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Many years ago, Rob Lauten of Lauten Construction, in Purcellville, Va., began holding weekly meetings with his clients. Lauten uses the form -- and holds the meetings -- with clients on jobs lasting more than a couple of weeks.
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The key to staying on schedule and eliminating costly forgetfulness is to use a form to carefully plan your project, day by day.
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At Brothers Strong, we think of the term "takeoff" not as an estimate but rather as that point in time when a project is passed from sales to production and a job takes flight. On large-scale remodeling jobs -- whether large-scale to you is $20,000 or $200,000 -- the systems you develop are the...
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It gives him a "written photograph" of the site, so he's able to check up on a project without necessarily having to see it for himself.
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To avoid these situations, I issue three separate informational binders to the office, the field, and the client. --Joel Oatten, production coordinator, Classic Homeworks, Denver
There's a difference, and the extent to which you, your employees, and subs understand and pursue your purpose has a lot more to do with your success than how you think about and even perform your tasks.Your best field staff understand the difference between task and purpose because, even though...
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One of the responsibilities of our lead carpenters is to prepare a realistic schedule that we share with our customers. We add extra days to our production schedule, and we color code those days in red on the schedule.
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Few remodelers take the trouble to align client payments with their own need to pay suppliers and subs within a week to 10 days. Payments are updated on a schedule of values that includes an early-pay line item for general conditions.
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No one has ever polled the remodeling industry to find out how happy or fulfilled remodeling company owners are, but it's a safe bet many are living a life somewhat different from David Moore's.Many overstressed remodeling company owners who've found a proper balance between life and work say there...