Quoting Mistakes Tradesmen Make: Copying A Quote You Never Checked

Quoting mistakes tradesmen make usually aren't in the maths. They're in the quote you copied without ever checking it. You've got a quote to do and you've done one like it before. So you open the old one, change the name, change the address, nudge a couple of numbers and send it. Twenty minutes, job done. And you've just copied a mistake you made eight months ago and never found out about. This is not "never copy a quote". I copy quotes. It's about knowing which ones are safe to copy and which ones template a bad number into every job you price after it. You'll learn: Why repeat work — solar, chargers, boards — is fine to copy even if you never formally reviewed it Why a rewire copies fine as long as you actually change the quantities Why reusing a school quote on an industrial unit is where the money goes Why the kit list copies perfectly and the labour doesn't The only question worth asking before you copy anything Why "that one made loads" is a feeling, not a number Why copying is a multiplier: £180 wrong once, £2,160 wrong twelve times Why copying the quote means copying the catalogue, and the problems in it Why you shouldn't spend three hours pricing a job you don't think you'll win The main idea: If you quote right, the job will go right. Copy the work you know. Check the work you don't. FieldHive keeps the job scheduled against the quote it was priced from, so there's something to go back and check when it's finished — and once you've checked it, you fix the catalogue item rather than copying the quote at all. Check an old quote against what the job actually did: https://fieldhive.com/calculators/est... Start free with FieldHive: https://fieldhive.com/download Watch next: Fixed Price vs Time And Materials: What UK Trades Should Actually Send #trades #quoting #pricing