Cost estimate: from answer to amount and timeframe

Keursnel uses a table of 1,176 rates. An answer with costs uses a rate from that table, or asks you for an amount.

The amounts in the table include VAT. All rates are currently marked as provisional. The report calls the amounts indicative and states whether they include or exclude VAT.

If an amount comes from a provisional rate, Controle (the check before delivery) gives a warning. That warning does not stop delivery.

• 711 fixed amounts
• 168 rates per m²
• 160 rates per unit
• 137 rates per linear metre

Keursnel has four kinds of price. So you always know how an amount is arrived at.

With a price per unit, you enter the quantity: m², linear metres or units. If you enter less than the minimum, Keursnel uses the minimum quantity of that answer.

Does the home have two dormers or three bathrooms? Each instance gets its own answers and its own costs.

• Fixed amount: the amount of the rate
• Quantity times unit price: per m², per metre or per unit, with a minimum
• Amount to enter: you enter the amount, for example after a quote
• No amount: with a reason from a fixed list

A defect without an amount and without a reason does not go into a report. In the template, every answer with the rating fair or poor has an amount or a reason.

If you choose no amount, you pick one of nine reasons. The report explains that reason to your client in one sentence.

If a defect still has no amount and no reason, for example in a custom finding, Controle stops delivery.

• Find out more first: quote from a specialist, further investigation
• Covered elsewhere: in another line item, VvE (owners' association)
• No repair: regular maintenance, improvement, no action needed
• Not in this estimate: outside the inspection, not budgeted

You know the home. That is why you can set your own amount or your own timeframe for each answer.

The report shows what applies. Keursnel records the deviation and your reason.

See something that is not on the list? Create a custom finding. It has its own amount and timeframe, and counts towards the costs.

• Your own amount for an answer, with a reason
• Your own timeframe for an answer, with a reason
• A custom finding with amount and timeframe
• Separate costs per instance, for example per dormer

Do you work in a region with different prices? Under Instellingen, Tarieven (Settings, Rates) you set your own prices for your whole firm.

You can also index all rates that follow the standard in one go, by one percentage. For example, 2.5% for a year of price increases. A price you have set yourself then stays the same.

Anything you do not touch follows the Keursnel standard, even after a new version. A change applies straight away, even in an open inspection. A delivered report does not change.

The main admin or a manager can change prices.

The cost overview lists all costs per chapter and per timeframe, with the rating. In het kort (“in short”), at the front of the report, shows the amounts per timeframe. Directly below is Kosten per hoofdstuk (“costs per chapter”). This table shows the amounts per timeframe and the total for each chapter with costs. Each amount links to that chapter.

Every total is the sum of one list of cost lines. So the totals always match the line items below them.

A cost line is always more than zero and no more than one hundred million euros. That limit catches typing errors.

• Within 1 year
• Within 5 years
• Improvement costs: an improvement, not a repair

The NHG annex uses the same line items as the cost overview. Within 1 year counts there as direct (immediate), within 5 years as termijn (in due course).

Improvement costs are in a separate column and do not count towards the totals. Line items without an NHG code are listed separately. That way, the annex and the cost overview match up.

Below the answers, you see under which NHG code the costs count. You can change or remove the code, with a reason that goes into the report.

For an apartment, you fill in the cost split (kostenverdeling, k.v.). For the shared codes, only the home's share then counts.

NHG's Model bouwkundig rapport (model building inspection report) asks for amounts including VAT, and keeps direct, termijn and improvement separate.