Re: Acceptable time from walk-thru to quotation delivery

["Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>A crude formula to use is, take all your
> parts, double the price, and there's your bid.

How about finding out how many feet of wire the job will take, and what kind
of wire, and pricing that out per thousand feet. If routine then 8 hours
labor per thousand, if more difficult then more hours per thousand.


"Cam-man" <none@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Frank Olson inspired greatness with:
>
>>Chubb used to have an excellent quotation system.  They priced wire by
>>the foot which included labour to install.  If you did your measurements
>>correctly, the estimated time to install everything was pretty darned
>>accurate too.  There were several pricing selections you could choose.
>>Residential (meaning in wall/attic runs), commercial t-bar, armoured
>>(BX), and conduit.  On runs involving shielded, RG-59U, or CAT-5 it was
>>up to the salesguy to figure out exact quantity required and include the
>>wholesale cost of the cable in the quote.  Of course the $399.00
>>specials from ADT blew all that out of the water (on residential jobs).
>>  They never "lost" on a commercial or bank job though...
>
>
> I'm think of doing something similar, but not by the foot.  I
> generally estimate the amount of wire and add 20% for waste, then mark
> it up 100% for pulling it.  The equipment also gets marked up 80-100%
> as an "installed price".  A crude formula to use is, take all your
> parts, double the price, and there's your bid.
>
>