For self employed tradespeople
Quote writer: turn your day rate into a priced quote
Free, no login, and nothing is stored unless you ask for the PDF.
A free quote generator for one job. Price it from your day rate, check your days, then save it as a PDF.
Sample data. Change any figure and it becomes yours.
About a day and a half left.For the work and preparation, out of the four days you said.
- You said
- Four days
- Walls and ceilings
- About two and a half days
- The walls
- Heavy filling
- Gloss
- At least 16 hours between coats
Is four days enough?
The job behind it
Change anything here and the days above move.
Walls 37.44 m²Ceiling 15.12 m²
Walls 27.84 m²Ceiling 8.40 m²
Drawn to one scale from your own numbers.
Walls and ceilings88.80 m²
Walls and ceilingWoodwork, in for gloss
Two coats over heavy filling.
Whose document it is
Your details go on it once and stay on this device.
Typed once. Saved on this device, never sent to us.
What your customer sees
The same figures, on the sheet your customer reads.
Lounge4.2 by 3.6 m, 52.56 m²
Back bedroom3.0 by 2.8 m, 36.24 m²
The workWalls and woodwork, two coats
Time on siteFour days
Materials£180
TotalYour total lands here
Customer supplying the colours.
Made with Rate Sorted
Save it
The sheet beside this, as a PDF you can send or print.
We ask for your email once, on the download only.
Still to add: your day rate, so there is a total, your trading name, who it is for, a quote number, a date.
Sample data. The room sizes, the days and the materials are the entries this screen opens with.
They are not published figures. Change any of them and they become yours.
Before you send it, and after
Before you send the price, see what the job actually leaves you.
Want to see one filled in first? There is a worked quote template, with every sum shown.
Job finished and time to bill it? Use the free invoice template.
The day rate this prices on is worked out on what a decorator should charge per day.
By the hour instead is on what a painter and decorator charges an hour.
Every figure behind both is set out in the methodology.
Quoting for a homeowner who wants a figure first? Send them to the tool that prices one room.
Where the trade productivity figure comes from
Published productivity rates, and the one assumption we add.
The check uses published productivity rates for painting walls and ceilings.
For gloss it uses the manufacturer recoat time.
It covers preparing and applying two coats as one job.
That is why a different coat count gets no benchmark, rather than a scaled one.
The selected trade rate is a published productivity rate.
The gloss figure is the manufacturer recoat time.
The one assumption we add is seven productive hours in a working day.
That one is ours, not a published figure.
The page setting all of this out with its citations is not published yet.
So we are not linking you to it until it is.
The days on your quote are your own.
Nothing here replaces them. Nothing here blocks you.