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the new guy
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what is the going price on single, double and triple wide. i want to know what i should charge for p/washing them.
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the_GUNN_man
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I don't mean to sound like a broken record but how much you should charge is all a matter of how much your company needs to make per hour to be successful. I recently crunched all the numbers and found out that I need to make at least $84 an hour to hit my goal. The way I usually charge for mobile homes is as follows. If it is a 16x80 I take the 16+80 and get 96. Then I charge $96. If it is a 28x60 I charge $88 and so on. I can do most mobile homes in about an hour and 20 minutes. For me that is making about $65 to $75 an hour. I need to pick up speed and get these trailers done in an hour or less and shove my per hour to $85 to $95 an hour. A lot of guys I talk to say they get these trailers done in under an hour. I am currently working on adjusting my chems and I learned a couple new techniques to make things go faster. A lot of trailers around here have garages. I can get up to $120 for one with a garage.
Aplus
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The typical rates in my area are 75-100 for a single wide, 75-125 for a double wide.
The competition in mobile home washing is ridiculous. There are guys that go door to door, soliciting 50 dollar wash jobs. Of course they don't do a great wash job. They usually try to wash the homes using high water pressure alone, without chems. None of them even know how to remove black stains on gutters.
Many of the mobile home park operators around here do annual property inspections. The typical trailer needs to be washed at least every two years to pass inspection. That means in an average mobile home park, there could be hundreds of trailers that have to be washed, or the tenant is monetarily fined.
The tenants are forced to get their trailer washed, and many don't have the extra dollars to spend, so they look for cheapest wash they can find. So a crap job passes for a year because the tenant did in fact get his home washed. And because it never really looked good, it may need to be washed every year. Many only look at price, they don't want to pay for quality. It's a low-ballers haven!
I don't advertise for mobile home washing. I get calls for them, and I quote my price range over the phone. If they want me to do it, fine, if not, that's fine too. I usually have to squeeze them in at the end of the day, so sometimes I don't care that much anyway.
The competition in mobile home washing is ridiculous. There are guys that go door to door, soliciting 50 dollar wash jobs. Of course they don't do a great wash job. They usually try to wash the homes using high water pressure alone, without chems. None of them even know how to remove black stains on gutters.
Many of the mobile home park operators around here do annual property inspections. The typical trailer needs to be washed at least every two years to pass inspection. That means in an average mobile home park, there could be hundreds of trailers that have to be washed, or the tenant is monetarily fined.
The tenants are forced to get their trailer washed, and many don't have the extra dollars to spend, so they look for cheapest wash they can find. So a crap job passes for a year because the tenant did in fact get his home washed. And because it never really looked good, it may need to be washed every year. Many only look at price, they don't want to pay for quality. It's a low-ballers haven!
I don't advertise for mobile home washing. I get calls for them, and I quote my price range over the phone. If they want me to do it, fine, if not, that's fine too. I usually have to squeeze them in at the end of the day, so sometimes I don't care that much anyway.