Fence pricing

Exterior Attack PW

Exterior Attack PW

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I am in the process of bidding a subdivision that has 2x10 fencing around the entrance. Its 560 feet and has two sides 1120 feet total. Its a 6 foot high fence. Its a painted surface and only has green mold on it so it looks pretty easy to clean. I think that the majority of it will come off with just chemical. I was thinking about bidding it at $1.00 linear foot. This is the first fence job that I have been called for. Am I close to what you other guys are charging? Unfortunately my camera took a poop and unable to provide any pictures.
 
ken, are they taking other bids?

You obviously need to charge what makes your business money... I don't want to tell you what to charge, but I think you may be on the high side. That said, sell your work, methods and self... Also, Price any other work that may need done and submit it with your bid.

If you think that chemical alone will kill the mildew/algae... Bear in mind that another contractor may be thinking the same thing - consider your costs, time it will take and what you want to make.

Depending on logistics and exact condition of fence, that job could be done in a short period of time...
 
..or $672 which is $.10 per sq. ft. for clean.. yes it low considering yer likely gonna have to use chlorine but hey it is just a quik clean. Hate mentioning such a lowball figure compared to your $.16 figure but that's the way the cookie crumbles usually when dealing with fences. If it was a full on restore with staining or painting the individual prices of the separate duties would seem to be marketable on their own merit as much higher but I just have not found it to be true. The simpler and less inclusive the work the less each item goes for. Issue is one of itemizing and cost expectations... $100 aspirin or $5k toilet seats don't fly.
To make money on such job you almost have to go the route of a one set price based around abstracts of what ya need to make per job or in relation to minimums per day. Get'em thinking per foot or per lin foot and you'll likely loose such job everytime.
 
We did a wall a few weeks ago, think it was around 900 feet. Just one side and the top we billed them 875.

Worked the project for maybe 2-3 days when we were in the neighborhood, after cleaning a roof. We would work for about an hour or two. Walls are easy projects to do and make $$ on.

Also they are usually around an HOA.
Have your sign out while you are working.

Then about a weak or two after you are done hit them up with postcards and they will connect with your sign and good work and well..there go's another neighborhood.
 
ya bro...
The height was about 5-7 feet in different areas. We cleaned just about every member of the HOA' BOD's roof or house for years.

The walls came up at a meeting for cleaning and they even got a bid for I think it was a couple hundred less than my bid.

I did all of the walls of a community (several miles) about five years ago for around .55 a linear ft. It was a great project, I gave them taht price because of the amount of wall.
The same project went for under.25 last year. He wouldn't tell me the # but he said it would have to be lower than a quarter.

Walls seem to be hacked out around here. That wall was an easter egg as far as I'm concerned. Pretty much all the walls I do I have had the account for years and they don't look for other bids.

I don't go after walls at all.
 
Linear ft around here is 12 to 15 cents. You can clean that fence with chemical and high volume low pressure in no time at all.
 
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