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?
I have always wondered what other do?
Thanks for your help.
By the pane.
.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.
I bid by pane
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.
By the pane.
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.
By the pane (unless its new construction) then its by the pane + hourly guesstimate.
