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Chapter 23: PRICES TO CHARGE FOR WORK
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About This Book

A practical manual that teaches the trade of steeple-jacking, offering step-by-step methods for rigging, climbing, and repairing tall structures such as smokestacks, towers, standpipes, water tanks, church spires, flagstaffs, and poles. It explains how to enter the trade, emphasizes safety and professional conduct, and details rigging techniques both with and without gimblet wires, reguying, tripping, handling decayed or lined stacks, and installing ladders and self-supporting fittings. A substantial section catalogs knots, hitches, bends and their uses. Practical advice on pricing, workmanship, and time management rounds out the handbook as a tradesman’s guide to maintaining and inspecting lofty structures.

PRICES TO CHARGE FOR WORK

Prices vary in the different parts of the country, so it is really difficult for me to give you exact pointers on that, but we will take for an example a smokestack one hundred and fifty feet (150) feet high, six (6) feet in diameter, in six sections of the United States. These prices are figured on the basis as follows (the firm or individual for whom you are doing the job is to furnish the paint under these prices):

New York, N. Y. $130.00
Chicago, Ill. 170.00
Denver, Colo. 170.00
San Antonio, Tex. 140.00
New Orleans, La. 135.00
San Francisco, Cal. 130.00

The following prices are used as to flagstaffs sixty (60) feet high:

New York, N. Y. $35.00
Chicago, Ill. 40.00
Denver, Colo. 40.00
San Antonio, Tex. 35.00
New Orleans, La. 35.00
San Francisco, Cal. 35.00

With reference to forty (40) foot staffs, use the following schedule:

New York, N. Y. $25.00
Chicago, Ill. 30.00
Denver, Colo. 30.00
San Antonio, Tex. 25.00
New Orleans, La. 25.00
San Francisco, Cal. 25.00

As above stated, these are not standard prices, but it is safe for you to quote your prices along these lines.