Recursos

Guías para contratistas de bajo voltaje.

Guías prácticas para cotizar, poner precios y manejar un negocio de bajo voltaje: cableado de red, cámaras, control de acceso, audio y video y más.

Las guías están escritas en inglés por ahora. El resto del sitio y todo lo que ve tu cliente están en español.

17 guías

6 de octubre de 2026 · 6 min de lectura

Quoting Without Excel: When the Spreadsheet Starts Costing You

The ways a quoting spreadsheet quietly costs a low-voltage contractor money, the signs it is time to move, and how to switch in an afternoon without stopping work.

6 de octubre de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Choose Quoting Software for Low-Voltage Work

Eight questions that separate a quoting tool built for low-voltage work from one you will fight: pricing per drop and rack size, job conditions, online signing, payments, Spanish, and what the job leaves you.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

Losing Money on Cabling Jobs? Find the 5 Profit Leaks

Winning bids but closing jobs in the red? Here's where cabling profits actually leak out, and how to plug each hole before your next project.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

Fixed-Price vs Time and Materials for AV Integration

When to bid AV work fixed-price, when to bill T&M, and how a hybrid contract protects your margin on installs, programming, and service.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Handle Change Orders on Low-Voltage Projects

A field-tested system for pricing, documenting, and getting paid for change orders on structured cabling, security, and AV installation projects.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How Much to Charge for Access Control Installation

A contractor's guide to pricing access control installs, from per-door benchmarks to labor hours, hardware markups, and recurring revenue.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Bid Conference Room AV Installations Profitably

A working integrator's guide to pricing conference room AV jobs so the margin you quote is the margin you keep.

6 de julio de 2026 · 6 min de lectura

Calculate Your True Hourly Cost as a Low-Voltage Contractor

A working formula for finding your real cost per billable hour, wages, burden, overhead, and the billable-hours math most contractors get wrong.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Present Pricing in a Security System Proposal

Three tiers, one clear recommendation, and options priced as outcomes, the pricing structure that wins commercial security work without racing to the bottom.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Avoid Underbidding Structured Cabling Jobs

Why cabling contractors underbid (burdened labor rates, scope gaps, and site walks), and the numbers that keep your bids profitable.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

What to Include in a Low-Voltage Quote Template

A field-tested breakdown of every section your low-voltage quote template needs, from itemized drops to the exclusions list that saves your margin.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Write a Winning Bid for an AV Integration Project

A field-tested guide to scoping, pricing, and presenting AV integration bids that win commercial work without giving away your margin.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

What's a Good Markup on Materials for Low-Voltage Jobs?

Most low-voltage contractors mark up materials 30-50% on a sliding scale. Here's how to set yours so small parts and big gear both make money.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

What a Security System Proposal Should Include to Win

How to structure a commercial security proposal that proves you understood the client's risk and makes the price easy to approve.

6 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Price a Structured Cabling Job for a New Office

A contractor's walkthrough of pricing structured cabling for new office construction, from takeoff to per-drop math to the costs hiding outside the drops.

5 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How to Estimate Labor Hours for a Cat6 Cabling Job

A baseline-plus-multipliers method for estimating Cat6 labor hours, with real production rates for clean buildings and tough retrofits.

5 de julio de 2026 · 7 min de lectura

How Much to Charge Per Drop for Structured Cabling

Where per-drop cabling prices really come from, market ranges, labor math, and the scoping habits that protect your margin.