Hi I'm getting ready to start my business and plan on doing a lot of remodeling and repair work at first. My question for the contractors in pa and other people is; how would you bid the remodel or repair work when you have no idea what your going to have in material wise or labor wise? Being that under the law you are required to have a contract that dictates a total price, changeable by change order of course. It seems irrational to me to bid it, give a total price, then deal with constant change order after change order because of unknowns. If you bid high you may not get much work but mostly end up profitable, if you bid on what you know you'll have work but expect lots of hidden conditions the customer will get mad at the price increase and change order headaches. I can already hear them now, "Shouldn't this have been already included?" I know that's what a hidden conditions clause is for but don't think all that would make many customers happy. Any advice would be appreciated.
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