Price the job right on day one and the budget holds when you're on site

You quote a fair price. You win the job. Three weeks in, you're covering costs that never made it onto the page, because half your figure was a rough guess and the site has turned up things nobody priced for. That's not bad luck. That's a budget that was never built to hold.

Where most budgets actually come from

Most budgets start as a number in your head, checked against a couple of jobs you did last year, then written down as a total. It feels close enough on the day you quote. But close enough on paper turns into arguments on site, when the client wants to know why the final bill doesn't match the figure you gave at the start, and you're stuck trying to explain a number nobody can pull apart.

Build it the other way round

A budget that holds is built element by element, not top down. Every part of the job is measured and priced on its own, to NRM2, so the total is the sum of real quantities and real rates, not a feeling rounded up for safety. When something changes on site, you know exactly which line it hits and by how much, instead of watching one figure creep for reasons nobody can point to.

What we take off your hands

Send your drawings and we measure the job properly before you ever quote it. Every item gets its own quantity and its own rate, laid out to NRM2, with prelims, provisional sums and anything you can't fully quantify yet flagged on its own line rather than buried in a lump figure. You get a fixed fee to work from, built from the ground up, not a guess with a contingency bolted on top.

What you get

A breakdown you can stand behind when the client asks how you got to the number, and a budget you can actually manage once the job is running, because you know what each part costs and where the risk sits before you sign anything. That's the difference between watching a job slowly go under three months in and knowing, week by week, whether you're still inside the figure you priced.

Send your drawings and we'll turn them into a client-ready estimate before you commit to a price. See a sample estimate to see exactly what you'd be working from.

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