How do I price a drywall job for a residential builder?
Question:I'm not sure if it's a certain amount of cents per square foot or if it is a couple of dollars per sheet. I really need to figure this out, I have a contract lined up and I'm kinda new at all this. I don't know how much to charge my client without sounding too cheap or expensive!
Answers:
My subs have always charged by the square foot. In other words a 4x12 sheet is 48 square feet. You can keep track by counting as you work or by asking for the delivery reciepts and subtracting left over full sheets. I don't know if you are just hanging it or hanging and finishing. Either way using the square foot of surfaces is the common way of figuring it in my area. (Oklahoma)
you can call local contractors and ask for an estimate as if it were for your house.
If you know the price per square foot that a drywaller will charge you, a rough "rule of thumb" for estimating the total square footage of the drywall area of a typical home is: square footage of the floor space times three and one-half.
if in doubt i sometimes go to a day rate instead
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