Drywall & metal stud estimating services
Measured against the partition schedule, so board layers, stud gauge, insulation and finish level are priced per wall type rather than averaged.
What a drywall & metal stud package looks like.
Drywall estimates that price one rate per square foot of wall cannot survive a partition schedule. A single-layer non-rated partition and a two-hour double-layer shaft wall of identical area differ by more than double, and the schedule is where that lives.
Every partition type is measured separately by length and height, then resolved into framing, board area by layer, insulation, tape and finish level. Ceilings, soffits, bulkheads and control joints are measured on their own because they carry different labour again.
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What we look for specifically
- One rate applied across every partition type
- Rated assemblies priced as standard construction
- Finish level 5 not separated from level 4
- Deflection head and backing left out of high walls
Drywall & metal stud
- Partitions by type, length, height and rating
- Metal stud framing by gauge, depth and spacing
- Track, deflection head, bracing and backing
- Gypsum board by layer, thickness and type
- Shaft wall, area separation and rated assemblies
- Acoustic and thermal insulation within partitions
- Suspended ceilings, grid and tile by area
- Soffits, bulkheads and drops by linear foot
- Corner bead, trim and control joints
- Tape and finish by level, including level-5 areas
- Access panels and penetration patching
Turnaround
24–48 hours on a single-trade package
Who it is for
Drywall and interiors subcontractors, fit-out contractors and general contractors pricing tenant improvement work.
Every drywall & metal stud package ships the same four things.
Whatever the trade, the deliverable is consistent, so a package from us always drops into how you already work.
Excel workbook
Line-item detail with quantities, wastage, labour hours and material priced on separate columns.
Colour-marked sheets
Every measured item marked on the drawing with a count legend, so any figure can be checked against the plan.
Assumptions & exclusions
Written down, including anything the drawings did not answer, rather than absorbed into a rate.
Planswift source file
On request, so your team can re-measure a revision without coming back to us.
Common questions on drywall & metal stud takeoffs.
Yes. Each wall type in the schedule is measured and priced separately, because framing gauge, board layers, insulation and rating drive most of the cost and they vary wall by wall.
Yes, both gypsum and suspended acoustic ceilings, with grid, tile, soffits and bulkheads measured separately from wall areas.
As its own line. Level 4 and level 5 finish carry materially different labour, and areas requiring level 5 are measured separately rather than blended into the wall rate.
Packages that usually travel with this one.
Most enquiries cover more than one division. Bundling them into a single engagement keeps the assumptions consistent across the whole bid.
Send us one drywall & metal stud package.
A fixed fee, a firm delivery date and a written scope statement, usually back the same working day. Judge us on the file that comes back.
CSI Division 09 · 24–48 hours on a single-trade package · Unlimited revisions within scope