Concrete Estimate Template

Concrete is unforgiving to estimate. Order one yard short and the truck comes back at a short-load fee; order two yards long and the margin went into the washout pit. Most flatwork contractors still do the yardage on a phone calculator and the pricing in their head, so every bid is a little different and none of them show the margin.

This workbook does the whole quote on one Estimate sheet. Enter length, width, and thickness in inches and it returns square footage and cubic yards, with your waste percentage already added, using the standard L x W x (thickness / 12) / 27 conversion. Seven material lines follow: ready-mix per cubic yard, rebar or mesh, gravel base, and vapor barrier per square foot, plus lump sums for forms, pump truck, and misc items like chairs, sealer, and sawcut. Sales tax is applied to the materials subtotal. Labor uses a productivity figure (square feet placed and finished per crew-hour, default 40) and your burdened hourly rate to produce crew-hours and labor cost. The pricing block takes total direct cost, applies your markup (default 20%), and reports bid price, gross profit, and gross margin, with a one-line reminder of how markup differs from margin. A Price Book sheet holds 12 concrete line items (4-inch and 6-inch slab, footings, stem wall, stamped, sidewalk, driveway, demo and haul, rebar, pump truck, sawcut, sealer) with blank unit-price cells for your local numbers, and a Read Me sheet walks through the four steps. 18 formulas across 3 sheets, no macros.

First 15 minutes: fill the Price Book with the unit prices you already use, enter the dimensions of the last slab you poured, and check whether the bid the sheet produces matches what you charged. If it does not, the margin line tells you which way you were off.