CT18fireman
Senior Member
My apologies if this is in the wrong forum.
My question involves pricing a job when I can't get a machine in. Let me set teh stage. I have a 7x6ft brick patio set in sand, a three step 6ft wide brick cemented stair and a top landing that is 5x10 of flagstone set in sand or stonedust to demo before building a new one that serves as the front entrance to the house. Building the new one is mostly hand work using Unilock material.
My question is the demoing. Normally I woudl swing in with the backhoe of my tractor and pick the thing apart and then load it into the dumptruck or into a dumpster, and I could price that accordingly. At this job though there is no access to this area except through a 2ft opening in some very nicely built and old stone walls. So the demo is going to have to be done by hand and then the material taken out (75ft) in wheelbarrows to a dumpster (ground level). The mortered brick is old and the morter is mostly craking so I don't think the demoing is going to be that hard, but the trips in the wheelbarrow will be many and Then probably going to have to bring a couple yards of stone and sand back in.
So what do you think would be a fair adjustment for this? I can easily price out the new work, but I always seem to burn myself on demoing like this. Any advice?
My question involves pricing a job when I can't get a machine in. Let me set teh stage. I have a 7x6ft brick patio set in sand, a three step 6ft wide brick cemented stair and a top landing that is 5x10 of flagstone set in sand or stonedust to demo before building a new one that serves as the front entrance to the house. Building the new one is mostly hand work using Unilock material.
My question is the demoing. Normally I woudl swing in with the backhoe of my tractor and pick the thing apart and then load it into the dumptruck or into a dumpster, and I could price that accordingly. At this job though there is no access to this area except through a 2ft opening in some very nicely built and old stone walls. So the demo is going to have to be done by hand and then the material taken out (75ft) in wheelbarrows to a dumpster (ground level). The mortered brick is old and the morter is mostly craking so I don't think the demoing is going to be that hard, but the trips in the wheelbarrow will be many and Then probably going to have to bring a couple yards of stone and sand back in.
So what do you think would be a fair adjustment for this? I can easily price out the new work, but I always seem to burn myself on demoing like this. Any advice?