Job Costing Morgan City LA

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

Hunt T H Roofing Co
(985) 385-1862
1036 Levee Rd
Morgan City, LA
Leidenheimer Contractor
(504) 835-3500
636 Beverly Garden Dr
Metairie, LA
Dillon Bob Construction Inc
(504) 433-4941
620 Taylorbrook Dr
Gretna, LA
Fortenberry Construction & Remodeling
(318) 861-9030
5821 Line Ave
Shreveport, LA
Rachal's Floor Co
(318) 641-0146
179 Sherwood Dr
Pineville, LA
Ready Decks
(318) 934-4174
3068 Knolin Dr
Bossier City, LA
Active Insulation Systems
(985) 892-9852
2017 Ronald Reagan Hwy
Covington, LA
Expand Inc
(225) 791-8050
22344 Achord Rd
Denham Springs, LA
Remodelers Unlimited
(337) 265-3028
1020 W Pinhook Rd
Lafayette, LA
Nunn Builders
(318) 982-6866
14152 Highway 15
Downsville, LA


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

Acadian Woodworks

337-367-1399
409 b cobb ave
new iberia, LA
www.acadian-woodworks.com


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