How would you price this?

For an office scenario generally you can clean between 3,500 to 4,000 sq ft per hour. This equates to almost 9 hours per day total. This includes vacuuming, sweeping and mopping. This is an industry standard.

As you can quickly see this is 4 1/2 hours more per day than you listed. How did you get those hours???? If you are cleaning all of the 35,000 sq ft then you would be cleaning almost 8,000 sq ft each hour...almost impossible to do it right.

Are you cleaning all of the 35,000 sq ft each day or only part of it?

Stringer

I am sorry for so many questions Lady however I don't want to just throw out a price and find that all things were not considered as they should be each time.

Stringer

Not the whole 35,000 square feet they showed me 2 break rooms 4 bathrooms 3 small offices
the rest are all open spaces. But as far as the floor goes in the work area only mop when
needed. the bathroom and break rooms are cleaned daily and empty all trash cans but looking
at the place the morn part would be quit easy but during the night after hours is the more
cleaning. But I would think it would take 3 people to work in the night shift and during the
mornings not so bad only one person can do that.

I was looking at at-least 3-4 hours detailing the place at night. With all the cleaning and
empty and taking out trash and refilling the dispensers its going to take more then 2 hours
They haven't really opened up the place fully yet but in a couple of weeks they will.

Lady,

It has been a long day, I am going to put my feet up and head to the bedroom. I waited for a while to see if you responsed.

I have an appointment at 8 am in the morning but should be back around 9:30 or 10 am I will check to see if you had a chance to answer my questions. If so, we can get this done.

Good night Lady, sleep tight.

Stringer

I did reply back for some reason we are getting the reply back slow.

Forgot to mention I did not come up with the hours they came up with them. But like I
mention looking at the place from my prospective it's going to take at least 3-4 hours
with 3 people working with me.

Ok, I am going to make a suggestion based upon the hours that you gave me: Figured annually and broken down to monthly (best and most accurate way)

1 1/3 hours daily during the day.

4 hours per night for the detail cleaning.

5.5 hours per day / 5 days per week.

260 days annually divided by 52 weeks = 260days divided by 12 months = 21.7 days average per month (use 22 days rounded) times 5.5 hours each day = 121 hours per average month

I assume that you have to remain competitive so I suggest a loaded hourly rate of $17.00 per hour times 121 hours (monthly) =

$2,057.00 suggested bid price per month. This would cover all the hours (day and night, 5 days per week).

I say average monthly price because you do not want to get involved with calculating you price each month due to the number of days in that month and this includes the reduction of all holidays; Christmas, Easter, etc.

Good luck, please let me know how it goes. And when you give them your proposal/contract tomorrow ask them when they will make a decision.


EDIT !!! Are you talking about 5.5 hours Lady or 17.5 daily counting yourself???? I asked earlier if 5.5 was correct however if you are saying that it is 1 1/2 during the day and 16 hours each night counting yourself then the above figures are wrong.

Indeed if 17.5 hours are to be used daily then please use this suggested pricing:

17.5 hrs daily / 5 days per week / 379 hrs per month x $17.00 = $6,443.00 per month.

Lady please add up all the hours that you expect to use per day and let me know.....



Stringer

"Lady please add up all the hours that you expect to use per day and let me know....."

Once you have that figure (total daily hours) extend it to annual days (260) and divide by 12 (months) and take that times the $17.00 for a suggested monthly price.

Gott go... by the way I love the song one of my favorites.

Stringer

I Calculated 5 hours per day/5 days a week giving me a total of 25 hours Thats what I have came up with.

Thanks Stringer for all of your help I will come back soon to let you know how
it goes.