Don't sign that quote yet.
I'm Owen. Send me your builder's quote and I'll go through it line by line, flagging what's overpriced, what's missing, and what will come back to bite you later. You'll know exactly what you're paying for before you sign.
- ✓Overpriced lines and missing items flagged before you sign anything
- ✓Deposit demands and payment terms checked, red flags called out plainly
- ✓Vague wording tightened so your builder can be held to the price
- ★Free lifetime access to The Build Budget Collective, our 500+ member community, for the rest of your build
You're about to commit six figures on the word of someone you've met twice.
You can't tell an inflated price from a fair one. Almost nobody can, until they've read hundreds of these.
And the real cost usually isn't on the quote at all. It's in what's been left out: the items that quietly come back as "variations" at month four, when you're in too deep to argue.
Nobody in this market sells you a second opinion. That's exactly what The Quote Check is.
Every line, read the way a builder reads it.
Send it today. Know within 5 working days.
No site visits, no meetings, no homework. You send what you already have.
A real person. On your side of the table.
I'm Owen, founder of Build Budget Expert. I've spent decades in build cost management, reading quotes the way builders write them. I know where the money hides.
Every Quote Check is done by me, personally. I read every line myself. No juniors, no templates, no AI summaries. And it's me on your call at the end.
I'm not a builder and I'm not selling you a build. My only job is to protect your budget. Over the years, that's meant helping homeowners avoid hundreds of thousands of pounds in unexpected costs.
"The expensive problems are never on the quote. They're the things missing from it."
What a second pair of eyes is worth
"Owen found £4,100 of groundwork missing from a quote we were two days from signing. The builder added it back without argument. It paid for itself twenty times over."
"The question list alone was worth it. Our builder answered every single one, and rewrote the payment schedule when we pushed back."
"We had three quotes and no idea. Owen showed us the cheapest one was missing £9k of scope. We would have picked it."
Less than 0.2% of your build cost.
One caught mistake pays for this many times over. Think of it as a small, fixed insurance policy against the unexpected costs that hit at month four. Both options include the written summary, your Builder Question List, a 30-minute call with me, and free lifetime access to The Build Budget Collective.
- ✓Full line-by-line review of your quote
- ✓Written summary of every flag
- ✓Your Builder Question List, ready to send
- ✓30-minute call with Owen
- ✓Delivered within 5 working days
- ★Free lifetime access to The Build Budget Collective, our 500+ member community, for questions throughout your build
- ✓Everything in the single review, for every quote
- ✓Side-by-side comparison: which is really the cheapest
- ✓What each builder has left out, mapped against the others
- ✓A question list for each builder
- ✓Same 5 working day turnaround
- ★Free lifetime access to The Build Budget Collective, our 500+ member community, for questions throughout your build
Most reviewers hand you a report and disappear. You keep a 500-strong community and me in your corner for the rest of your build. Almost nobody else can offer that.
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If I can't find anything that could save you money, you pay nothing.
Simple as that. If your Quote Check doesn't uncover a single thing worth flagging, no overpriced lines, no missing items, no terms worth renegotiating, I'll refund you in full. The risk sits with me, not you.
What this is, and what it isn't.
It is an expert second opinion on cost and scope, from someone independent who reads builder quotes every day, delivered before you sign anything.
Fair questions.
Great start. A recommendation tells you they're pleasant to work with. It doesn't tell you this quote, for this project, is priced right or complete. Checking the numbers isn't an insult to your builder. A good one will answer your question list without flinching.
Five working days now, against six months of variations later. If the quote is solid, you sign it with total confidence and you've lost nothing. That's not a delay. That's due diligence on the biggest purchase you'll make after your house.
A second quote gives you another number. It doesn't tell you which one is wrong, or what both of them have left out. Comparing two incomplete quotes just means choosing between two surprises.
Sign with confidence, not hope.
Five working days from now, you could know exactly what your quote says, what it hides, and what to ask before you commit. Or you could sign it and find out at month four.