vinyl installation fees needed please?

[John Childs]

Out of hours?

Shopping centre rules and regulations?

Travel?

They make me laugh. They’ve all know exactly how long a job will take. It’s funny how they all underestimate it when it suits them though.

Stuff him. Don’t drop your price !!!!

[ianahobbs]

the fitting job is for another sign company im not doing it direct…dont know if that was clear… but yes sticking to my cost. no point being a busy poor person.

[David Rogers]

How wide is this vinyl. A 4″ strip or 4′ roll?

I’ve done a fair bit of work out of hours on shopping malls & public spaces. Remember to factor in enough time/money to write up a method statement & COSHH data sheet if required.

My flat rate is £25p/h plus travel costs. Some people baulk at this – others go “that’s a good deal” depending on what else they’ve been quoted.

It’s always marked up afer hours by at least 25% as I don’t want to be badging up ‘kiddy cars’ at 11pm again because I’m not allowed on the ‘floor’ until 7.30pm without some recompense!

As John says – stick to you guns, just let them know that yes, they CAN get it cheaper…but will it be any good?

[ianahobbs]

4ft in some places thinner in other so to cover glass totally some will need to be in two parts….

but the total length applied will be 25 metres.

see i normally charge an hourly rate but this guy likes to know what the costs are from the start and i not flat out busy but i dont want to give my time away…

doesnt look like i am going to get a call back..

edited once for bad gramma..

[Phill Fenton]

I reckon labour at £11 to £15 per linear metre (at 610 wide) is reasonable. I fitted etch glass onto windows at a hairdressers yesterday. In total I used 15 metres of etch glass vinyl and the job took me 5 hours (not including travelling), though that also included fitting lettering to the windows before fitting the etch glass vinyl.

I reckon you could fit 25 metres in 4 hours – but it would need two of you to do it in that time 😕 . A more realistic timescale would be 6 – 8 hours for one experienced person.

[Andrew Boyle]

An ex-employee, now self employed fitting trade work [for the last 5yrs] wouldn’t be able to charge that amount……and that is maybe the problem.

I think £200 seems about right depending on travel, paperwork etc.

Wouldn’t budge on price though…… [also seems like a two man job?]

Cheers

[ianahobbs]

nice and spacious with plenty of glass to temp stick reverse of vinyl so the backing paper can be released, then its just a matter of transferance..very wet!

i consider this an easy job to do as they are big windows but just wanna get the costs right..but as the posts show we are about a hundred and fifty squid adrift from different in puts…

£11 per linear metre @ 25 m = £275.00

or £25 per hour and i reckon 5 hrs with travel since im well local = £125.00

but blow out the rates and cost the job indivdually and we agree on £200.00 ???

how mad is that…have to wait and see.

thanks for help

[ianahobbs]

story so far! for those interested.

after being told that a bigger company with larger overheads would charge £144.00 for this install job, i decided to go under cover and contact the company in question…after changing a few key elements that i knew would not effect the price but would not get questioned as a doubled up enquiry, i came away with the advice of:

25m linear of my supplied vinyl applied to glass in unsociable hours would take their install crew of x2people 16 hours to complete and would charge a mere £675.00 +vat for the pleasure!!!

well thats a hell of a diffrence to 144.00+vat dont ya think in fact £531.00 of a diffence….

i really dont know what to say apart from do i have mug written on my forehead!

ian

[George Elsmore]

16 hours to complete your having a laugh!!!!

[Shane Drew]

Can’t help on the price but I’d say phill is on the money with the time scale. 6 – 8 hours would be what I’d be quoting on too.

If the customer is convinced it will only take 4 hours, let him do it.