Jake Bruton

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · The True Cost of Fixed Fee vs Cost Plus Models · 23 Jul 2025 podcast

You're still going to pay that eight grand tariff.

It's still going to be in the price of your windows, but we're going to subtract that eight grand off because when we bid the windows and when we bid the house and we signed our contract, that tariff wasn't on the horizon.

It wasn't part of the conversation.

So in some instances they are in some they're not.

So that's part of the conversation as well.

So that was the conversation that I had with our client was I said, if we can easily figure out that it is a direct tariff cost, I'm happy to do that, but I'm not gonna have our office manager or project manager spend two weeks trying to figure out if the cost of that light going from 65 to 85 is a tariff thing, or if it's our electrician or electrical supply house trying to raise rates.

Totally make more money.

So we have to know that this is a tariff thing.

So the window supplier that we work with European architectural supply, they put a line item and said, here's our predicted tariff.

If it's more than that, we'll cover the rest of it.

we'll charge you that tariff when they show up if the tariffs in place because it's not in place yet um sega is another manufacturer that we work with their stuff comes out of switzerland they know that after this date if that stated in place this is what our price difference is going to be so there's some simple ones like that but when you get into like

all of our electrical components that are coming out of China or Taiwan, did everybody's raising their rates, even the stuff that's not manufactured in Chinese, China or Taiwan.

And so then there's this like, maybe, you know, we might have a harder time determining that.

Yeah, so, I mean, they all existed before this conversation started, right?

Right.

There are some things that did go into effect, but for the most part, I think everything is still on hold.

Everything that we had real panic measures about is on hold at this point.

I think the electrical components side of things

And the nail and screw and fastener side of things is probably going to take the hardest hit because Taiwan and China are in the like 100 to higher percent tariff rate.

So that's probably the part that we're going to see the worst, but I don't think that we're seeing it yet.

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