Free Contractor Tools & Templates
Everything you need to price a job, protect your profit, and put it in writing — free templates for estimates, proposals, and change orders, plus calculators for margin, markup, overhead, labor cost and materials. No signup required to use any of them.
Estimating & Job Documents
Fillable, printable documents for pricing a job and putting it in writing.
Contractor Estimate Template
A blank, fillable, printable estimate — company and client details, itemized labor, materials, and subcontractor costs, plus totals.
Use Estimate TemplateContractor Proposal Template
Turn an estimate into a branded, client-ready proposal with scope of work, pricing, and a signature line.
Use Proposal TemplateChange Order Template
Document scope changes mid-project — what changed, the cost impact, and client sign-off — before work continues.
Use Change Order TemplateContractor Calculators
Live, in-browser calculators for the numbers behind every estimate.
Profit Margin Calculator
Enter your job cost and target profit margin to see the selling price and profit you need, instantly.
Use Margin CalculatorContractor Markup Calculator
See exactly how markup and profit margin differ for the same job, and convert cleanly between the two.
Use Markup CalculatorEmployee Cost Calculator
Find your true hourly labor cost — base wage plus taxes and benefits — before you price a single hour of work.
Use Employee Cost CalculatorOverhead Calculator
Add up your fixed business costs and see the overhead percentage every estimate needs to recover.
Use Overhead CalculatorMaterial Calculators
Work out how much material a job needs, with waste included, before you price it.
Concrete Calculator
Cubic yards and 80, 60 or 40 lb bags for slabs, footings, walls and round columns.
Use Concrete CalculatorPaint Calculator
Gallons for walls and ceilings, with doors, windows and the number of coats taken into account.
Use Paint CalculatorRoofing Calculator
Roof area, roofing squares and shingle bundles from the building footprint and roof pitch.
Use Roofing CalculatorDrywall Calculator
Sheets of 4×8, 4×10 or 4×12 drywall, plus joint compound and tape, for walls and ceilings.
Use Drywall CalculatorHow These Tools Fit Together
Every estimate follows the same progression, whether you write it by hand or build it in software: figure out what a job actually costs you, decide how much markup or margin you need on top of that cost to run a profitable business, turn the result into a priced estimate, present it as a proposal the client can approve, and document any change orders if the scope shifts once work starts.
The free resources above cover each step individually. The material calculators work out quantities, the Employee Cost and Overhead Calculators handle your true costs, and the margin and markup calculators handle the pricing step. The estimate, proposal, and change order templates handle the paperwork. Used together, they're enough to price and document a real job from start to finish — with no signup and no cost.
What they don't do is connect to each other. Each calculator result has to be copied by hand into the estimate template; each estimate has to be manually rebuilt into a proposal; a change order lives in its own document, disconnected from the estimate it's changing. That manual re-entry is exactly what QuickEstimate automates — the same labor cost, markup, and margin logic in these free tools, applied automatically across a live estimate, its proposal, and every change order, all as one connected record.
Ready to move beyond templates and spreadsheets?
These free tools work well for a single calculation or a one-off document. QuickEstimate applies the same overhead, markup, and margin logic automatically across every estimate, proposal, and change order you create — so nothing has to be copied by hand twice.
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