Need Some Help here?

QualityDemo · #1 (**permalink**) 10-29-2007, 06:01 PM

Hey my name is michael an would like to start a demolition business. I have did bobcat and other misc work in the past. I have been a mowing & Landscaping contractor for the last seven years. And i would like to know all of the information I would need to know to start a demolition business.

Thanks mike

Wolf · #2 (**permalink**) 10-29-2007, 06:15 PM

You can get some great advice from pros on this forum. Where are you located? Welcome.

QualityDemo · #3 (**permalink**) 10-29-2007, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolf

You can get some great advice from pros on this forum. Where are you located? Welcome.

I hope I learn alot here, and can start a demolition business. I am located in Lima, Ohio

**James** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-30-2007, 09:27 AM

Welcome to the forum!

Since you already have a business you already know the basics of licensing, bonding, insurance and getting/bidding projects.

What specificully do you need to know? We are willing to help out on what you need.

James

apex · #5 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 03:59 AM

Glad to note new members are entering our profession.
Wel come to the Forum.

QualityDemo · #6 (**permalink**) 11-15-2007, 07:49 PM

Who are you guys getting your insurance from? Also how you price jobs, I have heard charge so much by the sqft then hourly rates to gut, tear down, and haul away plus dump fees, is this a good way? Or how are you guys doing it? I want to keep the market up, cause in my old line of work people would way under bid and drive the prices down.

QualityDemo · #7 (**permalink**) 11-15-2007, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by apex

Glad to note new members are entering our profession.
Wel come to the Forum.

Thanks, Yea I hope that this will be a good move.

**James** · #8 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 09:30 AM

Insurance, well when I first started out, I contacted my own home owners insurance company and then they put me inline with where I could go. Also ask your banker or accountant, they are full of good resources.

On the estimating side. Different companies bid all different ways, from the square footage, to hourly, to the board foot. It's a matter of what you feel comfortable with.

I started out using a square foot method until I built up enough historical data and then I create a template based on that square footage and then it create and "time & materials" chart on another sheet.

Plus you need to take in location, dump location, operation hours, etc. There are a lot of variables to deal with than just plugging in a square foot price.

demobud · #9 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 11:04 AM

Ditto to what James said. I use square footage when I walk a job for my own mental notes, but the price the client gets takes inot account all of those other factors that simple square footage doesn't. Plus, some clients will want more detailed breakdowns of pricing, which I don't really like to do, but sometimes you have to to get the job.