cborne01
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Never had a job this scale and wanted to know the easiest way to estimate the amount of SH needed.
I'm bidding a job and working jointly with a painting company to first wash , then seal a 50,000 sq. brick building 100ft. high.
The building is not terribly dirty, but needs to be washed prior to sealing. Standard house mix will work fine for this one.
In doing small commercial and residential work , I typically don't have to use any formulas on estimates to calculate the amount of product that will needed, typically a few gallons, and any left over can go on the next job, but now I have to estimate how much SH I need to clean approx 15,000 sq ft. of brick.
Is there a formula used to calculate this that guys who do big commercial jobs use when preparing there bid? Its not quite like paint, where your told x product covers x area-- easy math there, or maybe it is that simple and I'm just overthinking things, but I need to be as accurate as possible on this bid, so any help appreciated.
Just want to make sure I'm doing this correctly.
I'm bidding a job and working jointly with a painting company to first wash , then seal a 50,000 sq. brick building 100ft. high.
The building is not terribly dirty, but needs to be washed prior to sealing. Standard house mix will work fine for this one.
In doing small commercial and residential work , I typically don't have to use any formulas on estimates to calculate the amount of product that will needed, typically a few gallons, and any left over can go on the next job, but now I have to estimate how much SH I need to clean approx 15,000 sq ft. of brick.
Is there a formula used to calculate this that guys who do big commercial jobs use when preparing there bid? Its not quite like paint, where your told x product covers x area-- easy math there, or maybe it is that simple and I'm just overthinking things, but I need to be as accurate as possible on this bid, so any help appreciated.
Just want to make sure I'm doing this correctly.
