New Decking Prices

A+Carpenter

i am thinking about re doing my decking prices for simple decks to better suite my homeowners pocket books and boost business.

What are some of the prices you are charging on simple plans? i have my custom deck section prices solid.

I charge a pretty high price for my work and I am wanting to give back a little something to my new customers.

Ideas?

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jmic

Put an ad in the local paper saying you'll pay them $500.00 and do their deck free of charge, materials and labor. See how many calls you get.

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RobertCDF

I was just thinking about dropping off the little decks. They always seem to take longer than they should... Something always goes wrong. Or the building department/zoning gets stupid and delays things.... etc etc.

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Colorado Springs Custom Decks
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Bone Saw

took the words right out of my head. In fact I was just talking about this phenomenon with someone else the other day, the amount of elapsed time from lead to payday is propportioally not worth rolling out of bed for in the morning. I just disregard all new inquiries under a certain size and/or budget.

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A+Carpenter

Drop off small decks? Dude I am wondering what kind of business do you generate and profit?

I am in in the tripples and still dont turn down work.

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A+Carpenter

You have a notion to ponder with. Ill addmittttttttt that

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Bone Saw

Dude, WTF is that even suppose to mean??? I am backlogged with 9 jobs right now ranging in price ranges of 20k-60k, these are costomers that have 110% of my undivided attention, figure 2 weeks worth of correspondece/meetings/design time/changes, another week of hoa review, another week of twp premit, all said and done 4 weeks worth of bs for a job I could care less about, I value my free time probably more than my time making $$$, Im looking for bigger fish to fry, its not like i'm new and trying to get out there

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Chester County Custom Decks
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A+Carpenter

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Bone Saw

if your doing 350-500k/year why are you even contemplating wasting you time on "small decks"??? To turn those #'s with small decks you will need a fleet of salesmen, at least 3 fully outfitted crews of illegals, and an advertising campaign on tv and radio. Sorry I even opened my F n piehole

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Chester County Custom Decks
Custom Deckbuilder Mainline
Philadelphia Deck Builder
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Stone Mountain

I NEVER ignore a telephone lead. I don't do anything less that about $4000, but I always call people back and explain why I am not set up to do their small job. At least you don't create negative vibes by ignoring them.
My biggest deck this year is $28,000. My bread and butter is anything from $5000 to $10,000. Overall, my volume this year will be about $1,300,000 give or take.
Don't ignore people. There will come a time when the big jobs are few and far between, and the collective conscious of the buying public will somehow remember how you treated them.
Just my $0.02
Steve

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A+Carpenter

Yea and thats what I was trying to get across.

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A+Carpenter

2 crews and some of this jobs are counted into the custom homes.I would never hire a illegal.

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dougchips

2 crews and some of this jobs are counted into the custom homes.I would never hire a illegal.
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A+Carpenter.

amen, if everyone played by your rules our industry would be a lot better off.