Paradigm-360

A couple of years ago in Fine HomeBuilding’s Breatime Forum a fellow wrote: “I live in houston and I am a trim carpenter. I do such a variety of things that I never have know the going price of some of the work that I do. I asked this same question here at FHB and [...]

Comparing the Traditional Volume Based Markup vs. a Capacity Based Markup Methodology (aka a PROOF/Indexed/Labor Allocated Markup Method) I recently got up one morning and checking the Journal of Light Construction homepage I spotted something under the “New This Month” section that said “Business-Allocating overhead to labor” and clicked on it and was happy to [...]

I’ve just finished work on and published a new, and what should be the final version for now, of the Excel WorkbookThe Capacity Based Markup Worksheet (also known as the ” PILAO” Worksheet) which sprung out the PROOF Worksheets in Library discussion in the Journal of Light Construction Estimating Forum.

Over the course of the last year and a half I grown I’ve grown incresingly perturbed reading a lot of the talk surrounding Markup and Profit in the Journal of Light Construction forum of that same name. Recently there was a question posted there by a fellow asking: I own a small kitchen and bath [...]