GL: summer storage on the hard in lower Georgia/Savanah area

[Bob McLeran]

It's been my experience that some work is billed as at a fixed price 
(bottom paint is billed per foot, for example) and other work is billed 
as time and materials required. The former is used for standard jobs; 
the latter for work where the yard has no way of quantifying the effort 
required in advance.

If all of our boats were the identical, it wouldn't be as much of a 
problem, I suspect.

Ralph's advice is still good for those "standard" tasks where the yard 
knows what it is getting into. They should still be able to quote a 
standard cost of labor per hour, and of obvious materials.

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On 3/2/2009 1:33 PM, Ralph Yost (home) wrote:
> Always get a "not to exceed" cost estimate. Always approve the job by 
> writing on the estimate you sign "Approved but billing is not to exceed this 
> estimate".