complete wetsand and polish prices?

[protouch]

I've refinish autos for years so wetsanding and polishing is second nature to me. I've just started my own business, and so far I've done 2 complete sand and polishs. 1 f150 ex-cab that was covered with house paint, and 1 black tahoe that had been painted by someone who didnt know that your supposed to put the clear on wet. Anyway I got a way with 3000 trizact on a dynabrade da, wich polishes out easily. The customer I did it for is regular used car lot that I do paint touchups and PDR for. I charged him $250 each with a total of 8 hours labor. Is that too cheap?

[Superior Shine]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

Yes

[Michael Stoops]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

There's Joe getting all wordy again

From what I've seen you could have charged him double what you did and he'd still be getting a deal.

[TH0001]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

If you where in and out the door in 8 hours, multiply this by your labor rate. For me this would vary between 50-75/hr (probably the latter since wet sanding is more involved) so around 480-600.

[the other pc]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

To stay in business you need to know what it costs for you to do what you do and how much you need to charge to make it worth doing.

For a service business that typically means coming up with a "shop rate," the amount the business needs to charge customers per hour to cover its expenses, do quality work and be profitable.

$250 for 8 hours of highly skilled, hard work is $31.25 per hour. That sounds awfully low to me.


PC.

[Superior Shine]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

There's Joe getting all wordy again

From what I've seen you could have charged him double what you did and he'd still be getting a deal.

If you where in and out the door in 8 hours, multiply this by your labor rate. For me this would vary between 50-75/hr (probably the latter since wet sanding is more involved) so around 480-600.

To stay in business you need to know what it costs for you to do what you do and how much you need to charge to make it worth doing.

For a service business that typically means coming up with a "shop rate," the amount the business needs to charge customers per hour to cover its expenses, do quality work and be profitable.

$250 for 8 hours of highly skilled, hard work is $31.25 per hour. That sounds awfully low to me.


PC.

Great advice!! I would charge closer to $600 than $250 for the work.

[protouch]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

I feel I was misunderstood. I done 2 vehicles in 8 hours and charged $250 each. So $500 - box of trizact 3000($65), and maybe 8 ozs of polish. I cleared roughly $420. Thanks for the replys

[Superior Shine]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

If you can colorsand and polish two vehicles (one being a large truck) to a high standard in 8 hours you are a better man than I.

If I can put $400+ in my pocket (clean) at the end of 8 hours I am a happy person.

[MR.CLEAN]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

You should get 400.00-600.00 for that type of work.I ve spent eight hours on one car before.

[Stevens Detailing]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

If you can colorsand and polish two vehicles (one being a large truck) to a high standard in 8 hours you are a better man than I.

If I can put $400+ in my pocket (clean) at the end of 8 hours I am a happy person.

Joe, are you biding out your jobs before work begins or just telling them its a per hour rate and when your done you settle up? - for example the black Lambo job you did recently and were on ALL day into the evening.

[protouch]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

Superior shine, You a devildog?

[Superior Shine]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

Superior shine, You a devildog?

I am not as lean and not as mean but my heart pumps the blood of a former US MARINE! 1986-1989

[Superior Shine]

Re: complete wetsand and polish prices?

Joe, are you biding out your jobs before work begins or just telling them its a per hour rate and when your done you settle up? - for example the black Lambo job you did recently and were on ALL day into the evening.

Most of the time the price is given up front. Large job get a time /price range.