I would like to hear what your largest commercial encap job was, pricing for the job, and what challenges you may have faced with your project. I am bidding on my first commercial job of over 80,000 sq. ft. plus 4000 ft. of tile.

I am estimating five 8 hr. days with two machines on the carpeting only. There are cubicals everywhere. I would not have to move much, the company gives the employees a cleaning warning the day before so they can have things picked up.

Any comments would be greaty appreciated.

Rich

80 man hours x's the dollars per hour you think you need to be profitable.
80 x's $50.00 = $4000.00
80 x's $75.00 = $6000.00

It is up to you, different prices for commercial depends on your area, no two are the same.

We did 50,0000 sf with 4 cimexs in 6.5 hrs , Lots of offices & cubicals. You should get 30,000 per day with 2 cimexs & 3 men.

we did a 30k sqft mall that was one HUGE open space with (2) - 19" and (1)-15" cimex's - took I think 6.5 - 7hrs...nice job, but I really think i'd rather have jobs half that size, but spread out a little - it was very tiring...if we can do the 15k jobs in 4 hrs, and have one of those jobs a night, that would be good. We did that job on a sunday, started at 3pm and finished around 11pm I think.

The thing that stinks is that was a "one hit wonder" type of job; they didnt want a maintenance cotract...

Joe

Well I lost the bid on the large commercial job. The facilities director said she only has a budget for .7 and I had bid closer to what Rick has suggested.
Funny though that I bid 1.00 per ft. on the ceramic tile and I was awarded that bid. I am trying to set up a meeting to see if we might come to a compromise. I really hate to loose the work.

Rich