Plumbing estimating and takeoff services

Domestic hot and cold water, sanitary waste and vent, storm drainage, condensate and gas piping, each by diameter and split into above and below grade, with fittings, valves, cleanouts, drains, insulation, fixtures and water heaters. Trenching and backfill are carried for underground runs.

Yes. Elbows, tees, wyes, reducers and couplings are counted by type and size and listed on their own lines. In two hotel guest rooms we took off, about 250 feet of half-inch water pipe came with 50 ninety-degree elbows, which is why fittings are counted and not covered by a percentage.

Division 22 Plumbing. Fire sprinkler work is Division 21 Fire Suppression and can be included where it is on the drawings; HVAC piping is Division 23.

Yes. Below-grade and above-grade pipe are separate lines for each system, because the material, the labor and the trenching are different.

A single project starts at $199, and simple scopes typically run $100 to $250. Larger buildings typically run $200 to $500, and large or complex plumbing packages are quoted individually. The quote is free and usually comes back in about 20 minutes.

It depends heavily on the building. On one four-story hotel we estimated, plumbing trade cost was $10.83 per square foot before general requirements and markups. Buildings with a bathroom in every unit cost far more per square foot than offices or warehouses.

Yes. This page shows a full sample from a finished job (plumbing, for a three-story apartment building, 30,900 sq ft in Florida), which you can open full screen and read page by page. It was built to that client's own specification, so the wage rates, pricing and overhead and profit are theirs. Ask us for a current sample in your own trade.

From our own pricing database, built with local vendors across the United States. An estimator enters the project's ZIP code and gets current material prices for that market, and vendors update their prices as they change. Labor is priced as union or open shop, or at Davis-Bacon rates with fringes on government work.

Yes. The estimate is delivered as an editable Excel workbook with the formulas built in. Change any quantity, rate or markup and the whole estimate recalculates. If overhead and profit was set at 25% and you want 30%, change that one cell and every total updates, so you can adjust your number minutes before the bid is due without sending it back to us.

As many as you need. Every revision is free, including addenda, scope changes and pricing updates, however many times you come back, and there is no time limit. Revisions are handled on priority and are typically returned within an hour to a few hours, depending on the size of the change.

Yes. Every estimate is built to the client's own specification. Send your labor units, material pricing or a past estimate and the package is returned that way. You can also order quantities only and price them yourself.

Because counting fittings across a full plumbing set is slow, exact work that a busy contractor rarely has hours for in bid week. Outsourcing gives a plumbing contractor a counted, checked estimate in a day or two and lets them bid more jobs with the same staff.