About Eddie
I started out on the tools - labouring for a staging and events company in North Yorkshire and picking up freelance site work, fetching and carrying for brickies, chippies and groundworkers. You learn a lot on a site: how jobs actually get built, and how often they get quoted wrong, late, or for too little.
From there I spent the best part of 15 years in digital - e-commerce, SEO, building products and websites. But I kept coming back to the same problem I'd seen on site: good tradespeople losing their evenings, and losing money, doing quotes the slow way on a kitchen table.
I built Quotato to put the two halves of my background together - the site knowledge and the tech - into one tool. These calculators are the free, no-strings version of that: honest UK figures, the working shown, and a one-tap jump into a proper quote when you're ready.
Knows about
- Construction estimating
- Trade quoting
- Material take-offs
- SEO
- Building products for trades
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Latest guides by Eddie
- How Digital Quoting Software Halves Your Evening Admin
- The One-Man-Band Operations Manual: Systemise Your Trade Business
- How to Win Recurring Maintenance Work from Local Estate Agents
- The Best Estimating Software for Small Builders in the UK (2026)
- Taking Card Payments on Site: Is It Worth the Fees?
- Do You Need a Website to Get Trades Work in 2026?
- How to Move from Domestic Jobs to Commercial Contracts
- Conquest Estimating Software: A Simpler UK Alternative for Small Builders