{ "item_title" : "The Complete Guide to Estimating for Tradespeople With Toolkit Included", "item_author" : [" Paul Lewis "], "item_description" : "Stop guessing what a job will take. Start pricing it.Most tradespeople are excellent at the work itself and still price it from memory - a rough figure in the head, adjusted for how the job feels on the day. It works, right up until a job runs long, the materials cost more than you allowed, or a busy year turns out to have made very little money.The Complete Guide to Estimating for Tradespeople gives you a step-by-step system for working out what a job will genuinely cost, what it should be sold for, and where the profit actually sits. Not a generic price book with someone else's labour rates in it - a method for building your own estimating figures from the work you carry out, backed by a free companion toolkit of 467 scoped tasks and a ready-built labour-time tracking system.What you will learnBreak any job down into clear, measurable tasksEstimate realistic labour times, and know the difference between hours worked and days on siteCalculate your true charge-out rate from your own overheads and recoverable hoursProduce accurate material take-offs, with proper allowances for waste, pack sizes and consumablesPrice plant, equipment and subcontractors without losing margin on themAdd risk and contingency you can actually justify to a customerSurvey a site properly and write a scope of work that protects youTurn a costing into a professional quotation with staged paymentsCompare estimated hours against actual hours, and learn from every jobUse AI as a cross-check on your figures without taking its numbers on trustForty fully worked estimates run through the book, from replacing a consumer unit to a full property refurbishment. Every one is built the same way, so you can see the method applied to real jobs rather than described in theory.Free companion toolkitEvery template in this book is free to download from the publisher's website. There is no cost and nothing further to buy - full access instructions are printed inside the book.A task library of 467 individually scoped tasks across fifteen trades, from a single socket outlet to a full rewireA labour-time tracking system in Google Forms and Google Sheets that copies into your own account, where your figures stay private to your business (a free Google account is required)Labour estimate, material take-off, quotation and staged payment templatesA charge-out rate calculator and an overheads worksheetThe estimate-versus-actual record that turns each finished job into better data for the next quoteTrades covered: electrical, plumbing and heating, carpentry and joinery, painting and decorating, plastering and drylining, brickwork and masonry, roofing, tiling, flooring, groundworks and landscaping, kitchen fitting, bathroom fitting, window and door installation, insulation, and general building.Whether you are self-employed, running a small trade business, or pricing work for a growing team, this book moves you off guesswork and onto a system you can repeat, check and improve.Price the job properly. Protect your profit. Get better at it with every job you finish.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/364/9798173642301_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "33.07", "online_price" : "33.07", "our_price" : "33.07", "club_price" : "33.07", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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