How do you charge for house staking? Just the staking.
As in "$200 for the first 20 points and $5 per point over 20".
I have a flat rate that I adjust if there are a ton of corners, but I'd like to give a price that the contractor can easily understand. I typically stake for digging the footer and then come back and pin for the mason. My control work is by the hour if it's not a lot that I have surveyed, and I usually do at least a platted lot line survey before any staking.
TIA
JB,
Not really sure. I have staked a few houses, but they were for the building envelopes, and that was hourly. We also did the survey of the lot first. We also had the blueprints for the house prior to staking, so most everything was pre-calculated by me in the office.
If it is a regular client, I would probably do what you suggested, especially if it was not too complicated.
I hope this helps.
Jimmy
AS MUCH AS YOU CAN GET
ALWAYS GET AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!!!
Four corners for a box on a postage stamp lot = $200-$250.00
20-30 corners on a custom $$$$ home for an ARB - $2000.00
over 30 = $2500.00
We don't do much of that here but when it comes up, it's hourly usually. ($160/hr w/ 4 hr minimum).
Can't recall ever staking House corners, but have staked many commercial buildings. Building staking is high risk low reward which = high cost. $2000.00 minimum under the optimum circumstance and the cost goes way up from there. After all, who is going to get blamed when things don't fit. We are. I don't want a $200 level of effort to go into a multimillion dollar building. Bill according to value of the work being performed.
Typically charge base fixed fee depending on lot size and requirements for up to 6 corners and around 10 bucks a corner for additional corners.
Absolutely. The prices I quoted were for a typical residential house. Commercial buildings would definitely be a higher price.
We usually just stake out a grid lines for them to build off of. Charge by the hour.
Hourly -$125 per with 4 hr min
For a parcel we have done the survey for, with house plans and setup time to load the data collector our fee for a box with four twenty foot offset stakes is $625.00. Setting a bench mark on site is $185.00. For a house on a pile foundation (average around here is 200 piles) our fee for the stake out is $44.00 per pile.
The houses with a box and offsets mostly cost a mil or more to build and the houses on piles are in the 5 to 12 mil range to build.
> How do you charge for house staking? Just the staking.
> As in "$200 for the first 20 points and $5 per point over 20".
Just a piece of general advice here, forget any statement associated with surveying that includes raising a fee $5 for anything.
Now if you were doing bulk location like multi-thousands of points in a citywide GIS utility mapping then $5 could come into play but with regards to straight up land surveying just remove the term $5 from your lexicon.
Do what snoop does..
It is hard to think of anything else you can do in less time and assume more liability than staking a building of any sort. I like to keep that in mind and I take my time to check the site plan, the architects plans and the staking when it is complete. In a previous life in the Denver area I and one helper used to stake 18 tract houses a day about 4 days a week for $65 each. Nowadays I only do a few and they are all hourly,
I'd go by the hour.