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One island, priced and finished.

1200 × 900 × 900mm freestanding island. Solid oak top, birch ply carcass, three soft-close drawers, hardwax oil finish. Every figure below is calculated live by the same code the product runs — nothing on this page is typed in by hand.

1 · What the job costs

European oak, 25mm, quartersawn — top and rails8 × board @ $42.00$336.00
Birch plywood, 18mm — carcass and drawer boxes2 × sheet @ $58.00$116.00
Soft-close drawer runners, 500mm3 × pair @ $18.00$54.00
Hardwax oil, 1L — two coats1 × tin @ $32.00$32.00
Machining and prep6 h @ $50.00/h$300.00
Assembly and fitting5 h @ $50.00/h$250.00
Sanding and finishing3 h @ $50.00/h$150.00
Material waste (12%)$54.24
Shop overhead (10%)$129.22
Cost to the shop$1,421.46

2 · What the customer pays

Cost to the shop$1,421.46
Gross margin (30%)Profit ÷ selling price — not markup on cost$609.20
Price before tax$2,030.66
Customer total$2,030.66

$1,421.46 ÷ (1 − 30%) = $2,030.66. Marking the cost up by 30% instead would have priced it at $1,847.90 — $182.76 less, on one job.

3 · Cutting it

Panels to cut7 part types20
Sheets needed2440 × 1220 birch ply, 18mm2
Sheet used82.1%
Reusable offcutsKept for the next job4

Packed by the same optimizer the app runs, with a 3.2mm kerf and grain direction respected. It reports an optimized practical layout, not a proof of the mathematically perfect one.

4 · What it actually earned

The job ran 2 hours over on finishing and took 1 extra sheet. An example where everything lands exactly on the estimate would teach nothing — the reason to record actuals is the jobs that do not.

Estimated profit$609.20
Actual profit$505.44
Margin30.0% → 24.9%
Earned per shop hour$31.59/h

Still profitable, and now the shop knows by how much its finishing estimate was out — which is what makes the next quote better.

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