Concrete cleaning and staining

[sjpressurewashin 64]

Just a quick opion question. I have a woman that wants a quote for cleaning, staining and sealing a patio. The patio is a new enclosed 203 sqft patio that has two walls that are vinyl and two sides that are sheetrock, painted. The patio is totally inclosed with no drains in floor.The floor is still dirty from construction and has plaster on it. They want it pressure cleaned than stained with H&C concrete stain.I'm going to use a surface cleaner and shop vac to get up the water and dirt. I figure three gallons of stain at 25.00 a gallon and one gallon of sealant at 25.00.Thats close two 250.00 dallors for material. Thats two coats of stain, one coat of sealer.I was going to quote 600.00 for the job but feel its to low. I was just wondering if any one else that does this type of work could tell me if I'm way off on the quote or close.

Thanks in advance for input.

S & J

[sjpressurewashin 64]

Do we have any concrete experts on board?

thanks

S & J

[Richard 17]

Thats 3 trips there if all goes according to plan. I'd go higher than that.Nobody else responding,just my .02

[sjpressurewashin 64]

The way I figured it would be 4 trips. 1st to mask and clean, 2nd to stain, 3rd to seal and 4th to untape and touch up and collect check of corce.

Thanks

S & J

[John Doherty 126]

That would be a min of $4 per sqft for me. That's not taking into consideration the PITA factor of using a shop vac to remove the water.

[Celeste 341]

I'm with John.....we'd consider starting at $4/sq. We did an exterior drive with H&C, no sealer, no taping or other PITA factors and charged $2 two years ago.

Celeste

[HotShot 34]

I'd be real careful pressure washing that new of concrete.....if it's not at least 30 days old, I probably wouldn't do it yet.

[Celeste 341]

Good catch Anthony! I skimmed the original post - saw size, walls, no drains and 4 trips! You have to be real realy easy on new stuff - better to push past the 30 day mark if at all possible! That H&C Acrylic will highlight any ripples or bumpies you put in the cream coat!

Celeste

[sjpressurewashin 64]

Thanks for the info. The crete is atleast 60 days old.

S & J

[Jim Carroll 14]

drop the sealer, thin the first coat per directions on the can and you should be able to do it with 2 gallons of h&c acrylic silicone. which yyou should be able to get for closer to $20 gallon. you could also use durons tuff-top, dyco paints also has the same stain. lose pressure washing it. etch it with acid from a pump up and rinse with water hose. squegee all water off and return the next day and do both coats. this job should not take any more than a total of four hours.

[Jim Carroll 14]

another option is using "Multicoat Acrethane Sealer" which is water based. you could clean and put down both coats the same day. however this color sealer is like $50/gallon. I have used a lot of it on pool decks and it is really good material. At $3 a s.f. I think it sounds high. I can spray a knock down finish and coat for around $4.50/s.f. and only have less than $1.oo/sf in material.

Also $25.00 x 4 = $100.00

However this is a small job so I would figure based on that. Something like this I would probably charge $2.00 s.f. some times I will figure a job by multiplying material by 4.

I am in the middle of a job now that is 1,000 s.f. and I charged $2/sf to strip and $2/s.f. to patch concrete and paint. I have about $350.00 in material and if I send my part time helper out to finish paint I will have $100 in labor.

[Jim Carroll 14]

you can clean it and tape it on one day and paint the next. pull tape as soon as you are done painting.

[sjpressurewashin 64]

Thanks for the info. Very much needed advice.

Thanks again

S & J