Fair enough, have you installed the product before? How long did it take?
It was all helpful advice. :thumbsup:
The builder has already selected the material. I ussually work with wood, not prefab systems and I'm unfamiliar if trex systems are particularly time consuming or difficult to work with. Obviously I'm screwing and not blasting nails and it will be more time consuming. I'm just looking for a little guidance...I don't want to blow the quote out of the water but don't want to low ball it either. Blindly charging the same for labor as material cost is a sure way to cheat either me or them.Then you should only quote jobs that you know how to price
Like it was suggested, the contractors here don't like to divulge pricing information for free over the internet to strangers. USE the search function for the question you've asked and you'll see what people have been trying to tell you in a NICE way. Dig in your heels and get rude and you'll get nothing more than smarta$$ answers here.
Now, as to your pricing question;
Go to a lumber yard, ask how much it costs for the materials you need (if you have any carpentry skills at all you should be able to figure that out yourself) and then double that price for your quote. Hopefully, you'll be able to make your mortgage payment with what's left over.
One other free bit of advice for you, try to sell your potential customers anything else BUT Trex as it's pure crap.
Yeah, I've looked at their site and also stoped at Lowe's this evening and picked up a bunch of literature. Trying to get some comments from an experienced installer. I'm thinking somewhere around $7.00 to $8.00 bucks per line foot plus around fifteen bucks per post which honestly I'm not sure if they want notched and mounted to the outside of the band or if the decking needs to be cut to let the post into the floor system on the inside of the band.
