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Topic: hotel rooms
Posted By: rotovac
Subject: hotel rooms
Date Posted: 11/May/2004 at 8:07am
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hotels rooms i was offered the opportunity to clean hotel rooms and still haven t turned it down yet, I have not done this before, If anyone has please let me know if profitable or not. Thanks ------------- rotovac |
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 11/May/2004 at 8:25am
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The great thing is you don't have to move furniture....It's all portable work and most times in the days..... I chalk it up to being your time plus soap..... so it's pretty easy...each room has it's own washroom so it's easy to get and dump water... The only thing I didn't like...the head house keepers are hard to please. the other only thing is... you have to wait 30 days net for your money some hotels up to 60 days... try and get paid right away... or net 15 |
Posted By: greg
Date Posted: 12/May/2004 at 5:18pm
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your right mr steamer head of house keeping can be a pain in the ass. if your doing a hotel with 400 rooms and they come to you and say, remember that room you did 3 weeks ago in 274. the stain is still there by the bed. you won't remember if it was there or not, it could have happened the night before. so you clean it anyway. keep em happy right. ------------- nothing is impossable. it just hasn't been done yet. |
Posted By: carpetologist
Date Posted: 12/May/2004 at 9:28pm
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With what it cost today to stay in a hotel room you would think you could make good money cleaning there. Hotels are cheap, but deodorizing this is something different. If they can't get the odor out they can't rent it. Fogging or ozone can make you a hero and money in Hotels. ------------- Kleen Kuip Supply Mart Inc. http://www.kleenkuip.com - New & Used Professional Carpet Cleaning Machines, Restoration Equipment, Training, Service and Supplies |
Posted By: buffer
Date Posted: 12/May/2004 at 10:21pm
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Thanks for the feedback guys if the head honcho of the hotel wants to pay when he wants to then i guess he can clean them him self don t think i want to wait for him to pay me and all the nit pick you can handle. ------------- rotovac |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 12/May/2004 at 10:26pm
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Buffer are you the same guy as Rotovac who started this topic ????? ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 12/May/2004 at 10:38pm
| That Hotels...I hate waiting for money...sometimes it's just not worth it |
Posted By: buffer
Date Posted: 13/May/2004 at 11:05pm
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adwa yeah it s me im on my computer upstairs and my wife is on the one down stairs,once in a so once in a while i ll switch sorry about the confusion. ------------- rotovac |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 13/May/2004 at 11:42pm
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That's ok Buffer it's just that a member of this forum thought the same and I told him that he was imagining things. Well maybe not in those words. Looks like I owe him an apology. Is your wife in the business and maybe she should come on and say a few things. I sure would like another women's opinion once in a while. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 14/May/2004 at 10:39am
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Mr. Steamer: What you have to do is build in the waiting time on the room charge. When we use to do rooms we had a sign off when the room were cleaned the same with restoration. If it was satisfactory at time if cleaning than if it is not now that is not my problem. I am not on a maitainance program I am here for 1 cleaning. But since I have no cousins in the motel business I don't bother alot wiith motels etc. ------------- Just My opinion |
MR. STEAMER wrote:Posted By: buffer
Date Posted: 14/May/2004 at 7:14pm
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adwa yes we have been married for 28 years she is korean and speaks english real well and little does she know about carpet cleaning and she is learning she has her own computer and talks to he friends and she happy with waat she is doing but she will not get on the forum with us . So what ever maks her happy im all for it . ------------- rotovac |
Posted By: Harvey
Date Posted: 14/May/2004 at 8:48pm
| I have recently started on a hotel of 65 rooms. I have not done them before & commited to $25/room. This may not be a bad price if you can do more than 10 at a time. The owner of this hotel only wants to do 10 at a time. To make a long story short I only average 37.50/ hour after he picks apart every room. Next year $35/room at the least. |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 14/May/2004 at 9:05pm
