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Freelance Construction Estimating
Are you tired and frustrated with the excluded hidden costs in your construction plans because of inaccurate budget estimates? With the best freelance construction estimators in the town, we are here to serve you, Leaving the responsibility of your cost estimates on our shoulders. We will take care of it.
Being a construction contractor comes with a heavy workload, busy schedules, jam-packed routines, overhanging expenses, and significant competition in the market. By offering professional freelance estimators, we can assist you in grappling with your burden. It will help you stay more competitive, improve your proficiency, enhance your profit percentage, and increase your chances of bidding and securing more projects.
Our certified freelance construction cost estimators tend to provide top-notch estimating services to general contractors, subcontractors, architects, designers, developers, owners, lenders, and wholesale distributors. They effectively collaborate with their project teams to provide precise and highly reliable freelance cost templates to improve budgeting, design, and fabrication.
Refraining from considering the project size, span, and complexity, our freelance estimators have provided services to contractors in diverse fields, ranging from residential construction takeoff projects to complex industrial buildings and projects.
We offer:
- Onshore-based freelance estimators
- Licensed team of freelance estimators
- Cost-efficient hourly rates for sub-contractors
- Revisions and improvements are considered carefully.
Our Freelance Estimating Services
Having an expert and professional team of freelance cost estimators, we have accomplished designing and proposing timely and precise calculations of construction works to our respective clients. They include construction contractors, property dealers, subcontractors, market vendors, architects, engineers, designers, and residential builders. Among all the freelance estimating companies, we offer the best freelance cost estimates tailored to our prestigious clients’ needs.
Our freelance construction estimators are well-trained and well-equipped with the latest technology and construction cost estimate software, such as PlanSwift, FastDUCT, FastPIPE, Xactimate, Bluebeam, Craftsman, and Trimble, to generate an accurate freelance construction cost estimate for you. After considering all the factors, such as hidden costs, overhanging expenses, and cost impact on floors, they provide the correct cost analysis.
We generally provide the following freelance construction estimators in our freelance construction estimating, but are not limited to:
- Freelance Electrical Estimator
- Freelance Plumbing Estimator
- Freelance Drywall Estimator
- Freelance Mechanical Estimator
- Freelance Masonry Estimator
- Freelance Concrete Estimator
- Freelance Insulation Estimator
- Freelance Xactimate Estimator
- Freelance Steel Estimator
- Freelance Lumber Estimator
Why Opt For A Freelance Estimator?
At Total Scope Estimating, we encourage contractors and building owners to employ a freelance estimator instead of an in-house one. It will help them to increase the profit margin while avoiding the cost overruns. Following are the advantages you’ll gain after employing a freelance cost estimator:
For Small Contractors
If you plan a small startup business, it’s the most appropriate step to employ a freelance estimator, as you don’t require a full-time cost estimator at this initial stage. This will help you set aside an ample proportion of your money, which you can utilize in other ways, like marketing your business.
To Reduce Overheads
In an economic downturn, you need to think about your expenses carefully. Companies can reduce their overhead expenses by hiring a need-based freelance estimator, compared to hiring or building an entire estimating department. That money can be used for bidding on more projects.
Specialized Trade Estimating
Hiring a freelance estimator is far better than hiring an entire team for the estimating department. After hiring, you must train those people and provide them with the necessary equipment, software, PCs, and office space. Outsourcing freelance estimators is the best solution as they can work from their own space while utilizing their own PCs andPCsware. Top of all, they are experts and veterans in their freelance estimating. You can pay them for their services on an hourly basis.
Software We Use
We have earned the reputation of being the best freelance construction estimating services as our veteran team is experienced, skilled, and well-versed with the latest technology and software. Our team of expert freelance construction estimators is highly trained and proficient in bringing the following software into regular use:
- PlanSwift
- RS Means
- Bluebeam
- FastPIPE
- FastDUCT
- Craftsman
- Xactimate
- Trimble
Our Clients Of Freelance Estimating
- General Contractors
- Home Owners
- Trade Contractors
- Home Builders
- Vendors
- Architectural Firms
- Retailers
- Engineering Design Firms
- Lenders
- Real Estate Developers
Our Professional Freelance Estimating
- While heading for estimating services, a thorough knowledge and expertise are required for the construction process. Our expert freelance estimators begin by reviewing the bid documents and drawing plans to understand the project’s scope clearly.
- They quantify all the costs and materials required by bringing the latest software like R.S. Means into practice.
- The quantified quantities are then exported to EXCEL spreadsheets, which include the details and specifications of the items.
- Our takeoff spreadsheet contains all the measurements and quantities of the items.
- Our team of professional freelance estimators has a strong connection and link with the market vendors, suppliers, and distributors. They provide a market-competitive price according to the zip-code posting and use the latest software like R.S.
- After all this, the takeoff sheet is sent to a senior freelance estimator to look at and review the estimates carefully.
- Then, the takeoff sheet can be forwarded to the contractors with the details of the materials so they can discuss it with the vendors.
- Local area labor costs, staff hour costs, material, wastage, and other overhanging costs are calculated and mentioned in our freelance cost estimates. We imply value engineering to improve the profit percentage of our clients.
Why To Choose Our Freelance Estimators
Many construction contractors contact us to get the most correct estimates of the finest market value for the projects they are bidding on. Here are the reasons why they turn to leave all the freelance estimating services in the U.S. and the advantages they obtain:
- Exact and reliable freelance cost estimates
- Cost-efficient freelance estimates
- Prompt delivery of our estimates within a minimal time of 12-24 hours.
- The percentage of our bid-winning ratio is 92.
- Maximal output is achieved by employing our veteran and experienced freelance estimators.
- Our recurrent takeoff packages set 60% of your money aside compared to an in-house estimator.
- We allocate a highly skilled and professional freelance estimator.
- We have certified and accredited freelance cost estimators with credible qualifications like AACE and A.I.Q.S.
- There’s no option left to miss any opportunity.
- It enhances the tender volume, which assists in starting other tenders relevant to the project.
- It prevents you from hiring specialized staff from outside, for estimation.
- We always provide customer service to our clients round the clock.
- Regarding tender preparation, filing, and submission, we offer free consultations to our client contractors.
Our Diversified Portfolio
- Commercial – offices, restaurants, warehouses, shopping malls, grocery stores, movie theaters, arenas, hotels, exhibition buildings
- Residential – single-family homes, multi-family homes, apartment buildings, custom homes, home additions, home renovations, townhomes
- Industrial – wastewater purification plants, power generation & distribution, production units, refineries
- Civil – highways, dams, bridges
- Institutional – hospitals, community centers, prisons
- Educational – schools, universities
- Parks and Recreation
- Mining and Marine projects
- Remodelings and Renovations
Trust Our Freelance Estimators- Follow The Plain Process
Submit your plans
Submit your plans to us, mentioning all the specifications and requirements. After thoroughly reviewing the plan, our freelance estimator will send you a quote in 5 minutes.
Get a quote
We will send you a quote comprising an invoice, our prompt time, and the delivery date. When you accept the quote, you can pay through Paypal, Debit card, or Credit card. After your payment is cleared, our freelance construction estimator will start working on your project.
Receive an estimate
We will provide you with an estimate in an Excel sheet comprising all the details of labor costs and staff hours. It will be either in Master format or in any format you prescribe.