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86 contributions to Construction Contractors Hub
Sep 3 •
What do you want to get out of the community (September)?
Hey Everybody, New month! So new goals I know for me, I have had this big realization that AI is just genuinely not that difficult to use. I guess I am very deep in the bubble of people who play with it a ton. But increasingly, I am becoming more convinced that the real skills I want to focus on mastering are my construction management skills. So trying to do more content on construction projects and businesses. The skills that actually matter. The thing I find hard is that AI is such a massive buzzword that any video I do with AI in the title does well. I'm tryin to balance that with the topic that I think really has a huge amount of depth and complexity to it which is Construction. I did this video and was really happy with it. This is more the style of content I want to be doing What are your goals for September?
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Joshua, for the relationship-building question, I’d make a small list of the firms that already work with your ideal clients. Learn which projects suit them, what makes a contractor easy to work with and when they typically bring a GC in. Follow up with something relevant to that conversation rather than a general capability pitch. Tracking the last conversation and agreed next step would make it a repeatable weekly habit.
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@Houston Whipple For that scope-to-bid workflow, a simple trade-by-trade checklist of inclusions, exclusions and unanswered questions would give you something consistent to check each quote against. On your last job, was the bigger time sink getting the bid invitations out, chasing quotes back, or spotting gaps between them?
16d •
New here - Red Seal electrician out of northern BC
New to the room. Red Seal construction electrician (309A), fifteen years in the field across northern BC - industrial, wind, remote sites. These days I split my time between industrial controls work and coaching Canadian tradespeople through the Red Seal exam. Most of the guys I work with can wire anything. They freeze on paper. Happy to answer anything on the electrical side - code, controls, troubleshooting - or how the Canadian ticket and apprenticeship system actually works if you have hands you are trying to get certified. Glad to be in the room. Will
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Welcome Will. Another BC one here, excavation and dirt work down on Vancouver Island. "They can wire anything, they freeze on paper" is the same thing I see on the business side. Guys who can run a machine all day and read ground better than anyone, then the quote sits in the truck for a week because writing it down is somebody else's job in their head. Same person, same competence, different medium. The ones I've watched get through it didn't get better at writing, they stopped starting from a blank page. Same structure every time, so the task became filling gaps rather than producing something. Curious whether that's what you see on the exam side too, or whether the paper problem there is more about how the questions are worded than the writing itself.
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@Will Nemo Good to meet you too, Will. That distinction between what works on site and what the question is actually asking makes sense. Appreciate you explaining the routine you teach.
Jun 10 •
Is he is right about Whatsapp?
"WhatsApp is the most successful construction technology tool ever built." — Prakash Senghani, CEO of Navatech https://www.instagram.com/p/DZXQ8rLFaij/
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Anish, I’d separate where people communicate from where final decisions live. A chat is convenient for a quick site update, but the agreed scope, current drawing and action owner still need an obvious home. Otherwise someone joining the job has to reconstruct decisions from hundreds of messages. How are people here moving the important updates out of the chat and into the job record?
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Thanks for explaining, Anish. A clear job record without making the crew change how they communicate makes sense. Have any contractor teams tested it on live jobs yet? I’d be interested in hearing which task they’re actually using it for.
Mar 12 •
What do you find sucks about estimating?
Last week I did my first bid in ages. I had taken some time off to build the software, so it was good to be back at doing actual estimating. It was an electrical project but the scope was unbelievably confusing. It instantly reminds me what I hate most about estimating. Spending hours going through the drawings, trying to make sense of the scope of works and put it all together. It feels like when bidding, you spend 90% of your time trying to work out what the client actually wants you to price. If you were going to spend $5m+ on a contract, surely you should spend a few hours trying to clearly articulate what you want them to price? But clients never seem to do it properly.... What do you hate most about estimating?
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Roy, when the site-cut information is missing, I’d turn that into a short written clarification request rather than a guessed quantity. List the information needed to price it, what you can establish from the supplied drawings and what remains unresolved. That also makes the gap visible to whoever reviews the estimate. Do you have a standard missing-information checklist for those earthworks enquiries?
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That's fair. When the bid is due Friday you price it and move on. What I found helps is having the checklist already written so it takes two minutes instead of thirty. For earthworks it's the same short list every time: existing contours, spoil on or off site, access for the machine, and who's handling disposal. If it's missing, it goes in the quote as an exclusion rather than a guess. The guessing is what costs money later, and that's usually the jobs where there was no time to ask. Do you build that into Operum, or is it still on the estimator to remember?
Jul 27 •
Plumbing Estimator
Licensed plumber of 20 years looking to put down the tools and switch to a remote plumbing estimator position. I would appreciate any advice. Thank you
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Jeffrey, how is the move into estimating going? Before taking on a big workload, a past job you know well could make a useful practice estimate to review with an experienced estimator. Have you started talking with the plumbing contractors you already know?
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@michael-mackrell-5885
I've generated $500K with my contracting company. Now I give away all my knowledge and tools free to help other contractors. blackmountaintech.ca
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