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A complete list of our pages and guides, so you can find your way around — and so search engines can too.
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- Home — check your building quote
Compare your building quote with typical local prices before you decide.
- Check a quote
Enter or upload your quote and compare it with typical prices in your area.
- Local prices by postcode
Typical price ranges for common building jobs in your part of the UK, found by postcode.
- Checked trade firms
Browse trade firms that have passed our checks, with their services, areas covered and ratings.
- How it works
What TallyBrick checks, where the numbers come from, and what happens next.
- Case study — a rear extension quote checked
A worked example showing how a £26,400 extension quote compared line by line.
- Sample quote check
A pretend report showing the layout of a real TallyBrick quote check.
- How to read your quote check
What the evidence level, matched lines and blended real quotes on your result mean.
- Questions and answers
Plain-English answers about quotes, prices and using TallyBrick.
- Homeowner guides
Guides on quotes, deposits, VAT, red flags and questions to ask your builder.
- About TallyBrick
Who we are and why we built a free quote-checking service.
- Contact us
Get in touch with the TallyBrick team.
- For trade firms
How checked, approved firms receive introductions from homeowners.
- Trade plans and pricing
Free and Verified plans for trade firms on TallyBrick.
- Pay for your Verified plan
Secure monthly card payment for approved trade firms.
- Privacy policy
What we collect, why, and how your details are protected.
- Terms of use
The rules for using TallyBrick as a homeowner or trade firm.
Homeowner guides
- What should be in a builder's quote?
A plain-English checklist of everything a proper UK building quote should contain, and the costs that are most often left out of the total.
- Quote or estimate? Why the word on the paper matters
The difference between a quote and an estimate in UK building work, why builders use each one, and how to tell which you have been given.
- Why three quotes for the same job can differ by thousands
Three builders, one job, three very different prices. Here is what actually drives the gap, and how to work out which quote is genuinely cheaper.
- Ten warning signs in a building quote
The warning signs worth pausing on in a UK building quote, from large upfront deposits to cash discounts and prices that expire tomorrow.
- Fifteen questions to ask before you accept a quote
Fifteen short, polite questions that turn a vague building quote into something you can rely on, and reveal how a firm will behave once work starts.
- Deposits and payment stages for building work
How deposits and staged payments normally work on UK building projects, and how to structure them so you never pay far ahead of the work.
- VAT on building work, in plain English
Why one builder's quote includes VAT and another's does not, how to compare the two fairly, and where reduced rates can apply.
- What actually drives the price of an extension
The factors that move a UK extension quote up or down — size, access, groundworks, glazing and finish — and what to check in your own figure.