Harvey: I hope when you say 10 rooms it is a block of 10 room. What I mean is the rooms are all in one area not spread out all over the building. If there all over than you need more than $25.00 because half of your time is spent moving. But I guess it is what the market will bear in your area. If you can't make any money at it don't do it. Now what I mean is if you are 1 man and you are netting $37.50 per hr. that may not be bad considering if that is the norm in your area how much driving would you be doing to make $250? I have to quit. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 14/May/2004 at 11:42pm
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Posted By: buffer
Date Posted: 14/May/2004 at 11:57pm
gee im starting to get depressed just watching the e mail on hotel rooms. ------------- rotovac |
Posted By: Harvey
Date Posted: 15/May/2004 at 12:00am
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Doug, all of the rooms are in the same area. This is a
very fusy man though, & the rooms are clean when we go in so he
makes us go to the laundry facilities to get water for the porty. lol
at least it is good & hot! I am used to making about $65/hour. But I guess I should quit wineing cause he does want to do 10 rooms every month & all the halls 4 times a year. |
Posted By: Harvey
Date Posted: 15/May/2004 at 1:19am
| I would not turn them down buffer just get the right price / room. If there is lots of rooms it could be a pretty sweet on going income. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 15/May/2004 at 6:03am
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Harvey I suggest air movers.... wick backs are a killer, because the lock up the room right after your done...no air flow... if you don't know what you are doing, house keeping will have you back for re-do's, Hotels need to have it perfect, and when there are stains that can't come out, they get upset |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 15/May/2004 at 2:51pm
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Mr. Steamer: If you are that damm good than you should have no problem Justifying why they should pay you more than the other not so good cleaner. Like I said paper work to cya sometimes helps. If the Manager signs when they are done when you come back next week to do more work what can he say when you bring out the paper work? Someone can spill the minute you leave and they rent the room. thats not your problem. Burt if they can intimidate you to reclean who does it benefit? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: Harvey
Date Posted: 15/May/2004 at 3:57pm
| Ya definately air movers are the way to go. When we do 10 rooms we take 5 air movers. Do 5 rooms & place the air movers, when the next 5 rooms are done the first 5 are pretty much dry. But you are right , make sure you get all stains & gum out & let them inspect before you leave cause you are sure to go back to 1 or 2 rooms. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 15/May/2004 at 4:42pm
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when I move you move just like that |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 16/May/2004 at 8:31am
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when I move you move just like that [/QUOTE] Mr. Steamer: It is that animal magnetism of yours. Besides opposites attract. Don't take it personal I think you get your fair share of jabs. Sound right?------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 16/May/2004 at 9:58am
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Jabs from my fellow CC's here... but in the real world of making money...thats what I do make money and get refferals for all the great work I do.... I never use to believe it..... They would rave and rave about my work... The difference between me and a lot of other CC's is that I clean from the heart, and I rather not do the job if I know it won't come out great.. getting back to the hotel rooms.... it's not worth to work for cheap, because a lot of headaches come with it... When I see a big commercial job come up and I know it might be problems I always price it very high |
Posted By: Steaminpile
Date Posted: 18/May/2004 at 12:46am
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I have a few hotels they're o.k.,not great but o.k. a couple of them are pretty good,I usually do 20-30 rooms a day they all pay within a week for me,One of them pays ca$h upon completion. |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 18/May/2004 at 10:09pm
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Steamer stop tripping over your self. Is it not true that sometimes you have to do the jobs that are not so great because you know that they will lead to better job. Just inquiring. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 18/May/2004 at 10:19pm
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nope......I don't play that... I was going to get a contract to clean halls in a big apartment building... the money was good, and if I did a good job I'd get all the condo's they owned in the GTA.... but man the place was hoofed/trashed there was no way I could get it cleaned properly.. I could see the problems ahead, the property manager told me they have never been happy with any cleaner so far..and heard I could do an excellent job... so I passed I look at a job this way....."IT'S NOT THE LAST JOB ON EARTH" I'm not going to pick up someone else's problems just to make a few bucks |