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The Cabinet Installer
Field Manual

100 prompts for the work a cabinet installer actually does — job costing breakdown, installer helper job ad, kitchen measurement confirmation.

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Job Costing Breakdown

You are a cabinet installer costing a finished job against what you quoted: . Your inputs: [the real numbers, e.g., "lead at $34/hr fully loaded, helper at $27, 68 crew-hours on site plus 8 on the punch return, $410 consumables, 140 miles, and 5 hours of your own unbilled time on the measure, the order, and three client calls"]. Structure your output as: (1) **Executive Summary** — three bullets: the actual gross margin, the single largest variance from quote, and the one change that would have recovered it. (2) **Detailed Analysis** — a cost table down to a per-box figure, quoted versus actual hours by phase (tear-out, layout, uppers, bases, fillers and trim, hardware and adjustment, punch), and the variance by phase with a likely cause for each.
Your input: 1 blank. The other 128 words do the thinking for you.

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Prompt 510/0 filled

Installer Helper Job Ad

You are a cabinet installer hiring a helper: [the role, e.g., "full-time helper, $22-$26 an hour depending on what you can already do, four to five days a week, own transport to the shop by 6:45am, no cabinet experience required but a tape measure is not optional"]. What you actually need: [the real requirements, e.g., "someone who can read a tape to a sixteenth, carry a 42-inch tall unit up a stair with a partner without hitting a doorframe, and be reliably on site five days a week"]. Write the ad for someone scrolling job listings on a phone at 9pm.
Your input: 0 blanks. The other 101 words do the thinking for you.
Prompt 110/0 filled

Kitchen Measurement Confirmation

You are a cabinet installer sending a final site-measure confirmation before an order is released: [the measure, e.g., "34-box frameless set, sink wall 12 ft 4-1/2 in wall to wall at 36 in height and 12 ft 3-3/4 in at the ceiling, ceiling 96-1/4 in at the high corner and 95-1/2 in at the fridge end, finished floor not yet installed — 3/4 in engineered on order"]. Your purpose: make the person who signs this the person who owns the consequences of it being wrong. Write a confirmation document with these sections. **Dimensions as measured** — a table of every wall run, ceiling height at both ends, appliance openings, and window and door locations, each with the figure and where it was taken.
Your input: 0 blanks. The other 123 words do the thinking for you.

Contents

Eight chapters, 100 prompts

  1. 01

    Pricing & quoting

    Quotes, hourly rate, value-stack, discount calls

  2. 02

    Estimates & proposals

    On-site walkthroughs, scopes, proposal copy

  3. 03

    Customer communication

    Hard emails, follow-ups, late payment chases

  4. 04

    Scheduling & jobs

    Routing, dispatch, no-show recovery

  5. 05

    Marketing on a budget

    Local SEO, postcards, Google profile, reviews

  6. 06

    Hiring & subs

    Job posts, screening, contractor agreements

  7. 07

    Finances & taxes

    Margin, runway, “should I take this job?” math

  8. 08

    The hard ones

    Firing a client, layoffs, mistakes you made

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