| Changes
All pricing listed herein is subject to change without
notice. |
| Restrictions
Some restrictions and exclusions may
apply. |
| Contracts
We never do a job without a signed contract.
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| Variables
There are some variables that can affect the final price.
(See list of "Variables & Factors" below) |
| Contract Prices
On average, probably 95% of the jobs we do involve a "contract price"
that remains unchanged, despite the possibility of variables.
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| Variables Listed
The most common variables that can change the price
are listed on our contracts as something not included
in the original price. The lesser common variables are listed below.
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| Change-Orders
When needed, additional charges for additional work are listed on subsequent
"Change-Orders," for our clients to consider, approve
and sign before any additional work is performed or additional charges
incurred. |
| Phone Estimates
Much of the smaller, straight forward jobs we do are quoted over the phone, and
the contract can be signed at the job-site before our service tech begins any work.
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| Estimators
We do have a team of estimators to acquire measurements,
take pictures, show you catalogs and record the specifications of
your projects, from which we generate written bids. |
| Written Bids
The vast majority of the bids we generate come from our office-staff. Occasionally our
technicians are called upon to write-up change-orders. But our estimator who visits
job-sites to gather information will NOT be able to issue a written estimate on-site,
the day of his/her inspection.
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| Time-Line for Written Estimates
Many bids are done within a day or two. When the demand surges, it can
overload our staff and may then take a week and sometimes longer…especially
extensive bids wherein prospective clients request
pricing for lots of different projects and options.
If you're in a hurry . . . you might want to do
your homework before we come out, so you know what you want and
can be succinct in your request. |
| You are Important to Us
Please believe us when we tell you that we are always striving to minimize this potential wait.
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| Numerous Projects
One of the ways we minimize the wait is that when one of our valued clients
has numerous potential projects, we will ask which project
is the highest priority and bid only that one project to
see if our pricing is a fit for their budget before we invest any
other time working up pricing on the remaining projects. Make sense?
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| Quantity Discounts
We're sorry, but this type of work does not facilitate a substantial quantity discount.
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| Painting
We do have some fine painters that we work with in the Portland area.
If you would like us to arrange to have your doors or windows
pre-finished or finished after installation,
please let us know. |
| Using the pricing herein
The purpose of the "Pricing" on our Web-Site is to provide a sense of the potential
costs, to aid you in the decision making process for your project(s). We have also
listed below, some of those factors that can add to the final price, but we cannot
rule out that we've maybe missed a thing or two.
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Variables & Factors that Can Affect our charges:
- Drive-Time: Travel outside the primary Portland/Vancouver
hub & the suburbs/communities immediately surrounding those
hubs. Most of our pricing covers a 15 to 30 minute travel time
already.
- Material Acquisition: We are usually able and
more than willing to pick-up and transport doors, windows and/or
hardware that you have purchased. We do ask however, that you
would be among the vast majority of our client's who understand
our need to cover our time and fuel costs associated with this
service.
- Last Minute Schedule Changes: Suddenly re-scheduling
the project on the day of the Job, or depending on the size
of the job, even re-scheduling the project the day before the
job. Please try to understand the financial consequences "to
us" of our suddenly having (for example) a 2 or 4 man crew with
nothing on the schedule for the following day.
- Limitations beyond our control: Our not being
allowed to finish the job on a particular day. Examples; Our
not being allowed to work into the evening for several extra
hours, or due to our clients unplanned need to leave the job-site
and consequently requiring that our technicians also leave the
job-site. In other words, if we are required by a client absorb
an unexpected return trip to the job-site. Again, please try
to understand how costly it is for us to absorb an extra trip,
an extra site-clean-up and an extra site-set-up, not to mention
the challenges associated with trying to juggle the schedule
to allow a return trip anytime in the near future.
- Inaccurate Information: Incorrect or incomplete
information provided to us by the client, that translates into
additional work, or work delays, unexpected material acquisition
time and travel or the need to re-schedule at a later date.
- Changes: Clients changing their mind on the day
of the job, about things like hardware finish or hardware models,
and any other changes that delay or extend the job, or require
us to invest additional time acquiring materials. In other words,
the unplanned need to spend time acquiring (traveling, driving)
materials due to circumstances beyond our control.
- Damaged, incorrect or missing products: Client-supplied
doors, windows and/or hardware are sometimes found to be wrong,
damaged or to have missing components when they are removed
from their shipping containers. Costs related to the time to
acquire replacement products and/or the costs of an additional
trip at a later date will incur additional charges.
- Pre-existing unconventional or non-standard construction
practices: There are "standard" or "common" dimensions
for somewhere around 95% to 98% of door and window openings
we work on. Variations from these standards that translate into
additional installation work, such as the need to customize
the opening or the door or window assembly will incur additional
charges.
One example: Unusually thick or thin walls that do not concur
with the three most common stock jamb-thickness' 4 9/16", 5 3/16" or 6 9/16".
This can translate into the need to modify the jambs (jamb extensions or trimming
down the jambs) or the trim/mouldings or both.
Please understand that we realize that some consumers have no reasonable way to
discern theses things, and it's really no one's fault. Please do not feel tempted
to think of these additional charges as penalties. We are only asking that we are
compensated for our time and our work.
If there is a mistake…and it's our mistake
because we were asked to measure the openings and to order
and provide the materials…then we would of course
absorb the additional costs.
- Poorly built, or poorly designed and/or maintained
structures: Excessively out-of-square and/or out-of-plumb
wall-openings that translate into additional modifications will
incur additional charges.
- Inadequate or rotten wall-structure components:
Poorly built, or poorly maintained structures can also translate
into structural code violations and/or water-damaged (rotten)
wall components. These problems are frequently difficult to
discern until after existing windows or door assemblies have
been removed from the rough-openings. The additional work to
correct these problems will incur additional charges.
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Pricing
General Considerations
- Material Mark-Up: All materials (doors, windows,
hardware etc.) that we provide are marked-up 20%.
Some savings may be realized by acquiring your own
products…but as a rule, we do not recommend this.
Why? For the uninitiated, the door & window trade is just
multi-faceted and nuanced enough to produce an expensive-appreciation
for the skill and expertise which those of us who are well-versed
have paid at the university of experience. Usually, paying
us to employ this expertise is money well-spent.
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