Back Costing Made Simple
Why back costing is painful We've been doing a bit of back costing lately… on our own home renovations! One of the first things we ask...
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Why Use a Quantity Surveyor?
Who wants to spend money on a QS when you can do it yourself? We completely appreciate that the idea of using a quantity surveyor is a...
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Labour Charge Out Rates
Labour charge outs will differ depending on if you pay your guys on wages or on contract rates, and what those paid rates are. So how do...
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Subbies – how do they price?
Believe it or not – they work twice as hard as you might think We spend plenty of time talking about how builders should price their...
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The User Pays QS Model
Would you build for free? The Cost to Price the Job should be covered – irrelevant of who does it! Not entirely sure where it comes from,...
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When a Fixed Price Contract Won’t Work
When Builders Shy Away From Fixed Prices To be fair, a fixed price contract is always possible, but sometimes when you are negotiating...
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Charge-up
Thinking through your charge up terms & conditions I have heard about a lot of work being completed on charge up lately, not uncommon...
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Lost Another Tender?
So you lost the job you priced… Well, it was probably the QS’s fault that you lost it, right? Because that’s why you use a quantity...
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Builders taking a stand on pricing…
Do you know what’s exciting???? How many builders are truly considering the cost of pricing when dealing with clients. A few years ago,...
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Blow-By-Blow
Fixed Price Quoting In an effort to help consolidate all this info we fire at you, We thought we would throw out there a blow by blow on...
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Pricing Renovations
your Survey Results are in: When we surveyed all you lovely builders a few months ago, one of the questions we asked was what type of...
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Merchant Quotes – The Good And The Bad
Merchant quotes: where would we be without them? Materials are a huge part of a project, can’t do much without them that’s for sure! Most...
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We Can GUARANTEE You Are Leaving Money On The Table
Money!!! Free Money!!! Margin VS Markup – what’s the difference and why do you care? This is murky territory, it’s where your accountant...
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Free Quotes?!
Take that “free quotes” sticker off the side of your van!! Ok so I totally get the free quote thing. I would generally be a bit peeved if...
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More Hot Reno Pricing Tips
With banks and lending being the way they are these days…. Never cheaper to borrow but never harder to get lending! You guys don’t really...
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The Ultimate Pricing List
Blow-By-Blow Just because we like lists… We thought we would give you guys our ultimate blow by blow of putting together a fixed price...
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When the client won’t pay for a quote
So you have spoken to your client who wants you to price their build for them, and you have told them you would like to outsource the...
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Scope Creep
Case Study Almost a decade ago, we were in the throes of pricing work for those very first repairs undertaken by EQC after the Canterbury...
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Unforeseen Building Works
The Stuff That Bites! How often do you reckon unforeseen works creeps and bites you on the backside? Its all well and good to measure all...
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Square Metre Rates
m2 – The perfect marketing tool Ahhh the good old square metre rate. You see them all the time, group home builders love them and we can...
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