Having just received our CMC and now fully trained (Yea right!!!) we have already been asked for contract mounts in the order of 40 plus at a time.
Having really -up till now - put off doing contract mounts manually, I am not really sure of the costings.
Could you people with greater knowledge help me out please
e.g. 10" x 8" mount in White Core board (Arqadia or Bainbridge) - 40 off on each run. Cut out is 8" x 6". Not that it really matters.
Cheers
Contract Mount Costing
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Merlin
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Contract Mount Costing
John GCF
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Merlin
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Dermot
Hi John
I have not forgotten the books, they are at the back of a store (buried under old framing kit and matting) and I cannot get to them just now……hopefully this weekend……sorry for the delay……things are good manic !!!!!!
For the mounts I would go (Cartermount) list X 2.5 to give a high street contract price on about 40 this price would include VAT….
I always had 25 to 30 of the same unit/product as the point where contract kicked in…….they must be identical……..colour, size, style,
Take care
Dermot
I have not forgotten the books, they are at the back of a store (buried under old framing kit and matting) and I cannot get to them just now……hopefully this weekend……sorry for the delay……things are good manic !!!!!!
For the mounts I would go (Cartermount) list X 2.5 to give a high street contract price on about 40 this price would include VAT….
I always had 25 to 30 of the same unit/product as the point where contract kicked in…….they must be identical……..colour, size, style,
Take care
Dermot
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markw
John
Occasional contract work has to be the most difficult of all prices to work out - you are normally pitching against the contractor who is buying in materials at better prices than you as well as employing personel with little experience in the wider aspects of the job. I look at contract work on the basis of how much full cost work will it cost me if I am offering the contract work at a discount. I therfor pitch quite high. The work that will make you most money is the complicated mount cutting that is difficult and time consuming to cut by hand - you wont need to discount and you have the easy option of being able to repeat an order knowing that most of the work has already been done.
As a rough guide i am looking to charge £60+VAT(hour) for machine time - Its early days and i may revise that figure but its working at the moment + material cost with markup. You can cut a lot of small mounts in an hour. beware though that cutting double mounts - v grooves etc takes a lot of start / stop - remove waste time - as well as eating blades.
I realised many years ago that i couldnt compete on contract work - I sell quality not quantity.
Occasional contract work has to be the most difficult of all prices to work out - you are normally pitching against the contractor who is buying in materials at better prices than you as well as employing personel with little experience in the wider aspects of the job. I look at contract work on the basis of how much full cost work will it cost me if I am offering the contract work at a discount. I therfor pitch quite high. The work that will make you most money is the complicated mount cutting that is difficult and time consuming to cut by hand - you wont need to discount and you have the easy option of being able to repeat an order knowing that most of the work has already been done.
As a rough guide i am looking to charge £60+VAT(hour) for machine time - Its early days and i may revise that figure but its working at the moment + material cost with markup. You can cut a lot of small mounts in an hour. beware though that cutting double mounts - v grooves etc takes a lot of start / stop - remove waste time - as well as eating blades.
I realised many years ago that i couldnt compete on contract work - I sell quality not quantity.