"RicodJour" wrote in message
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On Jun 22, 11:30 pm, mm wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:58:51 -0400, "Scott"

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A guy I used to work with told me a story about a friend of his that
had a carpet business. The guy got sick of having the exact scenario
you described happen to him. Someone would take his written estimate,
with room measurements, and shop it around. In other words this guy
was doing the estimating work and people were taking advantage of
him. Know how he fixed that? He started deducting 2' from every
dimension on the written estimate. He actually had an owner call him
up screaming that his measurements were wrong! The owner had given it
to some other guy who never bothered checking the measurements,
ordered the carpet, went to install it and...oops!

R

20 years ago, designed and sold kitchen remodels for Sears. They advertised
free estimates and design. So most people would call us to come out,
measure, and design the kitchen remodel. They expected drawings which they
then took to Home Depot to order the cabinets. We got in the habit of
making up a separate drawing for them that had no cabinet sizes on it and
usually had one or more cabinets that weren't to scale so the Home Depot
couldn't take off our drawings. On the other hand, I recently designed a
kitchen remodel for my mother's basement kitchen. Simple, two walls, open
ended so cabinets didn't have to fit within end walls. I tried to order
cabinets from Home Depot and they flat out refused to order any cabinets
until I had their man come out and measure. I tried to explain my
credentials and the simplicity of the job but no way. It was their way or
hit the road. Menard's had no problem with my measurements. Home Depot
wouldn't order any cabinets even if I gave them the cabinet size numbers and
said "Order It". They would however let me buy the in stock one design
finished or unfinished cabinets they carried.

Tom G