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Garage Door prices vary tremendously on a single door you can say a nine by seven door you can probably buy an installed door as cheap as six seven hundred dollars or you can spend $5,000 on a door that other door that size and it you know it depends a lot on the frills on windows and hard decorative hardware and that type of thing or carriage overlays that that adds to the price of the door but price variants on an insulated door the difference between something very economy and something good good quality that's going to last a long time does not not a fancy door but something that's just good quality you know you might be looking at a twenty thirty percent price difference between something that's towards the high-end of quality and something that's towards the low-end of quality I would recommend anyone that's looking for garage doors not to shop on the basis of price there's just too much there's too much bad inexpensive product out there there's many people in the market that take the approach let's try and sell on price so there's no limit to how cheap the product can be made to accommodate a price that they think the consumers will will grab at on the other hand there are manufacturers that try and build quality into the door and into the various parts and hardware pieces and so on but you have to pay for that the best thing to do is to find door companies that actually display their product where you can go and you can look at the different levels of quality and you can decide your for yourself whether you feel it's worth it to pay that little extra for quality hi I'm Walt with Garage Door Kent I hope you enjoyed that little video tip for lots more video tips please visit our website of informative little clips there that you may enjoy
Thanks for your comment Lang Sagan, have a nice day.
- Nga Flythe, Staff Member
all right guys we got another good one from cody here cody's asking he says what is a good way to mark up a part in labor for a job and i tell you what i would love to hear your guys's comments love i mean even if you think it's just like nah i'm not gonna write nothing i would love to hear your comments because to this day out of darn your 20 years doing this i still struggle with this i've never found a proven just absolute this is how you always do it but i'm gonna go through some of the things how i do it so he also put on there uh asking about the new door or or motor i think i want to make another separate video on this uh he said something usually i had a range of what i see from homeadvisor that's a good little tip i uh i don't know what he quite means 100 by that but i don't know if you can kind of go on there and see which would make sense to me you can go on there and see other uh what the general price is you know is what i'm guessing so that's actually a good idea so all right where do we go let's start into this anyways dave here with affordable door gate you guys ready i'm ready i'm pumped today it's raining out my jacket's all wet i know my limit so i wanted to come in and make a video for you guys so first to start off i got to get my stuff well let's go over this calculator first of all this was always a game changer to me and it's not just because it's a regular calculator it's because i want to make sure you can see this it has this get a calculator that has the margin that is a big big big big big thing right there that margin so oh i think this thing might have got wet 100 nope so what we do on this what i like to do is we're going to do 100 and we're going to do that's my cost let's say we want to do a 30 30 and then we hit margin it comes up see how it comes up with that different number it's not quite what you think it would be and i honestly there's a difference i've read on it before i've said at night time watching videos and everything but there's a difference between margin and doing a percentage margin is more forgiving if the problem is when you do percentages and i am not an expert in this by any means and that's why if you got any input please put it below because i guarantee you're smarter than me than when it comes to this stuff but when you do percentages it gets out of control and so for instance we used to have these books i used to have this book because i didn't know how to do it this is an old book i mean this is an old lift master 2000 this has got 2011 on it nuts but anyways i used to put on the back here this is how i used to put it let's make sure you guys can kind of see this right there but i had a range anything from a hundred dollars this i times it by two you know 500 to this i did 1.3 because the thing is is what you guys probably know if you've been in the business is that when you get into a what i always looked at is like a garage door right let's say the garage door costs five thousand dollars well if you do the percentage on it and you do your same percentage and go well i always i always times it by two i always double it it normally gets to be so astronomical that you won't ever get the job i mean your numbers because the way i've always looked at it i i believe that you should make more money but also it needs being with you know it needs to be in a range because a garage door is a garage door i mean it's it's it might be a little heavier it might have more risk because it's you could um damage it of some sort and so there's these equations in there but regardless it's still a garage door it's panels it's hinges it's spring it's it's your labor is going to kind of stay the same roughly you might have to add a couple hundred bucks here or there but not a thousand dollars or two thousand or three thousand the number gets to be astronomical so that's why i like using the margin a lot of times i would always figure out um sometimes what it's kind of worth you know and it a lot of it sometimes comes down to in a nutshell how hungry you are you know if you're if you're hungry and you want work then obviously you got to be sometimes you got to be kind of the cheap joe you know what i mean but otherwise just kind of a rule of thumb which i've always kind of banked on sometimes was that with your standard stuff sometimes you can double it i always remember a guy in the lumber industry always told me he says if you want to do a package for whatever it is uh homebuild this or that he says you just take the material and you double it and it is funny when you do these numbers all the time how you find a correlation because i normally check things three times and you see a correlation that obviously when material goes up your labor kind of goes up too because either you're it's it's weird how we're all kind of interconnected but your your either your labor goes up with your employees or you have to bring more workers in or all these things so there's so many variables in it and also you have to consider i always like to get my base that's always my so what i always do is i like to always get you know and i'm talking this is kind of more bigger jobs cody not for um residential but like with bigger jobs i typically always like to get my cost so i always look at i go how far away is it from the shop how many trips am i gonna have to make how many days is it gonna take and i write all that stuff down and i go okay if i'm paying my guys basically what it what their cost this is my number and i always like to have that for backup so if i have a builder or somebody comes back and they go your numbers are too high could you do it for this i always have that number to go off and go there is absolutely no way because i will lose money because obviously the cost of materials i can't change and the labor is the labor so i have that certain number and then i'll normally do a percentage off that sometimes it's 10 20 30. uh depending on like bigger jobs like fence maybe it's like 40 you know what i mean that's on the margin side of it so it just depends and we kind of fluctuate depending on uh like kind of a nutshell for us uh with residential um we're not the cheapest by any means but a lot of people and the good thing for us is we have this huge loyal base of customers and people know us and we're established and you know we got the building and we got all these things that it's you know if i could go back i would change the name of the business but um basically you're gonna get what you pay for you know we got the vehicles we got the insurance we got the guys you know we show up we take care of the problems i mean like free of charge basically so if something was our fault or it's even the product fault we had a guy recently or a customer i just heard this from a text i don't know maybe you guys know about the genies but i forget what model was it was a newer genie probably the 2028 i think model is one of them the guy installed the technician installed three of them and basically could not get him to work and they ended up bringing a lift master lift master work there was something going on with th
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- Nga Flythe
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I've studied sociology of markets at Wayne State University in Detroit and I am an expert in contemporary philosophy. I usually feel indescribable. My previous job was marine architect I held this position for 30 years, I love talking about herping and qigong. Huge fan of Jamie Lynn Spears I practice flag football and collect sneakers.
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