[srg_constantine]

I am going to start a cleaning business in Salisbury, NC and I would like to know how much can I bid or ask for it. That's the information Net are occupied is: 3672 sq. ft. Carpet: 493 sq. ft. Vinyl title : 2990 sq. ft. Number of floors is: 1.

The service will be general cleaning and include the main office building, which has 10 offices, a foyer area, a hallway, 2 bathrooms, a conference room and a small break room.

or how can i bid? for square foot, per hours or times. They need to know the Monthly rate : $ (x) and Annual Total Cost $ (x). THANK YOU

[Fr_Chuck]

You bid by either the method you are familiar with, or by the method they are requiring.

Is this a daily cleaing, a weekly cleaning or how often.
? general cleaning, no such thing, what exactly are the requirements, do you have to mop and wax floors daily or weekly or ever. Bathrooms, will they require steam equipment or special chemicals for sanitation.
Do you have to empty trash cans daily, are you going to furnish trash bags, are you going to funish cleaning materials.

Is the building going to be empty ( no employees) when you clean, or will you have to work around their employees. ** if they have workers there it takes a lot longer to do the work.

What about the outside of the building, will you have to clean it, is there pressure washing or gum removal from side walk required.

Will you be doing windows.

After you know exactly what you are doing,
You use your years of experience to know the @ time to do the job, you figure how many employees you may need, and the hourly wage plus benefits plus costs to do the job.
Then you figure what percent profit you want to make after you pay all of your taxes due.

So what they want is the total monthly amount you are going to charge for doing all of the cleaning. So if you are doing daily cleaning, you figure that times the average number of days in a month, you also have to add any special monthly cleaning, perhaps extra cleaning for holiday seasons or at times they will have special events in the building.

So once you bid that is the check you will get each month to do the work. Also expect that they will be on a 30 to 60 day billing cycle, so when you finish your work this month, it will be 30 to 60 days before you get paid for this months work. So you will have at least 2 months expenese paid out before you get paid any money.

[Clough]

Hi, srg_constantine!

To keep things simple for you here, you say that you're going to start a cleaning business. How much and what kind of experience do you already have cleaning of any kind for others in order to make a profit for yourself, please?

Thanks!