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Topic: Your biggest porty job you have done and how long
Posted By: Doug CRF
Subject: Your biggest porty job you have done and how long
Date Posted: 19/December/2007 at 12:46am
I just started my little biz with my MYTEE and Rotovac,I have done two jobs so far and they were not big at all and it seemed like the jobs took a long time,I am very new though and want to do a good job.
I used the rotovac on the whole job though and I know that was part of why the jobs took so long.
How quick are some of you guys and do you have any tips for me?
Thanks,Doug   



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Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 19/December/2007 at 8:34am
keep on keepin on.
I have done a lot of apartment buildings over 25 floors and 500 square feet or more per floor.


Posted By: Doug CRF
Date Posted: 19/December/2007 at 12:20pm
So how long do you think it takes you to do like say
500 sq ft?
Doug


Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 19/December/2007 at 3:20pm
20 minutes, I'm slow.

Originally posted by Doug CRF Doug CRF wrote:

   So how long do you think it takes you to do like say
500 sq ft?
Doug

    


Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 19/December/2007 at 5:36pm
Originally posted by Doug CRF Doug CRF wrote:

the jobs took a long time,I am very new though and want to do a good job.
Thanks,Doug   
 
When you get older it will still take a long time..LOL


Posted By: Ninja user
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 3:17pm
use the wand 90% of the time, and the rotovac for restorative carpet cleaning...

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If you think carpet cleaning is robbery wait till you get the repair bill on you tm engine.


Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 29/January/2008 at 11:50pm
Originally posted by Doug CRF Doug CRF wrote:

I just started my little biz with my MYTEE and Rotovac,I have done two jobs so far and they were not big at all and it seemed like the jobs took a long time,I am very new though and want to do a good job.
I used the rotovac on the whole job though and I know that was part of why the jobs took so long.
How quick are some of you guys and do you have any tips for me?
Thanks,Doug   
 
I do millions of square feet a year with portables. One thing buyers don't think about is the size of the tank. If you had to pay $1,000 more for a machine with a tank that was only 4 gallons larger but was exactly the same as a cheaper model, would you pay it?  Most buyers would answer no. That's the wrong answer, because you'll pay many times more than that over the next decade for the extra labor spent filling and dumping that cheaper model.


Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 1:50pm
1,000,000 X .20SFT = $20,000,000 Annually..!!
.10SFT = $10,000,000..!!
Holly COW..! Friendly your da MAN..! Banana%20Dance


Posted By: CCandmore
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 3:20pm
Originally posted by John L John L wrote:

1,000,000 X .20SFT = $20,000,000 Annually..!!
.10SFT = $10,000,000..!!
Holly COW..! Friendly your da MAN..! Banana%20Dance
 
Is that the new math?


Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 3:48pm
Originally posted by John L John L wrote:

1,000,000 X .20SFT = $20,000,000 Annually..!!
.10SFT = $10,000,000..!!
Holly COW..! Friendly your da MAN..! Banana%20Dance


That's Kenny-math!


Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 30/January/2008 at 6:41pm
LOL... No wonder i get big bucks like Precision.. The customers don't check my math..lol LOL 


Posted By: Soil Lint Green
Date Posted: 22/February/2008 at 10:37pm
5000 sqft
2 story manufacturing, offices store front
candied popcorn factory
worst butter and sugar mess
took 5 hours - just me
stairs were 8' long
got only $350
never went back


Posted By: Just Ol' Willy
Date Posted: 23/February/2008 at 1:21am
By myself 42,000 SF common areas in a seniors residence.It took 7 long days, but was a nice paycheck a month later.

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Posted By: rick007
Date Posted: 23/February/2008 at 1:27am
just a wand ?

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happy cleaning


Posted By: FriendlyHammer
Date Posted: 23/February/2008 at 1:31am
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$7 days$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Posted By: Soil Lint Green
Date Posted: 23/February/2008 at 2:49am
Originally posted by Just Ol' Willy Just Ol' Willy wrote:

By myself 42,000 SF common areas in a seniors residence.It took 7 long days, but was a nice paycheck a month later.


Gave you arms like Arnold's eh? Approve


Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 1:29pm
Ronnie Coleman baby..Pimpin


Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 02/April/2012 at 8:46pm
Hysterical
Originally posted by FriendlyHammer FriendlyHammer wrote:

Originally posted by John L John L wrote:

1,000,000 X .20SFT = $20,000,000 Annually..!!
.10SFT = $10,000,000..!!
Holly COW..! Friendly your da MAN..! Banana%20Dance


That's Kenny-math!
 
LOL! The math that makes extra-ordinary cashola..!!
Where is everyone posting? TMF?


Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 03/April/2012 at 3:02am
Carpets loaded with sugar and butter in a candied popcorn facility took 7 hours to do and it was over 5 thousand sqft top and bottom floor.  $50/hr.

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Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity?


Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 19/July/2012 at 12:42am
Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? Stern Smile


Posted By: kostajm
Date Posted: 18/August/2012 at 10:22am
Usually I charge $0.15 per sq.ft, 4500 sq.ft job takes me around 4 hours.
$0.15 X 4500=$675.00
$675.00: 4=$168.75 an hour.


Posted By: westcovina
Date Posted: 19/May/2013 at 3:34pm
Man you work cheap. I charge 350 for 1000 sq feet.

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Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 21/May/2013 at 11:32pm
Originally posted by Ninja user Ninja user wrote:

use the wand 90% of the time, and the rotovac for restorative carpet cleaning...

use it more when they are looking


Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 21/May/2013 at 11:42pm
Originally posted by westcovina westcovina wrote:

Man you work cheap. I charge 350 for 1000 sq feet.

You are in SoCal.  You have living costs that are greatly exaggerated compared to national norms.

Here in Oregon when the average combined household income barely reaches over $40k a year, where the cost of living makes the art of surviving a challenge, we do whole homes for $55-$99.  Most people here just ignore their carpets and furniture all together.  The native born Oregonian has about as much culture as a cannibal.  They try to avoid working all together to get free money for living and rent as low as $45 a month for a three bedroom.  The only reason they have kids is for the money and insurance.  This is truly the welfare state.  The only luxury cars here are in pictures and posters.

But no quakes, fires, long waits on the freeways trying to get home.  It has benefits although I will say I miss SoCal, just not constantly and strongly enough to ever go back.


Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 21/May/2013 at 11:44pm
Originally posted by John L John L wrote:

Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? Stern Smile

These days John, I am surviving but it beats a job.  I make more in 3 hours than most of the workers around here get paid for a full day's labor.  Still, it is humbling.



Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 25/August/2013 at 8:27pm
I hear ya duck. same same here. Stern Smile Where everyone go? Die of chemical exposure? Nuke



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