Estimating and Bidding on Decorative Concrete Contractors
Successful decorative concrete contractors give their invaluable advice on how to estimate and bid a decorative concrete job successfully while safeguarding your business.
by Wendy Ardolino

If you do quality decorative concrete work, more work is sure to come your way. But what should you be charging? Mastering the art of estimating and bidding a job is important to your company's success. Bid too high and you will lose the job. Bid too low and you won't have enough revenue to cover the costs of your materials and labor.

Three decorative concrete contractors share their experiences with estimating and bidding — what can go wrong, what they have learned and what tips they have for other contractors.

Luckily, it usually only takes one major mistake to develop a game plan to be successful at estimating and bidding. But by learning from other decorative concrete contractors, you can avoid a few mishaps along the way.