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Featured articles on estimating
Nolan Orfield

It's not always the most exciting aspect of running a construction company but generating professional, quick, and accurate estimates can be the determining factor in a company's success.  Hopefully some of these articles will help your company establish an estimating procedure that will keep it ahead of the competition and making money!

How to create a template within Clear Estimates.
How to create a template within Clear Estimates. This is a very powerful and useful aspect of Clear Estimates that allows you to quickly enter mutliple parts into your estimate simultaneously. You enter a single quantity value and it then calculates quantities for all of the parts contained in the template. . . . keep reading
Create Detailed Project Specifications Quickly with SpecWriter 5.0
Create Detailed Project Specifications Quickly with SpecWriter 5.0 It is the only specification writing program on the market written exclusively for Residential Builders and Contractors, and includes specific provisions that address the unique conditions of custom homebuilding and remodeling such as the ability to create a list of items not included in the job (like wallpaper or window treatments, for example) and a list of things to be done by the Owner (selecting fixtures or matching the existing tile). . . . keep reading
The Making of a Software Company
Nolan Orfield
The Making of a Software Company Clear Estimates for Contractors is a product that was born out of necessity. Working for the family business, a residential remodeling firm, I discovered that the contracting community lacked an industry standard for estimating software. . . . keep reading

Google Spreadsheets!
Nolan Orfield
Google Spreadsheets! Many companies are trying to eliminate their dependency on software. Google has made this easier by introducing Google spreadsheets, their onlive equivalent of Excel, that will allow people to create and save spreadsheets through their new online service. . . . keep reading
Three tactics to increase the accuracy of your estimates.
Nolan Orfield
Communicate with your subcontractors . . . keep reading