Price Calculators - Estimate how much UK services should cost
This sections provides a range of tools that will allow you to calculate a rough estimate of how much UK service jobs should cost. For example we already have a conservatory cost calculator and have just completed a car running cost one as well.
In the future we hope to provide plumbing cost, building cost, electrician cost and whatever else we think might be useful to this page to help you get 'tooled up' with the information to get a good deal!
Conservatory Cost Calculator
The conservatory cost calculator allows you to specify the size and design of your conservatory along with type of glass, air conditioning and blinds and provides you with a rough estimate of the cost to have built.
Car Running Costs Calculator
With the car running cost calculator if you provide us with some basic information about the type of car you drive and your driving habits this will tell you how much you car costs overall to run each year, plus how much it costs to drive per mile. Note: It currently doesn't include anything about those pay per mile road tolls. Here's hoping they don't happen!
Central Heating Costs Calculator
Be prepared for the high cost of installation with our central heating calculator. We will need to know how many floors your property is along with its external dimensions (length and width) in metres, how many radiators you think you need (just use your common sense) along with what type of boiler you require (gas or oil). We will then calculate the rough cost of installing some new central heating with some explanations at the bottom of the page about the assumptions we have made.
Room Decorating Costs Calculator
This calculator will work out how much of each type of paint you will need and estimate the total cost of decorating a room based upon the dimensions, number of coats of paint, type of paint, numbers of windows and also doors. We hope it is useful whether you plan to get a decorator in or simply wish to work out roughly how much paint to buy.
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Date Added: Friday 14th August 2009
"Just compared the calculator with the time and cost it actually took me to decorate my own front room - I did an immaculate job, but I'm slow, I'm not a professional, and the room needed lots of extras, like beams on the ceiling, 18th century mantel piece, wallpaper stripping off, damp patches sealing. The site said it should take about 25 hours (chargeable time, I don't expect to pay someone for a quote, or for a decorator to visit the paint shop - I don't charge my own customers for the time taken to buy materials and prepare quotes in my trade - if you want more cash, put up your hourly rate!), and it actually took me 50 hours ... that works out about right I think. This site is really useful for working out a rough budget proposal."
Jon Bowen
Date Added: Wednesday 22nd July 2009
"i think you,re all nutters. i,m trying to set up on my own after being in the building trade for years and years but i,m at a loss as to how much to charge for particular jobs and how much material to use whether it be to paint a wall or seal a driveway. i,m a multi skilled builder, master of none as they say! but am finding it very difficult to price work without the risk of losing on every job to compete with the cowboys. i think sites like this are good but agree with wendy on the poor english. all my work takes me longer than average as i put more into quality than quantity so i need to price my work lower to accomodate the longer period but higher quality and at the same time i need something to help me work out coverage of materials. more basic calculators would help. "
phil
Date Added: Sunday 28th June 2009
"It's amazing isn't it that people can be so useless with the English language. I've come to this site and am immediately unimpressed because the overall custodians of this site allow such poor quality material to be published. There may be honest and genuine comments here, but who can take things seriously when they are accompanied with such useless grasp of the English language? I certainly can't take this site seriously. It's rubbish.
(Admin: Thank you. We are working closely with the UK Government to improve the standard of web English. Please keep an eye on the site for the next 20 or so years as we start to see victims of this new scheme take their first brave steps out into society)"
Wendy Casey
Date Added: Wednesday 21st January 2009
"This site is a total waste of time. Who really would come on here and give out commercial information sensitive to their business? These prices are pie in the sky; you want to know a price get a quote from a tradesman. Once youve come on here for a nose about your going to have to get a quote anyway??? "
topcowboy
Date Added: Tuesday 16th September 2008
"Have enjoyed using your site. Read some of the comments and all are valuable. However, the likes of Mr Angry, if your decorator quotes £5oo for a job and it takes him a week, then its not too bad. If it takes him a day, you are going to be mighty cheesed off as you know he has more than likely done a shoddy job. I'm a plumber/tiler and know how long something takes to do well, some can do it quicker no doubt, but I pride myself in perfection, nothing less will do-ever."
H. Fitzpatrick
Date Added: Wednesday 10th September 2008
"i have never seen sucha bad ideal of pricing in the biulding industry this must be a child just out of collage with no ideal at all! next up date talk to people who do know what is going on and leave the keyboard alone please!!!"
nipper1109
Date Added: Thursday 15th May 2008
"5 days?!! You're having a laugh aren't you?? It's slow coaches like you that milk jobs that give the trades a bad name!"
Mr Angry
Date Added: Tuesday 13th May 2008
"it would be great if there was an electrical calculator. One that includes number of sockets, electrical showers, consumer unit and outside lights...you get the jist of it!! Also one for plastering and skimming."
N Skene
Date Added: Monday 31st March 2008
"5 days for a single room? really? so say £500-750 for single room including painting doors in labour costs only? The times are calculated on basic coverage rates and of course don't account for fetching the paint nor indeed writing up a quote. They are best suited to a new build or perhaps when there is little sanding down of doors required. But even so, 5 days, really??!! "
Admin
Date Added: Sunday 30th March 2008
"I am a proffessional decorator and was astounded that your site is telling me that I should carry out the job specification that I submitted in 11 hours. In short the spec is as follows, all 2 coat as standard never do less, ceilings, coving,all white. Walls (2 colour lots) ucoat and top coat throughout woodwork, a mix of both gloss and Satin wood white. M/g coving walls and woodwork, sand down as necessary. Sheet up completly. Cover furniture after centralising. Purchase paint, visit for quote attend client on telephone. Quantify materials and labour cost, write up specification and guide in colour choice and paint type and send out to client. Thats 3 hours of the 11 gone already. So now I have 8 hours to do that which I consider to be work that will tale up to 5 days carried out properly and methodically. Perhaps I can take the dog for a walk whilst I am there!"
David
Date Added: Tuesday 8th January 2008
"Just used your pricing calculator to decorate a room. Seems too low to me! Doesn't say if the prices are up to date or not? Are these 2008 prices and also, does area in UK affect labour costs?"
Mr C Sambridge
Date Added: Wednesday 31st October 2007
"would love to have a building (extension) average price calculator on the site also ..."
Steve K