Job-pricing guidance without the boardroom fog
Price, protect and explain the job.
Answers to the questions tradespeople search when a quote feels uncertain, a customer pushes back or the money disappears after the work begins.
How to price a building job properly
A practical sequence from scope and true cost to risk, profit and customer price.
Read guide →Markup versus profit margin
Why the two percentages differ and how to use either without fooling yourself.
Read guide →Calculate business overhead per day
Turn the van, insurance, tools, phone and admin into a job cost.
Read guide →When a customer asks for a discount
See how much profit the discount removes and what to offer instead.
Read guide →Deposits and stage payments
Structure payments so the job is not being financed from your pocket.
Read guide →Why profitable-looking jobs lose money
The hidden time, optimism and scope drift that consume the amount added on top.
Read guide →Search question to working answer
Each guide has one job.
These pages do not repeat the calculator or chase the same phrase with slightly rearranged paragraphs. Each answers a different decision, then points to the tool when real figures are needed.
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