26/06/2026
Most companies quote 20% margin and land at 4% actual.
Not sometimes. Consistently.
It's not a crew problem. It's not a scheduling problem. It's a math problem that starts before anyone picks up a tool.
The quote gets built from a wage number — one of six cost layers. The other five are either estimated, ignored, or pulled from a report that arrived 45 days after the last job closed.
So the margin that looked right on paper evaporates somewhere between the bid and the final invoice. And nobody knows exactly where.
That's not a one-job problem. That's a quote system problem.
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