Where this stands, plainly
I have been jet washing for over ten years and I am very good at it. The photographed portfolio on this site is domestic, because domestic is what I have been booked for. Commercial is the side I am building now.
That matters to you in exactly two ways, and I would rather say them than have you find them out. The machine, the chemistry and the method are the same at any scale, so the finish is not in question. What is newer is the scheduling around a live site, and that is why every commercial job starts with a survey and a written plan of how the work gets done around your operation rather than through it.
The upside for an early commercial customer is that I am pricing to win the work and build a reference site, and I will show you a test patch before you commit to anything.
What I take on
Four kinds of commercial site
Car parks
Hotels, offices, retail and residential blocks. Worked in phases so the site stays open.
Usually signed off by: Facilities manager, managing agent or hotel GM What this involvesForecourts and entrances
Pubs, restaurants and shops. The first three metres a customer sees.
Usually signed off by: Landlord, owner-operator or area manager What this involvesIndustrial and warehouse yards
Units, loading bays and delivery aprons. Worked around your slots, not through them.
Usually signed off by: Site or operations manager What this involvesFarms and agricultural
Concrete standing, barn aprons and hardstanding across the Weald.
Usually signed off by: Farm owner or estate manager What this involvesBudget
What commercial work costs
The domestic price list on this site is fixed and published, because a driveway is a driveway. A commercial site is not, so this side works differently: a survey, then a fixed written price for your site.
The fixed domestic price listGuide figures
- Open hard standing, over 200m² guide
- from £2.50/m²
- Car parks, yards and aprons. Cheaper per square metre than a domestic drive because the machine runs continuously once it is set up and there is far less edge work per square metre.
- Half day on site guide
- around £350
- One operator, roughly four hours including setting up and clearing down. Suits a forecourt, a smoking area or a single loading bay.
- Full day on site guide
- around £600
- The usual unit for a car park or a farmyard, and normally the cheapest way to buy the work if the whole site can be done in one visit.
- Out of hours guide
- +25%
- Evenings, Sundays and before opening. Usually cheaper overall than losing trade or parking during the day, which is why most commercial work happens this way.
- Minimum commercial visit guide
- £300
- Getting a commercial machine to site and away again is most of a small job, the same as it is domestically. Repeat visits on a contract are priced differently.
Commercial work is priced per site after a survey, so nothing above is a quote. The figures are here so you can decide whether it is worth a phone call, and they are the range this sort of work sits in rather than a number I will hold you to. Access, out of hours working and how much of the site can be closed at once move a commercial price further than the area does.
How it runs
From your call to the invoice
- 01
Site walk
Half an hour on site with you. Surface, drainage, access, marking type and how much of it can be closed at once.
- 02
Test patch
On anything with heavy oil, gum or rust I clean a small area and you look at it. You buy a result you have seen rather than one you have been promised.
- 03
Written quote
A fixed price, the hours I will be on site, and what is excluded. Purchase order reference carried on the invoice if you need one.
- 04
The visit
Worked in phases so your site keeps running, or out of hours if that suits better. Photographs of the finished work sent the same day.
Arrange a survey
Tell me about the site
Rough area, surface type and when the site is quietest is enough to start. If you can send a couple of photographs from your phone, better still. I will come and walk it before quoting anything.
Sent
That is with me.
I read every one myself. If you sent photos I can usually come back with a fixed price the same day, or the next morning if it arrives late.