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Mike Hemric

Mike Hemric

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I just got back from looking at these townhouses and need to put in a bid for the job. I have not done a job this big so I could use some input. The townhoses are about 6000 sqft in the picture you will see the front and the back and sides are all vinyl. It is 54 units. What would you bid the job for?
 

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Get with Jeff from JL Pressure Washing, I'm sure he can help you. This is his expertise.
 
Mike Hemric said:
I just got back from looking at these townhouses and need to put in a bid for the job. I have not done a job this big so I could use some input. The townhoses are about 6000 sqft in the picture you will see the front and the back and sides are all vinyl. It is 54 units. What would you bid the job for?
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offdutyfireman said:
Mulitply every front door by $55. Crew of 4 should take 8 hours to complete.
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Ok so if I am doing the math right you would be charging 11'880 and you would have 4 guys washing. They would have to wash 1.68 units in 1 hour to complete in 8. Thanks for the help
 
Mike Hemric said:
Ok so if I am doing the math right you would be charging 11'880 and you would have 4 guys washing. They would have to wash 1.68 units in 1 hour to complete in 8. Thanks for the help
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You said there were 54 units. 54 times $55 is $2970. 8 hours of work. Did I miss something? I was just trying to help. I clean thousands of these a year. Feel free to call.
 
Mike, where does the 6,000 s/f come into play? I would guess those units at about 1600 s/f. Is the 6000 for each block?

William keeps forgetting to mention he has been in business for ten+ years and that he hates to sell (and has eguys that have been working for him for awhile and this is all they do everyday). You can upsell scrubbing the gutters and throw in a wetwax and wash them for $90 apiece. I would bid at $120 up here.

A more realistic time is 4 days for a newer guy without an experienced labor force.
 
Ken that is right the 6000 sq ft comes from the 2 pictures at the top of the page. The 2 pictures put together is 1 block and there 54 of them and yes they are about 1600 sq ft.

William thanks for helping me out on this post and I think you are missing something in this post. If you are saying $55 a door , each block has 4 doors so 54 units X 4 = 216 doors x 55=11880 this is how I come up with my figure.
 
Mike Hemric said:
Ken that is right the 6000 sq ft comes from the 2 pictures at the top of the page. The 2 pictures put together is 1 block and there 54 of them and yes they are about 1600 sq ft.

William thanks for helping me out on this post and I think you are missing something in this post. If you are saying $55 a door , each block has 4 doors so 54 units X 4 = 216 doors x 55=11880 this is how I come up with my figure.
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OK, just different terminology. To me each door represents a unit, but I am with you now. Pricing per door is still the same.
I wouldn't upgrade to a gutter scrub though. That should be standard with the wash job. Ken is right with the 4 days with that many units. I saw hydrants in the pic so water shouldn't be an issue.
 
Holy $hit william!!! I am yet to figure out how you are still in business!!! Mike feel free to give me a call tomorrow These are worth way more than $55 a door thats $55 a unit!!!

*basic terminology* unit = a one family dwelling "aka a door"

a building would be how ever many units there are in a single stand alone building

so from your pictures you are showing one building with from what i can see 3 doors so that is a 3 unit building I hope that helps you out a little

Give me a call
502-525-3279
 
Also william giving them a price on gutter scrubbing and a wax will funnel them to the basic wash! there is more to this biz than just cleaning!!! There is a saying that "your product is what you make of it, some sell snow, some sell Alaskan shaved ice" which would you think cost more?

and one more thing about the price per unit. I did a ten building apartment complex last year and charged $125 for JUST the breeze ways. Just a little FYI
 
This is why asking for help on pricing can be a sketchy idea. You can get advice that will put you out of business. William and I have the labor force and equipment to get this done quickly.

My four day estimate was at 54 doors (for a one man show with a helper) doing 14 doors per day. With using the term units for what I call blocks, the single two-man crew can probably average 4-5 units/blocks per day (allowing for a rain day, setup and breakdown, moving, chemical mixing, assuming lower gpm machines, gutter scrubbing). I don't know your experience, chems or available labor pool though so this is a guess on my part.

This can be anywhere from a four day (William) to 14 day project.
 
upward pressure wash said:
are you going to wash all of the building or just the concrete. that would help price it out. work can be slow so dont over price the job.
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Under price it and there won't be any business the next year. Is there any such thing as "over pricing"?

In any business, there is a break-even price, then there is a profitable price, and then there is a prospering and growing the business price. Which would you like to do? Break-even, profit one cent/job, or prosper and grow your business? So you see there really isn't such a thing as over-pricing but there is such a thing as making more money.

Also, just because work is slow, it isn't a reason to commit suicide. Which is what is done if pricing work soley to land the job without any thought of profitability. The saddest part is that lowering a price to secure a job isn't even a 100% guarantee of getting the job. The customer may hire the higher priced guy anyhow. So all that lowering price does is to make ya go broke faster or not get the work at all.

Just something to think about.
 
FCPWLLC said:
Under price it and there won't be any business the next year. Is there any such thing as "over pricing"?

In any business, there is a break-even price, then there is a profitable price, and then there is a prospering and growing the business price. Which would you like to do? Break-even, profit one cent/job, or prosper and grow your business? So you see there really isn't such a thing as over-pricing but there is such a thing as making more money.

Also, just because work is slow, it isn't a reason to commit suicide. Which is what is done if pricing work soley to land the job without any thought of profitability. The saddest part is that lowering a price to secure a job isn't even a 100% guarantee of getting the job. The customer may hire the higher priced guy anyhow. So all that lowering price does is to make ya go broke faster or not get the work at all.

Just something to think about.
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