How much you charge for sandblasting?

[Banditperformance]

Just a curious. I pretty much have my powder charges down. But I want to ask others here what you charge for sandblasting? I charge flat rate $50/hr for blasting, prep, coating, but Oven time is a different rate. Not sure of I should include media cost in my sandblasting charges? Up till now, I have been cabinet blasting, but not am stepping into larger pieces and cant reclaim near the sand I can in a blaster. Also curious on if you charge customers Paint stripper costs too? latest job I have used 1 gal of aircraft stripper, and 2 bags sand so far, only half done sandblasting. Was powder so I soften first with the stripper.

[FigureLLC]

$50/hr + cost of media & stripper sounds reasonable to me. might sound more reasonable to customers than just a flat $80-90/hr.

[Banditperformance]

Thats good. I allways feel I am over charging LOL. because I know whats involved, and its not "hard" for me. I used to do the same thing when quoting electrical jobs. Its easy for me, allways forget the customer doesnt have the tools, training or time LOL

[welterracer]

That sounds good to me... But ive been out quoted by shops that only charge $26 an hour for blasting..

Blasting is a TON of work in my opinion..


Brian

[Banditperformance]

$26/hr darn. That almost doesnt even cover compressor maintenance and materials LOL

[Blazin_Jason]

Blasting around here from a company runs anywhere from $100/hour to $165+sand. $140 is about the average though.

[CarWiz]

It was about $300 to blast and paint this frame. But there was some disassembly necessary.




At this stage, the owner was into blast, paint and assembly to about $800. That doesn't count the body or engine.

[welterracer]

$300 seems cheap..


I saw on hot rod TV it was about $200 for blasting and $250 for powder coating of a car frame

[JTW37]

Got a quote from a local blaster to do a car frame only, $250.00. I charge by the part instead of by the hour. Seems to be more appealing to the customer. I do have a guy that does all my bigger parts and isn't priced to bad. I only have a regular sized cabinet. Soon to have a 250 gal drum for a blasting cabinet, I hope.

[CarWiz]

I use three blasters (four if you count the little hand/spot blaster) to do parts. If it doesn't fit in the cabinet, I go the next size up. It always seems to take about the same amount of time to do any part--Small or large. For bigger parts, ya gotta bring out the bigger tools.