Pre-survey job sizer

The quote you gave over the phone was wrong before the van left the yard

Property type, bedroom count and floor area for any address, so crew and van are sized from the record rather than from a phone call.

Propalt Team · For removal companies

Every removal firm knows the two ways a phone quote goes wrong. Either you underquote, the job is bigger than described, and the crew runs into the evening on a fixed price. Or you pad the number to be safe, and the customer books the firm that sounded more confident. Both cost you, and both come from the same root: you are sizing the job on what the caller tells you, and callers underestimate.

A home survey solves the accuracy, but not for free. Sending an estimator out to every enquiry is time and diesel spent on jobs you may not win. For a large or complex move it is worth it. For the steady flow of ordinary two and three-bedroom moves, a survey visit is a lot of effort to confirm what the property record could have told you in seconds.

The property already describes itself

To be fair, no data feed can count how much the customer has crammed into the loft, and the survey still earns its place on the big or awkward jobs. But most of what drives crew and van size is fixed to the property, not the person: how many bedrooms, what type of home, and roughly how much floor area there is to clear. All three sit in the property record for any address, before you have sent anyone out or trusted a rough guess down the phone.

Pull those up while the enquiry is still on the line and your quote is grounded in the building. A four-bedroom detached is a different job from a two-bedroom flat, whatever the caller thinks they own, and the record settles it. You can size the crew and the van from facts, quote with confidence, and only book a survey visit for the jobs that genuinely need one.

The example above is illustrative. What matters is that the sizing starts from the property's real type, bedroom count and floor area, not a caller's estimate, so your first number is close to the final one.

A tighter quote, a shorter path to yes

An accurate quote does more than protect your margin. It wins the job. A customer comparing three firms remembers the one that asked the right questions and came back with a number that felt considered rather than plucked from the air. Sizing from the property record lets you do that in the first call, while the other two firms are still arranging to pop round.

It also protects the day of the move. When the van and crew are matched to the real job, you are not sending a Luton to a four-bed or three lads to a studio. Fewer second trips, fewer overruns, fewer awkward conversations about a price that no longer fits. The record is not a personal profile of the customer; it is the property's own description, which is exactly what you need to load it.

Quote the building, not the customer's memory of it.

Keep the survey for the moves that deserve one. For everything else, size the job from what the property actually is, and put a number the customer can trust in front of them while they are still talking to you.

Size the move from the record, then win it on the call.

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Property type, bedroom and floor-area data is drawn from the Propalt intelligence layer. No personal data is used; all work is at property level. Figures shown are illustrative. This article is general information for removal company professionals.