📖 ProfitQuote Trade Guides

Professional Guidance for UK Tradespeople

Free, practical guides on pricing, quoting and protecting your profit — written for people who run trade businesses, not accountants.

Pricing & Costing

25 Costs Tradespeople Forget to Include in Their Quotes

The 25 most commonly forgotten costs on UK trade quotes, from skip hire and scaffolding to congestion charges and snagging visits, with real 2026 UK price ranges.

Pricing & Costing

How to Price Labour Correctly

Learn how to calculate your real hourly rate as a UK tradesperson, current day rate benchmarks by trade, and why unpaid hours are quietly costing you money.

Pricing & Costing

How to Calculate Construction Overheads

Learn what counts as a business overhead, how to calculate your overhead ratio, and how to build overhead recovery into every quote you send.

Pricing & Costing

How to Calculate Your Profit Margin (And Why Most Tradespeople Get It Wrong)

Learn how to calculate your real profit margin (not just markup), what a healthy margin looks like in UK trades, and the five ways contractors quietly lose profit.

How to Write a Professional Builder's Quote (Free Template & Examples)

A free builder's quote template and step-by-step guide to writing professional quotations that win more work and protect your profit on every job.

Pricing & Costing

Turnover vs Profit: Why Being Busy Isn't the Same as Being Profitable

More turnover doesn't always mean more profit. Learn why busy builders often earn less, the hidden costs quietly eating your margin, and how to fix it.

Why Tradespeople Underquote Jobs (And How to Stop)

Understand why jobs get underquoted, what missed costs do to your profit, and the practical checks that help prevent it happening again.

Pricing & Costing

How to Price a Building Job

A step-by-step method for pricing labour, materials, overheads, risk, contingency and profit before you send the customer a figure.

Quote vs Estimate: What Should You Send?

Understand the practical difference, when to use each document and how to handle uncertainty and customer changes clearly.