Heat Welding Synthetic Sports Floor

gideond

We've recently had an installer fully certified for heat welding. Now we are coming up on a job for a church at which we'll be installing a synthetic sports floor product, Parterre Compete. It has to be heat welded. I have no idea how to price the actual weld portion of the job. I'm in eastern Virginia. If anyone can offer a ballpark of what you would charge to install a 56' X 96' area with about 920 LF of welding, it would help me out quite a bit. I'm just looking for a price range to get started with.

Thanks.

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PrecisionFloors

That one is going to vary A Lot....there are very few qualified installers in any area.....so pricing is literally as much as you can get. I start at $3.50/lf for welding. Installation price itself varies depending on the material and how hard it is to work with, adhesive type required, floor prep, etc., etc. That job would be at least $11K....could be quite a bit higher depending on slab condition.

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Floorwizard

Time and materials.
Will you purchase the welding rods?
do you have the welding equipment?
Have you done this before?
If not..then get the approx price and triple it.
Heat welding is an artform.
Are they coving it up the walls? (not sure if it can)

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gideond

We are providing all materials. I price them separately to the client. We do have the welding equipment we need. Not coving up the walls. I'll be building the cost of installing the product and welding it in together. We've done some welding on regular commercial vinyl but never on this particular type of product. I'm sure it will be a bit different. At this point I haven't even seen the slab. I'm in the preliminary stages of pricing several types of flooring to the church. Originally they wanted real maple, but installing that on a sleeper system in this size area, plus all the costs of finish it is creeping steadily up to the $100k mark. I mentioned the approximate price range to them and sticker shock kicked in pretty hard. That's when I realized these people had no idea of the costs involved in what they are asking for. Now we are into alternative options. I think this synthetic floor will still be outside their elusive budget. I'm betting this ends up as a VCT job in the end.

Thanks for the input so far.

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Floorwizard

I hope you qualified early enough so you did not waste tons of time on it.

May be right.

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gideond

I put maybe two days into doing some rough figures for them on the wood. Once I saw where the price was headed I figured it was going to be a non-issue. This church usually runs just about everything through us so one way or the other I'm pretty sure to get the work. At this point I'm working on Azrock Karim Colors SVT with a court inlay for them. I think that'll put them more in the price range they are thinking, even though I don't like this kind of floor for a gym. No bounce to it. Synthetic sports floor is still an option though.

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