What actually slows down pricing a job when you're doing it yourself at night

It isn't that pricing a job is hard. It's that doing it after a full day on site, at night, with a deadline the next morning, turns a job that should take a few hours into one that eats a week of evenings.

The measuring takes longer than the pricing

Once quantities are in front of you, applying rates is quick. Getting to those quantities, reading the drawings properly and measuring every element, is the part that actually consumes the time, especially when it's squeezed into evenings.

Interruptions make a slow job slower

Site work doesn't stop because you're trying to price a tender. Calls, site issues and the next day's work all interrupt an evening of measuring, which is part of why it drags on so much longer than the actual hours involved.

Handing off the measuring is what actually saves the time

Sending the drawings across and having someone else do the takeoff doesn't remove your control over the bid, it removes the specific bottleneck, the measuring, that's been eating your evenings.

Send your drawings and get your evenings back. See a sample estimate to see what you'd get in return.

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