Millwork Cost Schedules

(Continued tjnether as one price in the sghedule depending upon whether the arfi.l. is customirily sold maihined ready to assemble outside, or whether'always sold assembled. Thus the custom existing in selliile ttre articli either as finished lumber, machined for assembly but kh-ock down, or completely built at the mill determines the presentation of the price in the schedule.

'This brings-this axiom into play, the.thirteenth. "Present the cost in itri scfteairle used by the estimator, either as Finish Lumber,.K D triaitinea or Built at Mill, o. in all three ways'-as custom requires."

--Oni of the big men in the igdustry-made the statement that "I ao"'i feit is thoigh I am runniirg my business whql I have- to relv J" mv estimator Jor the right price to charge'" Which of course G trtl. But the fault belonggd to the General Manager and not to the estimator. Proirer cosl information was not given to the from Page 30) estimator to use, Moreover.if the big boss fails to organize to get cost information and demand it no one will or can get1t.

Your head estimator needs cost information, hJ cannot do his work intelligently without it. !!e has to apply it in his every day's work, he observes its-short-comings, he is lnterested in its aicuricy and because no schedule can qover everything he must understani the details of €ost schedules to rebuild its units to some problem, thercfore, the -fogrteenth axiom "your head estimator is -the kcy man in cost scheduting."

Now, Pbesident Wilson stopped when he reached his fourteenth point and ,tho-ugh we might fi_nj a few more, it might be well to follow in the footsteps of that g_reat inan. But at ant rate it's your turn to do something. When these fourteen points'are in praltice \re can scare up a few more.