Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Encourages faster and possibly sloppy work. Might be illegal. And from her view, would you want to come into clean ten screens and make a cool $15? Probably not worth the gas. Unless you have a bunch ready to clean always....I'd go hourly wage and hire someone to come in, maybe after hours.At $12/hr that's 8 screens an hour. She can hopefully do more than that,and you'd be paying more than that if you do it by the piece.
I'm also a one man shop and used to devote almost a whole day each week to reclaiming and recoating etc. It was a giant pain in the ass, and I only have about 50 screens total, and go through maybe 30 a week during normal weeks. I recently got a dip tank and it has made the whole process of reclaiming take less than 2 hours for all of my screens and I'm not even close to tired at the end of that since there is barely any scrubbing. I have started getting in the habit of reclaiming immediately after a job and just card off ink on press, take to my trash can and take off the tape, and drop in the tank. Then I go do something else for a few minutes, come back and pressure wash off. The whole cleanup process takes maybe 20 minutes for a 6 color job and I can be doing other things for a lot of that. I was kicking myself for not having gotten it sooner...
I think it's a great deal, $1.50 a screen is easily made up in an order. If there's concerns about it being illegal tell her to bring in a scrub brush and give her a 1099.RogerRT screen designs Www.rtscreendesigns. Com
Call me ignorant, but wouldn't using your pressure washer, sink, chemicals, etc void the 1099?
$2.5 or $3 a screen? Is that not a ton of money. I thought $1.5 each was being nice.