Who Here Does Commercial CC'ing Only with very little to no residential?

after using my Cimex today for 1st time, it was unbelievably easy. didn't even break a sweat. toughest thing i did was a thorough pre-vac...and the pre-vac took longer than the actual CC'ing. i would love to never have to wand anything again if i could. my right arm with tendinitis would love it to.

for those who do Commercial CC'ing only (if there are any of ya out there), what hours / days do you typically work? weekends? weeknights? weekdays?

thanx for any help --- Derek.

BTW, forgot to mention the results. i did a part of our largest Office Cleaning account. i have HWE cleaned these carpets for the past 7 years....three quarters of the area i did is cleaned once annually and gets trashed. a few areas have never looked presentable even after i HWE'ed it IMO. after using my Mex / Releasit combo, the results were phenomenal....definitely beyond my expectations. even my wife was shocked. i thought Encap'ing was for "maintenance" CC'ing....not what i found. some of the areas i cleaned were in the Restoration side of CC'ing, and the Mex kicked tail. i am going back tomorrow to check for wickbacks and to see how everything looks then.
now that i am sold on the method, i cant wait 'til Monday to get on the horn and start booking appointments for some demo's already have one setup for next Friday.

thanx Rick and everyone!

I make most of my money doing commercial work. Most is evening, and weekend work.

Some commercial jobs can be done in the daytime, during the week, but not most.

I fill in the weekdays with residential work just to keep me out of trouble. I try to block out Tuesdays, and Thursdays for Golf.

There's a lot more money to be made in commercial work than there is in Residential.

Went last week and did an event complex (10,000 sq ft) took us about 3 hours with 2 guys. Charged them 10¢ a foot. Easy $1,000.00

That was in 3 hours,....Residentially it would be difficult for me to make $1,000 in one entire day.

Last Wednesday we did a 18,000 sq ft office building. Once again 2 guys, took 4 hours.

Charged them 9¢ a foot for $1620.00

For 8 hours total labor that's a bit over $200 per hour.

There again, I don't think I could get $1,620.00 in a day doing Residential work,...much less get it in 4 hours.

I like these big paychecks!

WOOOHOOOO WTG Tom, thanx for the reply

anyone else?

thanx --- Derek.

Nice going Tom CHA-CHING


100% commercial for me.

When I started my cleaning business back in 82 I was doing commercial only. So for many years my trucks were only going out at night. Then somewhere around 97 when Joe P was making his big debut as the marketing "guru" I started to think I should get the trucks running by day too. So I bought his package and started targeting quality residential accounts. Before long I had a nice group of upper end residential customers.

But after a couple of years of doing residential I got sick of it. We were charging 4 times as much per sq ft for residential and were still making less per hour. After I inspected Mrs. Jones carpet, pre-vacuumed, pre-sprayed, cleaned the carpet, tabbed the furniture, groomed the carpet, collected the check, petted the dog, asked for referrals, etc --- I was making about half as much per hour as I was making on commercial.

So I dumped it all. We're satisfied to keep things simple and stay with commercial only.





Rick Gelinas

ahhhhh, tx Rick. as with the Cimex, this sounds like an idea better left unspoken

thanx Bro --- Derek.