C’mon Lou…. you’ve been around here long enough to know what kind of answers you’re gonna get for this sort of question bro. Within the next day or two you will be linked to 200 Jerrald Hayes worksheets, three Sonny Lykos webpages, and be recommended two dozen books on overhead, profit, and mark-up.
I know this sort of thing isn’t your normal gig…. so I’d say just put the pencil to it for a minute and you’ll come up with something. Figure out how much time you’ll have invested in the job….phone calls/ ordering, scheduling, billing, picking up material, and installation, etc and then put the stink-eye to it and you’ll come up with a number.
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No wayto tell you.
But why aheader on a gable? ground level or 80 feet up?
Take your best guess as to time X what you think you need per whatever ( day, week, hour, mile of trim..etc) and double that, X aggravating circumstances , divided by mitagating circumstances, add for TIF ( Things I Forgot, about 20%) and show it to someone else..if they laff. Start over.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"
Yeah, dats what I said.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"
Hang-on a bit, Brownbagg will be right here to bid it for you!
He takes all the guess work out of it.
Doug
$17,483.12.Haga su trabajo de fricken
I knew you'd come through with a reasonable number that Lou could work with.
Doug
reasonable...
that was another cut throat under bid...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
that was another cut throat under bid...
A guys gotta keep a roof over his head ya know!
Another cut throat bid, I did it today in 4 hours, And I have to say It was close to perfect. I got lucky and he was happy. I even took his trash out for him
-Lou
$49,950.00 customer buys the window, free beer at lunch.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
but who buys lunch?
$49, 949.50. And we get ribs for lunch. Fast Eddie is buying.
$200.00 labor and all I'll need for the install is a chainsaw and my Paslode; oh..... and cash up front. Headers are way over-rated , prab'ly just put a few extra 16's in tha head casing and be just fine.
Don't forget tha caulk; ME, I like to use tha good stuff so it would prab'ly be closer to $201.79. :)
dug
I know I realized it after I hit the post button.
I went with $1630.00-
Why'd you delete the original post? Makes it seem like something shady's going on.
Probably got tired of the useless answers."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
No such thing as a useless answer on BT!!!Deep significant meaning can be found in even the most absurd post...sometimes what you truly seek is not what you asked but what was hidden in the reply...Grasshopper....
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Pants???I Don't need No Steenking Pants!!!
i say $50 a hour, because that what the tire guy charge me for a wheel alinement. good enough for the tire guy, good enough for window dude..Haga su trabajo de fricken
"good enough for window dude."Man oh Man! You are so transparent I can see right through you! ;)
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That is really really bad. Really bad!!! You get the 3 GROAN award for that.
Live by the sword, die by the sword....choose your sword wisely.
I know...I had to open the window to let the smell out
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This is about the point in the thread where I normally chime in with something almost useful.Too bad I missed the original question.But I really got a kick out of Brian's answer
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Dude was just trying to price out a single window install in a finished house.... single window, gable end, first floor, easy access to include finish (drywall, trim), blah, blah, blah. His regular gig is a cabinet shop, but he's taking odd jobs while his new shop is completed and didn't really know where to begin in coming up with a price for his customer.
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new const or replacement?
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
LOL.... New construction.View Image
OK.
job's done.
we have a bit more info ...
both contractor and customer are happy.
time to really beat the dead horse!
Jeff
btw ... my neighbors brother coulda done it in half the time .... Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
My brothers nieghbor said you did it totally wrong....he used to date a girl who worked in a place whith a guy who knew a contracter....
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Pants???I Don't need No Steenking Pants!!!
the point is what one charge here, couple be 1000"s dollar different 100 miles away, so the question can not be answer. a better question would be, How much time to do the job and then apply you hour rate.and everybody here knows it cant be answered. that why we have fun with it..Haga su trabajo de fricken
Well my sisters boyfriend, who is cousin to a guy who knew a guy who used to be the brother of the sister-in-law who lived in NY, of this chick, who was a lesbian dating another lesbian who had a brother who's father said, Syracuse sucks.
so there.
now go put your pants on for god's sake
hey !!!!
you want I should send you anuther Orange Package???!!.
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I have Transcended the need for Pants....oooohhhhmmmmmm......
Oneadoze trans guys with no need for pants huh?
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Nothing shady about it Mike.... just sort of an unanswerable question for anyone except the OP.View Image
I pretty much figured it was that type of question..and pretty much figured that Lou thought that cancelling his original post would cancel the whole discussion..just felt like messin' with him....
I deleted the original becouse I thought it would cancel the whole discussion. I knew I was in too deep with that question.
-Lou