Sectors

One platform, six very different working weeks

A sole trader and a housing association need the same quote-to-invoice spine and almost nothing else in common. Each page below sets out the problem that sector actually has, what Estimark does about it, and which plan it costs.

Sector: sole traders

Sole traders

Solo at £39 a month +VAT: 2 users, 20 open jobs, quote and invoice from the phone.

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Sector: builders & contractors

Builders & contractors

Pro at £299 a month +VAT: payment applications and HR, on top of job costing, CVR, CIS and site safety.

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Sector: property maintenance

Property maintenance

Repairs on priority SLAs, appointment windows residents accept, schedule-of-rates pricing and van stock.

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Sector: social housing

Housing associations & councils

Awaab’s Law timescales, the Big Six compliance register, void turnaround and SOR-priced works.

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Sector: electrical contractors

Electricians

EIC, EICR, Minor Works and PAT certificates with typed test results and a signature on the device.

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Sector: plumbing & heating

Plumbers & heating engineers

CP12s, appointment windows residents accept, maintenance contracts and van stock.

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Sector: roofing contractors

Roofers

Working-at-height permits and versioned RAMS, weather and delays in the site diary, and the variation for what the strip turned up.

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Sector: groundworks & civils

Groundworks

Owned and hired plant with usage booked to the job, waste by disposal route, and a valuation the main contractor can check.

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Sector: scaffolding contractors

Scaffolders

Stock on hire with QR tags and recurring schedules, inspection records built as your own form, and a handover signed on the device.

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Sector: plastering & drylining

Plasterers

The trade where the whole payment is the CIS deduction base, so verification and the right rate are the margin.

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Sector: bricklaying & masonry

Bricklayers

Coded rate sets for measured work, gang hours booked to the job, and CIS handled across the gang.

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Sector: joinery & carpentry

Joiners & carpenters

One job spanning workshop and site, materials on purchase orders, and the CIS split that keeps them out of the deduction.

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Sector: painting & decorating

Painters & decorators

Quotes accepted and signed online, numbered snags tracked to sign-off, and reminders that stop the wasted visit.

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Sector: gas & heating engineers

Gas & heating engineers

CP12 and tightness certificates typed on the device, the Gas Safe card held cell by cell, annual services dated and invoiced.

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Sector: solar PV & heat pumps

Solar PV & heat pump installers

Optional lines the customer ticks, the kit receipted as it lands, the EIC typed, and a handover pack that compiles the MCS certificate and the warranties.

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Sector: tiling contractors

Tilers

Rates by the square metre, the preparation priced as a variation from the phone, CIS on the gang, and snags signed off item by item.

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Sector: flooring contractors

Flooring contractors

Materials off the CIS deduction base, rolls and packs receipted against the order, subfloor preparation priced as a variation, and the uplifted floor on a waste transfer note.

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Sector: kitchen & bathroom fitters

Kitchen & bathroom fitters

Five trades on one job, stage payments on a plan, the units receipted as they land, variations signed at the door, and the certificates typed.

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Sector: windows, doors & glazing

Windows, doors & glazing

Survey to deposit to order to fit: frames receipted against the fabricator’s order, the fitting date in a window the customer will be in for, snags photographed, and the guarantee on record.

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Sector: landscaping & driveways

Landscaping & driveways

Plant on and off hire with the rate visible, spoil on a waste transfer note, the rained-off day in the diary, and a deposit invoiced the day the quote is signed.

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Sector: drylining contractors

Drylining contractors

Valuations with retention and the notice dates on them, gang hours by QR, pay less notices to your own gangs, and CIS at the rate HMRC gives each of them.

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Sector: damp & timber specialists

Damp & timber specialists

A survey form with photographs and a signature, COSHH for the biocides, the guarantee dated per job, and the social landlord’s damp report on its statutory clock.

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Sector: passive fire protection

Passive fire protection

A before-and-after pair per penetration, a checklist with a pass and a photograph per item signed off as a sheet, snags pinned on the drawing, and RAMS versioned per operative.

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Nation: England

England

Awaab’s Law on a computed clock, the Building Safety Act dutyholders recorded, the higher-risk building threshold, and the EICR rule that is England’s rather than Britain’s.

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Nation: Scotland

Scotland

Building warrants and completion certificates, the Repairing Standard, the damp and mould deadlines that start on 6 October 2026, and the bank holidays that are not England’s.

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Nation: Wales

Wales

Renting Homes (Wales) Act fitness standards since 1 December 2022, the alarms and the five-yearly electrical test, the Building Safety (Wales) Act categories, and what the English regime does not reach.

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Nation: Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Separate building regulations and CDM, the 1997 Order on construction payment, CIS on this side of the border and RCT on the other, and a bank holiday list of its own.

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