Instant quote
Your price, in about two minutes.
Answer the questions, then calculate your fee: your formal quote appears with the price, ready to send, download or email. We check and confirm every quote, normally within one working day, then send the appointment and the payment details.
Sent here by your designer or builder? They're asking you to make a legal appointment that is yours to make. Here's why.
What kind of project is it?
Roughly how long will the build take?
Approximate contract value or construction budget
Your builder's estimate or your budget for the works. A rough figure is fine.
Site postcode
Where the works will happen. The first half of the postcode is enough.
Are you a residential or commercial client?
Anything other than works to an owner occupied dwelling is classed as commercial for CDM purposes.
Which principal designer service do you need?
| What you get | To start on site | Through to completion |
|---|---|---|
| The appointment, the forms and the site visit | Included | Included |
| Pre construction information and design risk coordination | Included | Included |
| The start on site handover | Included | Included |
| Design changes after work starts | Not covered | Included |
| Contractor designed elements | Not covered | Included |
| The health and safety file at completion | Handed to others to complete | Completed by us |
| ClearCDM stays appointed during the works | No | Yes |
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Your quote
As a commercial client your own client duties under CDM 2015, including the F10 notification to HSE where the project qualifies, stay with you: they are not part of this appointment, which covers the principal designer role only.
The construction phase service is priced for the period stated above, measured from start on site. If the works run past that period before the health and safety file handover at practical completion is requested or issued, each further started period of six months is invoiced at the six month rate, as the terms of appointment set out.
WHAT THE FEE INCLUDES
Your quote is based on what you've told us. If the project is materially more complex than described we may adjust the fee, and neither party is committed until we've reviewed your answers. In practice the great majority of instant quotes stand unchanged.
This quote covers the CDM 2015 principal designer role; the separate principal designer role under the Building Regulations, where your project needs one, is not included.
Nothing is contracted online and no money is taken online. We check and confirm every quote, then send the appointment and the payment details. The terms of appointment that apply to every appointment are published in full.
Your appointment is with Robbie Thompson Design Ltd, trading as ClearCDM, registered in England and Wales, Co. No. 10355527.
This quote is for . The appointment is the client's to make: on the next step, send them the quote to check and send to us.
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Reference
This one needs a human
At this size we quote individually rather than instantly. Add your details on the next step and send us what you have entered, and you will have a firm written quotation within two working days, normally sooner.
Or email mail@clearcdm.co.uk with the site address and a one line description of the works.
Who is filling this in?
The appointment is the client's to make. Build the quote, then send it to your client: they open your quote link, see exactly what you built, check it and send it to us themselves.
Your details
Who is the quote for?
Where is the site?
Anything else that would help us?
All of this is optional, and you can send it later instead.
Other designers on the project, if known
Main contractor, if known
Drawings or project information: attach files to the email once it opens, or send them any time to mail@clearcdm.co.uk.
The quote opened as an email in your own email app: press send there if you have not already.
That did not send
We could not reach the server. Use one of these instead; both carry exactly the same quote.
Then paste it into an email to mail@clearcdm.co.uk.
To start on site
Every quote covers the CDM principal designer role through the pre construction phase: the appointment recorded in writing, short online forms for you, your designers and your contractor, one recorded site visit, the pre construction information pack, the information register kept up to date as information arrives, and the start on site handover record. On the to start on site route our appointment concludes there. It suits projects where there will be no ongoing design work while the project is under construction, or where your contractor or another principal designer will take on the role. More design happens during construction than people expect: the scaffold, any temporary propping, steel connections, roof trusses and the heating and electrical layouts are usually designed by the specialist firms supplying them, often after work has started. Handing the current CDM information to your principal contractor does not make them the principal designer: if design continues and no one holds the role, appointing a replacement is the client's duty.
Through to completion
Through to completion, the route that suits most projects, keeps us appointed as principal designer through the works. It adds £450 + VAT for up to six months on site on works up to £500,000, then £150 + VAT for each further six months, rising gently with the size of the project. Design work commonly continues after start on site: the scaffold, temporary propping, steel connections, the heating and electrical layouts. This route keeps the principal designer role filled for as long as it is needed, we coordinate the design changes and contractor designed elements that are notified to us, and the health and safety file is completed and handed over at practical completion.
The service is priced for the period you choose, measured from start on site. If the works run past that period before the health and safety file handover at practical completion is requested or issued, the project is still live and each further started period of six months is invoiced at the six month rate, as the terms of appointment set out. Choosing a realistic period at the start avoids surprises later.
Bigger projects
Projects over £2 million in value or over 36 months on site are quoted individually. Send the details through the quote tool and you will have a firm written quotation within two working days.
How a quote becomes an appointment
The quote tool calculates your fee and sends your quote to us. We check and confirm every quote, normally within one working day, then send the appointment and the payment details. Nothing is contracted online and no money is taken online.
What a quotation always sets out
The works it covers and the site it covers them at; the service route, to start on site or through to completion; what is included, including the site visit, the forms, the pre-construction information pack, the information register and the start on site handover record; where the service stops, stated plainly; and the fee, the VAT position and how invoicing works. Quotations cover the pre-construction phase through to the start on site handover; where our appointment continues through the works, the construction phase input is set out separately in the same document.