Bidfident for refurbishment contractors
Estimating software for refurbishments
Refurbishment work is priced room by room. In Bidfident you price soft strip, stud partitions and plasterboard by the square metre, kitchen units by the metre and doors by number, from your own joiner and labourer rates. Plumbing and electrical quotes sit side by side, skips and the lead joiner are carried as prelims, and options like underfloor heating stay on the sheet without counting.
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Sound familiar?
Every room in one long list
The kitchen, the dining room and the downstairs WC all end up in one column of rows, and the client asks what the kitchen alone comes to. In Bidfident you tag each line with an area and group the sheet by it, with a subtotal for every room.
With and without the underfloor heating
The client wants two prices, so the spreadsheet gets copied and the copies drift apart. In Bidfident the upgrade is switched off and stays on the sheet, struck through, with what it comes to shown beside the totals.
The joiner's rate typed on every row
Rates get typed into each line, and when they go up some rows get missed. In Bidfident each line takes its trade's rate from the company library, so a joiner is a joiner on every line.
How Bidfident fits your work
Room by room, with subtotals
Tag each line with the kitchen, the dining room or the utility, and group the sheet by area. Each room gets its own subtotal, and you can collapse them to see the whole job.
Upgrades the client can say yes to later
Underfloor heating, a boiling water tap or a better floor: price it as a line, then switch it off. It stays on the estimate, struck through, and isn't in the tender total.
Joiners and labourers at their own rates
Soft strip by your labourers, partitions and kitchen fitting by your joiners, each line at its trade's rate from the library. Change a rate once and every line using it updates.
Plumber and electrician quotes side by side
Enter each quote for first and second fix, see the lowest flagged, and carry it or pick another. No quote yet? Carry an allowance until it comes in.
Assemblies for the work you repeat
A stud partition boarded both sides, a run of base units, a bathroom floor: save it once with its hours and materials, then fill a whole line with it on the next job.
Square metres, metres and number
Plasterboard and flooring by the square metre, kitchen units by the metre, doors and sanitaryware by number. Waste goes on as a percentage, and the sheet works like Excel.
Worked example: kitchen and ground floor refurbishment in a 1960s bungalow
A made-up job, priced in Bidfident: 29 lines of your own work, 4 subcontract packages and 5 preliminaries items over a 6-week programme. The 6 lines this page talks about are listed one by one, and the rest are added up in one row. It's the same job you can open as an example project in Bidfident, so every figure below matches it.
To open this job in Bidfident: sign in and set up your company in the UK, then on the Projects screen, under Example project, pick "Refurbishment and housebuilders" and "Refurbishments" and press Add example project.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Soft strip and selective demolition, kitchen and dining room, 39 m2
| £729.30 |
Stud partition, 89 x 38 timber studs, boarded both sides, 17 m2
| £1,103.64 |
Plasterboard, taped, jointed and painted, 125 m2
| £2,087.50 |
Kitchen units, supplied and fitted, 8.5 m
| £8,032.50 |
Engineered oak flooring, 60 m2
| £4,100.40 |
Option 1: underfloor heating, kitchen, 22 m2
| £1,947.00 |
24 more lines of your own work
| £16,170.40 |
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Plumbing
| £5,600.00 |
Electrical installation
| £6,500.00 |
Quartz worktops, templated and fitted
| £4,070.00 |
Asbestos survey, refurbishment, allowance
| £360.00 |
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Site supervision, lead joiner
| £2,700.00 |
Skips, exchanged
| £1,320.00 |
Dust sheets and protection upkeep
| £478.80 |
Building control fees
| £650.00 |
Builders' clean
| £280.00 |
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Own work
| £32,223.74 |
| Excluded lines, not counted | £1,947.00 |
| Subcontractors | £16,530.00 |
Preliminaries
| £5,428.80 |
Direct cost
| £54,182.54 |
Contingency
| £4,334.60 |
Overheads and profit
| £8,777.57 |
| Subtotal before the bond | £67,294.71 |
Bond
| £0.00 |
Insurance
| £336.47 |
Tender total
| £67,631.18 |
VAT, for reference
| £13,526.24 |
See it in Bidfident
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Questions
Can I show what the kitchen comes to on its own?
Yes. Tag each line with an area and group the sheet by it. Every room gets its own subtotal.
Can I give the client a price with and without an upgrade?
Yes. Switch the upgrade's line off. It stays on the sheet, struck through, with what it comes to shown beside the totals, and the tender total leaves it out. Switch it back on to see the total with it. The amount beside the totals is its cost, before contingency, fee, bond and insurance.
Can I price soft strip by the square metre?
Yes. Units are free text, so m², m and nr all work. Bidfident doesn't convert between units, so price each line in the unit its rate is in.
Can I carry skips and supervision as prelims?
Yes. On the Overhead tab, price skip exchanges by number and supervision by the week. Weekly items can follow the job duration, so they update when the programme changes.
Can I hand the homeowner a finished kitchen quote from Bidfident?
Not yet. The Client view hides your hours and rates on screen, but its unit prices are your cost, before markups. The Bid summary gives you the total for the kitchen quote you send.
Can I measure up the kitchen on a tablet at the client's house and price it there?
Not yet. Editing an estimate on a phone or tablet isn't built, so take your measurements back and price the refurb on a computer.
Does Bidfident work with Claude or ChatGPT?
Not yet, but it's coming. You'll be able to connect Bidfident to your own Claude or ChatGPT account and ask about your estimates in plain English. The answers will come from Bidfident's own figures, so they match the estimate. It will use the account you already have: Claude first, ChatGPT to follow.
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