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Coastal Contractor

July 2008
DeckTools 1.2 software; work gloves; scaffold brackets

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TOOL KIT Designing to Sell Decks by Bobby Parks DeckTools 1.2 DeckTools Software 877/276-0762 decktools.com Street price: $1,895 (minus 10 percent for NADRA members) Circle #1 For the 20 years before I bought DeckTools software, my design and sales approach was to gather site information and return to the office to design the deck and price it out. If the job sold, I'd engineer the deck and create detailed drawings for the building department and working drawings for the crews. Finally, I'd do material takeoffs. The downsides of this process are obvious: It takes too long and results in only

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