Wfp or trad this?

[Daniel Perkins]

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Have to quote this tomorrow, not sure whether to wfp it or trad it with 36 inch. What would you guys come in at price wise on this? I was thinking 300 quid inside and out. Lot of panels which makes it tedious.

 

[Mcsandlaly]

Tricky unless you do it early mornings as you dont want ice forming outside a theatre. You could wfp for £100 only take you a couple of hours max early morning.

Over 100 panels by hand would take you quite a while ........................200 by hand though if in Dublin £300 sounds good if in the city.

 

[Pjj]

That’s going to be a time consuming job , I would wfp the outsid3 but you will have to sweep the water off the ledges or it will leave horrendous track lines as it runs down the next pain . As for the inside scaffold tower would be my choise and trad it . Ime guessing it’s going to have to be done out of hours so it won’t be cheap , depending how desperate I was to do it £300-450 if it’s a one off if it’s a regular job then the lower price would be more reasonable for the customer , we do few car showrooms like this style and I have decided not to renew the contracts when they expire as they are a nightmare to do 

 

[P4dstar]

I'd go in with £450 for a first clean, then perhaps drop it if they're done regularly. They may want the insides as and when, they may want them regularly but try and get them to agree to have the bottom 3 panes on each section done inside each time or at least every other, those are the panes that will get dirty and only doing the lower layer moving forward will probably allow you to make it more profitable.

In my limited experience the track marks that @Pjj is talking about will be much less on a second clean. I think the powder coating on the aluminium frames is a cause of the problems on a first clean, can't be 100% sure though

 

[Daniel Perkins]

Cheers for the replies lads. The water catching on each frame is why I think I would trad it, tedious waiting for drips to dry with wfp but it does look awkward in general... this type of design is just so uneccessary. I can get there at 5 or 6am anyways which is my usual start time so no problem. 

Totally agree about bottom 3 panes i will suggest that, do that with few other jobs in the same way & hopefully that's what they go with. I reckon it'll be a quarterly thing with the outsides, once those insides are done properly they should hold for a long time. I'll have a look close up at judge it & gauge the price on the frequency of cleans. If it's a once off job they are looking for I just won't bother to be honest, it's regular work i'm interested in.