HSE’s new inspections to check on heavy lifting and moving

Are your workers involved in heavy lifting and moving? You may have read that the HSE are undertaking a new initiative to combat serious aches, pains and strains in construction. Inspectors will be carrying out inspections in October and November in order to check how workers are moving heavy or bulky materials. How are your…

Moving away from spreadsheet-based estimating

Whilst many UK builders still use spreadsheets to estimate extensions, renovations and new build projects, savvy building firm owners are moving away from estimating with spreadsheets. They have found a quicker and more efficient way to estimate. Using EstimatorXpress, estimating software developed specifically for small to medium-sized builders, they spend less time quoting, whilst accurately…

Now you can estimate your building projects four ways

Do you estimate building projects? Well here’s a quick run down of an amazing FOUR options you have for speeding up your estimating process whilst ensuring accuracy and professional-looking outputs: Estimating with pre-loaded Templates Estimating without pre-loaded Templates for custom jobs Taking-off for an automatic estimate Us producing the estimate for you With pre-loaded Templates…

What happens when an HSE Inspector visits a construction site?

HSE Inspector visits are real! Just as traffic wardens appear out of nowhere so do HSE Inspectors. In this article we give you: The solution The cost of fees and fines What the Inspector looks for What to do next. Concerned? Relaxed? Which one are you? Always looking over your shoulder wondering if today is…

Builders: Who’s choosing who for the job? You or the homeowner?

Builders – here’s our ‘How to make money with the right homeowner’ top tips. It’s not all about the homeowner and who they want for the job. Do YOU want to work with THEM? And most of the time, according to Simon Lazarus, you don’t! I’ve been discussing the huge topic of profitable projects with…

Seven ways to make more money on your building projects

I’m pleased to bring you a whopping seven ways to make more on your building project – and this is the best bit – with virtually no extra work on your part. I’m not suggesting you’re currently losing money. But you’re in the business to make good money for all sorts of reasons, so… Suppose…