Priced on your own rates.
Why contractors call
You can’t ask a competitor what they’re charging, and losing a job doesn’t tell you whether you were too high or just unlucky. An outside number tells you which.
When there’s no time
You’re on site, on the phone and running people. Pricing the next job is what gets pushed to the evening, then to the weekend, then to whenever the client stops waiting.
Send me what you have and it comes back done.
What the estimate is doing
Some of your work comes from people who’ve already seen what you build. Nothing on paper wins that, and nothing on paper needs to.
The estimate does a different job there. It sets what’s in the price and what isn’t, so the trust you already have survives the part where money gets discussed.
Where you are being compared, it does more. Clients can’t judge building work, so they judge what they can read — and a page of proper figures beats three sentences and a total, even when the total is higher.
The argument at the end
You’ll know the conversation. Extra work the client says they never agreed to, and an invoice that’s suddenly hard to defend.
It starts in one of two places: work done on site that was never written down, or an estimate too vague to say what was in it to begin with. A proper estimate settles the second one before the job starts.
For the first — ring me from the car after the meeting. The update is done before you’re back on site, and the client sees the new number while they still remember agreeing to it.
What comes back
A kostenraming with your company at the top: your KvK, your BTW, your uurtarief, your indirecte kosten. Costed on your rates, not an average, so the margins are yours. Most contractors send it to their client exactly as it arrives.
When someone else is paying part of it
A VvE covering the roof, an insurer covering the damage, a client who wants the bathroom and the paintwork priced apart. Those get split into separate estimates, so each party sees only their share and you’re not explaining one big number to three people.
Where the facts run out
On your jobs they often do. We work them out on the phone, or they go in as stelposten. I’d rather ring you than guess.
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