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I'm bidding on a project containing 150 high end residential homes. There are 6 models, 3 one story and 3 two story. We did a driveway demo today and they loved it. Six of the homes are ready to be cleaned now (siding, windows, driveway, and small Travertine porch) and they want a bid.

I would love some advice on bidding this job from someone that has experience in this line of work. We don't usually do much new construction because the builders don't want to pay, but this one appreciates the quality of work we deliver.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys!
 
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What are you cleaning, full exterior (what is the house square footage/siding material?), driveway (square footage), city sidewalks (property line to property line? how much frontage?), garage floors? (how many garage spaces 2/3/4), any basement floors? any rear patio or decking?, what are you doing with the windows (inside and out, scraping paint/labels etc)?
 
around here usually get between 150.00 to 250.00 on res. new consruction I use to do alot of new construction when the houseing market was booming not anymore maybe 20 to 30 a month now also make sure you tell them some things just want come off
 
All I know is you can ruin a bunch of glass if you turn some rookies loose in a new home with razor blades removing paint. I'm not implying you are a rookie because I don't know. I have a friend that does a bunch of high end homes and he's seen horror stories by builders hiring low ballers with 10's of thousands or dollars in damage. I don't know his pricing but many are well over $1,000. He did one house that had over 1,200 panes of glass and 80 skylight panes.

If it's just exterior siding and concrete couldn't be that hard to price by the s/f. Did they just get sod laid and you'll sink to your knees when you do the siding etc? Do one for ??? And then adjust your price. I wouldn't commit to 150 without knowing your costs.
 
NEWHEIGHTS said:
What are you cleaning, full exterior (what is the house square footage/siding material?), driveway (square footage), city sidewalks (property line to property line? how much frontage?), garage floors? (how many garage spaces 2/3/4), any basement floors? any rear patio or decking?, what are you doing with the windows (inside and out, scraping paint/labels etc)?
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Thanks for the reply. Full exterior (2,000-3,500 sq. ft. Stucco), 1,000 sq. ft driveway - some with a lot of oil staining, no sidewalks, garage floors (2 car), front and rear patio w/ 350 sq. ft. travertine. Windows have been construction cleaned, so just a quick maintenance clean. The current cleaning company can't get the driveways cleaned with their equipment (that's where we come in!).

Things get DIRTY here! Operating cost are very high. If we were doing this on a single residential property for the home owner it would cost $800 - $1,000. I'm just not used to bidding post construction.
 
IndyExterior said:
All I know is you can ruin a bunch of glass if you turn some rookies loose in a new home with razor blades removing paint. I'm not implying you are a rookie because I don't know. I have a friend that does a bunch of high end homes and he's seen horror stories by builders hiring low ballers with 10's of thousands or dollars in damage. I don't know his pricing but many are well over $1,000. He did one house that had over 1,200 panes of glass and 80 skylight panes.

If it's just exterior siding and concrete couldn't be that hard to price by the s/f. Did they just get sod laid and you'll sink to your knees when you do the siding etc? Do one for ??? And then adjust your price. I wouldn't commit to 150 without knowing your costs.
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We know all to well the perils of cleaning poor quality tempered glass! Thanks for the warning though.

I'm only commiting to six of them right now, then more later if all goes well.
 
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