Every fault by email costs money twice. What's your total?

Once to fix, and once to chase. Four questions about how faults reach your team and what happens next give you the annual cost of running the estate reactively.

That means the chasing hours, the emergency premium and the faults that vanish, with a straight comparison against what fixing the system costs. Two minutes, nothing sent anywhere.

1. Your estate and fault volume

Everything counts: the leaking tap, the broken hinge, the flickering light, the "boiler's making a noise again". Typical: 4 to 6 a week per primary, 12 to 20 per secondary.

2. What happens to a fault today

How do faults reach the site team?
Per fault, how many staff-minutes go on admin: reading, forwarding, asking "where's this up to?", checking it got done?
How much of your contractor work ends up as emergency or out-of-hours call-outs?
Indicative annual cost of running the estate reactively
£0

Where it goes

Staff time on fault admin£0
Emergency call-out premium£0
Annual cost of the chaos£0
Staff-hours a year
0
Spent chasing, not fixing
Working days
0
That's this many working days a year
Never logged
0
Faults a year that likely never get logged at all

The chaos vs fixing it

What running it reactively costs per year£0
EstateProof Silver for your whole estate, per year£0

What changes when faults stop living in an inbox

With FMProof, a fault reported from a phone, or forwarded from an inbox where AI triage turns the email into a work order, is logged, prioritised, assigned and visible in one place. Nobody chases, because everybody can see. Requesters get answers without asking; contractors get one link, not a thread. The admin minutes above mostly just stop existing. From £650 per school per year on Silver, inside the Microsoft 365 your trust already owns.

Want a second pair of eyes on your number?

Send us your figures and Spencer, EstateProof's founder, will come back with a short, plain-English read on where the biggest saving is hiding. No charge, no follow-up campaign, no obligation.

Basis: staff time costed at £22/hour (a blended, on-cost rate across site staff and office staff who handle faults); contractor call-outs at an average £150, with emergency and out-of-hours work carrying a 75% premium over the same job done as planned work; 52 operating weeks. "Never logged" estimates one fault in twelve going missing where reporting has no single channel. All figures are indicative and deliberately conservative: they exclude consequential damage, lost lettings, and the cost of failed audits. For a planning conversation, not an accountancy exercise.

Watch a fault become a work order

With FMProof, a fault reported from a phone or forwarded from an inbox is logged, prioritised, assigned and visible in one place. See it running in a Microsoft 365 like yours, with a written price at the end.