been there to many times try biding $2500 on a tree job to a refered custemer and have an uninsured hack bid $800 and the home owner took it. it was like that for the last 3 years my liability was 15k a year and workmans comp was 120 a hundred why u think im here. chit insurance only $ 1200 in this biz and all i do is squirt a hose.

Looks like a good job with the runoff? Doesnt look like you went crazy with the spray!

Congrats Mathew

Matthew wrote:

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I quoted $800 to do this roof and pool encloser with a non pressure cleaning method and the homeowner said I was "crazy"
Apparently he can get someone else to do it for under $200

WTF?

Did I price this right?
I thought I was low.

I told him my price was my price and to have a nice day.

Comments, suggestions, and advice are welcomed.



-- Edited by Matthew on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 08:26:57 PM

-- Edited by Matthew on Tuesday 15th of June 2010 08:29:18 PM

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Roof after discount $750.00 add enclosure to package $225.00 so you were actually Low.  As remarked above I also bet they cant show proof of the quote. Sounds like BS to me.......................

AC

 

I like it when a truck makes a G for the day. That is my goal. I upsel everything I can. I can take any house and for close to a thousand or more and take ugly and make brand new. I'll spend all day on it! Till it gets dark. And I have. 

Working on one now. If I can get the wood it would put it close to 2,000.

 This guy is moving slow. Cool. (He is prob getting other estimates.) LOL!!!! It's one of his rentals. If I understand right he lives on the beach in Va.

 I'm pushing 100% quality! Tell him how we dont set ladders with out stand offs. Ya know that stuff. How we all roll.

 Chit after this house, rental. I'll be driving down and washing his house with renting a hotel figured in!!!

 I'll sell this one! Here 2 pics of the house

 

-- Edited by gutterdog on Sunday 5th of September 2010 06:14:26 PM

This is all good information. Thanks!

It must be tough down there in Florida with lots of competition. I had a customer (business owner) tell me that his winter home in Florida's roof last year was cleaned for $ 160 and this year he got it done for $ 120. I've seen his home here...and I'm sure it's a big house down there also. He saw our one truck that has a huge advertising banner for roof cleaning and we started talking about it. I asked him what process they used. He said they used a pressure washer, but it stayed on the truck. He said they took up the hose and the small round cleaning machine and used hot water. I'm guessing they used a surface cleaner. And we all know that's not the way to go....But the price is what got me. $ 120 to do an estimate, come out with a truck and pay yourself and another guy pressure washing every square inch up on a roof and charging that little just blows me away. Then I just had to chuckle because we all hear how we all should sell our service and professionalism and not just price. This same guy has tried to get me to lower my price when I did work for him. It was for snow removal. I first gave him an estimate (in the middle of winter) and he said he gets it done for xxx amount cheaper then my estimate. I said well if you get it that cheap, by all means keep using the same guy. He said he's not reliable. He showed up hours after a storm and sometimes not at all. He said he had to call him pretty much every storm to get it done. My response was you get what you pay for. Long story short, this is my third year plowing for him.....AT MY PRICE. So it just goes to show you that you will find people who want the lowest price and you can't land them all. But if you are a professional and do good work, land the good jobs and let the other guys run around and do three NON PROFITABLE jobs compared to your one.