Pricing and Estimating Guides

Three jobs, the same rates, one calculator. Quadrupling the floor moved the quoted rate by 1.8%. Taking one coat of topcoat off moved it by 17.1%.

A 220 m² floor priced line by line in pounds, from data sheet consumption to a rate per m². A 10% overage cost 12.5%, and one coat of topcoat moved the rate by 17.9%.

Diamond tooling, power, and equipment depreciation add up to a direct cost per square foot, before labor or margin.

Margin and markup are never the same number for the same job. Here is how to turn a job cost into a sell price that actually protects your target margin.

Labor, materials, overhead, and profit all stack into one quoted price: a full cost breakdown worked through on a real 430 ft² job.

Polished concrete has almost no material to price, so the money is in the hours. How to turn a pass sequence into labor hours, a schedule, and a direct cost you can quote from.

Every quote costs real hours, and most quotes are lost. Here is how your hours per quote, hourly rate, and win rate combine into the one number that pays for the jobs you did not win.