I got called to estimate a monthly account for this BK.
All interior glass cleaned and perimeter glass inside out on a monthly basis.
Keep it mind at the play area you will have to climb on the exterior of the kiddy slides to get to the large panes on top.
What would of you priced it at?
I was too high even after I dropped my price a little. Just curious on your feelings.
Probably in the 45-55 area. However, once a month cleaning on a Burger King is almost pointless. I explain it this way. For 45-55 they’ll have great looking windows for a week, maybe a couple of days longer - then for the rest of the month they have filthy windows. However, if they go with once a week cleaning, my price per service drops to $40. So for a slight more investment, they receive clean windows throughout the month.
Wait Micah,
You will clean every window in that building inside and out for 40-50? YIKES!
The previous company was charging 80.00 (including tax) and stopped showing up and have been ignoring the GM. I’m assuming they were not making enough money or loosing money.
I can’t imagine a full interior exterior clean in anything less than 1.5 hours for a 1 man show. Not to mention its 30 min drive away from all my other route work.
Interesting…
id do $95 mini if it was close. but a 30 min drive would pump it up another $50.this is why i dont like or do route work. i just cant make it profitable. they think because their doing 4 times a month it should be supper cheap. Charge what you charge i wouldnt get hung up on it
There are just around 70 panes of glass ranging from 1x2ft to 8x8ft, Is the going rate for this type of route work in the $.50-1.0 per side range?
Hmmm. No way I’d clean 70 panes for 40-50 bucks. From the pics I saw it didnt look like 70 panes. Guess that’s what I get for looking on my iPhone. I’ll post later from a desktop.
Depending on location to our other accounts we might take it for a hundred bucks…
I would go $60.00 on the store and playland monthly. If you can get the account on a weeky basis go $40.00 interior & exterior on the store include the partition and interior playland lowers, and do the playland interior uppers and exteriors monthly for free. I clean over 50 McDonald’s weekly this is the way I do it.
I guess its hard for me to bust my tail for jobs like these. It would make sense for me to have a full or part time route work employee for stuff like this.
I guess its not for everyone which is aOK with me.
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Hey Shefferz, so what did you bid, that they wouldn’t accept?
After seeing the pics better and knowing that there’s 70 panes I would bid it at $95.00. If they went weekly or every two weeks I would bid $75.00. I’d average about 45 minutes at the job. If it’s not in my service area I would not offer a bid.
How many other Burger King’s do they own? It’s rare for a franchiee to only own one. There could be some that are closer to you that would make this one easier to do.
I counted about 70 panes as well. So Seth, they wanted a price on all panels i/o each time, or about 140 sides?
If so, I’d start at $150 and probably be willing to try $135. I can’t see one person getting it done in less than 2 hours. Maybe I’m just old and slow.
Waste of time, not enough money. What if you have a big job? Are you gonna work around the Burger King schedule? Screw that crap!
There are companies out there making millions of millions of dollars servicing store front only. To a company like that this would be a great account assuming it was along a route.
That I agree with, would need to be in a route for sure
I love commercial accounts like these. They are a big money maker. Residential is great, I love them too, but residential is not even close to being as consistent as commercial route work.
Residential guys are shocked about commercial pricing. It’s a different animal.
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Agreed. Commercial is totally different, and worth it. It affords a contractor many benefits that residential lacks. Just like residential offers a lot of benefits commercial doesn’t. That’s why I offer both.
Smart man you are Micah,
The franchise owns 50 others and another WC company has them on lock down, but this one is too far outside of his distance and they needed to find a local guy to do it. They are from Philly i believe. and we are 1-1.5 hours away.
I bid it at 160.
I currently only have ~2 days of route work a month which is fine by me, but the distance factor alone (~25) miles from that route(s) is kinda killer.
Like Micah said they both have their pluses, and as a mostly resi guy it takes time to form to both industries.
My only concern is when your a 1 man show and spring/fall craze hits its hard to turn down a 500-800 house for a day of route work that yields ~200-400. expecting the schedule is tight and there is no room for error.
