Every evening, after his team went home, David would sit at his cluttered desk with a stack of blueprints, a calculator, and a yellow legal pad. He’d measure linear feet of uppers and lowers. He’d count drawers, doors, and pull-out trays. He’d flip through supplier catalogs for plywood, maple, cherry, and walnut. Then came the hardware, the soft-close slides, the under-mounts, the crown molding.
Twenty minutes later, David had a complete, line-by-line estimate. Materials, hardware, finishing, shop labor, install labor, overhead, and even a suggested profit margin. He looked at the bottom line. It was $400 more than his usual gut-feel estimate. cabinet estimating software
He handed Mark the bid. Mark whistled. “That’s higher than last time.” Every evening, after his team went home, David