Square metres laid, metres off the roll.
Measure the room, plan the drops, and the carpet prices itself off the roll it comes from. The metres you cut off and cannot lay are paid for too.
Quoting today: measure it on site, and it works out the quantitiesWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The room was 14 m². The carpet off a 3.66 m roll was 18. Measure the length you planned off the roll, and the rate turns it into the square metres you buy. The four you never lay are in the price.
- The old vinyl was stuck down hard and had to come off with a grinder. Uplift and floor preparation are their own rates off the same floor area. Tick them on site and they are on the quote before you agree to a price.
- The measure was in the estimator's notebook and the installer turned up without it. The rooms, the photos and the quote are on the job, so whoever lays it sees what was measured.
What you measure, and what falls out.
Tap the dimensions in on site. Stringline works the quantities out from what you measured, so your pricing stays accurate.
Your rates. Minutes for one of a thing, times what your labour costs.
A rate is how long a piece of work takes you for one square metre, one metre or one of them, and what your labour costs. Multiply it by what you measured, add the materials and your margin, and that is the item on the quote. These examples are made up; yours won't be.
- Lay carpet with underlay
- 12 min / m²
- Uplift and dispose
- 5 min / m²
- Laminate, click
- 20 min / m²
- Carpet on stairs
- 15 min / step
Then your crew's hours check it. Every hour is against the work that priced it, so when a rate is costing you more than you charge for it, Stringline tells you and offers to put it up. You approve it, and every quote after that uses the new rate.
The ones flooring installers ask us.
Where does the underlay go?
On the laying rate, as its materials per square metre with your wastage on top, so every carpeted room includes it. If you sell more than one underlay, add each under Materials and put the one they chose on the quote.
The customer is supplying the carpet.
Price the laying and leave the roll off. Your margin sits on the work you are doing, and the quote shows your customer exactly what they are paying you for.
How do the metres off the roll get worked out?
You plan the drops, as you do now, and enter the length. The rate knows its roll width, so 5 m off a 3.66 m roll is 18.3 m² bought. Working the drops out from the room for you is on the list below, not built.
What flooring installers get today.
The parts worth knowing about before you sign up, all of them in Stringline today.
- Rooms measured on site, with floor area and perimeter priced off your own rates
- Carpet and sheet vinyl priced by the square metre bought, from the roll width on the rate
- Uplift and floor preparation as their own lines, ticked when the room needs them
- Rates by the square metre, the metre or the step, priced from minutes and what your labour costs
- A proposal the customer accepts online, and follow-ups that stop once the quote is answered
- Quote to job without retyping, crew on a board, clock-on from the van
- Deposit, progress and final invoices off the quote, with overdue reminders
- Rates that tell you when the clock disagrees with the book
- Before and after photos on the job, from the phone
- Materials ordered from the quote and emailed to your supplier, closed off by their invoice
- Card payments on your invoices, and invoices into Xero with the payments coming back
- Quote templates, and a price book read out of your old quotes
- A wishlist board, where you put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for
- Tiling or painting on the same account, if you do both
Something missing? Every account has a wishlist board, where you can put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for.