We'll do demolition for free, if the money is there.
We always approach every call, every job the same way.
In the end it just depends on what your time is worth.
Example, often times we'll just try to make our minimum of $20-$25 an hour. Of coarse, in the scrap business you'll often make far, far more per hour. However, we won't introduce fees unless the project will bring our profits down any less than that.
We try to make $25 an hour, including drive time, AFTER gas and materials like grinding discs, sawzall blades, cutting gas etc.
If there's demo involved, but the return in the scrap will still earn us our minimum profit ($25 an hour AFTER expenses and including drive time), no fee.
If it's going to take myself and one other person, an hour worth of driving, an hour worth of demo and loading: We're looking at; $20 in fuel + $50 in drive time + $50 in loading/demo time, which = $120 we have to cover in scrap. If we feel there's only $50 in scrap, we'll charge $70. If we feel there's $100 in scrap, we'll charge $20. That's essentially how it works and when explained to the customer, they'll understand.
"Hey, we're coming down with a big truck, a big trailer, and 2 guys so there has to be enough scrap to cover our costs otherwise we have to charge a small fee."
Here's a little tip for you guys, works great sometimes. If they don't like the fee, throw this at them.
"Well, if you can get more weight together, we can lower the fee or you might even qualify for a free removal. Have a look around for other items you want to get rid of or ASK YOUR NEIGHBORS if they have anything they might want to get rid of as well. If you can get together about xxxx more pounds worth of metal, you'll qualify for the free removal."
Originally Posted by KzScrapper
Now you know to charge for a mobile home.
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