Brady Fenn

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · From Grunt Work to Luxury GC · 24 Sep 2025 podcast

Normally we budget this for trim carpentry, we budget this for paint, we budget this for cabinets, whatever.

And then we get into the design and find out, oh man, these budgets are way off.

This design is way more detailed.

And the client spent good money on this design and they're counting on us.

Hey, you know, we gave you this design.

You should have priced it per the design.

So there, there was a few jobs where we kind of did it just, you know, how we always did and put the budget together without really digging into the specifications that were presented to us.

And it, it, it cost us, I mean, we were, we were kind of in trouble that made for, you know,

lost money on our end plus or hard conversations with the clients and hey we just we didn't budget enough for this you know and that was we've we've definitely had those i me personally i've had those hard conversations and they're not fun yeah well i can't imagine um i think like generally what was the pivot because i mean you guys were budgeting you were budget you just didn't take into consideration like the the

the bigger scope or the quality and product or like like just the amount like so like cabinetry for example like when you get interior design done um and they specify all the door styles the stain the the hardware the amount of cabinets you know so it could be completely different

or just way more intense than what is on your architectural plans.

You can look at your architectural plans just from a 2D, okay, yeah, there's base cabinets here, upper cabinets here.

We kind of would look at it from a square footage and also like,

maybe we're using a semi-custom cabinet shop or that's what we're used to and then we get this design done that our our semi-cabinet guy can't even do you know like he he can't do it and so that then puts us to a different level of cabinet company that we need to use that's going to be more expensive because it's it's 100 custom cabinets and so that that's like kind of an example or like

You know, trim carpentry is another thing.

We actually self-performed trim carpentry.

And so when we looked at that, it was, you know, on the plans, okay, yeah, this is the square footage.

We'll budget this amount, you know, for it.

But then you get into the interior design and there's specifications in every single room.

You know, there's so many different things that were specified in the interior design that we just didn't account for.

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