Accurate
Plumbing Estimates and Consulting Services (APECServices.com) was formed to
service the growing demand for knowledgeable and accurate plumbing
estimating services. We only provide estimating services for the plumbing
industry. By providing estimates
specifically for plumbing systems, accurate and detailed estimates are
provided and are always completed by the date requested.
Our senior plumbing
estimator, with more than 40-years of experience, and an experienced support
staff have both the field experience as well as the
office and computer skills needed for estimating.
We will
provide a complete professional comprehensive bid that will lead you to winning
more bids.
Our estimating services range from smaller jobs starting
in the $5,000.00 range to larger projects up to the $10M range.
Many estimating services cannot or will not provide
estimates for commercial remodeling projects such as: Walmart’s, Sam’s Clubs,
retail stores, coffee houses, factories, hotels, and more. This is one of the
many services that we offer.
We also provide estimating services for new construction
projects such as: Box retail facilities, manufacturing facilities, hotels,
office buildings, shopping centers, medical clinics (including medical gas
piping systems), schools (elementary, high school and college / university), health
clubs and sports complexes.
Our support staff will collect from you all the pertinent bid
documents including your fixture and equipment quotes from your suppliers. Material (pipe, valves, and fittings) prices
will reflect local pricing guidelines and markets.
Each bid will
include the quantity of labor (separated by system), the material type and size
per system and the quantity of fixtures and equipment per system.
We provide
detailed estimates taken off on digitizer boards connected to “QuickPen”
estimating software. Your estimates can be customized to reflect labor and
material costs per system, per floor or per drawing page. Contract alternates
as well as voluntary alternates can be provided and be ready for you to present
these alternate prices with your base bid (contract alternates) or after the bid date (voluntary
alternates) when you may have an
opportunity to provide your potential client with a few money-saving ideas.
Many
estimating services cannot provide accurate take-offs related to the
excavation and back-filling of sewer system trenches, concrete floor
saw-cutting and removal or dirt / concrete spoil removal costs. We will include
these costs in your estimate if requested.
An estimate
summary will be provided to you so that you can add in any additional costs for
your equipment (back-hoes, excavators, front-loaders, scissors and boom lifts,
etc.) that you may use on a particular project, any foreman’s time, supervision
time, project management time, your sub-contractor bids for pipe insulation,
fire-stopping or system identification to name a few.
The estimate summary sheet allows you to make
any adjustments to the labor and material costs, the other job-related costs
mentioned above and most importantly, the overhead and profit that you want on
the bid.
We can provide a formal proposal for each
bid. The proposal will include all
drawing project numbers, issue dates, drawing sheets, project location, the
base bid amount, any contract alternate amounts, voluntary alternate amounts,
systems included, the material per system, the fixtures, equipment and
quantities per system, excluded items and payment terms. If AIA payment
documents are required on the project that we are bidding for you, we will
provide initial G702 and G703 forms.
Consulting Services
Prior to starting APEC Services, we were in the
plumbing contracting business for over 32 years. We can provide consulting
services related to your ongoing business operations, job management and
accounting programs. We can recommend accounting and legal firms to you that
specialize in the construction contracting businesses. We can help you to open new
divisions within your company (plumbing service and repair, estimating
department, etc.).
Hiring the right person for any job in your company is a
challenge. We provide an interview /
hiring method that can help you find and keep the best people to fit your needs
and in turn will help your company to be more profitable and ultimately grow
into a larger successful company.
Once you hire an employee, and you see potential for them to
grow into that great employee that you have always needed, keeping them can be
difficult. We can show you how financial
benefits can be offered and the long-term positive effects it can have in
making a good employee a great employee.
We are available to come to your location for a day, a week,
or a month to meet with you, your staff, or your field personnel. We can work with you in your day to day
operations in your company. We will assess, then provide a report mentioning
the strengths of your company as well as the areas that could use some
adjustment.
All information that you share with us is confidential. A guarantee or security bond is available to
insure total confidentiality.