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(WA) BAR GRATING METALCO FENCE & RAILING SYSTEMS (IL) OGI ARCHITECTURAL METAL SOL. (OH) PROVINCIAL FENCE PRODUCTS, LTD. (CN) STEELGUARD FENCE LTD. (CN) T.S. DISTRIBUTORS, INC. (TX) METAL ROOFING RAFAEL J NIDO, INC. (PR) POLYWRAPS DOUGLAS SPORTS (IA) POST-EROSION CONTROL CMC SOUTHERN POST CO. (AR) PRECAST CONCRETE MOLDING EQUIPMENT SMOOTH-ON, INC. (PA) TEMPORARY FENCE RENTALS CIRCLE "A" FENCES, INC. (GA) FENCE SPECIALIST INC, THE (RI) GUARDIAN FENCE SUPPLIERS (SC) LONG FENCE (MD) LYNX BRAND FENCE PRODUCTS (CN) PROVINCIAL FENCE PRODUCTS, LTD. (CN) SECURITY CONTRACTOR SERVICES (CA) SIGNATURE FENCING & FLOORING SYSTEMS (NY) CROWD CONTROL BARRICADE RENTALS FENCE SPECIALIST INC, THE (RI) GUARDIAN FENCE SUPPLIERS (SC) LONG FENCE (MD) SECURITY CONTRACTOR SERVICES (CA) SIGNATURE FENCING & FLOORING SYSTEMS (NY) REBAR TIER PRODUCTS HOME TOPS (WI) HUTCHISON, INC. – HUTCHISON WESTERN (CO) THE FENCER'S ALMANAC 2014 • REBAR WIRE DAVIS WIRE CORP. (CO) MAURICE PINCOFFS CO., INC. (TX) STEELGUARD FENCE LTD. (CN) RECYCLED PVC, REGRIND & POLVERIZED 161 TAILGATE WRAPS FOR PICK-UPS J.C. GURY CO., INC. (CA) STUCCO MESH DAVIS WIRE CORP. (CO) LYNX BRAND FENCE PRODUCTS (CN) WIRE CLOTH MANUFACTURERS (NJ) REGENCY POLYMER MATERIALS (VA) WOOD COMMERCIAL SIGNS STAINLESS STEEL RODS & ASSEMBLIES FEENEY, INC. (ARCHITECTURAL PROD.) (CA) HAYN ENTERPRISES, LLC (CT) AMERICAN TIMBER & STEEL CORP. (OH) WOOD DIRECTIONAL SIGNS AMERICAN TIMBER & STEEL CORP. (OH) Things that you may not know about construction estimating BY STEVE SAUCERMAN 1. Never, ever, listen to don't have an answer to that the architect's or engineer's barbed tape question, march budget estimate for the proj- right down to that tavern and ect. It's not widely known, but ask the installer face-to-face. most architect cost manuals 7. When your boss (who's come from a publisher in never pulled a plan in his life) Wonderland. chastises you for using high2. On bid day, immedi- lighters or colored pencils durately after your boss has hys- ing your plan takeoffs terically burst in or out of your (implying that a "true pro" office for the twentieth time to doesn't need them), perform critique your estimate, you're the following steps: allowed, in most states, to a. Pick up the plan that shoot him. (Check your local you're working on (if less than laws.) 10 sheets, grab two sets). 3. You will, at some time, b. Roll plan(s) up tightly. find yourself negotiating with a c. Whack him hard "New Age" enough to type builder- The "x" percent that send him realtor. You'll you add to your bid through the know they're right before the bid wall into his New Age beadjoining ofdeadline will cause they will fice. (early in your correspond precisely 8. The "x" with how much you percent that talk and many times therewill lose the bid by. you add to after) describe your bid right themselves as "Type A" per- before the bid deadline will sonalities. When this happens correspond precisely with how to you, call me, and I'll tell you much you will lose the bid by. what the "A" stands for. 9. If the bid is due at 2 4. On bid day, hang p.m., you will receive a rearound the bid letting location vised materials quotation at to see how many bidders 2:03 p.m. that would have come to the opening. lowered your bid $20,000 If only one other bidder (and you will lose the bid by shows up, don't even think $19,000). about jacking your bid up (at The above information is least 30 percent). according to the Gospel of This, of course, would be Steve. Steve Saucerman is a wrong. 5. The four (4) fittings commercial construction estiquotes that you just received mator and project manager, will be based on four (4) dif- who also teaches building technology, ferent quantities. What you construction may not know is, all of them drafting, home building and design. He has authored nuare wrong. 6. 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