Estimating is part science, part art. We will prepare our estimate for you with the degree of confidence your project needs and your budget allows.
We are positioned to write estimates with market-based pricing included or to prepare scopes of work without cost details suitable for putting out to competitive bidding.
As needed, we embellish our conceptual estimating with actual third-party subcontractor estimates, which allows the MFC client to receive our report, pick up the phone, and quickly arrange a contract with a local, licensed, insured contractor who wants to perform the specified work.
In our expert witness cases, our detailed scopes of repair and cost estimates are essential in communicating realistic repair scenarios to all parties. Our Xactware estimates are organized by physical location, not by CSI codes/type of trade, and with complete unit costs and unit counts, making ours a formidable estimating tool when the argument comes down to whose numbers are the most believable.
When you are undecided regarding a retrofit, remodel or new construction project, conceptual estimates are a valuable decision-making tool for affordability. MFC publishes conceptual estimates using in-house unit costs from our estimating software, Xactware. Eighty percent of insurance-repair contractors and eight of the top ten property insurers use Xactimate to determine the cost of repairs: formats and terminology are easy for the layperson to understand while many contractors are accustomed with implementing scopes of work written in Xactimate.