when pricing jobs for contractors, is it normal to get less per foot than you would for a normal customers home?

Don't ever get caught in that trap!!!


Who is responsible for your business? You or the contrator, asking you to take on his workload?

If you don't make what you would normally per hour of your time, when you bid, how long can YOUR business stay profitable if at all.


You do realise, cutting your prices by 10%, your going to have to do 81% more work to make the same profit. THAT'S A FACT! (thanks Sam Allman, from Mohawk University)

How does that sound to you.

Do you feel like working 81% more to make the same as you are now?

I give builders a break. Your math is pretty screwed, Perry. How bout a breakdown of that equation?

I have to advertise a bit to get John Q. Public. And I LOOOOVE referral$.
But a builder who gives me an average of 1100 ft. per month all year long and all I gatta do is pick up the phone AND he pays 100% usually on the following 1st of the month even if the jobs not done yet ....That guy gets a break!!!! I have to admit it though, If he's gonna toss me a bone about once a year and b***h about a drip mark in the corner of a closet, He's a RETAIL customer PERIOD. No matter what we do for a living ... it's always a people business. Then theres the guys who think that "7 bucks a foot" (incl. mat'l) is the name of a species JEEEESH!! Any schmuck can knock the legs off a dining room table and Hilti the pig to the entry way and call it a hardwood floor ... for $1.10 a ft ... but NOT this schmuck

Sorry ... been a long day

It was a nice article in Sam Allmans column in National Floor Trends, several months ago, maybe a year ago??? But I did read it and say... WOW!!!

It was explained very well, and it all made sense, and added up perfectly.