The first question that just about every carpet cleaner receives when they talk to a new customer is about price. It is the first concern of most home and business owners and they will soon see, if they call enough companies, that prices and pricing methods vary greatly. To end some of the confusion, here are the two most common carpet cleaning pricing methods.
By The Room
Definitely the most prominent method in use by carpet cleaners. They will typically set a room maximum in this method. For example, rooms over 200 square feet or 25o square feet will be considered two rooms. This is a fair method of calculating price and has the advantage of saving the carpet cleaner time. Since they do not have to go to your home to quote you a price , they save time and money. Generally this money savings is passed on to the consumer.
Be wary of carpet cleaners with a low square foot maximum, 100 square feet for example. Most homes do not have rooms less than that which means every room will count as more than one. Its a way for bait and switch cleaners to raise the price significantly.
By The Square Foot
In this method of carpet cleaning pricing, the carpet cleaner must visit your home and measure to give you an accurate quote. The advantage of this is that you are only paying for the actual area to be cleaned. The disadvantage is that time is money and the extra time spent by the carpet cleaner to determine a price may be passed on to the consumer.
Other Methods
There are other various methods out there used by a minority of carpet cleaners. These include such things as pricing per the area where they charge in 100 square foot blocks. This is just a combination of the two methods. Some cleaners may also charge by the hour. This has the obvious problem of paying more for a slower cleaner.
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