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Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Plumbing and Heating (Spon's Estimating Costs Guides)

Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Plumbing and Heating (Spon's Estimating Costs Guides)
By Bryan Spain

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All the cost data you need to keep your estimating accurate, competitive and profitable.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #479130 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-12-20
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 264 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
All the cost data you need for accurate and profitable estimating.
Working on jobs between £50 and £50,000? Then this book is for you.

Specially written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works, Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Plumbing and Heating contains accurate cost information on thousands of rates each broken down in to labour, materials, overheads and profit.

The only book to include typical project costs for:
* Rainwater goods installations
* Bathrooms
* External waste systems
* Central heating systems
* Hot and cold water systems.

More than just a price book, it gives easy-to-read professional advice on setting up and running a business including:
* Taxation
* Book-keeping, VAT and CIS4's
* Legal obligations.

For the cost of approximately two hours of your charge-out rate (or less), this book will help you to:
* Produce estimates faster
* Keep your estimates accurate and competitive
* Run your business more effectively
* Help save you time.

No matter how big your firm is - from one-man-band to an established business - this book contains valuable commercial and cost information that you can't afford to be without.

About the Author

Bryan Spain is a consultant quantity surveyor who specialises in building and civil engineering costs. He has worked in local government, private practice and contracting organisations. He has also written over 50 books, mainly on construction costs.

Customer Reviews

SAVE YOUR MONEY1
I brought this book to help with the many quotes i have to deal with each week. Free up some me time, BUT NO. The book is a way off the scale for the the heating and plumbing industry. Copper prices and lead are no where near what the books est. Then their is the times it allows per job. Either the plumber who wrote this is really really REALLY good, or I will soon be going under after 10 yrs.

Waste of Time and Money1
This book is completely out of date. It still uses British Thermal Units when referring to boilers etc. If you work to the charging rates specified you'd be out of pocket. Stay well away from this book. Had I not been so busy I would have sent it back within the 30-day returns policy.

A GUIDED START ONLY2
Dont rely too much on this book for pricing or heat ratings (who uses BTU's these days?).
It was used as part of full set of SPONS similar publications to price a job much bigger, but it was soon dropped.
It gave a reasonable start on how to set about pricing the work, the content we devised ourselves.