Are you good at Math?

[Steve Perry]

This man wants me to re-finish his hardwood floors but he wants me to tell him how much I am charging per square foot. I told him I do the rooms from 50-100 each depending on how much sanding I need to do, around 400.00 for a 3 bed room house.

But he said his boss needs a square foot bid or I won't get future jobs from him.
(he is REMAX) real estate. Anyway the house is 1,500.00 sq feet, since I charge 400.00 how much is that per sq foot?

Thanks.

[johngateswhiteley]

are you joking? $400/1500 = $0.267/sq. ft.

1. you seem inexpensive
2. is the 1,500 sq. ft. house 3 bedroom?
3. how many sq. ft. are the houses you usually do for $400?

[Steve Perry]

My prices are old school. If the house is in good shape and I don't have to sand it down to far I go 50 to 75 dollars a room. So a 3 bedroom house will make me 300.00 dollars since you have to include the living room. The Floor varnish cost me 50.00 bucks and to rent the machine is 20.00 dollars 10 dollars in tacos and another 20 in beer and I still make 260.00 dollars for one days work. why should I get greedy? Besides if you charge to much? You wind up losing the bid to some dude from Mexico or they decide to lay carpet instead so you have to keep it low brah!

[Steve Perry]

On a side note:

I don't know why these folks insist on a sq foot price when most houses don't have hardwood floors in the bathrooms and kitchens. So in reality they are paying me for rooms I don't work on,

[Jaime Escalante]

You should've studied your Calculus in school and maybe you could figure it out on your own, que no?

[ROFL]

[Howard K Stern]

maybe you could figure it out on your own, que no?

I wish I could figure out what to do for cash .

[johnsmith]

Hey Mouse, ya rat bas . Do you do tile as well or just hardwood?

[Looter]

I wish I could figure out what to do for cash .

meet me behind crossroads mall around 2Am tonight!

[Blanche Devereaux]

I wish I could figure out what to do for cash .

Honey, when I would lose one of my suga daddys I just turned tricks until I found me another man.

[=RTM=]

Honey, when I would lose one of my suga daddys I just turned tricks until I found me another man.

Lady have you looked in the mirror lately?

You could do more tricks than Mind freak and Penn&Teller combined and you'd be lucky to make enough for a six pack of beer.

[greywheel]

are you joking? $400/1500 = $0.267/sq. ft.

1. you seem inexpensive
2. is the 1,500 sq. ft. house 3 bedroom?
3. how many sq. ft. are the houses you usually do for $400?

You should base your quote on the actual square feet you are going to be working on. If you are doing 3 10X12 rooms that would be 3x10x12 = 360 sq ft.
If you quote him .267 $/sq. ft then he might try to pay you $96.12 when the work is done. Because he is only going to pay for the square feet of work you do, not based on the total square feet in the house.

Assuming you have to set your rate on your high end price and the three rooms in my example:
$3(100)/360 = $.83/sq. ft. would be much more accurate.

[Steve Perry]

Hey Mouse, ya rat bas . Do you do tile as well or just hardwood?

I do floor tile but not the tile in the shower. The only problem it takes 3 days to make what I can make in one day doing hardwood floors.

[SequSpur]

Charge a $1.50 you dumb ass.

You need to get insurance also in case you get sued.

[johnsmith]

I do floor tile but not the tile in the shower. The only problem it takes 3 days to make what I can make in one day doing hardwood floors.

I may hit you up about this sometime in the near future. I'll make it worth your while as I'm sure (based on your hardwood prices) you'd still be less expensive then some of the assclowns that I've talked to thus far.


Ok, enough being cordial to one another, resume the mocking.

[Steve Perry]

You should base your quote on the actual square feet you are going to be working on. If you are doing 3 10X12 rooms that would be 3x10x12 = 360 sq ft.
If you quote him .267 $/sq. ft then he might try to pay you $96.12 when the work is done. Because he is only going to pay for the square feet of work you do, not based on the total square feet in the house.

$400/360 = $1.11/sq. ft. would be much more accurate.

Thanks for that info. Now it makes sense why they want the sq ft price so they can just measure the rooms I will actually have to do? What happened to the good ol days of 100.00 a room and be done with it already?

I hate the sq foot price I got the chorizo from Guy Chipman back in the early 90s I was painting houses at 17 cents a sq foot But i had no idea I was doing the exterior for free until 6 months later when I talked to another contractor over a beer and a bag of weed we smoked on a roof top one Friday after work. I almost choked on a seed.

[Steve Perry]

Charge a $1.50 you dumb ass.

You need to get insurance also in case you get sued.

why would they sue me, and what could they get?

[johngateswhiteley]

Thanks for that info. Now it makes sense why they want the sq ft price so they can just measure the rooms I will actually have to do? What happened to the good ol days of 100.00 a room and be done with it already?

I hate the sq foot price I got the chorizo from Guy Chipman back in the early 90s I was painting houses at 17 cents a sq foot But i had no idea I was doing the exterior for free until 6 months later when I talked to another contractor over a beer and a bag of weed we smoked on a roof top one Friday after work. I almost choked on a seed.

greywheel brings up a good point, and also why i asked you those questions. anyway, good luck.

[Ricardo Romo]

I may hit you up about this sometime in the near future. I'll make it worth your while as I'm sure (based on your hardwood prices) you'd still be less expensive then some of the assclowns that I've talked to thus far.


Ok, enough being cordial to one another, resume the mocking.

What price are you looking for? I know some tile men that are cheap. keep in mind mouse has no car so unless you want to pick him up each day your better off with a legit contractor.

[=RTM=]

Ok, enough being cordial to one another, resume the mocking.

Bro did you think I was Steve Perry? If I knew how to do hardwood floors, would I be out of work doing stand up?

[Steve Perry]

Bro did you think I was Steve Perry? If I knew how to do hardwood floors, would I be out of work doing stand up?

We could all 3 meet in a chat room.

[=RTM=]

Hey Bigzax errrr I mean Steve are you going to the next GTG?

[Steve Perry]

I would have to ask the wifey, now that we have a baby my GTG days are over

[=RTM=]

I would have to ask the wifey, now that we have a baby my GTG days are over

Dude that is so lame. Many folks from this site have kids. hey don't use my Power Hour password unless you know your 9/11 trivia. you made me look bad in the WTC topic.

[Steve Perry]

Like your any better? I saw Chump Johnsmith and others you up royal in that topic