Plasterboard 1/2 Fire Protection

Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Do you currently use a handheld hopper now? If yes, are you spraying more than 3 houses a month? The numbers below will show you how your handheld hopper can pay for your next drywall texture spray rig or drywall machine. Handheld hoppers are great little units for the right environment, and in some cases, the preferred method for the punch out work, patches and small remodels. The area of concern in using the handheld hopper is when you’re spraying entire houses or large remodels. Think about this for a second. How long does it take you or both you and your crew to spray the house out? When you are scheduling your work week or work month do you set an entire day for spraying the whole house when it should only take as little as an hour, depending upon the size of the home, apt, condo, etc.? Or better yet, how do your shoulders feel when you are done spraying? Yes, for those of you who are young, strong and healthy, you may not bat an eyelash to this but ask a tenured spray man and he will tell you how his body feels after the years of work he has endured, it will catch up with you. What I really want to talk to you about is efficiency while putting the aches & pains of the body off to the side for now. A drywall texture rig or portable rotor stator pump machine will help you and your business become more efficient, producing the highest quality results, making more money and better yet, having time for the more important things in life. Growing up in a drywall family myself, I know how hard you work and how valuable your time outside of the jobsite is. You need more time to spend doing the things in life that are most important, that is your family, hobbies, downtime, things that refresh your batteries for that next working week or day. Think of your life as a mist, here for a moment and gone the next, how can you maximize the time you now have doing the more important things? The key is becoming a smarter business man or woman, putting your knowledge into action. You want to streamline the texture portion of your business with equipment that will work for you instead of you doing all the work. In the start of this articleI promised you some information and numbers about your handheld hopper, when using one, could pay for a big rig, so consider this: I can’t use the actual company name and drywall contractor so we will just use John Doe for now, John has been using a 200 gallon gas spray rig since July of 2005, before he owned his new drywall machine he was subbing or contracting out the drywall texture because his body could not take the abuse operating his handheld hopper when spraying whole homes. Mr. John Doe used to spray 4 – 5 homes per month with the handheld hopper and these homes would range from 1500 – 2000 sq ft and normally take him 3 – 4 hours. This is just spraying time, this does not include masking / cleaning / scraping the floors. (and in my conversations with many contractors, that’s actually pretty quick!) Holding up 15 – 20lbs over your head for an extensive period of time gets very cumbersome. Anyway, John and his foreman would spray the homes together and John billed his time out at $75 / hour and his foreman’s time at $37.50 / hour so each hour would be billed a total of $112.50 in labor only. At 3 hours of spraying, that’s a total of $393.75 for 1 house of spraying, which again does not include the masking, clean up and scraping of the floors. Now you multiply this by 4 homes / month and your labor’s costing you $1,575.00 of your hard, sweat driven work. Like I said before, Mr. John Doe at one point started subbing his texture out, the wear & tear on his body was not justifiable until…he decided to get a drywall texture spray rig. This immediately allowed John to bring his texture back inside, cutting costs instantly as well as controlling his spray times better than before. That’s just the beginning, for what it took 3 hours to spray with the handheld hopper, now takes him just 45 minutes with his 200 gas spray rig. Let’s do the math again, at $112.50 billed labor per hour, 45 minutes now costs him $84.38 in spraying time for a 1500 – 2000 sq ft home. That’s a cost savings of $309.37 per house! ($393.75 – $84.38 = $309.37) The cost of financing a 150 or 200 gallon spray rig is approximately $440 per month as of October, 2008! If we run this out for the month then there is a savings in labor of $1237.48 per month! Now the above example is just the savings in labor and this does not account for what he could be doing with his extra time as far as work is concerned, only you can imagine what you would do. I wanted to show you what your time is worth when you step out your door to go to work every day. For the majority of you who have stuck with me this entire story, this is nothing new to you and for most, this is an area you work on daily, time management. On the other hand, maybe this has stirred up a fire within you or has opened your eyes to the operations of your business and how you can start working smarter instead of harder! What is your time worth? Author: William Saas American Spray Technologies is the original patent holder of the hydraulic spray rig. 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