If you install it, build it or supply it, you sometimes need a design, a calculation or a drawing set before you can price the job. That is what I do: mechanical and structural design, kitchen exhaust and ventilation, and manufacture-ready drawings, delivered to a date we agree before I start.
You have been asked to price a kitchen exhaust or a ventilation job with no design behind it, so every quote on the table is different.
The tenancy needs mechanical documentation for the building permit and the council, and the programme will not wait.
You have a sketch, a photo or a model and need drawings your shop can build from, or a calculation to back a design.
Your customer needs the surrounding engineering before your equipment can be ordered or installed.
Tell me the job and the date you need it. Free scoping call, no obligation.
A written scope and fee, usually within 48 hours, with what is included and what is not.
To the agreed date. If something changes, you hear it early, not on the due date.
Questions from your client, the surveyor or the council answered while the job runs.
Your client stays your client. I can work behind your name or alongside it, whichever suits. If you would rather I never speak to them directly, that is fine, and it is written into the scope.
Confidentiality. NDA on request, and I never publish client names or identifying details of a job. Anything on this site described as an example is anonymous.
A preliminary concept for a kitchen exhaust is usually days. A full design package depends on the site data; I give you a date with the fee and hold to it. If your deadline is not realistic, I say so before you engage me, not after.
No. I do the design and the calculations as a mechanical engineer (MIEAust). Installation, commissioning and the installer's certificates are yours or your subcontractor's, and gas work is certified by a licensed gasfitter. Where a job needs sign-off from a registered practitioner, that is coordinated with one and flagged upfront.
No. I sell engineering, not installation, fabrication or equipment. That is the point of working together.
Yes, and often that is all that exists at the start. I will tell you what else I need and what I have assumed until it arrives, and every assumption is listed in the package.
Send the job and the date. Free scoping call, then a fixed fee in writing, usually within 48 hours.
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