Agricultural Equipment / Machine pressure washing - £45.00 p/h

[markclem71]

Hi my name is Mark, and I run a new business venture called Cambridge Pressure Washing. which I started this year, just before the lock down came into play. I am looking to clean Agricultural vehicles, including trailers on farms in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. I have public liability insurance to the value of £2 million and offer the following price of £45.00 per hour, this includes an external pressure wash of the vehicle using Autosmart XLS TFR and a quick hoover of the cab. I can also clean HGV vehicles and trailers for the same hourly labour rate.

I can offer a one of clean at a time that suits you, at your farm or if you require various cleans throughout the year which I can do for a mutually agreed price price. I am prepared to travel outside the areas offered, depending on the number of Agricultural vehicles or equipment that you require cleaning.

If you would like further details, please get in touch.

Regards

Mark

 

[nick...]

I think you have priced yourself too high but I wish you well in your venture
Nick...

 

[markclem71]

I think you have priced yourself too high but I wish you well in your venture
Nick...

Hi Nick,

Many thanks for your reply. This is the price I charge for HGV cleaning, as this is all new to me what would you as a farmer pay for someone to clean your machines/equipment..??..just so I have a good idea of where I perhaps need to be.

Regards

Mark

 

[nick...]

I allways do my own machines.its often possible to find issues as you are thoroughly looking at various parts.if you are getting that rate you are doing very well I’d imagine and good luck to you
Nick...

 

[tomg]

I could get someone for £25/hr to clean my pig buildings using their own power washer. I thought that was expensive enough!
We do it all ourselves.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

Perhaps taking a brief look at uk average rates for farm work ie ploughing, topping, bailing may help you out the prices you see may scare you. keeping in mind the huge financial outlay A tractor and necessary implements costs. Good luck though hate to seem im treading on a keen guy ??

 

[ACEngineering]

Hi my name is Mark, and I run a new business venture called Cambridge Pressure Washing. which I started this year, just before the lock down came into play. I am looking to clean Agricultural vehicles, including trailers on farms in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. I have public liability insurance to the value of £2 million and offer the following price of £45.00 per hour, this includes an external pressure wash of the vehicle using Autosmart XLS TFR and a quick hoover of the cab. I can also clean HGV vehicles and trailers for the same hourly labour rate.

I can offer a one of clean at a time that suits you, at your farm or if you require various cleans throughout the year which I can do for a mutually agreed price price. I am prepared to travel outside the areas offered, depending on the number of Agricultural vehicles or equipment that you require cleaning.

If you would like further details, please get in touch.

Regards

Mark

I have to agree your pricing is too high per hour.
My labour rate for fixing ag machines is less than that as will most other independent mechanics.

The only way your going to charge that kind of money (even then it may still be too high!)
Is for vehical detailing so a really good clean, wax shine etc clean cab etc so machine is ready to sell.
This maybe a market you might want to look too as there are companies that go round dealers doing this and I assume you agree a day rate and do several machines at once?

 

[ACEngineering]

I allways do my own machines.its often possible to find issues as you are thoroughly looking at various parts.if you are getting that rate you are doing very well I’d imagine and good luck to you
Nick...

Best way to get to know a machine?

 

[Chae1]

Hi Nick,

Many thanks for your reply. This is the price I charge for HGV cleaning, as this is all new to me what would you as a farmer pay for someone to clean your machines/equipment..??..just so I have a good idea of where I perhaps need to be.

Regards

Mark

Maybe half your current rate. Pressure washing is a unskilled job. A pressure washer isn't very expensive. There will be good operators on here going out with 70k pound tractors for £25/hour on farmers fuel.

Lucky the hgv industry can stand it. I'd stick to that if your busy.

 

[Drillman]

I allways do my own machines.its often possible to find issues as you are thoroughly looking at various parts.if you are getting that rate you are doing very well I’d imagine and good luck to you
Nick...

