20 trades

Set up for the way your trade prices

A roofer's estimate and a solicitor's do not look alike, and neither should the wording. Pick your trade to see the line items, exclusions and phrasing we start from.

For plumbers

You priced the job in your head standing in the airing cupboard. The problem is the two hours at the kitchen table afterwards, turning that into something a customer will read. TradeScribe takes the note you actually wrote and gives you back a proper Word estimate with your logo on it.

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For electricians

You have already done the hard part: you know what is wrong and what it takes to fix it. Writing it out so the customer understands the difference between a C2 and a C3 is the bit that eats your evening. Dictate the note, get back a clean estimate with the remedials itemised.

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For builders

A £50,000 extension deserves more than three lines and a total, but writing the twenty-line breakdown is a full evening's work and it always lands on a Sunday. Talk through the job the way you walked it, and get back a structured estimate with stages, sums and exclusions already laid out.

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For roofers

Nobody wants to write a quote after eight hours stripping tiles in the wind. Photograph or dictate what you found up there and TradeScribe writes the estimate, with the scaffold, the leadwork and the timber allowance all on separate lines where the customer can see them.

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For plasterers

Plastering is priced fast and quoted slowly. You knew the number before you left the hallway, but the customer wants it in writing and you want it to look like it came from a business. Two lines of notes in, one clean estimate out.

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For carpenters

Bespoke work is priced on hours nobody watches. Four days in the workshop is invisible to a customer who only sees you on site for two, and that gap is where the awkward conversations start. Dictate the survey and get an estimate that separates making from fitting.

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For painters and decorators

You can price a three-bed void in fifteen minutes of walking round it. Writing it up so the landlord can see what preparation is included takes longer than the walkround did. Dictate the rooms as you go and TradeScribe does the rest.

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For tilers

Half the job is priced before the customer has chosen anything. TradeScribe writes your labour, preparation and adhesive as firm lines and leaves the tile itself as a prime cost sum, so a change of mind at the tile shop does not mean rewriting the whole estimate.

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For landscapers

Most of a garden build is underneath it. Customers see a patio and turf; you priced a sub-base, a fall, a retaining wall and nine tonnes of muck away. An itemised estimate is the only thing that makes that visible before the digger arrives.

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For glaziers

Half your work is urgent and the other half is a landlord waiting on a price for four blown units. Neither is worth driving home to type up. Dictate the sizes and the specification on site and send the estimate before you have loaded the van.

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For kitchen fitters

A kitchen is twenty small jobs pretending to be one big one, and the customer only counts the units. Dictate your survey and get an estimate that prices the strip-out, the levelling, the worktop template and the second fix as the separate pieces of work they actually are.

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For bathroom fitters

A bathroom is the most-compared quote in domestic work, because everyone has had one done and everyone knows someone who paid less. A proper breakdown showing the first fix, the tanking and the tiling is the difference between a considered price and a big number.

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For window fitters

You are being compared against a company with a brochure, a finance option and a salesman who sat in the front room for two hours. What you have is a better price and better work. A clear, itemised estimate is what makes that visible.

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For driveway contractors

The cheapest driveway quote in the street is always someone laying blocks on four inches of scalpings. Your price is higher because the dig, the membrane and the drainage are real. An itemised estimate is the only way a homeowner ever sees that.

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For flooring fitters

Customers buy a floor and think they are buying a laying rate. Everything that makes it last is underneath: screwing down a squeaking deck, latexing a dip by the bay, ply overlaying for LVT. Dictate what you found and get an estimate that prices the preparation properly.

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For heating engineers

A boiler quote is a specification, not a price. Which appliance, which controls, what happens to the old vented system, who notifies Building Control. Talk it through the way you worked it out on site and get a document that answers all of it.

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For bricklayers

You price in bricks per day and the customer thinks in walls. TradeScribe turns your count into an estimate that names the brick, the bond and the mortar mix, which is exactly what separates a bricklayer from someone with a trowel.

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For groundworkers

Nobody knows how deep the foundations are going until the digger is in the hole, and that is exactly why a groundworks estimate needs to say so. Dictate the dig, the drainage and the concrete and get a document that prices the known and rates the unknown.

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For fencing contractors

Fencing is won on speed. Three contractors look at the same run and the one who sends a proper written price that afternoon usually gets it. Pace it out, dictate the run, send the estimate from the van.

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For handymen

Handyman work arrives as a list. Eleven small jobs on the back of an envelope, half of which take ten minutes and two of which take two hours. Dictate the list as they gave it to you and get back an estimate that prices each item separately.

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Trade not listed? It still works, because the tool reads your notes whatever you do. Try it.