Spring Cleaning

A hint to make everyone happy is to contract with your carpet cleaner to clean your carpet every spring at $0.20 to $0.22 per square foot. Some carpet cleaners may believe, they can't be profitable at this price, but much of their time is spent "not cleaning" or doing things (estimates etc.) that do not generate income. If a carpet cleaner: cleans two homes each day, can clean 800 sq. ft. per hour, with good results s/he can cover costs, be profitable, and have a savings account.

The average home has about 1000 square feet of carpet. At $0.20 per foot, this amounts to $200.00 for about two and a half hours work (80 minutes cleaning-40 minutes set up/break down-30 minutes transportation time) id="mce_marker"50 is about the minimum profitability point for many carpet cleaning jobs unless it is a regularly recurring task.

If a homeowner waits 7 years to have their carpet cleaned again, these 100 or so jobs become zero next year. So your carpet cleaning company charges $0.30 per square foot, makes id="mce_marker"50,000 ($75,000) this year on these consumers, nothing next year, or year three, or year four, or year five, or year six and another id="mce_marker"50,000 in year seven, when the average consumer cleans again. So in seven years @ $0.30 per foot, (assuming these customers can find or remember you in seven years) the carpet cleaner would average $21,428 (id="mce_marker"0,714.00) per year on these 100 or so customers vs $38,000 (id="mce_marker"9,000.00) on a yearly cleaning over 7 years.

The problem with this theory is the average residential carpet is cleaned every 7 years and the average carpet is replaced every 7 years, so the average carpet is cleaned once during its lifetime, so let's look at the residential carpet owner side of the equation.