22% off buying them apart

Both sides of the same job, one payment

Buy it now only for $39.00 (from $49.98)

The Contractor Estimating Bundle is both field handbooks: The Plumbing Bid Book for the stack you send, and The Home Repair Quote Decoder for the scope the customer thinks they bought. Walkthrough lists, worksheets, and contractor chat access. Instant digital access. Nothing ships. $39.00 once, $10.98 less than buying them apart.

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Use it on the next real job or quote. If it does not help you see the work more clearly, message support within 30 days for a full refund.

The Contractor Estimating Bundle photographed as two field books

Free on this shelf. One-page walkthrough checklist. Print it. Take it on site. No card.

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Who this is for

Shops that answer homeowner calls
You keep one messy number for the crew and another for the customer. Neither can check the other.
Contractors who also explain the quote
The Bid Book writes the stack. The Decoder writes the questions. Same pipes.
People about to buy both anyway
Apart they are $49.98. The bundle is $39.00. One payment. Both files.

Skip this if you only send numbers, or only receive them. Buy the single book that matches the desk.

What you get

The Plumbing Bid Book, $19.99 if bought alone
The Home Repair Quote Decoder, $29.99 if bought alone
Walkthrough checklists and quote worksheets
Contractor chat access
One-time payment. Keep the files. Print what you use.

Use it today

01If you send numbers, open the Bid Book
Name the bid type. Walk the miss list. Stack labor, materials, overhead, profit.
02If you received a quote, open the Decoder
Split the lump sum into lines. Run emergency versus planned. Ask the written questions.
03If you do both, sit them together
The shop page and the customer page should be able to sit next to each other without arguing.

The shop and the homeowner are looking at the same pipes with no shared language for scope.

Camerer called it the curse of knowledge. The bundle is the shared page.

How two brains miss the same job

Why the number and the handshake never match

Contractors underprice because the planning fallacy writes a best-case walkthrough. Homeowners overpay for fog because ambiguity feels safer than a question. Buying the two books apart costs $49.98. The bundle is $39.00 so both sides of the conversation sit on one shelf. None of this claims a lab tested the files. It claims the two views were written to meet.

01The curse of knowledge hides the misses
Once you can see a wet vent, you forget the customer cannot. Camerer, Loewenstein, and Weber showed that people with information cannot reconstruct the view of people without it. The Bid Book writes the stack the shop needs. The Decoder writes the questions the customer can actually ask. Same job. Two clean views.
02Two unknown numbers cannot check each other
A messy number for the crew and a messy number for the customer do not constrain each other. When overhead is on the shop page and exclusions are on the customer page, extras have fewer places to hide. That is not software. That is two lists.
03One payment removes the second decision
Present bias makes people buy the cheaper book and tell themselves they will get the other later. Later rarely arrives. The bundle is one decision. Keep both files.

The page that only exists when you have both

A pre-mortem on the shop side, an overlay on the customer side

From the Bid Book: date the page six weeks later and write the job that ate the month, then name the skip. From the Decoder: lay the two-column overlay on the quote the customer actually sees. If the shop pre-mortem names a permit and the customer overlay is silent on permits, that is the conversation before anyone starts. Not a promised save. A shared language for the same pipes.

Inside the bundle

Two handbooks. One shelf.

01
The Plumbing Bid Book: four bid types and the cost stack
The shop view. Type first, then labor, materials, overhead, profit.
02
Walkthrough misses that wipe a commercial job
The list you carry on site so as-built conditions are not a surprise in week three.
03
The Home Repair Quote Decoder: quote anatomy
The customer view. A lump sum becomes work, allowances, and exclusions.
04
Scripts, change orders, and the decision checklist
The sentences both sides can use when the job changes.

Before and after

The same week, two versions

A composite shop that answers homeowner calls. Not a promised revenue result.

Shop owner who also answers homeowner calls

BeforeOne messy number for the crew, another messy number for the customer. Neither matched the other.

AfterBid Book for the stack. Decoder for what the customer is actually buying. Same job, two clean views.

Homeowner who also prices their own side work

BeforeCould not tell which book to open first, so opened neither.

AfterDecoder for the quote on the table. Bid Book when they send a number. One payment for both views.

From the desk

“I used to keep one messy number for the crew and another for the customer. Neither could check the other. Both books on the desk is the first time the job had a shared language.”

Composite shop-owner note · not a star rating

22% off buying them apart