Take-offs & estimating
Construction estimating
An estimate turns the quantities into money: every trade measured and priced, so you can quote the job, check a subcontractor's price or test a development's feasibility.
- Price
- From NZ$450 per project, excl. GST
- Turnaround
- 4 to 7 working days for most homes
What goes into an estimate
- Measured quantities for every trade
- Rates from your own pricing, or market rates you approve first
- Preliminaries and margins shown separately
- Provisional sums for anything not yet designed
Who uses our estimates
Builders use them to quote residential jobs, developers to test feasibility before buying a site, and subcontractors to check their own pricing. The final number stays yours: we show our working so you can change any rate.
Questions we are asked
Whose rates do you use?
Yours, if you send them. Otherwise we propose rates for you to approve before we price, and list them in the estimate.
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