IS IT PROFITABLE
Let’s look at a typical cleaning job. We will be conservative here. Our marketing program tells you to market to upper end homes, because they have their carpets cleaned regularly, have the discretionary income, and always want their homes to look clean. However, for this example we will choose a typical 3 bedroom ranch house that is 2000 square feet. This type of home would normally have about 900 square feet of carpeting. We recommend and most professional cleaners would charge .35 cents a square foot to clean it, and 15 cents a square foot for carpet protector (like scotch guard). So the total cost per square foot for cleaning and carpet protector would be .50 a square foot. We know many cleaners that charge much more than this.
900
square feet X .50 cents = $450.00
It
should take you between 1 ½ to 2 hours to clean this house. The cost of
material would be about .03 cents a square foot or $27.00.
Your
profit would be $423.00 for about 2 hours of actual work or $211.50 an hour.
Even if it took you 4 hours of work (which is should never take that long),
you would still make $105.75 an hour.
If the house was bigger you would make more. (Remember we are going to recommend and show you how to target upscale homes which are normally bigger). You can see that doing only 3 houses of this size a week would earn you about $1269.00 for roughly 6 to 8 hours of actual work. Most carpet cleaners clean at least 1 house a day.
The above does not include furniture cleaning. Many homes that have their carpets cleaned also have their furniture cleaned at the same time. Some customers just want their furniture cleaned. Furniture cleaning is very profitable also. Examples would be: Sectional ($125.00) takes about 45 minutes, Couch ($85.00) takes about 30 minutes, Love Seat ($65), takes about 20 minutes, Stuff Chair ($45.00) takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Cost of material less than a dollar each. Using the above carpet cleaning example of $423.00 profit, if you also cleaned their couch, love seat, and chair you would add $195.00 to your profit for a total of $618.00 for about 3 hours of work.
Commercial
carpet cleaning can be even more profitable, particularly if you buy the carpet cleaning Business and Home Package.
Tile and grout cleaning is also very profitable, and there is more tile and grout in homes and businesses than ever before. Normal charges for cleaning tile and grout is $1.00 a square foot to clean and $1.00 a square foot to seal. So a 12X12 foot room would generate $288.00 for about 1 hour of work.
Our
marketing program will give you the tools and know how to market to the right
homes as well as commercial businesses.
