Job Costing Las Cruces NM

Most estimators assume that eight hours on the jobsite are eight productive hours. With no job costing, you'll never discover how misguided that assumption is.

Local Companies

Sun and Earth, Incorporated
575-915-7713
3314 East St
Las Cruces, NM
Almvig Enterprises
(505) 524-3700
Las Cruces, NM
Perry Construction
(505) 647-2722
3513 Dona Ana Rd
Las Cruces, NM
Top Notch Exteriors
(505) 523-5837
935 San Francisco St
Las Cruces, NM
Jc Roofing Inc
(505) 524-9199
1890 San Juan Ave
Las Cruces, NM
Holguin's Electric Co
(505) 527-5699
809 Quesenberry St
Las Cruces, NM
Stout Hardwood Floor Co
(505) 527-4143
695 S Compress Rd
Las Cruces, NM
Home Maintenance Services Inc
(505) 296-2253
2705 Juan Tabo Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM
Aguilar Corp
(505) 898-4060
9813 Cameron St NW
Albuquerque, NM
M & B Construction Inc
(505) 345-5223
6630 Broadway Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM


There's a debate currently raging surrounding the relative merits of time and materials billing vs. fixed-price contracts.

In most respects, I think it's no contest: Fixed pricing wins hands down for lots of reasons. It holds the potential for higher margins. It provides a strong incentive to clients and remodelers alike to buy right. And it keeps clients' prying eyes away from parts of the business, like markup, that they wouldn't understand anyway.

There's a dark side to fixed-price contracts, however, and it has to do with what is perceived to be another advantage: Fixed-price contracts are easy to administrate.

What turns this advantage into a liability? Most remodelers working with fixed-price contracts pay attention to costs just long enough to price and sell the job. After that, they can apply for scheduled draws or so-called progress payments without ever taking another look at how the actual costs of construction squares with their estimate.

Paid as You Go

Unfortunately, profit depends not just on what you sell the job for but on how much you spend to produce it. T&M contracts won't solve this problem — they're too open-ended — but cost-plus contracts just might. They may be time-consuming to administrate, but so is job costing. That's why most remodelers either don't do it or wait until long after the job is over to find out whether or not they made any money.

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Featured Local Company

Sun and Earth, Incorporated

Bringing innovation, intellegence and integrity to sustainable design, construction, products and services.

575-915-7713
3314 East St
Las Cruces, NM
www.sunandearth.net

Sun & Earth Inc.
Our passion has been passive and active solar design and construction since 1976. We are the foremost innovators in sustainable building in Southern NM. Our primary field is energy efficient and sustainable building, including earth sheltered. We install and sell active solar domestic hot water, radiant heating, and sustainable roof coating. We specialize in high efficiency cooling including radiant cooling and we are the distributor for the OASys Indirect Evaporative Airconditioner.



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