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Foundation Repair Field Operations

The first question is always price. Have an answer.

A homeowner calls, worried about a crack that keeps coming back, and before you can say a word they ask what it costs. Answer “I can’t say until we inspect” and half of them keep dialing down the list. Quick-Bid Express gives the person on the phone a real ballpark in under a minute, so the call ends with an inspection booked instead of a dead line.
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How it works
A ballpark to keep the call alive. Not a binding quote, and it never pretends to be.
Quick-Bid Express
STEP 4 OF 4

Foundation type

Pier & beam Slab Basement

Problem

Settlement Bowing wall Moisture

Severity · Square footage

Moderate 1,800 sq ft
BALLPARK RANGE
$9,400 - $13,800

Estimate only. Final price set after on-site inspection.

✓ BUILT IN 42 SECONDS
The call you are losing

"Roughly what am I looking at?" is where most calls are won or lost.

Foundation problems scare people. By the time a homeowner picks up the phone, they have already Googled photos of their crack at midnight and convinced themselves the house is falling down. What they want first is not a lecture on soil. They want a number, so they can tell whether this is a two-thousand-dollar problem or a twenty-thousand-dollar one.

So what does the office usually say? “It depends. We really can’t quote anything until a technician comes out.” That is the honest answer, and it is also the answer that gets you hung up on. The homeowner reads it as a dodge, thanks you, and calls the next company that will at least talk numbers.

The reps who try to help end up guessing off the top of their head. One quotes eight grand, another quotes fourteen for the same kind of job, and now your pricing looks like a coin flip. Neither of those is a good place to be when a five-figure decision is on the line.

What a good first call sounds like

“For a pier and beam house that size with moderate settlement, most jobs like yours land somewhere between nine and fourteen thousand. I can’t lock that in until we’re out there, but it gives you a sense. Let’s get an inspection on the calendar so we can put a real number to it.” Booked in one breath, and every rep says it the same way.
How it works

Four questions. Under a minute. A number you can stand behind.

Quick-Bid Express is a short wizard the person answering the phone can run while the homeowner is still talking. No spreadsheet, no calling a manager, no “let me get back to you.” Four inputs, and a ballpark range comes back priced from your own templates.
Input 1

Foundation type

Slab, pier and beam, or basement. The starting point for what the repair even involves.

Input 2

Problem

Settlement, a bowing wall, moisture, and the other issues you actually get called about.

Input 3

Severity

Minor, moderate, or severe. The difference between a few piers and a full perimeter.

Input 4

Square footage

Roughly how big the affected area is, so the range scales to the house, not a guess.

Elevation Survey, up close

Priced from your templates, not a national average

The range Quick-Bid returns is not pulled out of thin air, and it is not some industry-wide number that has nothing to do with your market. It is built from the estimate templates you already use, tagged by repair type. Your pier pricing, your regional labor, your typical scope for a moderate settlement job. Change your templates and the ballparks move with them, so the phone answer and the real estimate speak the same language.
  • Auto-priced from repair-type templates you control, not a generic calculator.
  • Consistent across your whole office, so the newest CSR quotes like your best closer.
  • A range, not a false precision point, because you are being honest that the real number comes after the inspection.
Ballpark · from your templates
Template Pier & beam settlement
Your pricing
Severity Moderate
8–12 piers
Ballpark returned $9,400 – $13,800
From ballpark to booked

The number is the hook. The inspection is the point.

A ballpark is not the sale. It is the thing that keeps the homeowner on the phone long enough to book the sale. The whole reason to give a number is to earn the next step: getting a technician on the property to write a real estimate. So Quick-Bid is built to hand straight off into scheduling, not to be a dead end.

The person who ran the quote can book the inspection in the same conversation, from the same system. The homeowner’s information is already captured. Nobody re-keys a name or an address into a separate calendar. The call that started with “roughly what does this cost” ends with a slot on the board and a confirmation on its way.

Same call · next step
Ballpark given $9,400 – $13,800
Inspection booked Thu · 9:00 am
Confirmation to homeowner Sent ✓
Say it plainly

A ballpark that oversells is worse than no ballpark at all.

Quote a homeowner nine thousand on the phone, then hand them a nineteen-thousand estimate at the kitchen table, and you have not saved a call. You have manufactured an angry customer and a rep who looks like a liar. That helps nobody.

So Quick-Bid is deliberately built as a range, tied to a plain disclaimer that the real price comes after an inspection. It sets an honest expectation early, which is exactly what protects the estimate later. When the technician arrives and the real number lands inside the range you quoted, the homeowner trusts you more, not less.

Used the right way, it is not a discount tool and it is not a pressure tactic. It is a way to be helpful in the first thirty seconds, when being helpful is what gets you invited onto the property.

Where Quick-Bid ends and the estimate begins

Quick-Bid answers “roughly how much?” in under a minute so the call stays alive. The full estimate builder answers “exactly how much, and here’s the scope” after the inspection, with catalog line items, margin, tiers, and a document the homeowner can sign. Two tools, one job: turn a nervous phone call into a signed contract.
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The questions owners and CSRs ask

Frequently asked questions

Is the Quick-Bid number a real quote the homeowner can hold me to?
No, and it is important that it never reads that way. Quick-Bid Express produces a ballpark range for the first phone call, not a binding quote. Every result carries a plain note that the final price is set after an on-site inspection. The point is to give an honest sense of scale early, then earn the inspection where the real estimate gets written.
Under a minute. It is four inputs: foundation type, problem, severity, and square footage. The person answering the phone can run it while the homeowner is still describing the crack, so there is no “let me call you back” and no dead air on the line.
From your own estimate templates, tagged by repair type, not a national average or a generic calculator. That means the ballpark reflects your pier pricing, your labor market, and your typical scope. When you update a template, the ballparks that use it update too, so the phone answer and the real estimate stay in the same ballpark.
Anyone who answers inbound calls: CSRs, schedulers, the owner when the phone rings after hours. Because the pricing comes from shared templates, your newest hire gives the same range your most experienced closer would, so a homeowner never gets a different answer depending on who picks up.
Yes. That is the whole reason it exists. The homeowner’s details are captured during the quote, so the same person can book the inspection in the same conversation without re-typing anything into a separate calendar. The goal of the ballpark is the booked visit. See scheduling and dispatch for how the appointment gets on the board.
That is exactly why it is a range with a disclaimer instead of a single number. You set the expectation up front that the inspection sets the final price. If the job turns out bigger than it sounded on the phone, the homeowner was told from the start that could happen, so the technician is explaining a real scope, not walking back a promise.
Quick-Bid is the sixty-second phone answer. The estimate builder is the detailed, catalog-driven document written after the inspection: line items with margin, Good, Better, and Best tiers, and a hosted version the homeowner can open and sign. Quick-Bid keeps the call alive; the estimate closes the job.
Yes. Because Quick-Bid draws from your repair-type templates, you keep control of the ranges by keeping those templates current. As your costs and pricing move, update the templates and the phone quotes follow. Bring your typical jobs to a demo and we will show you how the templates drive the numbers.

Stop losing calls at "we can't quote that."

Book a 30-minute demo and watch a nervous phone call turn into a ballpark, then a booked inspection, in the time it takes to describe a crack.
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