Construction Estimating Software That Builds Quotes in Minutes

How Tibr works for building work

1. Talk through the job. Describe the extension, refurb or fit-out in plain words, or paste your notes from the site visit and the drawings.
2. Tibr builds the quote. Stages, line items, labour, materials, prelims and exclusions — structured on your own rates.
3. Prompts catch the gaps. Strip-out, scaffolding and access, muck-away, making good, waste, permits, final clean.
4. Assumptions & exclusions in writing. Plain wording that spells out what's in and what's not, so there's no argument on site.
5. Review, then send. Edit every line — prices, quantities and scope stay yours — then send a clean, itemised PDF.

How a building quote comes together in Tibr

You've been asked to price a single-storey rear extension and kitchen refurb on a semi, with a handful of trades. You paste the scope from the drawings and start talking through your site notes — "dig and lay foundations to the rear, cavity brick and block to eaves, flat roof with two roof lights, knock through to the existing kitchen, re-plaster throughout, new first and second fix electrics, move the boiler and rad, tile and decorate." Within seconds the quote is laid out stage by stage: enabling works and strip-out, groundworks, structure, roof, plastering, joinery, electrics, plumbing and finishes.

Then the prompts start. Temporary protection while the family's living in it? Scaffolding and access to the rear? Muck-away and skips for the spoil? Making good where the new work meets the old? Building control and final clean? You confirm or dismiss each one and the lines adjust. No more finding out mid-job that you never priced the muck-away because it was buried three pages into your notes.

Subbie prices drop into the right section by trade — you're not re-typing numbers off emailed PDFs into a master sheet. You pull your assumptions and exclusions across from a past similar refurb, tweak the quantities, and send a clean, branded quote with each stage itemised, assumptions listed and any options broken out. Time taken: same day, not three days — and every line was yours to review before it went out.

Tibr vs. pricing a build by hand

The usual job starts by copying last build's spreadsheet and hoping the stages still apply. You ring or email a few subbies and wait days for numbers — half come back in different formats, one never replies. You roll it all into one quote late at night, re-typing each subbie's price into your layout. Next morning you spot you never carried the skip hire in the prelims, but the quote's already gone. The shortfall turns up as an awkward conversation six weeks later.

In Tibr, that same job starts from a reusable template off your last similar refurb. The stages are already there. Subbie prices drop into the right section when they come in, no reformatting. Prompted checklists walk you through the bits that usually get missed: temporary protection, scaffolding, muck-away, final clean, permits. Your assumptions and exclusions carry across. You review every line, then send a tidy, branded PDF. Same scope, same day — not same scope, three days and a prayer.

Jobs builders price with Tibr

Extensions. The bread-and-butter job — foundations, structure, roof, knock-through, then first and second fix and finishes. Every extension looks similar but the details differ. Tibr lets you start from a past extension template and adjust stage by stage instead of building the scope from scratch.

Refurbs & renovations. Strip-out, re-plaster, new kitchen and bathroom, rewire, redecorate. The risk is in the making good and the bits you can't see until you open it up. Tibr prompts through each stage and flags the gaps before the price goes out.

Loft conversions. Structural steels, dormers, stairs, insulation, plus the fire and building-regs work. Tibr keeps the structural and regs items in their own sections so they're priced explicitly, not lumped in and under-cooked.

Commercial fit-outs. Shops, offices and units — partitions, ceilings, flooring, and the M&E to suit. Working around a live building means phasing, out-of-hours work and temporary barriers. Tibr prompts for these specifically so they don't disappear into a lump-sum for prelims.

New builds & garden rooms. Full scope from groundworks through to handover. On a bigger job the risk is the stage you forget to price because the spec ran long. Tibr walks every stage and checks for gaps before you send the number.

Typical stages covered

Tibr lays a building quote out stage by stage so every part of the job gets priced, spelled out and checked for gaps. Instead of a flat spreadsheet where it all blurs together, each stage has its own lines, allowances and exclusions.

• Site setup & prelims
• Enabling works & strip-out
• Groundworks & foundations
• Drainage & below-ground
• Brickwork & blockwork
• Structural steel & timber
• Roofing & flat roofs
• Windows & external doors
• First fix carpentry
• Plastering & dry lining
• Electrics & heating (M&E)
• Kitchens & bathrooms
• Second fix & joinery
• Tiling & flooring
• Decorating & making good
• External works & landscaping
• Scaffolding & access
• Muck-away, skips & final clean

What you send, and what comes out

The quote comes out as a clean PDF, laid out stage by stage — each section showing line items, quantities, rates and subtotals, with your branding on the front. Assumptions, exclusions and any allowances are called out plainly, so the client can see exactly what's included without having to guess.

Your rates stay saved and reusable — put your labour and material prices in once and they carry into every future quote. Update a price once and the new number flows through, so you're not copying figures off an old spreadsheet and hoping they're still right. Your data is yours: export it out whenever you need to.

You stay in control

• Nothing reaches the client until you've reviewed and edited it
• Built on your own rates — Tibr never invents numbers or sets your margin
• Your data is encrypted, and it's yours to export whenever you want

What builders get out of it

A quote that used to take three days to pull together goes out same-day. The time comes back from not rebuilding the stages on every job, not re-typing subbie prices into your layout, and not spending the last hour hunting for the exclusions you forgot to add. Stage-by-stage prompts mean fewer missed lines — and fewer awkward conversations six weeks in.

The quotes themselves change the conversation. Instead of a lump sum with a one-line scope, the client gets a clear breakdown they can read line by line and compare against other builders. Not because you're the cheapest — because yours is the quote they can actually understand and trust.