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Florida Sub, bath and kitchen mainly.
I NEED HELP. I am trying to recover from losing my rei company. I decided to fight!
I am a bonded insured company President of AmeriKote LLC (the one of the three in florida thats based in Hernando County, not the tampa one with BBB complaints.)
We are your typical tub and countertop reglazer. Nothing new. My services are available statewide for residential, and countrywide for commercial. multifamily and hotel properties.
READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will give you guys all commercial discounts. I will give you up to the typical 5 year warranties, or less time which includes a rate reduction for you for every year taken from 5!!!! and I will ACTUALLY honor warranties promptly. Below I will just tell u my cost up front.
I do a pretty good job too. My suppliers product has held up 15 years in some tubs quite well. I will soon do inserts for you all too.
My tub pricing for general public is usually $225-$300. With tile surround (or a full shower, even fiberglass) about $375.
[b]For you all, I will go $185 on a tub no matter how many (100 or more $125), depending on the existing finish, presence of silicone, or repairs, and amount of masking needed. BUT, for a "single" tub you must be pretty nearby to me. Give me a few or more to do, and I will travel statewide for you. Give me 20 or 30 and I will go to Washington if I have to.
Add in a tile surround to the job for hmmm, say $250 total price or so. Give me a bunch like 20 full surrounds and I will do both for $225 give or take. Give me a apt complex of like 75 or a hundred I can go as low as $160 for a FULL SHOWER and tub but only a 1 year warranty and a single THICK coat of acrylic with 2 primer coats. Give me $200 each and get a full 5 year and standard 2 coat finish.
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My fame is countertop refinishing. Mine come out blinding like glass, and smooth like a mirror. If you seek a corian appearance, I can change the edge of the top with contoured flexwood. It's a little pricer but STILL cheaper than formica refinishers. I am well known for this invention of mine.
My price is "TYPICALLY" for one top job is $35 per LINEAR (NOT square) foot, assuming a 24 inch wide top. With the edging, $45 a LF and one extra days work. Volume and investors get discounts though, but not as drastic as tubs. These take a lot of time and I do PERFECT work. If you just want it commercial grade and to just "look a little better" I will work out something.
Both cases, if your keeping the property to rent, do the higher price option. If flipping, take the cheap way out which still will get you identical/slightly better quality and appearance of about 95% of the other refinishers out there anyways. Yes, my cheap one coater job still will look better to you than anyone you probably ever used. THAT is a sad part of the industry. Unlike them, I will NEVER:
[b]1. leave you a run, chips, missed spots, dirt under the paint (all surfaces get tacked)
2. Paint on the fixtures,
3. Dullness
4. Painted over sloppy caulk jobs or stick resistant silicone, (I remove bad caulk jobs then recaulk),
5. Blemishes and chips painted over without repair (sometimes another couple bucks)
6. Cracks or breaks in fiberglass without FULL grindout, bonding, and filled (again, sometimes a few extra bucks)[/b]
[b]I WILL NOT ACCEPT JOBS IF I AM ASKED TO PERFORM SUBSTANDARD WORK. IT REFLECTS ON MY COMPANY REPUTATION.
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I can also commonly reglaze cabinets in color.
[b]For you top end property guys, I can relaminate them in REAL WOOD veneer, in your choice of species, stain and clearcoat them, I also replace the doors in solid wood, standard or hidden hinges, matching the veneer species on the faces, and you can even design them with an easy program for the order. I get the doors so cheap from Mexico I have lowers costs than some formica guys. Literally, any old cabs will appear to be brand new solid wood improvements. Any damages, warping, or chipping I can fix, and I can even cut and resize them to fit dishwashers, etc. With my fake corian top jobs it looks spectacular.
Pricing varies on wood type. I can present an exaple though. Sears quoted a customer 7000 for formica on about 20 linear cabinet feet with the OLD doors. I came in at $3500 in Red Oak, including hinges, drawer faces and pulls.
My kitchen below is oak. 45 linear feet. 36 doors, 18 drawers. My cost for ALL MATERIAL was $1100. Id do something like that for an investor who will give me repeat business for about $3800-$4000. Home Depot quoted me for Mills pride fake maple formica cabs. $3800 was the cost JUST to buy them.
Anyhow,
Thanks for anything you can do to help. Tell a friend.
Adam.