Help with Pricing on fountian

[Shannon Fouce 14]

Hello everyone, this is going to be my first post since intoducing myself. I'm in need of some help with pricing a entrance way fountian. The fountian includes 8 mermaid and swan structures. It also includes 1 large lady at the top. 2 small water reservoirs, 1 large reservoir. It's natural carving stone from Italy. The stone is called Vicenza Stone and Lecce Stone.

Now what is needed to be done on this project is: clean all structors, Remove pool paint from bottom resivior, repaint large reservoir with pool paint, strip out loose caulking from around barrier of large reservoir, recaulk, caulk cracks in structure, seal entire structure.

They are suppling the cleaner and clear sealer. I have to supply pool paint, and waterproof caulking.

This is to be done in a gated community for the homeowners association. This is the only and most exspensive gated community in our city. The good thing about this is that if i do a great job, i will be the one that does this every year. Not to mention getting all the work in this community. I just don't know how to go about pricing something like this. I usually charge by the sq ft. but that won't work for this project. Any help would be appreciated. If you would like to call my personal number is (765)251-7008

Thanks

S. Fouce

Edited September 28, 2009 by Shannon Fouce

[RSuds 24]

You need to learn to charge on time and money. Since they are giving you some of the chemicals (money) then go with the time. I would say 1 day to clean (really half a day) and 1 day to caulk and paint. You need to make sure that the chemical they give you is good stuff, so you do not need to put pressure on anything and that it will remove the stains. I would say 2500-3000.

[k2waterwerx 14]

Not sure about the pressure part but time and material is always fair to you and the customer. I have do it several times and it has always worked well.

[RGilliam 46]

Shannon, how far are you located from Jeffersonville IN?

[Little Buddy 14]

why wouldn't sq footage work on this? There are sides with height to them as well as a statue with mass in the center.

[Shannon Fouce 14]

Thanks for the replies. I think i'm just going to price them by project. This is just going to have to be a learning experience for me in terms of pricing these kind of projects. They are wanting the quote by thursday of this week. Any more suggestions would be appreciated.

I live about 4 hours from jeffersonville.

It would be to hard to price by SqFt and to many variables.

[James 624]

6 to 10 dollars a SQFT and your correct you have to do one.

[Shannon Fouce 14]

I don't want this to sound like a dumb question, but how would you go about measuring the statue, everything seems so uneven. Would you measure from the widest point and from the tallest point and consider it to be squared, even though it's not. Sorry if that sounds dumb. I just need to know my options if i decide to do it by sqft. Thanks for the help.

[James 624]

Height, circles, areas,depth, and add for detailing. MY iPHONE has a great ap for calculations.