Building estimating service or your own guesswork, what actually changes

Every builder can price a job off the top of their head. The question isn't whether you can do it, it's what changes when you don't have to.

Guesswork carries the same two risks every time

Price it off memory and you're guessing the quantities and guessing the rates at the same time. Get the quantities wrong and you've priced the wrong job. Get the rates wrong and even the right quantities lose you money.

A building estimating service replaces the guess with a measured number

Every element gets measured off your actual drawings, to NRM2, so the quantities reflect the job in front of you rather than the last one that felt similar. Rates are priced against what things cost now, not what you last paid.

What you keep is the decision, not the arithmetic

Using a building estimating service doesn't take the pricing decision away from you. You still decide the margin, still decide what to bid. What changes is that the number underneath your decision is measured, not remembered.

Send your drawings and we'll measure the whole job to NRM2. See a sample estimate to see how it's laid out before you commit to anything.

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