Pricing Interior glass partitions by square foot?

A Big commercial building that i bid now says they have some interior glass partitions on the inside and they just want me to bid them by square foot rather than coming in and counting them all because the bid needs to be in asap. Anyone know how i should bid glass by square foot? Thanks

Doesn’t sound like a reliable way to bid glass cleaning since so many factors for the cleaner can come into play that the one wanting the work done has no clue about.

Perhaps ask the general size and height of access of the windows needed cleaned and give a ball park figure to be followed up on with an eyes on determination.

“Partitions” can be all French panes; all 4’ x 8’ hydrophobic glass panels; or difficult to reach “any-other-configuration”.

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I dont think it is french panes. this is ahuge office building, i am thinking they are like seperating cubicles or something like that

I think janitorial services of square footage, number of bathrooms, number of offices, etc. could likely be bid that way, but 15 large partition glass panels or 132 small cubical glass panels (cleaned both sides) in a 5,000 sq ft office may surprise the heck out of you - or something similar.

They told me the glass panels are flat glass for floor to ceiling, the size is 8x12ft. Does not say how many. Any ideas what to price cleaning both sides of panels their size?

Janitorial companies use a software that uses square footage to bid cleaning. Windows is one of the choices.
That would be scary in my opinion. From all my years of subbing work out for janitorial companies they all told me they never made money on my bids. So that would lead me to believe that there square footage price is low.

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I wouldn’t bid without seeing the scope of the job. If you figure that the average window costs anywhere from $4.00 per side to $8.00 or $9.00 per side -depending on where you are - then a large 8 foot by 12 foot sheet of glass would be a minimum of $10.00 +. Some jobs just can’t be bid sight unseen IMO.

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I have to agree with garry.You definitely need eyes on to give an accurate bid for these.Are there desks located beside these glass panes that may need to moved or have stuff on them that may need to pushed aside to avoid water ruining paperwork or laptops or desktops??These are things you could easily be stung with if pricing blind!

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No it’s all outside. You walk on the flat roof and just clean 700 ft across. 6feet up. Just wondering if one guy alone could do that every month or would it tire someone out. And how many hours it would take

lol really ? Hmmm yhats so funny … give them 3 separate bids
one if here relatively clean
2 if there relatively dirty
3 if there really bad

Then when they ask why the separate bids. Tell them you jace a 1969 camera for sale how much would you pay me for it.