Bricklayer quoting app.
Quotes in under 30 seconds
Describe the wall or upload a plan, and the AI prices brick, ties, lintels and labour in NZD at current New Zealand rates, with 15% GST already in the total.
Plans from A$29/mo · 7-day free trial, no credit card
What's the best quoting app for bricklayers in New Zealand?
Insta Quotes is an AI quoting app for New Zealand and Australian bricklayers that turns a job description into an itemised, GST-ready quote in under 30 seconds; plans start at $29 AUD a month, billed in AUD even in New Zealand. A sample Insta Quotes bricklayer quote itemises the job into brick, ties, mortar, lintels, joints, clean and labour lines.
How much does Insta Quotes cost for a bricklayer in New Zealand?
Insta Quotes plans are billed in AUD: Tier 1 $29 AUD, Tier 2 $59 AUD and Tier 3 $99 AUD a month. New accounts start with a free 7-day trial, capped at 7 quotes in total rather than per month, with no credit card required, so bricklayers in New Zealand can quote before paying.
What should a New Zealand bricklaying quote include?
Give the brick a name and a number: type, size, colour and the supplier, plus the quantity with wastage allowed, because brick is ordered in batches and a shortfall later may not match. Price brick, ties and fixings, mortar, lintels, control joints and cleaning down as separate lines with 15% GST alongside your NZBN and IRD GST number. State the scaffold arrangement and who is supplying it, note the weather assumption since mortar has temperature limits, and say plainly that the framing or foundation you are building against is assumed straight and within tolerance. Brick follows what it is tied to, and correcting someone else’s structure with mortar is neither possible nor free.
How does earthquake design change bricklaying in New Zealand?
It changes what the brick IS. Here brick is overwhelmingly a veneer, a non-structural skin tied back to a framed structure across a cavity, rather than a structural wall, and the ties, their spacing and their fixing are engineered items under NZS 4210 rather than a detail left to the bricklayer. Unreinforced masonry is treated as a hazard rather than as heritage character, which is why a free-standing masonry wall of any height usually needs engineering and often a building consent. On a quote, that means the ties and seismic fixings belong on their own line with the standard named, and any free-standing wall should be quoted subject to the engineer’s detail rather than priced from its length.
Does the AI know New Zealand bricklaying pricing?
Yes. Quotes are priced in NZD against current New Zealand rates for clay and concrete brick veneer per square metre, blockwork, cavity ties and seismic fixings, lintels, control joints and weep holes, cleaning down, and bricklayer labour, with 15% GST applied rather than Australia’s 10%. It prices veneer construction with a cavity as the normal case, which is what New Zealand builds, rather than a solid masonry wall.
Who is responsible for the flashings behind a brick veneer?
Decide it in writing before you start, because it is the classic gap between two quotes. A brick veneer keeps most water out, but the cavity, the flashings over openings and the weep holes are what deal with the water that gets through, and those sit at the boundary between the bricklayer, the builder and whoever installed the joinery. If your quote assumes flashings are installed and correct, say so as a stated assumption and inspect before you lay against them. Once the brick is up, a flashing that was wrong is a very expensive thing to reach, and the trade that covered it is the one everyone looks at first.
Does Insta Quotes work for bricklayers anywhere in New Zealand?
Yes. Insta Quotes prices bricklayers quotes in NZD to current New Zealand rates nationwide, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, Dunedin and regional areas, with 15% GST applied. Generate and send a branded quote wherever the job is.