How I made over $2,765 a day with door wrap.
No GC will hand you a $4,000–$5,000 vinyl wrap project
on your first try.
They’ve been running jobs just fine
for decades without vinyl wrap.
And they don’t care
where you learned it—
Korea or the U.S.
That means nothing to them.
The real world isn’t that easy.
So I made a different move.
I offered to work hourly.
Just $30 per hour.
(In North American renovation sites, hourly billing for this kind of work is extremely rare.)
From the GC’s perspective,
It was a low-risk test.
About $210 a day in labor,
plus material.
That’s it.
So they said yes.
On my first door wrap job,
I finished 6 doors in 7 hours.
Everyone on site was watching—
not impressed,
but curious and skeptical at the same time.
They were watching closely:
“Is this guy legit?”
“Is he going to mess this up?”
“Are his finish lines clean?”
That was the reality.
By the third project,
I changed my pricing.
I said:
$320 per door.
The GC accepted.
From their side,
it still made sense.
For around $420 total,
they could get a clean,
wood-style finish.
*(Basic flat doors from Home Depot: ~$100
- wrap: ~$320)*
Then from the sixth project—
I switched to project-based pricing,
just like electricians, tile crews, and carpenters.
Final Structure
- Price per door: ~$500
- Material cost: ~$105
- Net profit per door: ~$395
- Time per door: ~1 hour
- Daily output: 7–8 doors
The Result
In a single day:
7–8 doors × $395 = ~$3,000+ per day
Final Insight
Nobody trusts you at the beginning.
So don’t sell the project.
Give them a way to test you—
work for free, or at a very low rate.
Once they see the result—
once you earn trust—
you set the price.
Seoul Interior Film 
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