Repair charges

[PressurePros 249]

What are you guys charging for repairs to nailed floor boards per lf (cedar)? I have been doing it for customers for $5 per lf on cedar for doing boards here and there. This guy has 140 lf of repairs that I am going to do, with some of the boards running 16'. Boards are 5/4" x 6". All of the boards are angled cross cuts.

[tropical wave 22]

The cost of the lumber and $75.00 per hour (measure twice and cut once, couple little mistakes and there goes your proffit margin :cool: ).....Ive done it with lattice and Id rather do deck boards (lattice blows)..... Im not a fan of replacing wood, stands out like a sore thumb when its sealed, but gotta do, what gotta do.....

[reed 500]

I do 35.00 per hour plus the cost of the lumber.

reed

[Cleveland Mobile 14]

Here's a little trick for staining new wood......after you replace the wood spray stripper (with a pump up sprayer) on the wood and rinse. It makes the wood match better when you stain it.

Andy

[Pete Marentay 14]

That is an old-timers secret for aging the look of replacement boards. You will still see the difference, but it helps.

When we did carpentry on decks, we charged 3 times the cost of lumber and a base fee of $100 for the trouble. When you think about pricing stuff like this, remember what the customer's alternatives are. In Atlanta, you can't find a carpenter who will conme to your house and fix anything for less than a $500 job. Customers wqere happy to pay us a couple of hundred to fix their deck boards.

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

Our area has prices for labor that range from 45.00/hr + on top of materials. We also add in a base fee to account for the time spent to pick up the materials and deliver them to the site.

Applying a stripper to new wood and then washing it opens up the pores and helps the color to go deeper than it normally would in new lumber. As Pete mentioned, it will not completely hide the differences in the wood but it will help to keep it from standing out so much.

Rod~

[tropical wave 22]

Our area has prices for labor that range from 45.00/hr + on top of materials. We also add in a base fee to account for the time spent to pick up the materials and deliver them to the site.

Applying a stripper to new wood and then washing it opens up the pores and helps the color to go deeper than it normally would in new lumber. As Pete mentioned, it will not completely hide the differences in the wood but it will help to keep it from standing out so much.

Rod~

as far as blending the new wood in, I always replace before doing any cleaning or stripping, so the new wood gets the same treatment as the old stuff, but if using a semi-trans, you can still see the diference, which is still better than not fixing problems.....