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RE: [sccpartners] pricing a long distance job John Freitag (30 Aug 2010 14:15 EDT)
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RE: [sccpartners] pricing a long distance job John Freitag 30 Aug 2010 14:15 EDT
Ron, There are several ways to handle this job, one would be to have your 4 men work the job. HOWEVER if this job has a lot open areas I would do the job with 2 mem and a walk behind scrubber. You can diamond, use honing powders and even polish with 5X polishing powders with a walk behind scrubber. You just set up the scrubber to ths work. If you decide to use the scrubber call me and I willo walk you through the process. You can rent walk behinds from the larger janitioral supply companies on a daily, weekly rate. The nice thing about a walk behind is one man can hone up to 1000 sq. ft per day doing 3 hones. If you only need to do 1 hone with powders then you can probably do 2000 sq plus per day. One man runs the scrubber the other mans runs the swing machine and does the corner and the places the walk behind cannot get. Now pricing. If the job is 9 hours away you will be in most states required to pay travel time to and from the job. Then you staff will receive the same hourly pay they receive if they are working a local job. Then you have hotel cost, I usually price line hotels and get great deals but depending upon the area you could pay up to $100 per night. Don't make the mistake a lot of contractor do get a room for each technician. You cannot work your guys together all day and expect them to stay together all night and not have problems on the job. Then you need to give the guy a per diem for meals, in the past I given the guys $25. per day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This work depending upon the area the job is located at in major cities the per diem may need to be more. The thing to remember is you don't need to make a profit margin on the per diem and hotel charges you can however make you normal profit margin on the travel time. This is usually actual hourly labor rate time 2.5 to 3 time the cost, so if you pay your guys $20 per hour then you would charge @2.5 ( 20 x 2.5 =$50 per hour ) this gives you a 60% gross profit margin. If you are doing 3 time cost then ( 20 x 3 = 60 ) this will give you a 66.6 % profit margin. Then when it come to bidding the job use you r stand pricing and then add on these extra charges. Remember if you are running a walk behind your productivity is going to be much high at a lower cost. There is still more to talk about if you want additional information let me know John E. Freitag President/Director The Stone and Tile School Office 407-567-7652 Cell 407-615-0134 jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com www.thestoneandtileschool.com From: rmoore@americanstonecare.com [mailto:rmoore@americanstonecare.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:53 PM To: Restoration and Maintenance Subject: [sccpartners] pricing a long distance job Hello all, We have been asked to fix a 24,000 sqft job roughly 9 hours away. The project will be done in two phases. (10,000 phase 1 and 14,000 phase 2) I would appreciate some feed back on pricing this project out. The work involves honing, which will be done with honing powders to produce the desired results. We will have a crew of 4 men with 4 floor machines/ 2 wet vacs. etc. I would welcome any feed back or advise. Thanks in advance. Ron Moore, President American Stone Care, Inc. 16458 Lone Oak Place Hamilton, VA. 20158 540-338-5559 o 301-602-2307 c www.americanstonecare.com -- Powered by http://DiscussThis.com Visit list archives, subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription preferences: http://www.discussthis.com/members/sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com Start a new conversation (thread): sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com