Price for inch of weld.

[klatez]

Hi guys. Do u know how much would I charge for 1 inch of stainless steel tig welding? I don't know nothing about prices. What about tig welding aluminium? How do u charge customers for small projects? Cheers

 

[brightspark]

Hi guys. Do u know how much would I charge for 1 inch of stainless steel tig welding? I don't know nothing about prices. What about tig welding aluminium? How do u charge customers for small projects? Cheers

whatever your hourly rate u want + expenses gas rods consumables ect

 

[hotrodder]

Can't price something just from weld length... which would take longer a sanitary butt weld on some 8mm diameter tube (25.1mm circumference) or a 25mm long fillet weld to join two pieces of 6mm flat bar in a tee shape?

 

[Kent]

I don't go about charging that way, mostly I charge hourly. In the shop I charge std 1 hr min and on site more if it is just a little job as you spend so long faffing about an actually getting there though just for the first hour normally and not at all if its a big job were I am on it for days and days.
Company I worked for years back charged weld per measurements when costing work but it was in addition to labour time, more a case of including the consumables and electric correctly. Lets face it we can win and loose when giving an up front price on time so having the other bits more sorted can only be a good thing.
On the whole I think its a goo plan and far better on things like hard facing jobs to be able to say £xyz per hour plus £ abc per inch of weld. Just too darn lazy to work it out in a worthwhile way myself.

 

[Kent]

If you get somewhere with this please let us know how you got the prices together

 

[langy]

Hi guys. Do u know how much would I charge for 1 inch of stainless steel tig welding? I don't know nothing about prices. What about tig welding aluminium? How do u charge customers for small projects? Cheers

By the hour, some jobs take longer than others

 

[Richard.]

Work out your rough costs on the job for consumables (filler, gas, materials, torch consumables, power, grinding or sanding discs etc) mark it up to ensure you do cover these costs then charge your hourly rate so I would produce a quote like
2 hours @ £25 per hour
Materials and consumables rough cost £50
Mark up the £50 by 25%
£67
Total £117.
Round it up to an even £120.
Every one prices differently and I don't do much of this nowadays
But this is how I used to do it.

 

[sardine]

If you order a sheet of steel for a job ,and only use half do you charge the customer for the full sheet ?

 

[dan.taylor.1]

Depends on the customer usually, and if the steel is something I'm likely to use again easily and not have to store forever! I just charge per hour, I've upped my rate as I found it wasn't covering consumable use etc on some jobs.

Dan

 

[klatez]

What sort of money you mean? How much

 

[Paul.]

I'm not sure whether the question is, how much per inch on a large job, or how much to do a small job that only has an inch of weld, If its the latter and it caused me no real interruption to what I was doing I would probably do it for a contribution to the tea fund, if the customer needs an invoice then a minimum one hour charge applies.
Moved this thread to the brew room.

 

[Richard.]

If you order a sheet of steel for a job ,and only use half do you charge the customer for the full sheet ?

Well this would be pretty dependent on whether you ordered this specifically to do that job and as dan rightfully says are you going to use the other half in order to pay for it. It's a tricky one and you need to be fairly sensible and competitive. You may end up shooting your self in the foot if you start charging excessively for things you don't use but you don't want to end up paying for stock to sit there either. The worst thing you can do is start making a loss because your not covering your own costs nicely.

 

[Richard.]

What sort of money you mean? How much

Do you what sort of hourly rate should you charge?
This depends on you . What do you feel your time is worth?
Will that hourly rate for fill your lifestyle.
Do some research on the going rates that other people/businesses charge and ask your self are you able to achieve the same level of service that they are. If you can better them or offer more, then you can accommodate your pricing to that. Like I say you need to be competitive but comfortable. Any one can get work charging 10 quid an hour but you'll be under before you know it, charge 100 quid an hour and you'll spend your days polishing your tools. We all have an idea of what our time is worth you just need to suss out what are people willing to pay

 

[Kent]

If I get steel in, I certainly don't want to get the bare minimum in as one mis calc or one silly brain lapse moment an your into another delivery "often a small one" so I tend to err on the side of caution and over order materials some and yes I charge the client in my quote up front. Stock especially part lengths and part sheets will end up getting used an likely as not will only get charged the once, few jobs will involve using up a little of what I have in already so I figure its swings and roundabouts.

I do jobs as priced or alternatively by the hour, out of the two I prefer by the hour as its safer in which case its plus materials and consumables at what I pay. Its in the priced jobs I should like better info as you can certainly over cook it or on the flip side see yourself not making what you normally might. Got one at the moment thought about two weeks work and it could well get to three so I am putting in longer days to compensate, no great shakes its not like I have other workers to pay on it and sometimes the quick part turns into the slow part an vice versa (live with it learn from it ).

Be nice if someone had some calcs on weld type and lengths though, I doubt its too hard to formulate

 

[Maker]

Be nice if someone had some calcs on weld type and lengths though, I doubt its too hard to formulate

It doesn't sound hard, If you tell me the numbers I'll make a formula for you.

 

[Tigman]

I always do a minimum invoice charge ! So if a job takes 15 minutes and you cant charge for an hour , you dont loose out !

 

[armalites]

I think much of this depends on the customer too, on small jobs it seems to go 2 ways either people are well pleased and happily pay or they thought you should have used your £2k welder,grinding discs/belts and gas for £10.

A friend of mine isn't a full time fabricator but tinkers with stuff, he got a call and someone asked him to make a decorative porch frame for flowers to grow over. When he dropped it off they were just having some expensive household stuff delivered and it was clear money was no object, he bumped his price quite a bit and he said they didn't even react just handed him the money well pleased with what they got

 

[hotrodder]

Be nice if someone had some calcs on weld type and lengths though, I doubt its too hard to formulate

Weld volume calculator is the term to search for, second hit should be an excel calculator for butts and fillets. Some consumable brochures also have a bunch of tables in the back that provide weight per unit length for various weld joints/root gaps/preps (usually all based around mild steel) along with process efficiency constants, densities of various different alloys and the formulas themselves

 

[Kent]

Weld volume calculator is the term to search for, second hit should be an excel calculator for butts and fillets. Some consumable brochures also have a bunch of tables in the back that provide weight per unit length for various weld joints/root gaps/preps (usually all based around mild steel) along with process efficiency constants, densities of various different alloys and the formulas themselves

units of electric and consumables in there some place?

 

[hotrodder]

If you look you'll find wire consumption tables, electrode stub loss corrections etc in some of the google hits. Doubt you'll find anything on leccy units as there's waaaaaay too many variables- inverter versus transformer with and without power factor correction for example are gonna make a difference both idling and in use