Estimating
Initial Budget Estimates
Let us help you manage your clients budget expectations...so that you can design their dream
Our Initial Budget Estimating Service provides precise cost estimates tailored to your project's location, specification, and current market conditions. We measure key areas directly from drawings and present a detailed breakdown in an easy-to-read excel spreadsheet. This includes preliminaries, overheads, profit margins, and relevant notes to ensure a comprehensive budget overview.
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With hands-on experience pricing real-world tenders for builders and subcontractors, we understand market trends and contractor profit expectations - delivering accurate, market-aligned estimates with complete confidentiality.
The key advantages of using our service for Architects include:
A professional 'outside' source giving budget information and friendly advice to your clients, so that you don't have to worry about managing any realistic expectations.
We are 'team players' and will work with you to achieve the best cost advise for your clients.
Get early cost advise and if needed, early cost engineering to avoid re-designs and disappointed.
We are happy to discuss the most cost effective build methods and provide practical solutions to projects with difficult access (as we also work for real builders!).
We also offer more simple square metre budgets, using a carefully curated database (with adjustments for external works/location, access etc).
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We are always happy to discuss future projects ‘over the phone’ and to provide our competitive rates for initial cost advice.
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Unlike some online companies, we use tailored rates based on costs in your locality and we don't use any simple 'input' software, or 'one size fits all' labour rates (like the ones favoured by some builders merchants) - our budgets are all compiled by a real person, with real experience of pricing for actual builders in the market place.
Why not check out our recent projects:
Atrium Health Club
Client: Mr J Baines, Director
Category: Cost Estimate
"We have used Tim Pearce QS Ltd for several exciting projects since we opened. Most recently they have provided Quantity Surveying & costing services for our new amazing spa facilities, ensuring that we achieved maximum cost efficiency, whilst keeping the standards very high. We look forward to working with Tim Pearce QS Ltd on our next phase of works at the Atrium Health Club"