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Making outdoor room products profitable

Factory finished outdoor room products go a long way toward ensuring your profit and customer satisfaction.

By Bud Renfroe, Housewarmings Outdoor

Outdoor rooms are rapidly becoming one of the hottest trends in the United States. Over the past 10 years, we have seen the “outdoor living” concept evolve into much more than just an outdoor kitchen in someone’s backyard. There's a growing demand for fireplaces, fire pits, shade structures as well as a variety of outdoor kitchen products.

The difficult part can be profitably designing and constructing the range of these products when your expertise lies in other areas. If you "stick-build" these items on site, you face several obstacles. Planning, designing, sourcing materials and hiring subcontractors for each phase of the project can be an involved process.

When you're not building outdoor room structures daily, it's difficult to accurately estimate your time. You often find yourself running into the unexpected and working slower than you want to. This makes it very easy to lose money on these projects.

Factory finished outdoor room products

An alternative is to purchase factory finished products. These are kitchens, fireplaces and all other outdoor items built in a factory setting and shipped to you 100% finished. You simply deliver it to the customer's backyard. The risk of delays and low (or no) margins are eliminated. Your time is greatly reduced so you can spend it focused on your areas of expertise.

Factory finished products are built efficiently in controlled conditions by technicians who build them daily. They have all the specialty tools they need. Compare that approach to workers who build a handful of various products in a year while fighting rain and cold in the field.

Today's factory finished products are not the “cookie cutter” products that were available in the past. Manufacturers like Housewarmings Outdoor offer highly designed, exceptional quality products. Everything from the stone and stucco to the tile and electrics are completed at the factory, eliminating the need to hire specialty tradesmen to deliver and install these products.

Factory built products allow you to provide customers with a professional installation in hours, rather than invading the homeowner’s property for days. The customer experiences immediate gratification as the project that started that morning is done when they come home from work.

There's no mess when a product arrives ready-made, and there's no change orders along the way. Installation is just a matter of placing the products by a team of 2 or 3 people. So installation costs are much more defined: You add your mark-up and ensure your profit. You make money with minimal labor.

As the demand for outdoor living products continues to increase, manufacturers are offering more product options, more designs and more finishes. The homeowner can choose something simple or something as dramatic as an entire outdoor room concept directly from a catalog. You place the order and the product arrives ready for you to place.

Factory built outdoor room products go a long way toward ensuring your profit and customer satisfaction. Check them out today.

For more information on Housewarmings Outdoor factory finished products call (877) 336-8836, visit MyHouseOutdoors.com or email info@MyHouseOutdoors.com

Factory finished fireplace. Photo courtesy Housewarmings Outdoor.

Factory finished fire pit. Photo courtesy Housewarmings Outdoor.