Estimating

• Builder's Library: Estimating by the Book (Subscriber content)

  Estimating tables, builder's math

   

• State-of-the-Art Contractor: Dirt-Cheap Digitizer (Subscriber content)

  Inexpensive pen digitizer

   

• State-of-the-Art Contractor: A Quantum Leap in Estimating (Subscriber content)

  A new Windows program puts the estimate and database on screen together

   

• Builder's Library: HomeTech Remodeling Manuals (Subscriber content)

  Hometech remodeler’s guides offer sound advice on production management and estimating

   

• Unit-Price Estimating (Subscriber content)

  Stick-by-stick estimating takes forever, but quick square-foot takeoffs are not accurate. Somewhere in between lies unit-price estimating. Here’s a step-by-step guide to designing and using your own unit-price system.

   

• Remodeler's Estimating Checklist (Subscriber content)

  What you overlook in an estimate will probably come back to haunt you. This comprehensive checklist can help keep you out of trouble.

   

• K&B Remodeling -- On Budget On Time (Subscriber content)

  This methodical approach, by a kitchen and bath remodeler, can help you avoid costly estimating and scheduling oversights.

   

• State-of-the-Art Contractor: Flexible Estimating (Subscriber content)

   

• Legal Column: Who pays When the Bid Is Wrong? (Subscriber content)

  Bidding errors

   

• Working Cost-Plus (Subscriber content)

  Cost-plus contracts can ensure a profitable job for builders who keep careful records and maintain good communication with their customers. Here are the contract provisions and cost-tracking systems that have worked for one builder.

   

• State-of-the-Art Contractor: DOS With a View (Subscriber content)

  Windows for the IBM

   

• Job Cost Accounting (Subscriber content)

  Keeping track of true job costs requires an organized approach. A veteran remodeler opens his books to show how he does it.

   

• State-of-the-Art Contractor: Shareware: Try Before You Buy (Subscriber content)

   

• State of the Art Contractor: Computers: Myth vs. Reality (Subscriber content)

  Do small builders need computers?

   

• Kitchen & Bath: Careful Estimating for K&B (Subscriber content)

  Estimating pitfalls

   

• Change Orders for Design/Builders (Subscriber content)

  A design/builder explains how to avoid conflicts when customers change the plans in the middle of a project.

   

• State-of-the-Art Contractor: Accounting Made Easy (Subscriber content)

   

• Keeping Track of Labor Costs (Subscriber content)

  A remodeler describes his no-nonsense system for tracking labor costs on the job site.

   

• Quick Bids for Small Jobs (Subscriber content)

  How to accurately estimate small jobs over the phone using a special policy and price book.

   

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