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Posted by Sacramento Dave on June 23, 2005, 6:18 pm
> I suspect this topic has been covered in the newsgrup before. I did a
> quick seach but didn't find exactly what I was after, hence this
> post.....
>
> I'm thinking of starting a deck building business in Boulder County,
> Colorado. it seems I'd have to buidl a lot of decks to make money!
>
> How much can one make from a single deck? I know size and complexity
> matters so just a ball park number or some examples would be good.
>
> Would it be wiser to buy an existing deck building company or start
> from scratch?
>
> I'm too old to do a lot of heavy lifting so I will hire some help.
> However, I will not hire illegals so will that make me uncompetitive?
>
> Any other words of wisdom?
>
Other considerations . Contractors License, Liability insurance, Workman's
Comp.and there is allot of misalanious overhead not related to every job.
You need to really sit down and think of all the real cost and hidden cost.
You will probably have to charge allot more than you imagine. You will also
have to learn how to sell yourself. In my short try at Contracting I can't
tell how times I was told " oh you showed up" and that was to look at a job,
so there is allot of flakes out there, Are you going to be one? When I got
a job my theory was to get in there get it done as fast as I could less time
for customer to get picking or annoyed. But you should give it a try you
will never know unless you do. I am not familure with CO. contracting laws
but in CA. any job over $500 requires a contractors License ( some people
believe charging by the hour gets around that, that's just not true) There
are people that will have you do a job then ask for your license and you
don't have a leg to stand on in court. If you do it you should do it right.
Like with anything there's a learning curve. The only other thing's I can
think of is you should try not to limit yourself to just to decks and if a
customers says he has nothing but problems with contractors triple your bid.
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