Had a contractor that I do work for contact me today wanting me to clean his 1 year old apartments. He only wants the breezeways cleaned. I pretty much have the job he just wants a formal quote and Im not sure on it. I don’t expect anyone to give me a direct price just would like to see how long everyone with experience thinks it should take. He wants all the concrete, stairs and siding only in the breezeways cleaned. I will be Washing with a 5.5 gpm machine and have one helper with me but I will be the only one washing. There are a total of 16 breezeways.
4x your normal flatwork rate. 3x if your not popping gum.
Or just charge your day rate. It should take any longer then that.
In my part of the world you could get around 600 -800 per unit
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Figure 45 minutes per breezeway. For me, that’s $150 per breezeway. Tape the key holes, bag and tape the pull stations.
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Pull station? Nevemind I know what it is.
First apartment I did I pulled the plastic too early on the drop levers and water found a short. Maintenance manager was getting drunk at the pool hall , wouldn’t answer the phone and I had firefighters asking me where the main shut off was.
We got it all sorted out about 2 hours later.
And they had a failed fire inspection the next week.
Figure your time going to be double Innocents and price accordingly.
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I was thinking $250 per breezeway. So that sounds about right. Probably take me close to two hours. There are a ton of spiderwebs.
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I got the Bid on the apartments and start tomorrow. When you say bag and tape the pull stations do you just slide a trash bag over them and tape them up or do you have bags made for this to use?
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Pull station = Fire Alarms = yes
I use T shirt bags, like your grocery store uses, and blue tape for the pull stations. One small piece over the key holes. Find the alarm panel and cover it completely with a trash bag and tape it. Don’t think just because it’s in a stairwell closet or something that it isn’t going to get wet
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Got it. Thanks
How did the job go? Anything you learn that would help another peson that is looking at a similar job?
