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Hello, I have an at home office for house cleaning business. My question is I had a call from a VFW hall that wants me to bid on cleaning a neglected kitchen, they mentioned cubbards, stoves and the floor that as they said is bad. I haven't seen it yet, I have an appointment tomorrow. Where do I start? I hope I can get some advise before tomorrow. Thank you very much for your help. Sonny
ls this going to be a one-time thing or work that will be needing to be done on a regular basis? It would help us to help you to know that.
If it is going to be a job for you on a regular basis, then I would figure how much you want to be making an hour and submit a bid based upon how many hours you think that it would take you to properly clean it. I would also ask them if they would be supplying the cleaning tools and supplies or not, as that will have an effect on the price that you will bid.
If it is going to be a one-time thing and the kitchen is really dirty and you will be needing to clean also the insides in addition to the outsides of things, then I would suggest submitting a figure that would be much higher than what you would charge per hour since it would not be just a regular maintenance cleaning. There suppling the cleaning tools and supplies or not, would still figure into the bid, though.
Thank you for your answer as for doing it on a regular basis, I asked them that on the phone, and they said that at that time they didn't know. We are going there today and he said that the Commander will be there so we will find out more then. At least I know that I can figure it all out by the hour now. Some of the answers that I read on this site said not to charge a job by the hour that you would lose money but I thought that the only way to bid this job was to see what was involved and how long it would take.Again thank you for answering this and I'll get back with you if we get the bid.
To CLOUGH. Ok we went to the VFW and walked through the area that they want cleaned, it is the kitchen with a little store room attached. The whole area measures 16 ft. x 38 Ft. They want the ceiling and all the walls washed. They have two 6ft. x 8ft. tall stainless steel storage units that they want cleaned inside and out There are two 36in. stoves with ovens to clean inside and out there is a butcher top cutting table approximately 2ft. x6ft. that needs to be resurfaced but they just want it cleaned up. There is 8ft. of over head cabinets on the walls wooden to be cleaned outside and in. The storage area has stand up shelving units with dishes, pots and pans and other articles sitting on them, they want it all removed and the shelves cleaned, they want all these things that I mentioned moved away from the walls to clean behind and the floor. They want the floor (asphalt) stripped and re waxed. They told us to go home and figure this all out that we didn't have to give them an estimate right then.So you see, we have a lot to figure out.My question to you is for cleanig the walls and ceiling do I charge by the square foot or how? They said that this is going to take more than 2-3 days so where do I start? they said that they called a couple other company's but one was giving them the run around and it sounded like they were really interested in our company.
I do have a crew, I have a cleaning business but work out of my home. I have no problem bidding this job but really never had one this large. We do mostly residential homes and we do have three commercial contracts but nothing this size. I would like to get this one permanently. They do have someone to clean their hall and bar area but felt that they couldn't handle this job.
I think what I'll do is try to figure out how long each part of the job will take and charge by the hour. There will be three people working here so I'll have to make sure that the business will make money.
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