Flooring Quotes — Step Up Your Game

How to Price Waste and Underlay on Every Job

Always add a waste percentage to your flooring material calculation. For straight lay jobs, use 10-12%. For complex patterns like herringbone or chevron, push it to 15-18%. This covers off-cuts, mistakes, and pattern matching. Forgetting this is like giving away a free box of boards on every job. Underlay and adhesive should be their own line items, priced per square metre. QuoteMate can automatically add these based on your main flooring area, so you never forget. A standard roll of QEP 3mm Silver Laminate Flooring Underlay costs around $55 at Bunnings and covers 10 square metres.

Quoting for Subfloor Prep and Old Floor Removal

Price subfloor preparation separately, never bundle it into your per-metre rate. A perfectly flat subfloor is non-negotiable for vinyl and hybrid planks, and it takes time and materials to get it right. Your quote should list charges for pulling up old carpet, grinding concrete high spots, and applying levelling compound. If you uncover a mess after quoting, you'll have to wear the cost. A quick site inspection can save you thousands. Allow at least $50 per square metre for basic floor levelling using a product like Dunlop Ardit Floor Leveller, which costs around $32 for a 20kg bag from CSR.

The Finishing Trims and Scotia That Erode Profit

Scotia, transition strips, and door jamb trimming are the most commonly forgotten line items. They seem small, but on a whole house job, you could be giving away hundreds of dollars in materials and labour. Price scotia per linear metre, supplied and installed. Charge a per-item fee for each metal transition strip and an hourly rate for any door trimming required. If the phone's ringing while you're on your knees measuring, an AI receptionist like https://callkatie.ai handles the new lead so you can focus. A single 2.7m length of primed pine scotia is about $12 from any major hardware supplier.

Manage Every Flooring Installer Job From Inquiry to Paid

Quoting is only half the work. QuoteMate tracks every flooring job through a 9-stage pipeline — inquiry, quoted, accepted, scheduled, in progress, completed, paid, closed, or cancelled — with timestamps stamped automatically so you can see where every dollar is sitting and where the bottleneck is. Schedule jobs in two taps with Google Calendar sync, snap and annotate on-site photos against the job (not lost in your camera roll), keep a brain-dump checklist of materials and to-dos for the day, and chase quotes automatically if a customer goes quiet.

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