Estimating & quoting for trades firms

Your evenings are for your family, not your quotes.

Send me the measurements and photos. I send you back a priced, properly written quote within 24 hours, ready to go straight to your customer.

Try it: four quotes for £100

You do not pay until you have seen the first one.

Who this is for

Small plumbing, heating and bathroom firms. The ones where the owner is on site all day, then loses the evening to quoting. That is time that should be spent with the family, not sat at the kitchen table pricing up a bathroom.

Quotes that go out late lose jobs. Quotes written in a hurry lose money. I take that off you.

How it works

  1. Send me the job Measurements, photos of every wall, and the postcode. WhatsApp is easiest.
  2. Ten minutes on the phone Your day rate, your merchant and discount, your mark-up, what you fit as standard. Asked once, then I have it for good.
  3. Quote back within 24 hours Priced from your costs, written in plain English, under your name and your logo. Forward it to the customer as it is.

Why me

Archie Spencer
Archie Spencer

I ran a bathroom and heating installation firm in Worcester with seven engineers on the books. I have priced hundreds of these jobs, and I have had the arguments that come from a quote that left something out.

So the quote you get back already has the things people forget:

  • Provisional sums when the customer is picking their own suite
  • A proper exclusions list, so the surprises are not yours to absorb
  • A variations clause, so extras get priced instead of swallowed
  • The right VAT rate, checked per job rather than assumed
  • Waste, parking, making good and first-fix electrics costed in

An estimator who has never held a pipe gets ignored, and rightly so.

What it costs

Start here
£100 for your first four quotes
  • I price the first one and send it over before you pay anything.
  • If it is not useful, you do not pay at all.
  • That works out at £25 a quote while you are trying it.

After that, quotes come in bundles:

Paid up front and used whenever you like. No monthly fee, no contract, and nothing to cancel. A single quote on its own is £45 if you would rather.

Need anything changed on a quote? I amend it before you pay. If the job itself changes, that is a new quote.

Get in touch

WhatsApp or email is easiest. Tell me about the job and I will price the first one. You only pay if you want the rest.

WhatsApp07377 462171 Emailarchie@archiespencer.com