Terms

Quick Check stage · last updated 9 September 2026

These terms cover this website as it stands today: the information on it, the waitlist, the assistant, and the free Quick Check of builders’ quotes. Nothing is for sale yet. Full terms of service will be published here before anyone can buy anything, and you will be asked to agree to them at that point.

Who you are dealing with

This site is operated by Build Place Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15073761, VAT number 482 1313 13, registered office 111-112 Pentax House, South Hill Avenue, South Harrow, Harrow, London HA2 0DU. Contact: enquiry@buildplace.uk.

The Quick Check

The Quick Check is free. You upload a quote; we read it and give you a first reading of the document as written — what it covers, questions worth asking, how much of the price is still provisional. It is guidance to help you ask better questions, not professional advice — not legal, financial, surveying, architectural or engineering advice, and no substitute for any of them. It says nothing about the quality of anyone’s work, and it is not a recommendation to hire or to avoid any builder. We never see the property. The decisions, and the contracts, remain yours.

The reading is produced by software, from the document you gave us. It can misread a poor photograph, a handwritten note or an unusual layout, and it can miss things. Every point it raises is a question the builder deserves the chance to answer; please treat it that way. If something looks wrong, tell us and we will look at it by hand.

Because the service is free and each reading costs us money, there is a limit on how many quotes one person can check in a day and on how many we can read in total. When a limit is reached the site says so plainly rather than pretending. We may change the limits, pause the free service, or close an account that is being used to abuse it.

What you agree to when you upload

Only upload documents you are entitled to share with us — quotes addressed to you, or to someone who has asked you to deal with them. Do not upload anything unrelated to building work, anything unlawful, or anything designed to interfere with the service. You keep ownership of your documents; you give us permission to store them, to read them with our AI provider, and to keep the results in your account, all as described in the privacy notice.

Your account

Your account is your email address. Keep access to that inbox secure: anyone who can read your email can sign in as you. Ask us to delete the account at any time and we will, along with everything in it.

The assistant

The assistant answers general questions about building work and about Omnisum. Its answers are guidance, not advice, and it will decline to analyse a specific quote, price work, or comment on a named company — that is what the analysis is for.

The Deep Analysis, and paying for it

The Deep Analysis reads every quote you have uploaded for one project against your answers about the job and the house, alongside public information — the Companies House record of each company named, the government’s planning data for the postcode, and the Google Maps listing where one is found — to help you compare the quotes and ask better questions before you sign a building contract. It is guidance about documents, not professional, legal or financial advice, and it never recommends a builder.

The price is £79 including VAT, once per project. Every quote you add to that project, before or after paying, goes into the same analysis, and you can run it again as your answers change. You pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay on a page run by Stripe; we never see your card. Stripe emails you the receipt. While the Deep Analysis is opening in stages, reserving it costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Cancelling. Because the report is digital content produced for you as soon as you pay, by paying you ask us to start straight away and you acknowledge that your 14-day right to cancel under the Consumer Contracts Regulations ends once the report has been delivered. If the analysis fails to run, we re-run it or refund you in full. Once the report is delivered we do not refund it, except where the law says otherwise — and if you think we have got something wrong, email enquiry@buildplace.uk and a person will look.

The illustrative figures on the home page come from a sample London renovation and are not a quotation, an estimate for your project, or a prediction of what anything will cost you.

The Tender Builder

If you have no quotes yet, the Tender Builder writes a scope of work for your project from your answers, the scope interview and the government’s planning data for the postcode, with guidance on what every quote must contain, which professionals the project needs, a plan worked back from your start date and a note on your budget. The scope of work is a tender basis document, not a construction contract. The builder you appoint will propose their own terms; for structural work the engineer’s drawings and calculations are the specification, and the document says so. It is not professional, legal, structural or financial advice, it never recommends a builder or any other professional, and professional review is advised for complex or structural jobs. The plan’s dates and the budget note are guidance from typical lead times and ranges, not a promise about your project.

The price is the same £79 including VAT, once per project, and it covers the scope of work and the Deep Analysis of up to three quotes uploaded to that project. The paying, cancelling and refund terms above apply: by paying you ask us to write the scope of work straight away, your right to cancel ends once it has been delivered, and if it fails to write we write it again or refund you in full.

The contract check

A building contract you upload to a project — or, where there is none, the terms printed on a quote — is read against the quote it relates to, the things a domestic building contract usually settles, and what the Deep Analysis found, and the report lists the questions and the changes to ask the builder for before you sign. It is not legal advice. It states the plain effect of the consumer and construction law that applies to a homeowner in England and Wales, in general terms, and it does not know your circumstances the way a solicitor would; it says when a solicitor’s review is worth its fee, and for a large, structural or unusual contract you should take one. The library it reads against is a working list, verified over time, and the report says so. Nothing in it is a promise about what a court would decide, and every question is one the builder deserves the chance to answer. The contract check is part of the Deep Analysis for the project it belongs to, under the same £79.

