Beware of Low Priced Carpet Cleaners
in Palm Coast / Ormond Beach!

 

You think you're getting a deal, but think again. There are many carpet cleaning companies in the Palm Coast / Ormond Beach area. It's cheap and easy to start a carpet cleaning company. All you need to do is go down to the tax office and purchase a business license for $32. Then, you're instantly in business.

The license office doesn't require proof of insurance, background checks, workman's compensation, or any training. Yes, anyone can start a carpet cleaning company. There's no regulation.

The companies that come out to clean your house for a cheap price often fall into one of several of the categories above. How do I know?

If Healthy Home CarpetCare charged anything less than we currently do, we'd have cut our expenses. Liability insurance isn't cheap. Neither is the premium products we use to clean your carpet.

Do the math. If you are paying a cleaning company $89 to clean your entire home for that price, where does the money go?

Here's the average breakdown after some research I have done:


To do a decent job, he should be there for nearly one and a half or two hours if he has a truck mounted machine (for an average sized home). It may even be an hour longer if he has a portable machine. On average, it takes twenty minutes to locate your home on a map and drive there, and another twenty to drive from your home.

Do you want the technician to have clean, maintained equipment? If you do, he should spend another twenty minutes per home in cleaning his truck and maintaining his equipment.

Before he even gets to your home, you had to call to make an appointment. It takes an average of twenty minutes to book an appointment on the phone and record the information in a computer.

So, the time involved with your home would be about THREE HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES total.

You're thinking, well that's $29 an hour. But wait, that doesn't include all the expenses.

The techs have to get to your home. If you want them driving a vehicle that doesn't leak oil on your driveway, that trip will cost $12. This is an average business cost according to the I.R.S. at $.52 per mile with an average of 22 miles driven for the round trip.

If you want the company to have liability insurance should they ruin your beautiful carpet, rug, or upholstery, it will cost about $3 per job.

If you want the company to have newer maintained equipment that does at least the minimum requirements of IICRC directives for carpet cleaning, this breaks down to about $6 per job.

They'll need telephones to book your appointment and communicate with you. The office phone and cell phone usage breaks down to about $2 per job.

Do you want the technician to be trained? (I certainly hope so! If they are not certified, they could void your carpet's warranty!) If so, the cost associated with training averages out to about $1 per job.

If they use chemicals on your job, they will spend an average of $2 on decent chemicals. The sad part is, many companies skimp in this area and purchase the cheapest chemicals possible, usually from a Janitorial supply store, loaded with hazardous chemicals (Like Butyl Cellusolve, which causes liver damage).

How did you hear about the company? The average carpet cleaning company spends $30-60 on advertising just to acquire ONE new client. This is why we strive to do everything possible to keep you as a client once you have us into your home.

Okay. Now we're up to $56 of cost before labor (assuming they only spent $30 on advertising to acquire you as a client).

If the cleaner gets paid $8 an hour for the 3.33 hours it takes to book your appointment, do the paper work, maintain his equipment, clean your home, and drive to and from your home, he will get paid $27. Then, we have to add workman's compensation and taxes to total $32.

Total cost with a cleaner getting paid $8 an hour=$88. If you pay, lets say, $99 for your whole house cleaned, there is a net profit of only $11.

But wait…what happens if you have spots return and you need the company to come back out? They can't afford to return! This is why the cheap companies don't have guarantees. (or they may tell you that it's guaranteed, but when you call, they see your caller I.D. on the phone and won't pick it up, or return your calls).

When you have a cleaner getting paid $89 to clean 5 rooms of carpet, there's a HUGE possibility something will go wrong. Believe me, I know! I've been called out to fix these cleaner's mistakes!

What if the cleaner gets paid a little more than $8 an hour? Maybe he is the owner, and not an employee. This means the company is cutting out another expense like insurance, chemicals, training, etc. Do the math. The company can't stay in business otherwise. There is also the possibility that if they don't have or can't afford liability insurance and get hurt on your property, you may be liable!

So...how does a company clean 5 rooms for $89?


If a company charges cheap prices they are either skimping on your service or they're on their way out of business...or they will Bait & Switch you, and charge you hundreds of Dollars AFTER the cleaning! There's no other way to look at it.

 

Don't trust an "$89 whole-house cleaner" to service your fine carpet, Oriental rug, tile, and upholstery. Call Healthy Home Carpet Care at 447-2003. We are one of the most reputable cleaning firms in the Palm Coast / Ormond Beach area.


P.S. Make sure you read what your neighbors and friends are saying about our services. Like you, they were concerned with who they invited into their home.

 

We were voted the #1 rated carpet cleaner on www.Palmcoast.biz for the sixth year in a row! We are also listed as of of Florida's top premium service providers on www.ethicalservices.com - which is listed on the ABC's 20/20 website as a top resource to find an ethical carpet cleaning company.



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