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Nail Your Numbers: A Path to Skilled Construction Estimating and Bidding
Nail Your Numbers A Path to Skilled Construction Estimating and Bidding Author:David Gerstel Nail Your Numbers lays out the procedures necessary for skilled bidding and estimating one logical step at a time. Readers learn to: — Accurately figure labor costs — Obtain reliable sub and supplier quotes Efficiently execute takeoffs — Astutely mark up for overhead and profit — Create a powerful estimating spreadsheet — Pr... more »otect bids from erosion during construction
Competent estimating and bidding are the very heart of any sustainable construction business. You might be great at marketing, building, and all the other work that a construction business requires. However, if you cannot estimate and bid skillfully, you are not likely to survive, much less prosper or enjoy your work. Nothing takes the fun out of building like worry that you may have badly underestimated the cost of a project.
Nail Your Numbers is the only book that methodically imparts all the skills necessary to bid wisely and estimate accurately. Written in the conversational style that has helped make David Gerstel's now legendary earlier book, Running a Successful Construction Company, so popular with builders, Nail's large format and spacious full color interior make learning the skills necessary for successful estimating and bidding an approachable task. Nail is heavily illustrated with photos and drawings and is packed with sample forms and checklists. For the price of a good table saw blade, Nail Your Numbers will enable you to put in place the systems that are the essential foundation of a successful and enjoyable construction business. « less