Renovation & Refurbishment Quoting Software

How Tibr works for renovation work

1. Talk through the job. Describe the kitchen refit, the bathroom or the whole-house refurb in plain words, room by room, or paste your notes from the site visit.
2. Tibr builds the quote. Strip-out, the trades behind the finishes, the finishes themselves and making good — line items and labour, structured on your own rates.
3. Prompts catch the gaps. Protection and dust sheets, waste and skips, waterproofing behind tiling, substrate prep, first and second fix on the trades, making good, touch-up, permits and inspections.
4. Choices, allowances & exclusions in writing. Client selections and allowances tracked alongside the base scope, with plain wording on what's in and what's not.
5. Review, then send. Edit every line — prices, quantities and scope stay yours — then send a clean, itemised PDF.

How a refurb quote comes together in Tibr

You've been asked to price a kitchen and bathroom refurb on a three-bed semi. You paste your notes and start talking — "rip out the old kitchen and bathroom, re-plumb and rewire where needed, plaster and tile, new units and worktop in the kitchen, new suite and full tiling in the bathroom, redecorate both." Within seconds the quote is laid out room by room: strip-out, plumbing, electrics, plastering, tiling, joinery, finishes and making good.

Then the prompts start. Protection and dust sheets through the hall? Skip and muck-away for the strip-out? Waterproofing behind the bathroom tiling? Moving the radiator or the soil pipe? Making good the plaster where the old units came off? A tile and worktop allowance for the client to choose from? You confirm or dismiss each one and the lines adjust — no more finding out mid-job that you never priced the making good or the tanking because it was buried in your notes.

Because you did a similar refurb last month, Tibr pulls that job's structure and pre-fills quantities you can adjust. You set a tile allowance the customer can pick within, add an option for an upgraded worktop, pull your usual assumptions and exclusions across, and send a clean, branded quote with each room itemised. Time taken: same evening, not a weekend of piecing spreadsheets together — and every line was yours to review before it went out.

Tibr vs. pricing a refurb by hand

The usual job is an evening with a tape measure's worth of notes and last year's spreadsheet. You price the units, the tiles and the suite because they're in front of you, then guess the labour and forget the making good, the tanking and the skip. The quote goes over as a lump sum with a one-line scope, and three weeks in it's "I thought new sockets were included" and "who's making good the plaster?" They weren't priced — and now they're extras you're arguing from a weak spot.

In Tibr, that same refurb is structured room by room from the start — strip-out, the trades behind the finishes, the finishes and making good. Your rates live in your saved prices, so you're not rebuilding the same kitchen quote every time. Prompted checklists catch protection, waste, waterproofing, first and second fix and making good before you send. The quote exports itemised room by room, with allowances and exclusions the customer can actually read. Same job, same evening — and no awkward call about what wasn't in the price.

Jobs renovation contractors price with Tibr

Kitchen refits. The bread-and-butter job — strip-out, re-plumb and rewire, plaster, units, worktop, tiling and appliances. Every kitchen looks simple until you forget the making good, the waste run or the electrics behind the units. Tibr prompts for all of them, and keeps a tile and worktop allowance the client can choose within.

Bathroom refits. Most of the cost is hidden — the pipework, the tanking behind the tiling and the making good once the suite's in. Tibr keeps the plumbing, the waterproofing and the tiling in their own lines so nothing gets lumped in and underpriced.

Whole-house refurbs. Room after room of finishes, each with its own trades behind it, plus the shared stuff — rewire, re-plumb, plaster, decorate. The risk is scope drift across a long job. Tibr breaks it down room by room so the total adds up and nothing slips between rooms.

Extensions & conversions. Loft conversions, garage conversions and knock-throughs where the refurb ties into new build. Tibr keeps the structural and the finishes side by side so the tie-in between old and new gets priced properly, not guessed.

Commercial fit-outs. Offices, shops and cafés on a landlord's timescale — partitions, finishes, services and making good, often out of hours. Tibr handles the multi-trade scope and flags the access, out-of-hours and making-good allowances that catch people out.

Typical scope covered

Tibr lays a refurb quote out room by room and trade by trade, so every part of the job gets priced, spelled out and checked for gaps. Instead of a flat spreadsheet where the finishes and the trades behind them blur into one lump sum, each part has its own lines, allowances and exclusions.

• Strip-out & demolition
• Protection & dust sheets
• Waste, skips & muck-away
• Plumbing & heating tie-ins
• Electrics & first fix
• Plastering & boarding
• Tiling & waterproofing
• Kitchen units & worktops
• Bathroom suites & fittings
• Joinery, doors & skirting
• Flooring & floor prep
• Decoration & finishes
• Client allowances & selections
• Making good & touch-up
• Permits, inspections & handover

What you send, and what comes out

The quote comes out as a clean PDF, laid out room by room — each part showing line items, quantities, rates and subtotals, with your branding on the front. Client allowances, assumptions and exclusions are called out plainly, so the customer can see exactly what's included and where they get to choose, without having to guess.

Your rates stay saved and reusable — put your labour and materials 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 customer 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 renovation teams get out of it

A quote that used to eat a weekend goes out the same evening. The time comes back from not rebuilding the same kitchen and bathroom quote on every job, not guessing labour off memory, and not spending the last hour hunting for the exclusions you forgot to add. Room-by-room prompts mean fewer missed lines — and fewer awkward extras once the job's underway.

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