Yea, its a post about posts... Railing posts... Tired of them yet?... You can't imagine how over these things I am already, and I've only done mock-ups...
We got the pricing off on them today... I only sent them off today, because the producer has a budget meeting in the morning... Really I wasn't ready to send them off since I was waiting for some numbers back, but the request came in at 4pm, so I rushed off a safe quote by 5pm... 5:10 as my partner and I were walking out the door, the phone rang that we knew would ring, but we had hoped to beat it out the door... The numbers were too high, and could we take a closer look at various aspects...
Back off with the coats, order a pizza, and dive in to the numbers and plans... When it was all said and done we had shaved almost 11% off the bottom line... We didn't cut in to out profit margin, we just got the quantities of material and labor a bit closer to what they really will be, rather than the very safe quick numbers I had done... We also got the producer to drop a very expensive and time consuming aspect of the railing posts... It was a trim detail that was going to cost a fortune to do...
So I got stuck with a pizza dinner, and had to stay late to shave money off the bottom line... It didn't really cost me anything, and it eliminated a highly annoying aspect of the design... All in all a good day when you are used to far worse phone calls... 'Course it doesn't leave much room to squeeze any more cuts out of the bid when they decide its too expensive tomorrow, but I'll jump off that bridge when I come to it...
Posted by Backstage at December 5, 2005 08:05 PM | TrackBackI'm about to sugggest you send me a copy of this railing detail to see if I can make it even more of a balls-up :). Of course from the sound of it, I suspect that any price I'd come up with would make yours look like a bargain. Keep them profits, lad, it's what will sustain you in your old age.
Posted by: outfoxed at December 6, 2005 11:10 AMOhhhhhhhhh. :::forehead slap:::: I read the first 3 sentences; all I really know how to DO is RAILING POSTS.
Posted by: dogette at December 7, 2005 09:21 AM