Why Us?
Why not Us? You win 0% of the jobs you don’t bid.
- NO spending nights having to put bids together.
- NO takeoff programs to purchase.
- NO more giving out blind numbers.
We take care to make sure our bids are accurate based on our experience, and our software.
Please call us and see how we can help you win more work. We make sure that our price and proposal is complete and send you a copy of a spreadsheet for your records and a pdf version for the GC/ Owner. You are responsible for sending it to the GC/Owner, follow up, negotiate, and win the job.
THE PROCESS
In our combined 30 years of experience, we have determined what makes for a good estimate. Everything is counted, down to the screws.
About Us
My name is Gabriel, and I am the owner of H & L Estimating Inc.
I started working with my father as a mason tender as a teenager, and learned firsthand how difficult hard work is. I understood the time, sweat and tears required to build anything.
I saw how the hard work took a toll on my father’s body and did not want to go that route, but all I knew was construction. I also noticed that although my father worked hard, he did so unusually. We were building large warehouses for these rich owners, and my father would negotiate the work by the piece. So at the end of the job, my father and I would go around counting blocks, issue an invoice and (mostly) get paid by piece of block.
I thought, what about the material waste left over, the broken pieces don’t count. How about that time it took us to count the blocks, and time to do the payroll, etc. All those things have a cost, and we were missing out on that. I thought there was a better way.
So, I decided to become an estimator. I took classes in estimating to become a GC, I learned that the 3 types of cost s and to make sure all costs are accounted for. I worked with experienced estimators that I owe a great deal of appreciation for. And I used what I learned to produce income streams new to my father’s company. Expanding the business in ways that enabled us to build larger scale projects, high-rises, water treatment plants, grocery stores.
I decided to work for other General contractors and subcontractors for the next 10 years. Riding the ups and downs of the Florida construction market until I decided to build H & L Estimating Services. I taught my son Orlando how to read drawings and to do takeoffs with Planswift. I developed a spreadsheet tailored to each company’s estimating needs.
Together, we have been partnering with various companies in their endeavor to increase their business to bring in more work and have increased their profit along the way.
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