[CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

[Don]

Hi all,

Pricing in general is too low. I just paid the plumber $213.45 for putting
in a new wax washer. He was in the house less than 30 minutes. The part
retails for $2.25.

At 10:15 AM 4/11/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Jeff,
>
>For me the difference is minimal. Grand parts are more expensive and grands
>take longer to regulate, but verticals are more frustrating and difficult to
>work on. This aggravation factor is, for me, the thing that drives the price
>of vertical work up approaching that of a grand.
>
>BTW, It is not all that difficult to create a spreadsheet template (one for
>grands, one for verticals) that can be used for estimates. I used Newton's
>guide along with Joe Garrett's guide and my experience to come up with
>guidelines for the number of hours for specific jobs. Then as Mary said you
>just plug in your hourly rate for the labor. For parts it is parts cost
>(including shipping) plus markup percentage. Once you have created the
>template estimates are much faster, more consistent and there are built in
>reminders for things easily forgotten. Your templates evolve and become
>individualized too as you modify them over time with your own experiences.
>
>Alan
>
>
>-- Alan McCoy, RPT
>Eastern Washington University
>amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
>509-359-4627
>
>
>> From: Jeff Olson <jlolson@cal.net>
>> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>"
<caut@ptg.org>
>> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:39:19 -0700
>> To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
>> Subject: [CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation
>> 
>> No need to name specific prices -- which would doubtless violate some
>> obscure anti-trust law -- I'm just interested in what people here think the
>> "basic" price differential should be between installing grand and upright
>> hammers, based on the respective labor typically necessary for the two
>> (apart from the obvious purchase differential).
>> 
>> After all these years, the question struck me with sudden force when I
>> happened to undertake simultaneously three hammer hanging projects of
>> each -- hammering home, so to speak, the relative difference in effort
>> required.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> JeffO
>> 
>> 
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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