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Construction guides for Florida contractors

34 guides written against Florida rules, not translated from somewhere else. Every one of them ends somewhere you can act.

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Hourly rate calculator
Overhead, billable days and the wage you want in. The hourly rate that pays for all three.
Florida lien deadline calculator
The 45 days for the Notice to Owner run from your first day on the job. Enter your dates and every deadline in chapter 713 is counted, with the section it comes from.
Florida payment bond claim calculator
A free calculator. No account, no signup.
Markup and margin calculator
Add twenty percent to your costs and you keep sixteen point seven. Enter one job and see the price, the profit, both percentages, and what the mix-up is worth in dollars.

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The dates that cost Florida contractors money

One email a month. The lien deadline and payment bond claim arithmetic this site already does for you, the dates it turns on, and every new guide the day it goes up.

Florida lien deadline calculator: The 45-day Notice to Owner, the 90-day Claim of Lien and the one year to enforce it, dated from your first and last day on the job.
Florida payment bond claim calculator: On a bonded job the notices are the claim. Includes the floor on the notice of nonpayment, the one deadline you can be too early for.
Every new guide the day it goes up. 34 are live for Florida right now, the most recent being "The Florida handyman line" on 20 August 2026.

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