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Owners call with a weekday number: “Can you start Saturday? We need the legal bedroom before the listing. Same $3,500?” That sounds like the same opening. It is not the same crew day. After-hours is time-and-a-half. You cannot leave a four-foot foundation hole overnight, so it is a second trip to plate or fence it. Working around a family that still uses the basement on a weekday is the same wage on a slower cut.
Open the free egress window bid calculatorA weekday they leave still carries the wage you already timed. After-hours raises that wage to time-and-a-half and adds a starting second trip. On a typical masonry legal bedroom — vinyl slider, steel well, cover, drain, ladder, $42 wage, 30% burden, 15% overhead, 20% target margin, 14 miles — the weekday bid is $3,976.62. After-hours is $4,990.68. The walk-away jumps from $3,181.30 to $3,992.54. Taking $3,500 to “just do Saturday at the weekday number” covers the empty weekday and loses $492.54 after hours.
| Weekday, they leave | Weekday, they stay | After-hours / Saturday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wage | Weekday | Weekday | Time-and-a-half |
| Set hours | Same | Slower cut + punch-list | Same cut, plus a second trip to plate the hole |
| Your bid | $3,976.62 | $4,163.03 | $4,990.68 |
| Walk-away | $3,181.30 | $3,330.42 | $3,992.54 |
| At $3,500 Saturday special | Covers | Covers | Loses $492.54 |
The Saturday special is more tempting when they already have the $1,800 Facebook number in mind and the wall is poured concrete. The weekday bid is $7,494.94. They-stay-in-the-basement is $7,757.87. After-hours is $9,045.85 and the walk-away is $7,236.68. Taking $1,800 to “just cut what I bought, this weekend” still loses money — even on the weekday.
Customer-supplied kits are their sash and an install-only number — see should I install a customer-supplied egress window. After-hours is when you can stand in the yard and whether the hole stays open overnight. A walk-in shower Saturday is tile overtime in the only bath they still use. A toilet Saturday is an overflowing closet. A boiler Saturday is a no-heat call. This prices an egress window: the opening, the cut, and the well.
Open the egress window bid calculator, pick the typical legal-bedroom or losing-job preset, and put their Saturday number in “price you’re considering.” The access table scores that number against a weekday they leave, they-stay-in-the-basement, and after-hours / Saturday. Nothing is uploaded.
This is the same arithmetic as how much to charge to install an egress window. It is not a labor-law determination, a union scale, or a reason to refuse a customer — it is the walk-away number on each access window.
Only after you price time-and-a-half plus a second trip to plate the hole. You cannot leave an open foundation excavation overnight. A $3,500 Saturday special on a typical masonry legal bedroom covers an empty weekday and loses $492.54 after hours. A $1,800 Facebook special on a poured-wall stone well sits under that walk-away number even on an empty weekday.
Yes. Same wage, slower cut, set, and punch-list. On a typical masonry slider with a steel well the they-stay bid is $4,163.03 versus $3,976.62 when they leave.
Usually not on the job they actually want. On a typical masonry legal bedroom the after-hours walk-away is $3,992.54. $3,500 covers an empty weekday and loses $492.54 after hours. On a poured-wall stone well, $1,800 still loses money even on the weekday.