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Think Twice Before Giving A Price
Case study I had a visit from a builder once up to the office. He carried with him a scroll of plans and he looked a bit flustered. He...
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If I was your client’s QS….
If I was your clients QS….. Settle down… I know most residential homeowners do not engage a QS to look after the financial side of their...
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Everything Has A Cost
Case study Several moons ago, my team were working on some pricing for an earthquake damaged home on behalf of a homeowner who needed...
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How to get the most of the money you spend on a QS – the Handover – Wisdom from Clare
Getting all the benefit from the transaction When you have sent a job to our QS team, and paid for them to do a full take off (measure...
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How To Handle Material Shortages…
Material shortages and cost increases There will be times when materials for jobs are harder to come by, I think in recent time that is...
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What is a Schedule of Quantities and Why is it so Important
A Schedule of what? Okay – Probably something you’ve heard of and tried to avoid… Or attempted and perhaps not your area of expertise....
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Quoting Tips and Tricks
I inwardly cringe when I hear of a home owner who is comparing building quotes and all they are looking at is the number at the bottom….....
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Subcontractor Hourly Rates
I was asked recently my opinion on what a good hourly rate for a subcontractor might be. I politely declined to answer, before providing...
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Contract Descriptions
Okey dokey – I’m sure I’ve done this before but I’m going to do it again…… here is a handy description of the two most often used...
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Managing Gen Y Onsite
Mmmm. Young people. Now you know I’m broad brushing here….. not all young people are as I’m going to describe….. but you know you would...
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Blog Bites – hot tips on measuring framing and DPC
The carpentry trade is the largest of all the trades within the NZ Standard, and rightly so! So I’m going to just give you a little...
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Blog Bites – hot tips on measuring formwork
Measuring formwork used to do my head in….. formally There are lots of rules around measuring it correctly and sometimes you do it in...
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Labour Charge Out Tutorial
Victoria walks Pete the Builder through Labour Charge Calculator Check out our super helpful Labour Charge out tool that will check if...
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Quoting Jobs is like going on Tinder
Full disclosure – I told my builder I was going to write about his comment because it was HILARIOUS. I was yakking to my builders the...
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Measure Twice, Cut Once
Case Study I remember back in the day when I had started at my first job in a commercial office, the first thing I had to do was measure...
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Elemental Pricing – Benefits and Pitfalls
Hey I was checking a builders work the other day and I realized something – HEAPS of you price elementally when you are working on jobs...
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Our Last Pricing Workshop….
Last Stop Ashburton! You have probably heard by now that I’ve been racing around the country doing seminars for builders teaching them...
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Margin – how much should you charge?
Recap on Margin vs markup We've talked about margin before… and we want to talk to you about it again. You know from reading earlier...
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Provisional Sums VS PC Sums
Knowing the difference Confusion often arises when deciphering the difference between a Provisional Sum, and a Prime Cost Sum (PC Sum)....
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Pricing Earthworks – all you need to know!
Pricing earthworks is such a skill, the general approach is to use a provisional sum, basically because none of us own a set of x-ray...
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