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Practical building tools

Start with a bill, a repair, a lease question or a building budget. Use your own figures, copy useful questions and keep the source of each answer visible. The tools help you prepare; they do not decide your legal position.

An illustration of a building budget assembled from separate cost lines
Copy and paste

Questions to ask LEASE-iQ

Choose a topic, copy a ready-made question and paste it into LEASE-iQ with your uploaded lease selected.

Choose a question
Illustrative calculator

Lease-extension ballpark cost guide

Paste lease facts from LEASE-iQ, edit property-value and professional-fee assumptions, and follow the sources. An illustration, not a valuation or advice.

Explore the cost guide
Free worksheet

Service-charge demand paperwork

Check the named landlord, addresses and the rights summary for England or Wales. Copy the missing-information questions.

Check the paperwork
Guided tool

Resident Quick Case

Turn a service-charge, Section 20, managing-agent or taking-control concern into a dated, shareable evidence pack.

Open the Quick Case
Free tool

Building record check

Review 16 recurring records and leave with a neutral list of what is present, missing, uncertain or outside scope.

Open the tool
Guided tool

Service charge and major works checker

Identify a service charge, major-works bill or Section 20 notice, stop for a possible building-safety issue and download a factual evidence request.

Open the tool
Free planner

Section 20 consultation planner

Record the proposal, contribution, notices and questions, then download the evidence list and next steps for review.

Plan the next step
Guided checklist

Water leak checker

Start with the leak, affected areas and available evidence. Separate urgent action from the later question of responsibility.

Open the leak checker
Guided tool

Annual building budget planner

Build a line-by-line annual plan from your own quotes, contracts or prior-year figures, with unknown kept separate from zero.

Open the tool
Free tool

Lease share calculator

Keep a stated percentage or fraction with the lease wording, calculate its share of a cost and record what is still missing.

Check your share
Free tool

Service charge trend

Compare up to five periods, see annual and total change, add context and keep lender policy out of the arithmetic.

Open the tool
Co-creation preview

BLOCK-iQ estate map

Map the estate shape, eight Estate DNA evidence layers and the connections that need to be made explicit first.

Open the tool

What happens to your figures

Know what stays in the tab and what is saved.

01No account or upload

The lease share calculator, lease-extension cost guide, Section 20 planner and demand-paperwork worksheet keep entries in the current tab without autosaving or sending them to building trust. The cost guide sends your postcode to HM Land Registry only when you request recorded sales.

02Tools that save locally

The Resident Quick Case, demand checker and budget planner autosave in this browser on this device. A route-level clear removes only that route. Delete the whole local case removes shared facts, evidence, artifacts and recovery copies.

03Your local copy

Copy, download and print actions let you keep an output. Check it before sharing. Opening LEASE-iQ or another source takes you to a separate service; nothing is pasted or submitted automatically.

The tools organise the information you enter. They do not read your lease or decide whether a charge is payable.

Building records

Building records need more than one score.

The lease, company records, safety information and management records answer different questions. Keep them separate, then connect them to the decision you actually need to make.