I am going to submit a bit for three story retirement home. It has 330 windows. About 20 windows have balcony with sliders that will be done by hand. The rest will be with WFP. Outs only, no screen cleaning but they will have to be taken off.
Thanks,
how many panes?
I’'m not sure how many pains. To go around the whole building should take about seven hours. Then another hour for the balconies. Then put the screens back on another hour. Thanks
If you know how long it’s going to take, plug in how much you want to make per man hour, bid accordingly, and let the chips fall where they may.
Cory,
It seems you expect the job to take 9 hours (is this one person working?). So the question is how much an hour to charge. That depends on factors only you can know - what the competition is like in Boulder, whether other companies are likely to bid it without using WFP, how badly you need the work. So bid the lowest price that you would be happy to get the work for. This sounds like it could be a repeater so don’t bid too high and don’t bid too low so you’ll hate the job if you win the bid. If you are sure the job can be done well using WFP and the clients like your work you should be back at least once a year I would guess.
Good luck
I had a similar deal here in OC, CA. It took almost a year before they gave me the go-ahead. Then, they wanted to see my license… That ended up killing the deal. I explained that no one I know in CA is a licensed window washer (I believe that, for any job over $500, you must have a contractor’s license in CA). I’m curious - has any one else had this situation?
Good Luck -
I looked into this a few years back when I first found Gary’s network here. I called the CA state contractor’s licensing board, and was told that there is no contractors license for window cleaning. It falls under janotorial. There is a construction clean-up license requirement, although not sure if it is a requirement to do window cleaning portion only. We call it CCU, but could possibly be construed as window cleaning, since the rest of the clean-up is performed by another company -not sure about that one. There is a contractors license for pressure or power washing in CA. not sure of classifications off the top of my head.
I believe that licensed and bonded are just two things most everyone (I do not) says in order to sound official and legitimate. Unless they have a city business license for every city they do business in which I highly doubt, then they are probably not licensed window cleaners.
I have only found bonding to be necessary once in the last 5 yrs in business, and that was for a CCU which I turned down. Was not going to set -up and carry a bond for one job one time.
