The piece in the newsletter suggests you can't charge if you do the cleaning yourself, Ken. It's the cost you are entitled to recoup, not (lost) contribution towards fixed costs and profit, just the cost of cleaning.....
Fer me Puke is 140, no haggling, either pay or it's the Gardai.
One young fella did get Shirty with me one morning after puking most of it out the window on to the door, it wasn't a lot of puke but he was an asshole so I marched him in to Garda headquarters, he pleaded his case to the Guard and the Guard told him;
"Grand, no problem you can pay this man his 140 Euro or you can explain it all to the Judge".
He paid !Another trollop barfed in the back one night at about 3am, her fatter more trollopy friend in the back beside her was screaming and roaring about the 140 soilage charge, I diverted the cab and pulled in outside Ballincollig Garda station telling them;
"There is an ATM over there if you wish to pay or else I'm going in to the Garda station ?".
She went to the ATM and paid !.
As it turned out and I didn't know at the time, and Miss Fat Trollop didn't know was that the Ballincollig Garda station closed at 10pm every night !!