First time lightbox install

[David Rogers]

quote Stuart Green:

Hi all,

I need to quote for a lightbox and am looking to charge about £15-£18 per square foot for the back lit vinyl.

Fair enough

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In addition to this will be the lightbox itself with the complete kit which i will add 15% markup on.

Just 15%…crazy..sell it, don’t give it away! On some projection boxes 3’x2′ – it’s at least 100% markup for me.

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What i would like to know is who is responsible for the drilling of the holes in the wall for the access points for the wiring? should that be the customers responsibility or my responsibility?? thinking of charging about £150-£180 for the installation. hope i can get some guides as to whether that a good stand or not??

If you can get the holes drilled by the customer and wired up by them – great. If not – be prepared to drill the holes and wire up as far as you are allowed to under law – don’t want to go into signmakers wiring stuff up – been done to death in a load of other threads! Just be aware that each business / building & it’s associated insurance company will have certain stipulations as to what you can do as far as ‘hole drilling / wiring’ – some will say "competent person" others "17th/18th edition regs certified" and a full H&S risk assessment, risk statement, method statement….

£150-£180 installation – dunno if that’s good or not.
Depends on the location, size, access equipment, travel….

[Andy Gorman]

Hard to put a price on it without knowing all the ins and outs of the job, but for a straightforward install I usually get treble my costs.

Customers expect illuminated signs to be considerably more expensive, so they are.

[Stuart Green]

Thanx for the replies guys. shoulb be an interesting job! i aint done anything like it before so see how goes 🙂