Start Carpet Cleaning Business

There are more than 32,000 carpet cleaning service providers in America. As you have expected, carpet cleaning service need to use special equipment. You only need to prepare name card and fly sheets and hand out to your neighbors. When you obtain one business, you may rent a carpet cleaning machine and buy some detergent. When your business increases unceasingly, you can look for large quantities of old or new specialized carpet cleaning machines via telephone directory.

At first, you may study some effective carpet cleaning skills by working as a carpet dustman/dust woman. Thus, you can realize which equipment and detergent are used. If you can maintain good relations with your employer, perhaps he will even help you to establish non-competitive service, give you or transfer you some customers.

Many carpet cleaning services are charged by room, for instance, according to 20-35 cents/square feet, the quotation of a 120 square feet room is 24-36 US dollars. It probably needs half an hour to clean. Generally, net profit of this service is 15-25 US dollars/hour. In addition, some service providers often add additional charge because they need to move furniture during cleaning.

You may mail fly sheets to customers, advertise in the newspaper or district telephone directory to look for the customers. Your main customers include family masters, company and office block. The majority services are absorbed in certain specific market, such as family users, apartments, companies, retail stores, shopping centers or government office block. If your enterprise is located in a big city, and has many competitors, then your service must be more specialized than that you provide in a small town with 10000 people. Only by this way, can you earn more money than before.