2006-09-09 16:30:08 · 7 answers · asked by Aaron A 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
I don't know where these guys live that they can charge those prices, but at that money they should just get jobs at Home Depot. Any trim man that's making a living from his work (and not just a hobby) has to charge a minimum of $7.50 per ft and that's for basic 3-5/8 crown (includes material, painting and caulk) on relatively straight drywall. Plaster should be a little more. There's no way a licensed contractor could pay all the overhead and taxes required and survive on those prices. Good 3-5/8 crown is running $1.40 per ft for material alone. A quality 80 tooth blade is pushing $100.00. It costs 50 cents a tooth now to get a blade resharpened. I just paid $700.00 for a miter saw. All this has to be taken into account. We (craftsmen) are really doing ourselves a disservice by cutting ourselves so short monetarily.
2006-09-09 22:56:58 · answer #1 · answered by mike d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-04 09:35:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carpentry Prices
2016-12-18 15:18:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By all means get a contractors license and get insurance along with a bond. If you accidently do damage to a clients property, you will be glad that you have insurance. A $1000 deductable would be awhole lot better than repair some worth many thousands of dollars. In order to price, there are manuals available for guidelines on pricing. Talk with your boss, find out what the going rate is in your area, usually around $65 an hour.
2016-03-17 11:07:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go back to a job you have done and run the numbers. There are way too many variables to say I can do this for X dollars a foot. I have done interior trim jobs, and I gave them a BALLPARK number of hours I thought it would take me to complete the job. You can also give them a ballpark figure on materials too. They buy the materials, you provide the labor. Do they have a painter to do the work? Filling nail holes should not be your job unless you are the painter too. Painting is a whole other bid. That always worked for me. With different homes, rooms, styles, finishes, materials, and people.....I would be afraid to say I do trim for X dollars/foot. Hope this helps! Mark
2006-09-12 07:49:24 · answer #5 · answered by furniture_pc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my trim carpenter dont charge by the linear ft. he just charges by the sq ft of the house. its a $1.00 a sq ft.
2006-09-09 16:48:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I charge 3.00 per lineal foot and supply the material (pine).
2006-09-09 20:43:23 · answer #7 · answered by rugbumpr69@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