What type of estimates do we provide?

• We are specialists in commercial and industrial projects performing estimating services for new construction, remodeling, renovation, wastewater treatment plants, cogeneration plants, and warehouses. Pretty Pretty Precon Estimating serves General Contractors, Subcontractors, Architects, Real estate developers, Owners, Lenders, Appraisers, and more.

Which Trades Are We Dealing In?

• We deal in Electrical CSI divisions and trades. Our specialty is ELECTRICAL & LOW Voltage, BUT we also provide other subcontractor trade bids: Please submit a contact to use and inquire for other blueprint take-off services.

 How Do We Price Out The Projects?

• We use different Databases for pricing like RS means, National Cost estimator by Craftsmen (Zip-code based pricing-which is updated multiple times in the year) so the bid will competitive and accurate as well.

Would You Ever Provide The Same Estimate To Other Clients?

• NO and Never! As the Owner of Pretty Pretty Precon, I ensure high standards and good business ethics. We strongly believe it’s unethical and prohibited to breach your information and disrupt long term business relationships. This is something we never engage in.
  We provide consultancy to our clients about how they can be competitive, win bids but also increase their bid-hit ratio.

How Do We Do Estimates If The Drawings Are Not Completed?

• We work with Architects, Developers, and Design & Engineering Firms that require our services in the early planning and design stages. If you have preliminary drawings or specifications, we would work with that and our estimators will provide an accurate estimate for procurement, supplying, or design purposes.

How Accurate Are We In Our Estimation?

• Our estimators are trade specialists, preconstruction professionals and for pricing, we use zip-code based pricing that brings into account even inflation, shortages in material, import/export tariffs and natural disaster as well.

What if I use another Estimating Software Program?

• Even if the other programs are different, Vision EBM estimates can be broken down. The estimate can also be exported to excel or other spreadsheet programs for changes.

Where do you get your pricing for materials and labor?

• We use the latest version of EBM™ (Electrical Bid Manager). We have an internal data base (Epic, Bluebeam and Planswift) which we subscribe to that provides pricing for your area and around the nation. We will also use prices from your supplier upon request.
   

How does Pretty Pretty Precon quantify a certain trade and make it meaningful to the contractor?

• Our professional commercial construction cost estimator quantifies the quantities from the plans and mark up the drawings with color code schemes just to show from where we have taken the quantities for Openings Estimating.

How can we grow our business and win more work?

• Just concentrate on your installation and fabrication work and hand over the rest to Pretty Pretty Precon Estimating, where you will be helped with estimates, consultancy and will save your time. Thus, filing more bids and earning more is only possible when you have more time to file rather than to estimate. Many contractors have increased their income bracket after rendering our Estimating services.