Robert,
I'm a business man as well, but when the price of the project exceed budgetary restraints jobs are cancelled. I had bid a 20,000 lb+ project in the height of the metal price madness but the project was canceled and built from concrete. I probably had 100 hrs in estimating that project, which is now water under the bridge. Steel like fuel is used in the manufacturing / distribution of everything on this planet so yeah it all adds up.
Steve
Steel Prices
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Re: Steel Prices
Steve,
That’s exactly the risk/reward of which I speak. It is the business owner’s job to choose the direction of the company and proactively change as needed. To be perfectly clear, I have not always done this successfully in my years of self-employment. I’ve gotten some right and some wrong. Wildly successful owners get it right almost all the time. The rest of us hammer away and try to win more than we lose.
That’s exactly the risk/reward of which I speak. It is the business owner’s job to choose the direction of the company and proactively change as needed. To be perfectly clear, I have not always done this successfully in my years of self-employment. I’ve gotten some right and some wrong. Wildly successful owners get it right almost all the time. The rest of us hammer away and try to win more than we lose.
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Re: Steel Prices
I just got 120 linear feet of 1/4" x 2.5" x 2.5" square tube at 0.50/lbs
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Re: Steel Prices
That is a “STEEL!”
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