thefed
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[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1]I own an air duct cleaning business in Ohio. So far I've done 2 schools for a local district, I just put my bid in on the 3rd one....it needs to be completed during xmas break.
I feel I was reasonable on the price, but the price I gave is the highest bid I've ever given (about $15k). I'm essentially doing 3 times the amount of work as the previous school, but for only double the price. I figured that out using per-unit price (19 rooftop units in this school vs. 6 interior units on the last one).
They are really happy with our work so far...the guy I deal with directly is always complimenting us, and I recently met HIS boss, the business manager, and HE complimented our quality work. I was at his house giving him an estimate on cleaning his ducts! TO MY KNOWLEDGE, they've never gotten any estimates to compare to mine for either school. He just seemed to like me 100% based on his impression from our website. The guy talked like we had the job(s) from day 1.
But even though the repoire is great, I'm nervous...mainly because of the $$ amount....it's very high for me. I could do the job for half of my estimate and still be satisfied with my $$ per hour, but I'd be cheating myself. I've been slowly raising prices til I see resistence on these commercial jobs...we'll see if this does it!
In March, I should be officially putting in my estimate on their biggest school - 360,000 sf!! After much thought, I think it's going to be about $50k or so....but I'll have to walk through again.
Regardless, this relationship looks to be very solid, but I'm very nervous. Just thought I'd share
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I feel I was reasonable on the price, but the price I gave is the highest bid I've ever given (about $15k). I'm essentially doing 3 times the amount of work as the previous school, but for only double the price. I figured that out using per-unit price (19 rooftop units in this school vs. 6 interior units on the last one).
They are really happy with our work so far...the guy I deal with directly is always complimenting us, and I recently met HIS boss, the business manager, and HE complimented our quality work. I was at his house giving him an estimate on cleaning his ducts! TO MY KNOWLEDGE, they've never gotten any estimates to compare to mine for either school. He just seemed to like me 100% based on his impression from our website. The guy talked like we had the job(s) from day 1.
But even though the repoire is great, I'm nervous...mainly because of the $$ amount....it's very high for me. I could do the job for half of my estimate and still be satisfied with my $$ per hour, but I'd be cheating myself. I've been slowly raising prices til I see resistence on these commercial jobs...we'll see if this does it!
In March, I should be officially putting in my estimate on their biggest school - 360,000 sf!! After much thought, I think it's going to be about $50k or so....but I'll have to walk through again.
Regardless, this relationship looks to be very solid, but I'm very nervous. Just thought I'd share
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