The estimating team you don't have to put on the payroll.
Send us the drawings. We price the job, fast, detailed, and under your name. No salary. No software. No fixed overhead.
3 to 5 days
Typical turnaround, same-day available
RICS NRM
Bills of quantities to recognised standards
Your brand
White-labelled, never ours
Per project
Pay only when you have work to price
What we do
Construction Estimates is a UK done-for-you construction estimating service for builders, contractors and developers.
We produce professional estimates, bills of quantities and materials take-offs from your drawings, branded as your own, with fast turnaround.
We are a service only (no software to learn). You keep full control of your rates and margins.
Pricing work is a trap.
Until now, every option was expensive or unreliable.
Price it yourself
Burns your evenings and weekends staring at spreadsheets on jobs you might not even win. Taking you away from site and family.
Hire a freelance QS
Costs £400 to £600 a day. Hard to find reliable ones, and they take their knowledge with them when the job is done.
Hire in-house
A £70,000 to £80,000 salary. Once you add NI, pension, holiday, sick pay, car, and software, it's £100,000 a year, fixed forever.
There's a third door.
Send us the drawings, we price the job, and you only pay when you've got work to price.
How it works
Upload your drawings
Send us your plans in any format. Take photos on your phone, forward an email, or drag-and-drop right here.
We do the take-off
Our estimators measure the job properly, applying your standard labour rates and preferred margins.
Get it back, fast
Receive a professional, branded estimate ready to send. Submit it to your client and win the work.
Your invisible estimating department.
- White-labelled under your brand, the client never sees us.
- You stay in complete control of your rates and margins.
- Fast, reliable turnaround (next-day available).
- We are a service. Absolutely no software to learn.
- Zero fixed overhead. Pay per project.
It's exactly like having a senior QS sitting in the office, but I don't have to pay them when it's quiet.
Mark D.
Main Contractor, London
How we compare
The same estimating muscle as a big firm, without the salary or the day rate.
Hire in-house
around £100,000 a year
£70,000 to £80,000 salary, plus NI, pension, holiday, software
- Fixed cost every month, busy or quiet
- Recruitment and management overhead
- Knowledge walks out if they leave
- Always available in-house
Construction Estimates
pay per project
A fixed fee per job, confirmed before we start
- No salary, no fixed overhead
- Branded as your own, every time
- Scales up and down with your workload
- Estimates back in 3 to 5 days
Freelance QS
£400 to £600 a day
Day rate adds up fast on anything but the smallest job
- Expensive on longer jobs
- Reliable ones are hard to find
- Availability is never guaranteed
- Useful for ad hoc cover
Ready to price a job?
Upload your drawings now. We'll review them and reply with a fixed-fee quote and timeline.