John,

Thanks, call you tomorrow. We're do for a talk.

Ron
> 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
>
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>
> 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
>
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Ron Moore, President
American Stone Care, Inc.
16458 Lone Oak Place
Hamilton, VA. 20158
540-338-5559 o
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www.americanstonecare.com