Railing inserts

[Kibby]

Hello all
Fairly new to the business and have a customer that wants some railing inserts made. Does anyone have experience cutting these ? How do you price the job? What do you charge per panel?

Thanks

[comeoutswingin]

I retail 2x4 railing panels for $125 a panel. Cut from 10 ga P&O bare steel.

[Kibby]

Thanks for your response. What kind of designs do you do? What is your average cut time per panel. How about installation do you offer that?

[comeoutswingin]

I do all sorts of designs. I have a collection of panels that I offer at that price. If I have to spend a lot of design time on it obviously the price will have to go up. On average I'd say a panel takes 15-25 minutes start to finish. As far as installation I do not offer that. I am a part time shop therefore I don't have time to do that nor do I want that headache.