Construction estimating for small builders without an estimator on the books

A small building firm doesn't have the volume of tenders to justify an estimator on the payroll, but the jobs still need pricing properly. That gap is exactly what construction estimating built for small builders is for.

You don't carry the overhead of a role you don't need full time

You're not paying a salary for the odd tender a month. You send drawings when there's a job to price, and pay for the estimate, not for a position you'd otherwise have to keep busy between bids.

The job still gets measured to the same standard

Small doesn't mean rougher. Every element is still measured to NRM2 and priced on real UK rates, so a two-bedroom extension gets the same rigour as a job ten times its size.

You bid on the jobs that are actually worth winning

With a measured number instead of a guess, you can tell early whether a job's worth chasing, rather than finding out after you've won it at a price that doesn't work.

Send your drawings and we'll price the job properly, whatever its size. See a sample estimate to see what you'd get back.

← Back to the blog