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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Back Costing Made Simple
why back costing is painful I’ve been doing a bit of back costing lately… on my own home renovations! One of the first things we ask...
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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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Blog Bites – hot tips on measuring hardware
We reckon measuring hardware is one of the most under measured items when builders measure themselves… More often than not most rely on...
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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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Using Your QS as a Trusted Advisor
The best QS in the world can price a job for you but that doesn’t mean you are going to make any money. Sounds like an odd way to start a...
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Peer checks – how a QS stays accurate!
You may wonder how our quantity surveyors stay sane when they are measuring and pricing plans all day… We can tell you from personal...
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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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Blog Bites – hot tips on measuring concrete
Concrete works come in many forms… slabs, perimeter walls, columns, beams… the list goes on. Because all the different types of concrete...
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Top tips on pricing labour
I was going through all the blogs I’ve written before – there are a lot! And I realized that there was a topic that I probably hadn’t...
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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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