Construction takeoff from PDF plans

No. It is a first draft provided as-is, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for purpose. Every line carries a grade and its basis to confirm, so you know what to verify. Apply your own contingency and judgment before bidding.

By drawing sheets, in eight bands from $199 — a 600-page submission with 34 drawing sheets, two of them a cover and a general-notes sheet, is priced on 32. The fee is shown before you pay and locked when you order, plus applicable sales tax. The sheet count it is set on is counted in your browser by the rule our intake uses. The count shown before you pay is the count you are charged on — fixed to the files you upload. It is a fixed price for the whole job, both ways: never raised afterwards, and never lowered - if our reading after payment finds more drawing sheets, we measure them all at the fee you paid. Above 300 sheets a published per-block surcharge applies, shown the same way, never invoiced afterwards. A Trade Draft Takeoff Pack is your trades' share of the Full Pack price for the whole set: that price × your trades' billed sheets ÷ the set's billed sheets, rounded up to a price ending in 9, from $149 and never more than the Full Pack - tick every trade and it is the Full Pack price.

Full Draft Takeoff Pack: a guaranteed 48 hours from when payment clears, weekends included · Trade Draft Takeoff Pack: the same 48 hours · Rush: a guaranteed 24-hour date for +40% of the fee, rounded to the nearest $5 and shown before you pay. Our system keeps a measuring lane reserved for Rush orders, so a Rush order goes to the front of the queue and never waits behind standard work. The work, the method and the checks are the same; what Rush buys is the guaranteed date. · Miss the date: refunded in full without asking

PDF plan sets — the price and every quantity come from the PDF. You may add the DWG/DXF exported with that same set (same sheets, same revision); we use it only to double-check counts and areas against the PDF, and a CAD file from another revision is set aside. Specs may come as PDF, Word or Excel. Crisp scans work; a set we cannot process is refunded automatically. Quantities come in US units — LF, SF, CY, EA.

The free first step, run entirely in your browser: sheets counted, trades found, duplicate sheet revisions caught, the scope words (NIC, BY OTHERS, ALTERNATE …) listed by sheet, the schedules your set carries, door and window marks checked against them, and your fee shown before you pay. It says what your set contains; nothing is measured. No account, no upload.

Where the set implies work it does not detail — reinforcement with no bar schedule, formwork to a pour — the line is estimated from a published ratio, labelled so and graded low. Where a dimension is simply not there, the line prints SOURCE INSUFFICIENT, the quantity stays zero, and the reason is given: a dimension the drawings never give is never invented. If we hold no published benchmark rate for your building type, the Project Overview leaves its benchmark cost box out and says so; the quantities are measured all the same.

No reason asked until your first download, unless the checkout told you before you paid that this order does not carry it: open your order on the status page with your order code and ask. Polar, our merchant of record, returns the payment in full. Once you download, the package is yours and is not refunded on request. A date we miss, a set we cannot read, or a package our checks stop is refunded without asking.

Your files are read to produce your package and are not published, resold or shown to another customer. What we keep is the work we produced — the measured quantities and their working — to improve the system, and we tell you that plainly rather than burying it. Your files sit in our own private, encrypted storage, are measured on a machine we control, and pages are read by our AI model provider under commercial terms that forbid training on them — never an online conversion service, never a file-sharing site. The Terms name every place they go. Your original drawings are deleted 2 days after your package is delivered — we have no reason to keep them, since a refund never requires us to re-open them. The download link for the package itself stays live for 30 days; the package includes marked-up images of the pages we measured, so it is deleted when that link expires.

No one needs to be: every quantity shows its source, its basis to confirm and its grade, so the workbook answers what a call would, and a date we miss, a set we cannot read or a package our checks stop is refunded in full automatically. There is no phone, chat or support inbox — that is how the fee stays low.