Website for flooring fitters that prices the floor before you drive to it
Somebody rings about a floor. What they mean might be sanding a hundred year old pine, or lifting a carpet and laying engineered oak over a screed that wants levelling first, and until you have seen it you cannot say a number, so Saturday morning goes on driving round measuring rooms.
The site runs on your own domain, with SSL, hosting and nightly backups in every plan. From £49 to £199 a month, excluding VAT.
Three reasons the price is always a conversation
Flooring is priced by the metre, by the floor type and by whatever is underneath. None of that fits down a telephone.
The Saturday measure up
Four addresses in one morning, for jobs that may or may not happen. Two of them turn out to be a single room you could have priced from a photograph and a tape measure reading.
The other two were worth the diesel. The difficulty is that you did not know which two before setting off, and Saturday is the only day the customer is in.
Sanding or new, and nobody knows which
The enquiry says the floor is in a bad way. That covers a parquet which will come up beautifully with a sand and three coats, and a chipboard subfloor that has been under a leaking dishwasher and needs taking out.
You answer for both, the customer hears the higher one, and that is where the conversation ends.
One figure, and no way to read it
Materials and labour on the same row means the customer weighs your total against a price from somebody who buys cheaper boards, and all they can see is that yours is bigger.
The underlay, the levelling compound, the beading and two days of fitting are all sitting inside that number. None of it is visible, so the bottom row is the only thing they can compare.
Three things that shift the pricing conversation
A flooring job is a rate, a material and a subfloor. The site can carry two of those three before anybody rings.
Priced per floor type, per square metre
Sanding and sealing is one rate. Laying vinyl tile over a prepared subfloor is another. Engineered oak with levelling first is a third, and floating laminate in a spare room is a fourth. Each one goes up as its own service with its own from-price by the metre.
Somebody with a tape measure and a spare five minutes can work out where they stand, which was most of what they rang to find out.
Materials and labour on rows of their own
Boards, underlay, levelling compound, beading, taking the old floor away and the fitting days, each with a quantity beside it. Now the customer can see that the expensive part is the oak they chose rather than the man laying it.
They approve it on its own page, and if they want to swap the oak for something else it is one row changed and sent again.
A register that remembers the address
Which rooms, which product, which week it went down. Two years later the same household rings about the landing and you are not starting from an empty page and a vague memory.
It also means last spring's sanding customers are findable during a quiet fortnight, when you fancy ringing a few people about the rest of the house.
How a flooring list prices up
The rates are yours to put in. The point of the list is that a floor type and a square metre rate sit together, so nobody has to ring to find the starting point.
Grouping by floor type, wood, vinyl, laminate and carpet, lets each carry its own rate and its own photographs.
Questions fitters ask
For the straightforward work, yes. A rate per square metre and a room size gets them close enough to decide, and the visit is kept for floors where the subfloor is the unknown.
Put them up as separate services with separate rates and separate pictures. Enquiries then arrive naming one of them, which is the difference between a useful message and one that says my floor is bad.
Yes. Cost lines hold their own quantities and figures, so boards, underlay, levelling and the fitting days are each visible and none of it looks like padding on the way to a total.
Make labour only a service in its own right with its own rate. Then supply and fit sits next to fitting alone, and nobody has to ring up to ask which of the two they are being quoted.
It can be brought in so nothing is lost, and the missing pages get drafted from what you describe. Every heading and rate is then editable by clicking the pencil next to it.
It runs from £49 up to £199, excluding VAT, depending which plan you take. Support, hosting, SSL and a nightly backup come with all of them, and the site sits on a domain you own.
More trades
- Carpenters and joinersHourly rate and fixed price side by side.
- RoofersThe roof survey as the bookable way in.
- Tilers and bathroom fittersPackage prices per bathroom size, with a start date.
- Balcony glazingMeasure first, a quote that survives a board meeting.
- Groundworks and excavationSite visits booked, machine hours on the quote.
- LocksmithsCallout price and hours at the top.
- All trades
Get the floors priced on a page
Say which floors you lay and what you charge by the metre, or point at whatever site you have, and a first draft is waiting with your rates and a quote that keeps materials apart from labour.
The site runs on your own domain, with SSL, hosting and nightly backups in every plan. From £49 to £199 a month, excluding VAT.