This will be our 1st large job & need help pricing it, we have the xero x2 & two carbon poles 30ft & 50ft.
they want inside & out & we counted around 1250 panes.
Thanks for the help
Some details to consider first are:
1.) How many in your crew?
2.) How many windows can one person clean on the outside with a WFP in 1 hour?
3.) Have you calculated your business’s minimum rate per hour? (What you need to make per hour to cover your overhead, and make a survivable wage before an actual profit?)
4.) What are you options for cleaning the interior? Pole everything? Ladders? Indoor motorized scissor lift?
I am in Central Florida where the prices are on the lower end of the spectrum so normal route work is $1.25 per pane per side. I have been pricing WFP at $2.50 for the first level and then adding $1 for each additional level consecutively. My most recent job took 3 hours including set up and break down of the WFP for 126 windows, (40 of which were on the second level). I charged $190, my minimum per hour is $50 so I netted a profit of $12/hr. Same windows on the interior were done with a pole and trad tools so it took me 4.5 hours. I charged $225 so I hit my $50/hr minimum, so next time I need to assess my technique and efficiency as well as raising the price by .50-$1 per window for the interior.
My goodness that is cheap! $190 for 3 hours/$225 for 4.5 hrs work is really rough bro. I sit at a bare minimum of $100/hr, and I get shitty if its even a dollar under… with my new gear and technique I’ve been hitting $125-$150/hr.
I consider myself lucky to be in a decent market. I’m at AUD$5/pane average, $5-$10 per screen and $2-4 per track.
For larger commercial jobs, $5-$10 for exterior only WFP, $10-$15 per pane for in/out
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It’s really hard to price a job with a single photo and saying 1250 panes.
If I had to guess …maybe somewhere between 6k and 8k.
I agree , we also shoot for $100 per man hour. It doesn’t always happen, sometimes we make more sometimes we make less.
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my minimum for that many panes would be $6250 before tax.
Agreed ! I’d just have to see the entire job at least from the outside to give a better ballpark. Anywhere between 6k and 8k I think the job would be solid.
Thanks guys for the info I really appreciate it & here is a better picture. They have water hookups on the roof & for the inside he said they have a lift I could use.
Sorry bro, still can’t really help out too much with this photo. I’d be at AUD$5 min for each pane, maybe $20-$50 for each time the ladder needs to come out, or lift the per pane price for anything super difficult or dirty. This can be a great learning curve for you - just price it! If you win the job, you’ll know if you where too cheap almost as soon as you start, so learn from that for next time. If you lose, call the person responsible for choosing the contractor and ask genuinely for honest feed back about your pricing and overall presentation and why they chose the other business. I did this with my first massive quote and found i was literally a third of the price of the winner, so they didn’t trust me enough; I thanked them for the honest feedback and moved on.
Sorry bro, there’s no quick way around this