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Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab
An experienced estimator will know what to look for and also read the customer.
As of now, in CA, vehicle reconstruction falls into a grey area as far as the BAR is concerned. There are no set times for most of the work that we we do. That is why I try to stay within an industry standard. If Blake over at Speedtech, Steve over at EBMC charges 40 hours to do a mini tub, that's what I charge.
Early on we did a time study and most seems standard.
Right now the thing that kills a business is the for mentioned creep. The customer wants to add or increase modifications. That little added step may push 3 of the next customers in line back a month and increase my profit/loss into the red for that period of time.
OP...make a good accurate project plan, stay the course and keep the jobs coming in no matter how small the job.
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Read the customer Vince,, 8 years in the Snap On Tool Business,, You learn to read the person real fast, I could quiz them in the tool truck for about 5 minutes, Where you from, Why you hear, Where you going, not exactly like that but you can learn a lot from a person just normal conversation.