1eo Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Hello, I started working in a place as an arch. intern, but because of "some things" I decided to take a better job offer. Now, the person who hire me before (previous job) wants me to do some drafting for him as a side thing. What would be the best way to charge him... by drawing or by hour? and if so... how much to charge? The stuff that I'll be doing is probably luxury housing and I'll have an example .dwg to make sure I made everything the same way that they would do it. including electrical, mechanical, Plumbing, ect. I have no clue, if I'm too fast or to slow drafing so I'll have rather charge by sheet.... any opinions???? Regards, Leonardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 please search the forums and the monthly articles first.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derijones Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Leo Be sure that it is urely drafting - any design content will rocket your hours, having just spent a week doing what first appeared to be simple drafting (drawing up what had been agreed in the specification) and turned in to a marathon session of revision as the customer realised it wasn't quite what they were looking for and asked "can you change this....and that.....oh, and that..." and I ended up researching fall arrest systems and other cool stuff to re design chunks of it. Glad I'd gone for the hourly rate route! If there's likely to be much of that, agree an hourly rate, or an "extra's" hourly rate on top of your sheet rate for design revisions. Rates totally depend on what sort of setup you have - if you're working from home, without insurance or company costs to support, you can charge a lot less than someone who's running a limited company with much larger overheads. There's a couple of threads on here about hourly rates with advice from the US folks - search them out and good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1eo Posted August 15, 2005 Author Share Posted August 15, 2005 Leo Be sure that it is urely drafting - any design content will rocket your hours, having just spent a week doing what first appeared to be simple drafting (drawing up what had been agreed in the specification) and turned in to a marathon session of revision as the customer realised it wasn't quite what they were looking for and asked "can you change this....and that.....oh, and that..." and I ended up researching fall arrest systems and other cool stuff to re design chunks of it. Glad I'd gone for the hourly rate route! If there's likely to be much of that, agree an hourly rate, or an "extra's" hourly rate on top of your sheet rate for design revisions. Rates totally depend on what sort of setup you have - if you're working from home, without insurance or company costs to support, you can charge a lot less than someone who's running a limited company with much larger overheads. There's a couple of threads on here about hourly rates with advice from the US folks - search them out and good luck. Thanks, I'll do a search on this forum, once I get some free time , Eventhough I was designing when I was working there, I think what they need now it's just drafting. "if you're working from home, without insurance or company costs to support" yes, that would be me... Regards, Leonardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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