4x8

i'm about to move to texas and I need to know how much should i pay my crew for sf of metal framing.

Cole

What part of Texas?

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4x8

I'm moving to central texas

Mud Master

I've been doing metal framing my whole life, I have never paid out or been paid by sf in commercial..I would send a ITB(Invitation to Bid) to a sub, give them a deadline for the bid..take thier bid, along with your price, 15-20% mark-up and send it in. Maybe it's different in other regions, but thats how all commercial work is done here in Maryland.

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goremodeling

So how much you charge for lf? or for what? How would you price steel framming by sqare ft? So, then what is the price per lf?

Warren

The words square foot and price should not be allowed in any thread by anyone with less than 100 posts.

And even then it should be used sparingly.

dragstripracer

oh come on now there are a few things that we can price in square ft....

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Steve.Mervine

First of all metal framing should never be applied to sf, it should be Lf (linear ft) and i have to put in a bid on it today but havent done it in five years and i have no idea what to pr the lf at?
There are some things you can pr by sq but not metal framing....what is the going rate per ln ft?

Willie T

I think you should charge $63 a square foot, and pay your guys 73 cents per lin foot.

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bradgunn

Hint: but apparently not here....(are you there Steve?)

mics_54

dang these kids get awful bossy dont they?

always pay the oldest son the most or the other kids get snooty.

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mics_54

back in the day i think everything was bid by sqft of living area of a house especially tract houses. The you added on for extras. I bid lots of cab and trim jobs that way. Framing crews did it also. There was a base sqft price then a addon for things like the GC being an Ahole etc.

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Celtic

I think one of kids was born the same year as this highly informative thread started

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dadkins0005

We charge 4.80 a Lineal Foot. for ur basic framing. Never heard of pricing by sqft for framing, but for drop ceilings i do, and hanging/finishing drywall. Not a fixed rate tho. it goes up and down like a teeter totter.

dayexco

we get $6.25 per cubic yard

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Willie T

At the risk of throwing everyone off balance by being serious for a moment................................ Back in the boom days, just about EVERYTHING residential was let out for sq. ft. bidding. Framing, D/W, Painting, Flooring, even trim (with the addition of single opening prices for doors).

This was because developers were moving so many houses, they HAD to lock in long-term contracts on "some" basis that would fit all the homes in a subdivision. About the only items not bid per s/f were windows and cabinets.

It was really pretty simple to bid if you had access to all the floor plans they intended to use. You just worked up your costs on whatever basis you used (example: lin/ft for framing or soffit/fascia). Then you weighed all these against the average s/f of the dozen or so different models. It was six of one, half a dozen of the other.

I think we were framing for U.S Home (back when it was an honor to say you worked for U.S. Home) for 67 cents a s/f. Truss setting was separate, as I recall.

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Chris Johnson

I calc out by the L/F and not just the l/f of the wall, calc out plates, stud lengths, connectors, sheeting per sq.ft. (walls and floors) floor joist and rim by the l/f.

This is actually a science as silly as this sounds, but to arbitrarly throw a sq.ft. price (especially now) can either screw you or over price you.

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Willie T

There is nothing arbitrary about it, if you are only estimating a single job.

• Figure your job as you normally would.
• Take that price, and divide it using the square footage of the project.
• You now have the s/f price they asked for... and it is EXACTLY what you need.

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ScipioAfricanus

Well, it is getting close to three years since the original post, did you ever figure out how much to pay your crew in Texas?

Andy.

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