I'm sitting on an estimate of roughly $8,000 to provide ALL material, lights, lamps and install. Am I in the ballpark? High? Low?
Anybody else have any input as far as my estimation on price? Low? High? Ok where it is?
At $10,200 there is not a lot of markup in that but enough to cover a little over run and still make a bit. I would be much more comfortable with around 12K. Each part of the country is different for labor rate, insurance and taxes.
I'm closer ot $12,500 with a lift. I added remodel tax on the bottom line (required here in Texas)
i'd go at about $11,000 doing it off a lift.
Around here we would budget $500 for a lift for one week. Includes drop off, rental, and pick up. You can do better on price if you don't reserve at the last second. Our labor would be $9,200 for the techs, plus maybe 4-12 hours for the engineer for drawing, permits, and material purchase (just the big stuff) depending on whether this is going to a GC or not.
I am at $9,745.91 on my price. I have the labor factor at 1.25, the fixtures cost at $55 each and a little branch EMT to get to the lights.
I show 95.77 man hours and materials cost at $3,548.22.
Keep in mind one thing. Our labor rates may not be the same as yours. I am a $35.02 and $24.18 for J and A rates.
Scissor lift rental should be $650 a week around here anyways.
I am at a 11% overhead and 25% profit margin on this. In reality for us we usually net about 12% up to 30% profit. Every once and a while we have a project that nets 6% and those are not fun to handle.
i don't know about the rest of you guys, but it's very helpful
for me to see the range of prices for a job... it let's me see
where my numbers are running at. the cool part is that we
aren't in direct competition, tending to be scattered all over
the place.
so you get to see where your competition is at without it
actually being the people you will be competing with.
and the truth is, it's a shame that there isn't a way for
more of us to see what more of us work up for a number.
'cause nobody wants to see that whoohoo, they got that
job, and left $40,000 on the table, and nobody likes working
up a fair bid, putting the time into doing that, and find out
someone else fell on a grenade, and is gonna do a months
work for $225 after they pay the material bill. :rant:
neither side benefits from these things.
so while posts like "hey, help me do my job" aren't well
received, the feel you get for types of work i find
invaluable.
thanks to the guys that posted.