Owner Builder Information

Know the costs before you start.

Most Owner Builders find themselves short on finances before the project is completed. Without having an itemized budget, Owner Builders are often unaware of all of the costs to complete a building project.

With over 40 years of Building Estimating Experience; Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC has been able to help many clients rescue their dreams from the Building Designer’s rubbish bin and bring them to reality.

Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC has worked with many Owner Builders, Builders & Developers encouraging budget friendly construction.

Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC can supply detailed building estimates, finance costings, specifications, construction sequence templates, supplier lists, recommended trades, construction knowledge and quality Inspections.

Itemized Estimates gives you a clear guide to work from, keeping the costs in control at all times of the construction .Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC can provide you with a detailed Itemized estimate known as a Bill of Quantities (BOQ)from your plans; even sketch designs. A BOQ will provide will provide you with an itemized breakdown of the material and labor costs required to complete the project. A BOQ supplied by Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC will provide a solid medium for Financial Institutions.

You can be assured that Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC prides ourselves on the reputation we have built over many years of accurate information for Builders, Developers & Owner Builders.

Building an estimate; is based on the information available to the estimator at the time of estimating, e.g. working drawings, engineering specifications, building contract, color selections, energy reports, soil reports etc. The more information available at the time of estimation the more accurate the estimate will be.

Construction projects require many trades, suppliers and manufacturers. Accurate building estimating can only be achieved through experience. Experienced building estimators will know what to allow for and foresee issues or items that could result in additional costs that inexperienced estimators or Owner/Builders may not allow for.

Easy Estimation can break down all your costs involved giving you accurate budgeting tool.

Detailed building estimates allow for almost every item that will be required as a part of the construction and provide an individual price allowed for each item providing you, with an itemized budget. With an itemized building budget, you have the price for each item that you will require. If you spend more than the allowance on an item you will know you have to save on something else or you will go over your budget.

Professional experienced estimators will be able to look for potential hidden costs and provide appropriate allowances.

No matter what size project you have; you can be assured that Design, Estimate, & Build, LLC will understand the complexities, and how best to price and order the materials and trades.

Joseph D. Lovermi has been an active General Contractor for over 40 years. He has estimated projects from $60,000.00 to $ 16,000,000.00 which include:

Design, Estimate, Build, LLC. is a Florida Certified General Contractor (CGC004492) and Consultant to various firms doing business in South Florida.

Click the Video hyperlink for a brief description of our Estimating System. It shows that it is easy to use, fast,and powerful to accommodate the seasoned estimator and the Owner Builder.

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