When you are bidding a job do you bid by the pain or the opening? I have a job that has 74 ( what I would call openings 36" x 72" ) but the have 6 pains that make up each opening? How would you bid?
.85 p/pane first flr. windows
$1.50 p/pane and up 2nd story
assuming that this is true divides your talking about?
adjust if there is alot of scraping involved and if it is a post construction cleaning you have to double or triple the above rates.
P.s. not a dumb question. divided panes can be hell if you underbid jobs. I would count them all up and double check your math because you don’t want to sell yourself short on jobs like that. I remember doing a job in Pa. that had 54 true divides and I charged $556 + tax. She had no problems paying it. You may want to charge more than my above rates. It takes more time do these types of windows.
If the windows just needed a cleaning with, without screens, and I could use my pure water system, outside only at $1 a pane or $6 an opening. Thats $432 for the above described job and up from there depending on the condition of the frames, needed scraping, screens, and inside work. Possibly way up from there.
I calculate a price on the basis of number of panes, access, and level of cleanliness. I then compare that price to a reality-check of the amount of time the job will take and my hourly goal in dollars. My quote is submitted as a single price (unless specifically requested otherwise, but never as price-per-pane.)
Exactly how I do it too. I have, however, lost several bids( commercial) because I didn’t include a price-per-pane( they didn’t ask for it, but that was the way every other bid they received was set up). I am thinking about changing it up for big commercial projects.
Well said, Larry.