Gum removal

[El Flojo]

Have a guy that called and runs 8+ apartment complexes from around 125mi away. he got my card about 2 years ago he said, he wont do bizz withanyone off da bat. he wanted to see if we were still in bizz 2 yrs later. he wants me to only remove gum from all sidewalks in the complexes. they have a PW & SC for the crete but not hot water.

Do any of you guys charge like a certian price for every gum individually?
if so where should i start?

(this is the way he wants to do it)

 

[Danny Bates]

Charge an hourly rate.

 

[bhenson]

Charge by the hour! You make it home okay Danny?

 

[jlpressure]

Give him 2 prices one price hourly for just gum removal and then 2nd price to do everything, he might see its easier just to have you do it. But I bet he's cheap and won't have you do any of it. Apartment complexes often are real tight with their money

 

[Danny Bates]

Charge by the hour! You make it home okay Danny?

Yeah got home this morning, had a great time. I met the guy that got your keys and cards. He and his wife were there. We talked for a long time. cool people!

 

[Christopher]

I would also give him 2 prices also, 1 with everything, 1 just the gum.

I am not sure if I would give an hourly wage, just figure out how long it will take you and do the math, a lot of times it comes out close to the hourly rate. Some people are scared or jealous of certain hourly rates so a lot of times I like to just give a price for the job.

 

[OkanoganPressureWash]

I agree with Christopher. Also let him know about the "gum shadow" that remains. Will you be using a "turbo nozzle" or 15 or 25 deg?

 

[bhenson]

Ya they seemed nice. He emailed me eariler and said he didnt win the skid but he did win a trip to Ohio RT

 

[tomtucson]

What a pain in the a$$. I would charge more for just gum! Figure a good price and then tell him you'll remove the gum and throw in the cleaning 'free'. Or can you convince him he doesn't know what he's talking about? I just think it's actually harder, figure even if they surface clean it your machine will leave a clean spot around every piece of gum which looks bad and is annoying and you'll still have to rinse everything. If you do it maybe split your line and have two low flow guns from each machine or demo a steamer? Likely won't spend what you want, but there is 8.

 

[El Flojo]

Yeah I dont want to throw an hourly # at him hell freak out. but he also does the cleaning himself with a HD PW and a Northern tool 32"SC. Looks ok but he did leave some halos here and there. Yes they are cheap. but tom is right there is 8. I just dont think that they will do them all at once. 5 oput of the 8 have shingle roofs and thats where i think i can make some $ i might throw it in for free with the roof cleaning?????
thanks for the input guys