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Coastal Contractor

March/April 2007
by Bob Kovacs
Tips from a full-time estimator will help you produce fast and accurate quotes.

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Estimate Like a Pro Tips from a full-time estimator will help you produce fast and accurate quotes Bob Kovacs While there is no definition of a "typical" deck builder, I would wager that many companies have an owner who sells, estimates, and also swings a hammer - or the owner does the selling and estimating, and one or two crews do the actual installations. If the typical job takes around a week to complete, the owner needs to sell 50 jobs per crew each year to keep everyone working. Even if he's selling one out of every two jobs he

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