Cleaning/Sealing Pricing?

[JamesRB]

Hi there,

Just done a job today and yesterday. It was a renovation of a terracotta floor in a conservatory about 10m2. Was a right mess with 20 years of grime and it had never been sealed. Anyway the up shot was that it took me 1/2 a day to clean and 1/2 to seal.

I charged £120 for the two half days plus £60 materials (prob only cost £40) so £180 in total. The customer was so over the moon with the floor that he told me I hadn't charged him enough and gave me £220

What is realistic to charge for this type of work?
This one was my first renovation and I was obviously to low?

cheers
James

 

[david campbell]

sounds fair enough mate
2 1/2 shifts plus mats

 

[White Room]

The customer was happy, the price dos,nt seem bad

 

[DHTiling]

IMO it should be 2 days day rate.. unless you worked the other half of the days you used..

 

[Ken Bruty]

As Dave says

 

[Scott]

No such thing as a half day on my firm, unless you come and work for me of course :hurray:

 

[enduro]

I would of been double that price. And just explain to customers on these type of floors that as soon as you add water to them you could have a problem with Efflorescence...Only had this happen a few times and needed to be sorted before they could be sealed, this was charged as an extra cost to my original price.

 

[diamondtiling]

I would also have charged for two full days plus materials.

 

[JamesRB]

Cheers guys,

I think your right probably should have charged two days, but the customer was really chuffed so thats the main thing

Didn't think I would enjoy doing the renovating but it was actually really rewarding for the effort needed.