Drawings and surveys

A drawing package or a survey report you upload to a project is kept there and read for what it is — its title blocks or its cover — for nothing. Reading it for the facts it holds (the rooms and their areas, the openings and the steels, the notes on the sheets; a survey’s findings and what it says needs doing) is a separate step, priced per document by its kind, and the price is shown on the document’s page before you pay. Once read, the facts are on the project: every quote in it is checked against them, and the Deep Analysis and the scope of work use them the next time they run. The reading is not a design check, a structural check or a survey of its own, and it never replaces the professional who produced the document. The paying, cancelling and refund terms above apply: by paying you ask us to read the document straight away, your right to cancel ends once the reading has been delivered, and if it fails to run we run it again or refund you in full.

The payment check

A builder’s invoice or payment application you upload to a project is read against the contract’s payment schedule (or, where there is no contract, the quote’s own payment terms), the quote, the variation orders in the project, the invoices before it, and what you have recorded as done on site; the report says which stage the invoice is for and what that stage is worth, whether the arithmetic holds, whether the bank details are the ones you paid before, what to look at before the stage is paid, and the questions and changes to ask the builder for. It is not legal or financial advice and it does not decide whether you should pay: it reads the documents you have and keeps the record. Whether the work is done is your record, not ours; the bank details are for you to confirm with the builder by phone. The payment check is part of the Deep Analysis for the project it belongs to, under the same £79.

The handover check

At the end of a job the project is read for what it should hand over: the certificates and documents the work needs (from the consents it needed and the work the quotes priced), the defects period and the dates that run from completion, the money at completion, and your own snagging list — with a completion walk written for your house from the work the quotes priced. It is not legal advice, and it is not a survey or an inspection: it says what to look at and what to ask for, from the documents you have; whether the work is complete, which documents you have received and what is on the snagging list are your records, not ours, and the check reads them as your word. Which certificates a job needs depends on the work actually done and on who did it; the list is written from the documents and is not a statement of what the law requires in your case. The handover check is part of the Deep Analysis for the project it belongs to, under the same £79.

Photographs of the work

On the payment check and the handover check you can photograph the work and have the photographs read against the list you were asked to look at. The reading says what the photographs show, what they cannot show, and what to ask the builder to show; it is not an inspection, a survey or a sign-off, and it never says the work is complete, compliant or safe. A photograph cannot show a bearing that is boxed in, a cable behind a board or a pipe under pressure, and the reading says so. Your photographs are stored in your own private folder, are sent to the AI provider under the same no-training terms as your documents, and are deleted with your account. Reading photographs is part of the Deep Analysis for the project, under the same £79.

The heating and hot water report

The heating and hot water report sizes the heating for your house room by room from the drawings, the scope interview and the figures you enter, using typical values for the age and construction of the house where you have not said otherwise. It is a sizing estimate, not a design: the installer’s own heat loss calculation governs the system they install, and where the two differ the report tells you to ask why. The mains pressure and flow are your own measurements or your plumber’s, recorded as your word. The report never names a product, a brand or a supplier. It is part of the Deep Analysis for the project it belongs to, under the same £79.

The procurement list

The procurement list sets out what your project has to buy, room by room and for the house, with quantities worked out from the rooms, a basic-bundle price range for each item, who is responsible for supplying it as the quotes and your own answers describe it, and the stage of the job it must be on site for. The price ranges are typical figures as of the date shown on the list, not quotations; the quantities are estimates for you to correct; the dates follow the programme you enter. The list never names a product, a brand or a supplier, and we take no commission on anything you buy. It is part of the Deep Analysis for the project it belongs to, under the same £79.

The design check

The design check reads the drawings you have had read against a library of what building control looks for on a domestic job in England and against what a builder pricing from the sheets would have to assume, and says, check by check, what the sheets show and do not show, with the question for your designer where they do not. It is not a design, a structural check or a survey; it does not say that a design complies with the Building Regulations, is safe or will be approved. Building control decides on the application and on site; your designer designs, and every point the check raises is a question for them. The library cites the Approved Documents for England as they stood on the date shown on the check; Wales and Scotland have their own. The check is priced on its own, once per project, and runs again after a revision at no further charge; by paying you ask us to run it straight away and your 14-day right to cancel ends once it has been delivered. If it fails to run, we run it again or refund you.

Independence

We take no referral fees and no commissions, and builders cannot pay to be listed, ranked or promoted. Omnisum is paid by the customers it works for. If that ever changes, it will be stated here in plain words before it happens, not buried.

Liability

The free Quick Check is provided as it is, and we do not accept liability for decisions made in reliance on it. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit, and nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

Our name

Omnisum™, the Omnisum mark and the wording on this site belong to Build Place Ltd. UK trade mark application no. UK00004438109. Please do not copy them.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.