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    Winter Work

    What do you guys/girls do during the six months of winter (up here in wisconsin/minneosta) to keep your employees or yourself busy? All i can think of is doing maintanence on all the equipment, paper work, and maybe plowing snow.
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    how much

    i came up with $918.85 360x1.2=432 58x4=232 10x8=80 574x.39=223.86 $967.86 10% discount $871.07 Sales Tax $48.78 TOTAL $918.85 The ready seal with cover about 100 sq ft with this job
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    Decks bids/price check

    I did some bids today i wanted to know what you guys would bid these at. Keep in mind that this is in northern Wisconsin/ eastern Minneosta. I was looking for a price check on the first ones and what you guys would charge for the last 2. 1. 252 sq ft, 46 lin. ft rails, 2 steps, 2. 550 sq...
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    Stange request from customer

    576x1.2 691.2 10x10 100 48x4 192 770x.39 300.3 $1,283.5 Discount @ 10% $1,155.15 Sales Tax $64.69 TOTAL $1,219.84 $1.58 sq ft MATERIAL $300.3 24.62% This is what my bid notes would look like. I like to keep my material cost between 24-25% on projects...
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    directmail

    was looking for some good companies to go through for direct mailing and found a good one with an outstanding feature to make custom mailing list...It is a little bit more than vista print for mailing and printing, but the mailing list are a great deal. Check it out at directmail,com
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    Direct Marketing and Maintenance programs

    hey guys just have a few questions that have been bothering me for a while and haven't found much help with the search tool. First, i need some good sources for someone who can design a postcard and then some places for printing and mailing. Also, i was planning on mailing them out either late...
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    Just bid a job today

    So today i went and did a bid for a group home for a deck and a fence. I just recently put up a free listing on yahoo and yellowbook.com and thats how they got my name...not bad for free advertising. I have a price system designed for sq ft and lin ft so after i measure the areas i can plug...
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    My Price List

    yea i figured this would give people a rough idea where to start...when the price question is brought up everyone avoids the questions by saying there are too many variables...again these are just the rough numbers for over the phone estimates for ppl who are just sopping around or looking for...
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    My Price List

    what do you guys think of the price list so far
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    Paint on Concrete

    So there are a couple banks that have extremely dirty drive-thru concrete, but with painted arrows on them. Lets say i use F-18 as a detergent, would that remove the paint that is on the concrete? Because i would hate to have that happen. Thanks
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    My Price List

    This is my price list so far...average individual income in my area is around $54,000 a year so let me know what you guys think. House: clean: debris removal, chemical wash, wax..................$0.25-0.30 sq ft Roof...
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    Pumped to get going!

    Hey guys, I have been reading this form for about the last month of so, probably have well over 100 hours reading so far, and i am amazed at the amount of useful information on here. I started out knowing absolutely nothing about power washing and didn't want to buy books and CD when i...
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    Accounting

    Quick question: Do you guys drop off your reciepts to your accountant every month or do you record all your expenses on quickbooks and give that to your accountant at the end of the year?
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    Cool looking small 2K sqft deck N 150Lft railling

    how much do you charge per sq ft for the restoration?
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    Bid sheets

    Steve R, I'm just starting out too and could use the bid sheet and price sheet as some guide lines to base mine off off. Thanks, Joe PowerWash Solutions Star Prairie, Wisconsin 715-248-3392 lindbejb@uwec.edu
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    Just starting the business

    thats what i want to do but im a college student...IM BROKE so i have no choice to start out small. This is my theory, i will put the ad in the paper and wait for the calls. As soon as the calls start coming I will go and give them a quote if they want and bring a photo album of previous work...
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    Finally finished the chemical research

    OK, so like i said in an earlier post i am just starting my company...getting the logo made, got the tax number for the company, opened a business checking account, apllied for a sales tax perment, ordered some accounting software, ordered some carbon copy invocies and service agreement sheets...
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    Just starting the business

    what do you guys do for invoices? and do you put the service agreement form with the invoice? and do you need two copies of the service agreement form (one for you and for the customer)? thanks, joe
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    flyer, invoice and estimate sheet helps

    where can you get invoices made up? And do you put the service agreement contract on the invoice when you are giving the quote or is that a seperate paper?
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    Just starting the business

    but who wants to carry a bucket around when you can just have the washer do the work with a downstream chemical injecture?
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