Cottage Estimating Services has over 40 years of experience in management, supervision, and estimating, including overseas experience, as well as being registered builders in several states.

If you are looking to find a company that will provide you with accurate estimates and other services which assist your company in limiting your running costs and saving you time and money, then you have come to the right place.

Our list of Services include:

• Preliminary Budget Estimates: a good budget and planning tool which offers early advice and cost planning at a design and development stage. This enables more cost-effective changes to be made in the earlier stages of the project to save costly changes at a later date. Preliminary Budgets are fully priced and itemised per task and stage of construction in an easy to read summary. Cottage Estimating Services works closely with your consultants, or, if preferred, you may engage with our recommended consultants for engineering, design or architectural consultancy.
• Construction / Tendering Estimates: provide a fully priced estimating of all materials, labour, goods, services, and percentage margins for the construction of your project. These can be provided with a bill of quantities that is in a priced per item and per task version or in a non-priced version. Fully priced estimates can be provided in a few days and enables the contractor, if tendering for a project time, to perform any required changes and submit their tender with confidence that all your bases are covered.
• Material Take-offs: Cottage Estimating Services has worked with many major building component and material supplies in Australia. These material take-offs are not only useful for the building supply, component manufacturing industry, but also for the owner builder, tradesman and contractor, saving valuable time and expense.
• Other Services: assist with the tendering process and obtain quotations from suppliers, trades, manufacturers, and contractors.