Running Your Own Rig: The Business

Ready to run your own rig? The gun is the easy part — this is the business that keeps the gun paid for.

We start with pricing: material cost per board foot, labor, overhead, and the margin you need to survive the slow months.

Then estimating and bidding: walking a job, measuring board feet, reading the hard parts, and quoting commercial work without leaving money on the table.

We cover operations: scheduling, crew management, rig maintenance as a budget line, and the paperwork — insurance, warranties, certifications — that gate the bigger jobs.

We finish with growth: when to add a second rig, how to hire and train spray techs, and the marketing that actually fills the calendar.

This is the course for the sprayer ready to become an owner.