[larryt]

the commercial job i am bidding on i have decided to $4.00 sq floor space for a total of $26000.00 roughly
i am pricing doing 4-5 finish coats(as requested) is this too high or low
i really dont care if i get this one and am leaning towards not wanting it so i wanna price it high enough if i do get it its well worth it

 

[timhag]

Oh Boy.........Here we go again.......keep em coming

 

[vermontpainter]

$52000

 

[tsunamicontract]

$52000

man Scott you must have quite the estimate program that you can figure that out from the information provided.

 

[DeanV]

Scott did not get the last up date for the estimating program though to reflect recent paint increases and gas costs. I came up with $82,738.13.

 

[daren]

Add up all of your personal bills then multiply by 4. That's your bid.

 

[chrisn]

I came up with $82,738.13.

That's for the first coat multiply times 5 would be $413,690.65:blink:
Why would you need 5 finish coats???Never heard of that.:no:

 

[johnthepainter]

sometimes, but not always,,,,,usually.

 

[HomeGuardPaints]

I find that if you have the floor square footage, you can't estimate a damn thing. Apparently sometimes there are more walls in a room than floors, who knew? Good luck i probably would have bid about hundid dolla a room.

 

[Dave Mac]

the commercial job i am bidding on i have decided to $4.00 sq floor space for a total of $26000.00 roughly
i am pricing doing 4-5 finish coats(as requested) is this too high or low
i really dont care if i get this one and am leaning towards not wanting it so i wanna price it high enough if i do get it its well worth it

your kidding right:jester:

 

[JNLP]

My thoughts exactly. Floor space doesn't tell you how much wall sq ft there is. It can be different every job. Also can't figure out your material needs going by floor space. Can't figure out workers production per floor space. Could be 6' ceilings or 20' ceiling. Could be 2 doors or 20 doors. Could be an empty room or have 20 rooms. All about the wall sq ft when painting... Unless you're painting the floors.

 

[larryt]

only reason i asked is i was kinda being guilted into to bidding that job and with only 1 dayto do it and i dont know commercial work at all
and yes i will stop asking dumb questions or at least try lol

 

[seversonspainting]

At least I am not the only one asking questions like this. I don't feel so bad now.

For 26,000, I would take that any day. 5 coats of paint??? Why. If there paying for the paint then go for 10 coats, thicker the better, right?

 

[vermontpainter]

For 26,000, I would take that any day. quote]

Even if it would cost you $40k to do it?

 

[seversonspainting]

will, I would have to think about that then, now wouldn't I.

 

[vermontpainter]

will, I would have to think about that then, now wouldn't I.

Ok, well what if I said it would cost you $30k to do it, would you do it then?

 

[seversonspainting]

Well, I would have to show up for my day job, thats for sure. So Yeah I would do it for 30K. Would be a nice chunk of change.

 

[vermontpainter]

Well, I would have to show up for my day job, thats for sure. So Yeah I would do it for 30K. Would be a nice chunk of change.

Thats not the deal sev. You need to pay attention to details. You said you would do it for $26k any day and I am asking would you do it for $26k if it was going to cost you $30k to do it?

 

[Pete's Painting]

4-5 coats? I do residential, but are there actual cases where you need this many?
I would only do that many if it cost me at least twice what I was making.

 

[vermontpainter]

4-5 coats? I do residential, but are there actual cases where you need this many?
I would only do that many if it cost me at least twice what I was making.

4:1 is a better cost to revenue ratio if you want to more quickly succeed at failure.