, not saying it can't happen, but I would think if the client is happy with your service and the price is fair than I can't see them looking to clean their own carpets with all the other problems most facility/owners face every day with much more important items. even if they did this to you don't run and hide because I can tell they will run into all kinds of problems and than you can get the contract back, plus end up with a cheap Cimex machine that they will no longer need

Edited by cleanex - 01/August/2006 at 8:40pm

Everyone will still grow and survive it is beneath people to clean there own carpets

here we go again... you both have still missed the point...most of these companies have in house cleaning staff or they contract it out to a building maintenance company.....

Sorry, Steamer you are right, I do a lot of little stuff, have no idea about the big accounts.

Edited by cleanex - 02/August/2006 at 11:09am