-The Dutch Guy-
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Hey Mavdog,
I don't know if this topic is still up-to-date [embarassed], do you already have a price for your furniture piece?
If I estimate a project, I always start with a cubic metre (or cubic feet) price. This is a price calculated from other (older)
jobs you might have done. Lets say you already made a cabinet in the past but this was smaller. This is a
really really rough way to price your furniture, but if gives an indication of the costs.
The most accurate way to price a project is by "element". You already made a really nice drawing in sketchup!
This is a real helper with pricing it. What I always do in sketchup, is drawing in "components". For example, you sketch the
side of youre cabinet in the length, width and hight and then choose "make component" (give it a name and the component gets a blue cube around it)
Now sketchup has a feature where you can see the volume of that component (In our case this is the amount of wood) shown in the picture.
[attachthumb=#]
I do not know if wood is sold by cubic feet in the USA, but this is the way the dutchies do it [wink].
If you have the volumes of all your components, multiply it with the CF price and you are spot on!
Never forget youre hardware, finish and expected labor(!) and also about 7% cutting waste (for your wood) and about
8% over your total costs for your electricity, own profit and project risk (company expence).
I don't know if this furnituremaker is youre profession or if its just a hobby, but you must be very carefull with; not excepting a jobs.
Mouth to mouth advertisement can do some pretty nasty things with youre company or semiprof hobby [scared].
I hope this helped you a bit with pricing youre project! questions are always welcome [big grin].
Cheerz René
I don't know if this topic is still up-to-date [embarassed], do you already have a price for your furniture piece?
If I estimate a project, I always start with a cubic metre (or cubic feet) price. This is a price calculated from other (older)
jobs you might have done. Lets say you already made a cabinet in the past but this was smaller. This is a
really really rough way to price your furniture, but if gives an indication of the costs.
The most accurate way to price a project is by "element". You already made a really nice drawing in sketchup!
This is a real helper with pricing it. What I always do in sketchup, is drawing in "components". For example, you sketch the
side of youre cabinet in the length, width and hight and then choose "make component" (give it a name and the component gets a blue cube around it)
Now sketchup has a feature where you can see the volume of that component (In our case this is the amount of wood) shown in the picture.
[attachthumb=#]
I do not know if wood is sold by cubic feet in the USA, but this is the way the dutchies do it [wink].
If you have the volumes of all your components, multiply it with the CF price and you are spot on!
Never forget youre hardware, finish and expected labor(!) and also about 7% cutting waste (for your wood) and about
8% over your total costs for your electricity, own profit and project risk (company expence).
I don't know if this furnituremaker is youre profession or if its just a hobby, but you must be very carefull with; not excepting a jobs.
Mouth to mouth advertisement can do some pretty nasty things with youre company or semiprof hobby [scared].
I hope this helped you a bit with pricing youre project! questions are always welcome [big grin].
Cheerz René
