200 panes of glass
EXTERIOR
1 min per pane exterior WFP = 200 mins
20 min setup and tidy up
Total 220 mins
INTERIOR
40 cycles trad with personnel lift * 12 mins = 480 mins
20 min to take off trailer and get in position
Total 500 mins
Total Labour 12 hours
Staffing Costs 12 Hours * £10 = £120
Equipment Costs £150 (for personnel lift) less if you have your own one
Van & WFP System £40 (£10 per hour)
Total Costs £310
Guy is taking £90 profit.
This is how I have been advised to price up commercial work if I want to win it.
Some of the bigger companies are happy to make a very small profit. They make it up by getting the Contract Cleaning or supplying the paper towels etc.
Sad but true.
Commercial is WAY more competitive than domestic in my experience. You will almost always be competing and the lowest price usually gets it. You do get the odd stupid company that only gets the one quote. Maybe 1:20 of your quotes will be like this and usually smaller buildings.
My conclusion, if you are a guy on your own, focus on high end domestic as you will make far more per hour IMHO
this is how alot of firms price and that is why some buildings are so poorly cleaned for instance the time you give for labour is for someone who is pretty efficient and works at a resonable workrate but it doesnt allow for unforseen delays ie[ manager saying can you do those over there whilst we move this gear], also the labour cost of £10 an hour means he must be paying about £7 an hour by the time you factor in holidays and N.I.C
this is for someone who can wfp, trad clean and have a I.P.A.F licence.
this in my opinion would also be a two man job for safety reasons i e coning areas off where cherrypicker is used.
so the reality is they send two men and want it done in under the day the men are on low wages and dont give a monkeys so they rush the wfp and leave it spotty and try to miss as much of the insides as possible whilstspending half the time larking about.
i ave already said in another post job could be done for £400 if they owned own cherrypicker but to hire out of this cost i think they will only cover wages if lucky.