Easy Construction Estimating

Most contractors don't go broke doing bad work. They go broke doing the math on jobs they were proud to win.

Gino Graziano started with one truck. By the time he stepped back from day-to-day operations, his company had grown to over 700 employees - built on a single discipline he learned the hard way: estimating isn't a talent some contractors are born with. It's almost entirely documentation and calculation, with only a small, honest slice of real judgment mixed in.

Easy Construction Estimating walks through that exact process, start to finish - how to take a job off accurately, how to price materials without getting burned by supplier games, how to calculate the true cost of labor (not just the hourly wage), how to build overhead and profit into every bid on purpose instead of guessing, how to handle the genuinely unknown without padding your price into unwinnability, and how to package a bid that wins jobs without racing every competitor to the bottom.

Every chapter builds on a single real worked example - a 2,000-square-foot concrete slab - so you see exactly how each number gets calculated, not just told that it matters.

This isn't theory from someone who's never stood on a job site. It's the estimating discipline that took one contractor from a single truck to a company with hundreds of employees on payroll, scaled down to fit exactly where you are right now - whether that's your first year running your own crew or your tenth.