Estimating Commercial

[Bud B]

   Had a call for 5000+ sq. ft. of office space, Unknown about furniture.   Most likely its going to be done with the TM,  whats a fair price on the square footage for this job?   I am more apt to drop my square footage price for volume.   Local competition is about  .28 sq.ft. for commercial in this area?   I'm not trying to be the cheapest cleaner around , just the best.  I  would rather walk than work for dog scraps.   
     What kind of time frame would it take to do this amount of square footage with a TM, dual wanding.

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[kingjoelking]

God I wish I could get a job like that. Most commercial work gets done for around $.10 - $.15  a sf.  So if you go in at $.25 a sf you will make a grip of loot.

[Mike M]

I would need more details but .10-.15 is about average for commercial work in our area last I knew.

.28 is a residential charge.

I'm guessing 3-4 hours if both of the operators know how to clean and access is decent. That's 1/2 hour setup and take down plus 3 or so hours running time.

[Bud B]

  I had my sister call a local  for comm. rate. That's what they told her. guess I'll have to call ( have her call more locals for prices.)  Thanks for the heads up Mike on the prices!

[Mike M]

Yes, I would get some more local "estimates" to check the rates.

.28 would be more like 500 sq. ft.

[Freshnclean]

I just bid a 10,000 sf job at .22 cents a square foot.  But I am going to use encapsulation.  Problem is it is pretty dirty so I am going to need to vac pretty well first.  I am a slow wander with a porty so HWE would cost them more and kill me. 

[Mike M]

I would be surprised if you got a 10K job for .22/sq. ft.

If so I'm coming out of retirement.