Best way to spot issues is to give something a good wash I find.

 

[Spencer]

It’s a bad job if you can’t wash your own tractor..

 

[ACEngineering]

Maybe half your current rate. Pressure washing is a unskilled job. A pressure washer isn't very expensive. There will be good operators on here going out with 70k pound tractors for £25/hour on farmers fuel.

Lucky the hgv industry can stand it. I'd stick to that if your busy.

I wouldnt say its unskilled imo. I've seen plenty farmers attempts at cleaning??

For a proper job it takes skill but mostly attention to detail and a keen eye?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Pressure wash and quick hover, £45 an hour, your having a giraffe,
Is it 1st of April

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Maybe half your current rate. Pressure washing is a unskilled job. A pressure washer isn't very expensive. There will be good operators on here going out with 70k pound tractors for £25/hour on farmers fuel.

Lucky the hgv industry can stand it. I'd stick to that if your busy.

i would take this advice, not offensively but constructively,

Its great to be in a business where you can name your figure, if you can get those rates for HGV i would invest your time and effort in this area,

many farmers have pressure washers/steam cleaners so its prob a no go anyway.

 

[markclem71]

Maybe half your current rate. Pressure washing is a unskilled job. A pressure washer isn't very expensive. There will be good operators on here going out with 70k pound tractors for £25/hour on farmers fuel.

Lucky the hgv industry can stand it. I'd stick to that if your busy.

Hi many thanks to everyone for there comments it is very much appreciated so would I be guessing right that £15.00 / £20.00 an hour would be an acceptable rate..??

Regards

Mark

 

[bitwrx]

Hi many thanks to everyone for there comments it is very much appreciated so would I be guessing right that £15.00 / £20.00 an hour would be an acceptable rate..??

Regards

Mark

That sounds like approximately what it would cost us to get one of our guys to do it using our washer.

(Which we do, as part of our overheads, as and when the machines really need cleaning and/or we've got right to the bottom of the job list...)

 

[farmerdan7618]

Hi many thanks to everyone for there comments it is very much appreciated so would I be guessing right that £15.00 / £20.00 an hour would be an acceptable rate..??

Regards

Mark

You might find it easier to price farm work on a per job basis rather than an hourly rate. Should you say £45 per hour many will be scared off. But if you say for example £250 for an end of season clean on a combine you might get a bit more business.

 

[markclem71]

i would take this advice, not offensively but constructively,

Its great to be in a business where you can name your figure, if you can get those rates for HGV i would invest your time and effort in this area,

many farmers have pressure washers/steam cleaners so its prob a no go anyway.

Hi, there is a lot of very constructive words on the comments and I think if I charged out at £15
00 per hour then this would be a more reasonable cost, and yes I agree with some of the comments about doing it yourself but time is another major factor, also having spent the past 30 years in both car and commercial industry and having a very good mechanical knowledge anything found during the clean would be reported ie oil leaks from the engine /gearbox area, shaft seal leaks on the PTO side, hub seal leaks on the wheels, chunks out of tyres / cut to cords, the list could go on regarding the different things that could be checked before and after clean, with a defect sheet left per vehicle cleaned.

 

[markclem71]

You might find it easier to price farm work on a per job basis rather than an hourly rate. Should you say £45 per hour many will be scared off. But if you say for example £250 for an end of season clean on a combine you might get a bit more business.

So end of season clean on baileys, combines sugar beet harvesters, maize harvester trailers with a fixed price for each is more acceptable..?? That has given me food for thought, thankyou

 

[ACEngineering]

So end of season clean on baileys, combines sugar beet harvesters, maize harvester trailers with a fixed price for each is more acceptable..?? That has given me food for thought, thankyou

worth taking in to account of the machine your using IMO, a steam cleaner needs to be charged out at more than a cold washer for example but also the job will take a lot longer with say an 11 litre flow rate compared to a 16 litre plus machine!