Pack-out is a job of its own, and it is usually priced like a favor

What’s inside

• Costing a pack-out

  Labor per room, boxes and wrapping, transport and handling, built up from the house in front of you rather than a flat charge.

• An inventory that stands up

  Item-level records with photos and box numbers, made as things are packed, so the list is evidence rather than memory.

• Cleaning, restoring and the items that cannot be saved

  Sorting contents into cleanable, restorable and non-salvageable, with the record each category needs before anything is discarded.

• Storage and the month nobody planned

  What storage costs per week, who approved how long, and the rebuild delay that turns six weeks of storage into sixteen.

• Pack-back and the sign-off

  Returning contents room by room against the inventory, with a signed acknowledgment at the end of the job.

• The item that went missing

  Handling a claim of loss or damage from the inventory and photos, before it becomes a dispute about your company's honesty.

The measure it works from

Measure

Collected margin per job

Which means

What was actually paid on a job after every reduction, less the labor, equipment, materials and office time the job consumed, including the hours spent defending the invoice.

Compared against

The invoice total that was submitted.

Every figure in the document is illustrative, produced by one internally consistent model, and the document says so on its own cover.

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