Hi Wim, I treat poly repair as any other piano repair. If they call me to the house just for that, I'll charge my normal hourly rate to come to the home and then deal with the repair. If you're there tuning and have an opportunity to see the scratch/dent/whatever, piece of cake (sort of). This is usually the way it happens for me. I'm there anyway, can assess the damage and quote a price. My hourly rate is my hourly rate whether repairs, rebuilding, poly, lacquer.............I wouldn't have it any different. The difficulty comes in getting some experience in assessing damage and estimating repair time. Practice, practice, practice. If you can get your hands on some scrap case parts in poly, I'd recommend it. Set up some scenarios for yourself to see what it takes to repair a variety of degrees of damage. Pass my regards to Ruth - a quality human being. William R. Monroe On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:51 PM, <wimblees at aol.com> wrote: > This is for those of you who do polyester repairs. > > I am going to MARC in a couple of weeks just to take Ruth's class on > polyester repairs, because, according to the piano stores, and the other > tuners I know, there is no one on Oahu who does this kind of work. > > I know how long it takes to tune a piano, and do most repairs, and my > hourly rate is based on that. But I know that poly repairs can be completely > unpredictable. Not only that, people are not going to pay an estimate fee > for a scratch. > > So how do you charge for this kind of work? Do you have a minimum, and then > so much per hour after that? Or what? > > Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/72fd46c5/attachment.html>
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