4 stories, interior/exterior, About 1100 windows, sliders and crank outs, have to do screens too. cant drop from roof, no wfp . Going to use a 51 ft boom truck, 5 man crew. My idea is 1 guy on the boom starting on the 3-4th floors in an given area for some time to get a head start while the othr 4 guys start interior wc and taking out screens, 2 of the guys then move behind where the boom started, one on the 2nd floor with a ladder, other guy on the ground 1st floor, and so on.
This is my first building of this size, and i am confident we can handle it, my question is pricing. Per pane or just a total for the whole job? Competetive rates in my area for resi is $4-5 per pane, so i figure same windows, same frequecy as resi (building goes 1 time per year), same pricing.
Any input of advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
The sliding panel doesn’t come out I take it. If I needed to rent a boom lift I’d add that to my price, probably the same as you mentioned, and ask for the rental cost up front.
In my area a boom is 600$ for 3 days. if you think you can do them with a WFP it would be a really good reason to jump in and buying your first setup. I suck with pricing but everytime I ask for feed backs on the forum, everybody tells me to charge per days or for the job and not by panes. Example 3 men 1 days 1500$
No it does, but we are only going to o that for the corners ehere the building meets. Last year these guys did the whole job from the inside and it took them 4 days with 6 guys. My plan will take 1-2 days with 4-5 guys
Knock that thing out - we just wrapped an 11 story condo, an 85 unit apartment complex, and a school with 1100 panes of glass in the last two and a half weeks. Bid it accordingly - remember to factor in the “pain in the @ss” factor(s).
Pane in the Glass / Justin ? Is pretty smart, he’s been a big help to me…OH Wait you mean it literally. Good point Shawn , I always boost my bids at least 10 % to factor in any issue not foreseen !
Say Shawn, did you do those 3 jobs with a WFP…Hows the WFP work going for you now that your doing some ?
I forgot to mention we did all of those - three guys - nose to glass (extension pole sometimes). No WFP, no boom trucks, no scissor lifts or scaffolding. I think I counted that we had cleaned around 5000 panes of glass in the last couple of weeks.
very impressive shawn. why no boom? how tall were the buildings? did you stick to the prcing i mentioned earlier? i just dont want to go ttoo high on this and not get it.
Also, if you can send me that woodbury gutter job again… i know im an idiot, wrote it on a loose piece of paper in the truck and it got misplaced.
Thanks for the help, and keep killin it on those buildings!
11 Story condo - had sash windows that flipped in.
85 unit/8 story apartment building - had storm windows that all needed disassembling.
Elementary school 2 - 3 stories - Hadn’t been cleaned in a few years, bad amount of bugs, spiders, etc…