Service Station bid with Diesel Canopy

[Mark Dadian]

A regional service station company has asked for a bid to do over 45 stations in my state and three of their stations have canopies over their diesel islands (2500 sq'). These get to be black in the worst spots and grey in the best.
Questions:

1) What is usual and customary for a SS bid, and this includes what (sidewalks, islands, gas pads)?

2) What is proven best to kill the diesel soot on the inside of these canopies? Where is the best place to get it?

3) Client states that, in the past, scrubbing is the only way the inside diesel canopy will get clean to his satisfaction. If soap alone doesn't do the job, what is a reasonable price to scrub 2500 sq' (they estimate 3x per year)?

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GBU

Mark A. Dadian

 

[Mike Hughes]

Mark,

I have never cleaned a service station, so I can't help you with price. But, do you know what the canopies are made of?? Hopefully we can find a way to do it without scrubbing!



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Mike Hughes
Everclear
Souderton, PA

 

[Ron Musgraves]

Mark,


1.concrete under canopy’s 425.00 90-day contracts.
2.canopy its self, if you need no lift 325.00 with flatwork service only. Some stores may very I’m using the average size location.
This only includes area under canopy or pumps areas and walkways. No other parking areas.


Be careful each station will need its own evaluation for initial service price. I cannot help you with this; it could be 10 To 25 cents a foot depending on several factors.

1.location of jobs
2.level of cleaning expected.
3.how much gum at each location.
4.what type of equipment you have.
5. Water reclamation.{if needed}
6. Water excess able at each location.
7. Are locations 24 hours {what is your window of cleaning, can they be done in the day or night}


There's a bunch more I can’t think of right now. Can’t guarantee anything on those canopies. Don’t care what they told you. Test one and see for your self.

Good luck

Ron Marshal Phoenix,Az 1-888-fleetwash


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[This message has been edited by Ron Marshal (edited September 19, 2000).]

 

[Dave Olson]

1) Time & Material

2) We use a Sodium Metasilicate based product. I'm sure that several companies make this type of product. We get ours from Craft Labs in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

3)Yes we also brush all of the surfaces, except concrete.

In our area these type of stations don't do any of this type of cleaning once per year let alone 3 times per year!! Unless of course your price is really low!!

I would take Ron's advice and test at least one location before you bid.

Dave Olson

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Tidy Powerwash Service, Inc. P.O. Box 781, Catlin, Illinois 61817 Phone 217-427-5557, Fax 217-427-2632 We are a commercial cleaning contractor serving East-Central Illinois and West Central Indiana since 1984. http://www.tps-inc.com/preswash.htm

 

[bgbrew01]

yeah Dave's right bid on this by time and materials only. We usually try to go at $125-175 per hour. If you are bidding against some other contractors you may want to offer to do a free one so you can have a better estimate on the amount of time that it is going to take you. Do not forget if these stations are not located close together that you need to concider how much gas it will cost you to get all of these completed. Do not be afraid to give the company a large bid. I have a contract that is very similar to the one you are trying to get and later on I found out that our bid was one of the highest. But the guys I was givingthe bid to realized that whoever got the contract needed a good sum of money for travel, gas, etc to complete the job correctly.

As for the canopy. You may want to concider using a hood cleaner. These are designed to dissolve most carbon based materials (including your eyes and skin so be careful). You will definately have to capture your water so also think about that in your bid. Also when you clean the canopy everything will get really nasty so be sure to cover up the gas pumps. Water will mess up a gas pump, I learned that lesson the hard way. Good luck on those canopies.

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