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Originally Posted by ironworks
So my question is who pays for the Written Detailed Estimate?
Nobody.. Estimates should be absorbed as part of doing buisness ... Experts should be able to do so without too much opportunity cost. If they can't then their buisness cannot and will not scale.
How can you expect a guy to give a spot on Estimate on a project of this precision when the can't build air craft carriers or bridges on time and exactly on budget?
I wouldn't ..... "spot on" and estimate are mutually exclusive ... In my buisness for example we estimate work and +- 20% is expected.
We are working on 55 Chevrolet and we put a new quarter panel on one side and not the other. I now know it would have been much less work to have put a quarter panel on both sides due to the stamping differences from the original quarter panels and the repo unit. It was a major visual difference. MAJOR. How do you budget for that? Whose fault is that?
If it's a customer supplied part the customer...
If the customer is neither involved in the part nor the install he should be insulated from it... If you paid a guy to do an extension on your house and he handed you a bill for 2x the original materials cost because the lumber was crap so he threw 1/2 of it away you would tell him to go to hell.
We are hired to build perfect cars with very imperfect parts that are marketed to Just bolt right on cars that were not perfect when new and perform perfectly. And just because a parts fits perfectly on one car does not mean it will fit perfectly on the next car.
Build it into your estimate and stay within 20%... Communicate with the customer and change order if needed and agreed to and this problem goes away.
The only way to fix a lack of communication is with the communication the customer wants and needs to hear to understand. But you can explain it to them all day long and it does not mean they understand you, even if they say they do.
Good communication is only achieved when the intended message is received as intended...
Get familiar with and implement a change order process and this problem also goes away. You will be surprised how much cooperation and understanding comes from this...
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Last edited by XLexusTech; 12-02-2014 at 06:34 PM.
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