What builder or estimator wouldn’t want to quote building projects faster and better? Guesstimated prices and a token profit margin (or worse still, no profit margin at all) are asking for trouble. No business can survive without a buffer or provision for unexpected outlays, and ideally, funds for growth.

Before the pandemic of 2020, were you a profitable building firm? Or have you always known you could do better? This enforced slowdown-cum-shutdown could be viewed as an opportunity to regroup and re-start. And ‘knowing your costs’ is one of the goals in the HBXL Re-start Action Plan.

This is the third in a series of three articles on knowing your costs, for improved financial health and a better chance of winning good profitable work.

This is the second in a series of three articles on knowing your costs, for improved financial health and a better chance of winning good profitable work.

This is the first in a series of three articles on knowing your costs, for improved financial health and a better chance of winning good profitable work.

Now is the time to become skilful at getting out a quote fast. In months to come it will pay-off as you get your name in front of the customer before the competition does. And ‘quoting fast’ is one of the goals in the HBXL Re-start Action Plan.

Here we introduce our new solar panel partners, Comera Energy to residential building firms.

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…it was a ‘Eureka!’ moment when I could see that EstimatorXpress does things very similarly to what I do but in a fraction of the time (I know it will be much faster soon as I have only just started using the software and haven’t yet started using the Quick Quote). EstimatorXpress also automatically takes into consideration things that I may overlook or may not even consider, so I thoroughly interrogated the software and because it came out in the same ballpark as I was expecting so I have a lot of confidence in the numbers.

Here’s a snapshot of reactions from our own research and forums and articles across the internet on the subject of building quotes and whether it is OK to charge the customer for them. We haven’t come across a recommendation from the FMB or a suggestion for homeowners by the consumer magazine Which! And that’s no surprise really as there are so many variables to be taken into account.