Welcome to RemakeRadar

What is this remake actually costing you?

Most shop owners accept a 4–8% remake rate without ever naming what each one costs. "Just doing right by the customer," they say. RemakeRadar gives you the number. Then it shows you the annual bleed at your current rate — and the one upstream QC step that would have prevented it.

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Remake cost calculator · free

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Every shop accepts remakes as the cost of doing business. RemakeRadar makes each one a number. Once you see what one actually costs — and what they cost you in aggregate over a year — the “just doing right by the customer” framing starts to break.

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What is this remake actually costing you?

Pick a sample remake or cost your own. We’ll surface the unit cost, the annual bleed at your remake rate, and the upstream QC step that would have prevented it.

This remake cost
$—
per remake
This remake
all-in cost
Annual cost at your rate
based on count entered
If caught earlier
at programming stage
Operator-hours burned
labor diverted
How RemakeRadar thinks Direct cost (material + labor + truck) is the easy part. The real damage is in the goodwill multiplier — trust erosion, schedule cascade, reputation. A remake caught at install costs 2× what one caught at programming costs.
Cost breakdown
The cost build-up appears here.
Material · labor · truck · schedule delay · goodwill multiplier. The waterfall shows where the cost actually came from — usually not where shops guess.
Where caught · the catch-point insight
A remake caught at install costs ~2× one caught at programming.
This section shows the cost at each stage of your fab process and what the upstream QC step that would have prevented this remake costs — usually pennies on the dollar.
Annual cost at your current rate
The big number: what this kind of remake costs you per year.
One remake is a story. 50 of them is a problem with a number. We’ll show you that number and what it equals in things you actually buy.
Pareto preview · what Compass would track
One remake is data. 30 of them is intelligence.
If you logged every remake into Compass over 90 days, the top 1–2 causes would account for 60–80% of the dollars. Fixing those is where the real savings come from.
Five free minutes with a ULI advisor

Now you have the number. What do you do with it?

Five minutes with someone who’s sat through this exact "I had no idea" moment with dozens of operators. We’ll talk about which QC step typically delivers the fastest payback for your shop’s remake pattern — no pitch, no commitment.

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This is a decision-support calculator using industry-typical rates ($45/hr loaded fab labor, $50/hr install crew, $180 truck-trip, material tier midpoints). For your specific shop’s burdened rates, treat the output as a directional read, not a financial-grade quote.