You know the night. The kids are down, the site’s locked up, and the drawings are on the kitchen table with a bid date on them. You’ve been running the job all day and now you’re meant to measure the whole thing before Friday. Something’s got to give, and usually it’s your sleep.
Most contractors we speak to have the same problem. It isn’t that they can’t price a job. It’s that there aren’t enough hours in the week to measure it all off properly and still run the work that’s already on. So the takeoff gets rushed, or it gets left, or the bid goes in late.
What rushing the takeoff actually costs you
When you’re up against the clock, one of three things tends to happen.
You skip the measure and price off gut feel. That’s a guess, and a guess either comes in too high and loses you the job, or too low and loses you money once you’re on site.
You do measure it, but at midnight, tired, and you miss a line. That missing line comes out of your own pocket when the job’s running.
Or you don’t get it in on time at all, and a tender you could have won goes to someone who had the hours to price it.
None of that is a pricing problem. It’s a time problem.
Send the drawings, we do the takeoff
This is the bit we take off your hands. You send us the drawings, plans or sketches you’ve got. We do the full quantity takeoff, measure every element off your drawings to NRM2, and price it on real UK rates. You get a full priced estimate back before your bid is due.
You don’t have to sit up measuring. You get your evenings back and the takeoff still gets done properly, by a team that’s been contractor-side for 25+ years and knows how a real job gets built.
How it works
It’s built to be simple, because you haven’t got time for anything else.
Send your drawings. Whatever you’ve got, we’ll work from it.
Get a fixed fee quote. We come back with a fixed fee, agreed before we start. You see the cost before you commit, no hourly billing.
Get your estimate on your deadline. A clean, itemised estimate you can bid from, delivered before the tender’s due.
No QS in the office? You don't need one
Plenty of good contractors don’t have a quantity surveyor sitting in the office, and don’t need one on the payroll for the number of tenders they price. That’s exactly what this is for. You get the measured quantities and the priced construction estimate without carrying the overhead, and only when you’ve got a job to bid.
Next tender that lands on your table, don’t sit up all night with it. Send your drawings and get the takeoff done properly, on your deadline.
Want to see what you’d get back before you send anything? See a sample estimate.
