[I'mYourTourGuide]

What do you guys get per foot for a trencher on a municipal water installation? I have a V-1850 Vermeer.

I've been charging $2.75/ft just for the ditch and $4.00/ft for ditch, sdr9 polyethylene piping and brass FORD cts fittings, quarter turn ball valve, and inline (spring type) check.

What do YOU charge?

 

[service guy]

I usually charge around $10/foot for excavation/trenching.

 

[I'mYourTourGuide]

I usually charge around $10/foot for excavation/trenching.

For using an 1,800lb walk-behind trencher?

Wow, that would be consider "shafting" someone here, lol.

 

[service guy]

For using an 1,800lb walk-behind trencher?

Wow, that would be consider "shafting" someone here, lol.

I never said I was cheap.:thumbsup:

 

[I'mYourTourGuide]

Lol, I bet you don't get many trenching jobs either ay? lol

 

[service guy]

Lol, I bet you don't get many trenching jobs either ay? lol

Thats normal for a service plumbing company around here. I don't think its excessive at all.....:001_huh:

 

[service guy]

Different markets I guess. I suppose there are plumbers charging only $2.75 per foot around here, but I don't know of any? Thats considered dirt-cheap around here. (no pun intended):laughing:

 

[A Good Plumber]

$35/ft for HDPE gas or PVC water up to 1-1/4". Includes excavation, backfill, Materials and a POC at each end.

 

[I'mYourTourGuide]

Evidently the markets are different, haha.

We probably have better soil maybe?

A lot of creek rock and sand here. . .the further you go out towards lexington and louisville, the worse it gets. .

I looked at job this evening, roughly 300' of ditch and I priced it for $2.25/ft and it's a straight shot and would take way under 2hrs to do it . .

 

[service guy]

Evidently the markets are different, haha.

We probably have better soil maybe?

A lot of creek rock and sand here. . .the further you go out towards lexington and louisville, the worse it gets. .

I looked at job this evening, roughly 300' of ditch and I priced it for $2.25/ft and it's a straight shot and would take way under 2hrs to do it . .

Good point, the soil here is lots of rock and super-hard clay generally.

 

[A Good Plumber]

3-4" ABS Sewer piping $75-100/ft, average 3' depth

 

[service guy]

$35/ft for HDPE gas or PVC water up to 1-1/4". Includes excavation, backfill, Materials and a POC at each end.

Thats more like it!:thumbup:

 

[I'mYourTourGuide]

3-4" ABS Sewer piping $75-100/ft, average 3' depth

That's a house sewer going from 2' outside the house to the septic tank/macerating pump?

Or??

City sewer here is 1.25" HDPE. . .from outlet of macerating tub to sewer main.

 

[gmp]

I have a Bobcat skid steer with a trencher attachment. I charge a $300.00 min that usually gets them up to approx. 100 ft. Last summer I did a 2800 ft trench for a phone line.

Took me less than 6 hrs @ $1.00 pf...

Other than that it all depends on length and materials used. Out here pvc is the norm for underground and a 200 foot jobb averages about 10.00 pf

 

[A Good Plumber]

Evidently the markets are different, haha.

We probably have better soil maybe?

A lot of creek rock and sand here. . .the further you go out towards lexington and louisville, the worse it gets. .

I looked at job this evening, roughly 300' of ditch and I priced it for $2.25/ft and it's a straight shot and would take way under 2hrs to do it . .

How did the equipment get to the job?
Did you rent equipment?
Did you lay it out and have USA come out to identify buried utilities?
Who backfilled?
What depth?
Did you steel the materials from you boss?

Nobody can do a job for $2.75/ft without losing money.

Point is, it will take alot longer than two hours to complete the job and it may cost as much as 500 or $600 for materials and rental equipment.

 

[A Good Plumber]

I have a Bobcat skid steer with a trencher attachment. I charge a $300.00 min that usually gets them up to approx. 100 ft. Last summer I did a 2800 ft trench for a phone line.

Took me less than 6 hrs @ $1.00 pf...

Other than that it all depends on length and materials used. Out here pvc is the norm for underground and a 200 foot jobb averages about 10.00 pf

GMP..I need you to do all my digging if you can do it for $10/ft-min $300:laughing::laughing:

 

[service guy]

Nobody can do a job for $2.75/ft without losing money.

That was my first thought too.

 

[I'mYourTourGuide]

How did the equipment get to the job?
Did you rent equipment?
Did you lay it out and have USA come out to identify buried utilities?
Who backfilled?
What depth?
Did you steel the materials from you boss?

Nobody can do a job for $2.75/ft without losing money.

Point is, it will take alot longer than two hours to complete the job and it may cost as much as 500 or $600 for materials and rental equipment.

I would appreciate it if you read my opening post thoroughly. $2.75/ft with no materials and we don't rent anything. .

that's just gas and the machine, a zr2 s-10 pulling it about 2 miles on a 5'x14' trailer.

I own it all.

 

[A Good Plumber]

"City sewer here is 1.25" HDPE. . .from outlet of macerating tub to sewer main."

??????....1.25"....typo?

 

[I'mYourTourGuide]

No, 1.25 = 1 and 1/4

not 1.5