How to Do Building Demolition - Pricing and Methods

I'm going out right now to look at a demo job and it occurred to me that you guys can do the exact same thing I have a crew that does nothing but knock down and haul it away time and time again and so I want to walk you through the process on how to bid a job and we're going to start with one of the simplest things to knock down and remove and that's a garage a garage is consistent from time to time again based on a few PR IES we're going to go through that in this video so by the time you're done with it you'll be able to bid knocking down and demoing a garage right from the phone without ever visiting the site hopefully this will help you guys out to gain some extra work so the first thing you're going to want to know when bidding a garage is how big is it you're going to ask the customer to give you the dimensions of the garage you want to know exactly how many square feet that garage is cuz that's how you're going to base your proposal so you want to find out if it's a one car or two car car garage but you want to go deeper into it and know the exact dimensions so you can calculate your proposal give it to the customer over the phone and then go out to the site after the customer says yeah that price sounds good or no I don't want to I don't want to bother with it but you've now saved a step you know whether the customer is interested or not and then you go out to site and confirm the next set of conditions that will confirm whether you can do that proposal at that price so let's say the customer tells you that they have a two car garage and they tell you that the dimensions are 24x 24 that equals 576 Square ft the average price for demolishing a garage or outst structure or shed is about $3 per square foot you multiply 576 by $3 per square foot and that's going to give you I think it's $1,728 there's your proposal you can add the permit fee on top of that I don't like to include that in that lump s but that's up to you whether you want to do that or not but now you you've got uh you've got the basis before you commit to that price you need to go out and confirm conditions you don't want to go out and find this garage is tucked underneath the giant tree and it's got another garage right next to it and you've got no way of getting at it so you always make sure you let the customer know know that before you're signing on the dotted line to that you're going to go out and visit their site another important thing to keep in mind is that a garage does not have a lot of interior walls so you're going to bid demolishing a garage different than you would a house do not use this formula for house removal there's a lot more that goes into it for removing houses and Commercial structures and for a garage we'll cover that in another video another thing to remember is you always want to have the customer remove the electricity from the garage prior to your arrival it's one less thing for you to deal with you don't want to show up and find a power line attached to the garage cuz that's going to stop your work dead in its tracks now this propul will work for almost any size structure and when I say almost I want to qualify that it works great for bigger structures but when you get when you get into smaller structures you got to be a little bit more careful so let's use an example where if you have a 12 by 12 garage someone calls you up and wants you to remove that's 144 square ft multiply that by three and that comes out to be like $432 or something like that you've got to stop and ask yourself is it really worth my time to go all the way out to their site bring the equipment I I need out demo the garage haul it away for a $400 bill maybe not in that case as the job shrinks you may want to add a transportation fee or a mobilization fee to overcome the lack of basic square footage that's in the structure itself so that's one thing to be careful of when you're using this formula it works awesome as the garage gets bigger but as it gets smaller you may have to adjust [Music]