Masonry estimating & takeoff services
CMU, brick, stone and veneer measured by wall type and unit size, with grout, reinforcement, ties and accessories priced as their own lines.
What a masonry package looks like.
Masonry is counted in units, not square feet alone. A wall area means nothing until it is resolved into how many blocks or bricks of which size, because a 8×8×16 CMU wall and a 12×8×16 wall of identical area are different money in both material and labour.
Grout and vertical reinforcement are measured by filled cell, not by assuming every cell is filled. Bond beams, lintels, ties, flashing and control joints each carry their own line. Openings are deducted properly rather than being absorbed into a waste factor.
Measured in
What we look for specifically
- Every cell assumed grouted when the schedule says otherwise
- Openings not deducted, or deducted twice
- Bond pattern ignored, understating brick counts
- Scaffold and access left out of a tall elevation
Masonry
- CMU by unit size, wall thickness and course height
- Brick and veneer by unit count with bond pattern accounted for
- Natural and cast stone by area and piece
- Grouted cells and bond beams by volume
- Vertical and horizontal reinforcement by bar size
- Lintels, sills and precast elements by each
- Ties, anchors and joint reinforcement
- Flashing, weeps and cavity drainage
- Control and expansion joints by linear foot
- Cleaning, sealing and pointing
Turnaround
24–48 hours on a single-trade package
Who it is for
Masonry subcontractors, general contractors, restoration specialists and block or brick suppliers quoting supply packages.
Every masonry 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 masonry takeoffs.
Both. Wall area is measured first, then resolved into unit counts by block or brick size so the material order and the labour rate are both defensible. Area alone cannot price a wall.
By filled cell, taken from the reinforcement schedule. Assuming solid grouting when the drawings call for grout at reinforcement only can overstate the package by a large margin.
It is stated as an explicit line or an explicit exclusion, never absorbed silently. On tall elevations access is a real cost and it should be visible in the estimate.
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 masonry 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 04 · 24–48 hours on a single-trade package · Unlimited revisions within scope