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| This facility is a 10,000 square foot daycare that was added on to an existing church. My wife cleans this space Monday thru Friday. Our contract expires in September. How much should we charge per sq. ft.?
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| Bidding & Estimating - joseph bell |
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The short answer would be for you to take your current monthly billing and divide that by 10,000 sq. feet to arrive at your present price per square foot per month. If this is too low for the time actually being spent on the project, increase the price.
You may also run some numbers as if you were developing a competitive bid. While this is more complicated, it will give you a better feel for the job.
Some daycares with full occupancy clean at 2600 sq. ft. per hour, given several conditions. If your labor rate is $9.50 hr. (Bureau of Labor Statistics for D.C.) and your payroll expenses, overhead, supplies and profit were $10 an hour - then your billing rate would be $19.50 an hour. At 2600 sq. ft per hour, your cleaning time would be 3.846 hours a night or 82.69 a month. At $19.50 hr that would be $1612 a month or .16 cents a square foot.
The square footage pricing formula for the above example would be: Your production time (10,000 sq. ft divided by 2600 sq. ft. per hour) x $19.50 hr. x 21.5 days divided by 10,000 sq. ft. You should adjust the production time to what your actual time now runs for the facility. And, adjust the hourly billing rate to reflect your current pricing so that you arrive at a more precise figure.
Also, your production time could be considerably higher maybe up to 3800 sq. ft. per hr.) because this facility is about twice the size of an average daycare and, being new, probably has a low occupancy rate.
Adjusting your hourly billing rate is easy (assuming you track all of your expenses). However, adjusting the cleaning variables is tricky. For example, the 30 some daycares we used to clean all varied in production times, determined in part by the amount of carpet vs. tile, occupancy load, housekeeping attention during the day, number of rest rooms and fixtures, and if the daycare workers picked up toys and placed chairs on top of tables prior to our arrival. If you must wipe down dining tables, food service counters, and clean other counters and office desks nightly, the cleaning time will take longer.
When using production formulas keep in mind that the exact cleaning specifications (nightly duty list) will also affect the production time. Carpet cleaning and floor care (burnish, top coat, and strip) normally is priced extra.
Gary Clipperton
National Pro Clean Corp.
(719) 598-5112
www.nationalproclean.com
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