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When I give estimates I do as Tyler Said, but I put the invoice out about 60 days giving the customer an opurtunity to get a hold of me. On my ?Big Jobs Churches, Hotels, Ext. Ext, I break down the bid by areas and or rooms and put them on a exxcell spreadsheet with price, per area. I also put on that sheet that these prices are good when customer scheudles $X amount because these prices are based on valume discounts, and I keep a master folder in my pc for large jobs and include that breakdown with the estimate. my 2 cents woth, maybee I should keep my 2 cents that just made my net worth -.01.
when you guys are talking about average hourly income are you talking from the tim you get to the job sight till you leave? our are you including travel time? my average is $ 66.77 including drive time, I am also spending alot of time educating the customer, or just BSing with them.
I cleaned for some folks yesterday that just happend to be getting there bio-diesel system deliverd, I stuck around and watched the prosscess, I am now leaning towards a deisel van. They say you can make your fuel for about .70 a gallon, but I am thinking there not counting all the costs. ie: intial investment, picking up the waste oil, time. I still think it would make good fiscal sense, just shooting at the hip. when I get in the position to buy a new truck I will punch the numbers.
just a thought for now.I leave a small spotter and a bussiness card on the nicer rentels, and give a large spotter to my new clients, but if they don’t save the bottle for me to fill, then they will get charged, if they would like another.
The last hotel I bid, I did at .12, they vacume, I clean. On the bid sheet I broke it down by 1 floor halls, 2 floor halls, meeting rooms, the rooms they had were the same floor plan except for 4 of them (slightley smaller) I bid them at 18$ (.12) per sqaure ft. stair wells I went 18 & 30,
Red dye was done as needed at extra charges.
in the rooms I move the desk chairs
that was the deal made$1382 was the total They were very happy, so were we. 😀
hope this helpsI had a big job on sat. The mechanics office was realy bad, coverd w/ grease, dirt, I sprayed the carpet W/ Dry solvent buffed, then sprayed pro-spotter then buffed doing a small section at a time, cleaned up really nice. I used 2/3 of a bottle but it propably would have taken me at least 2-3 times as long with out it.
Make sure you have addiquate ventalation when doing this.We had some pretty cool laptops in the military that we took over to Iraq, they held up pretty good. I have a call into them, I will post when I hear back from them. there websight is
http://www.miltope.com/welcome.htm
they start around $7000.00, I thought they might have has a civilian model but all they build is military spec.Laura,
How much did the Candy (mints?) cost, and who can I contact to purchase them.
thanks in advance
PatI just started with HB, but when I am looking to hire some help I DO NOT look for an employee I am looking for someone who one day intends to do their own “thing” even if it is not in the feild I am needing, I have always found these people treat your business like their business,
just my nickles worth, good luck,
Pat
