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Window-treatment shops get shopped on a published $250 a window installed Facebook special. Those numbers cannot see the opening or the extras. Six 30×60 2-panel inside-mount paint-grade hangs are a different job from eight 48×80 4-panel outside-mount stain-grade openings on a second story with treatment removal and a bypass track.
Open the free plantation shutter bid calculatorA shutter install is openings, then a mount, then how much of that job is actually sold. Product-on-site hang is the cheap special: the shutters are already in the truck. Measure-and-install is a typical shop trip. Template-and-custom is a millwork path plus the hang. Inside mount is jamb and sill. Outside mount is trim, returns, and more hardware.
The cheap special is almost always six small inside-mount paint-grade openings, two panels each, no removal, no bypass. A stain-grade template house on a second story is a different crew week. Matching a per-opening number on a custom job is how a sold shutter becomes a loss when the millwork and the second story eat the margin.
Window replacement is glass, united inches, and a nailing flange. Window cleaning is panes. A patio door is sliders as an opening. Interior painting is a coat. This prices a shutter install: openings, mount, grade, and extras.
Load the wage with payroll burden. Add overhead as a share of direct cost. Then take margin as a share of the customer’s price, not a markup on cost. The walk-away number is total cost. A proposed price under that number loses money before you take anything out of it.
This page is a walkthrough of the arithmetic in the plantation shutter bid calculator. It is not a window design, a building-code determination, a mill catalog, or a price you should copy onto a contract.
Charge from openings, mount, grade, and extras — not a published $250-a-window special. Six 30×60 2-panel inside-mount paint-grade hangs are a different job from eight 48×80 4-panel outside-mount stain-grade openings on a second story with treatment removal and a bypass track.
No. Product-on-site hang is the cheap special: the shutters are already in the truck. Measure-and-install is a typical shop trip. Template-and-custom is a millwork path plus the hang. Matching a per-window special on a custom house is how a sold job becomes a loss when the millwork and the second story eat the margin.
Inside mount is jamb and sill. Outside mount is trim, returns, and more hardware. Paint-grade is the cheap-special assumption. Stain-grade is a different mill invoice. Treatment removal, a specialty shape, a bypass track, a café split, and a second story do not live in a published per-window special.
No. Window replacement is glass, united inches, and a nailing flange. Window cleaning is panes. A patio door is sliders as an opening. This prices a shutter install: openings, mount, grade, and extras.