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For the Owner/Builder |
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If you choose to act as an Owner/Builder, this e-book, construction forms, and design and estimating program will guide you through the entire process. If you are hiring a contractor, it will help you identify the one who shares your passion and provides a fair and honest price. With our simple worksheet, you input your specific design criteria while the worksheet automatically calculates materials and costs. Make changes and recalculate as many times as you wish to prepare your own budget estimate for your specific project. Preplanning your project with the Design Worksheet & Budget Planner will help you save money and avoid costly overruns due to changes after your project is underway.
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| For the Contractor |
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| Every contractor knows that the first question he or she will inevitably hear from a prospective client is "how much is it going to cost me to build". Unless you know every component this potential customer will want in their project, it is only possible to provide a "ballpark" cost. With this worksheet, it will be easier for both you and your client to understand what the ballpark or preliminary budget includes. You will generally spend an hour or more discussing a potential project in detail, so why not input that information directly into a worksheet that will produce a comprehensive cost breakdown and allow the flexibility to make instantaneous changes to reflect the costs of various building methods and products. |
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For the Designer
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Much as a contractor will be asked, your prospective client will want to determine the cost of their project before they pay for expensive designs and later discover they can not afford to build. Most of you generally do not have the ability, time or staff to produce an estimate, and even if you did so, you would probably have to pass on additional costs to your client for this extra effort. Having the ability to input design criteria into a flexible worksheet that is pricing a project on a component level will allow you to work with your customers within their budget and the ability to explain which design elements will work with that budget. Additionally, the program will generate project specifications based on the information entered.
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