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Excerpt from Estimates, Costs Profits: Exterior Painting and Interior Decorating Efficiency is the goal of the business world today and it means just as much to the contracting painter as to any other business man, efficiency in business methods, in handling men, equipment and materials. The efficient painter makes money on a contract that his inefficient competitor would fill at a loss. To know your business, to figure where the other fellow guesses at it is the most worthy, the most effective of all efforts to make a profit. The figures given in this book were carefully worked out and verified. They are given chiefly to explain the method, but all are as nearly accurate as it is possible to make them under average working conditions. Any tests you may make probably will not come out in exactly the same figures, but they will show that the figures given are accurate enough for all practical purposes and to furnish a basis upon which to build an estimate and calculate costs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.