Plumbing estimating & takeoff services
Fixtures counted by type, piping measured by line size and material, with valves, carriers, hangers and insulation as their own lines.
What a plumbing package looks like.
Plumbing quantities live in two places: the fixture schedule and the riser diagram. Fixtures are counted by type with their carriers, trim and connections, then waste, vent, domestic hot and cold water and gas are measured run by run.
Pipe is never aggregated by total length. A 4" cast iron waste stack and a ½" copper branch are different money per foot in material, hanging and insulation, so each diameter and material carries its own line and its own labour rate.
Measured in
What we look for specifically
- Piping aggregated by length instead of by size and material
- Fixture carriers and trim left off the count
- Insulation omitted on domestic hot water runs
- Underground work priced without excavation or bedding
Plumbing
- Fixtures by type from the schedule, with trim and carriers
- Waste and vent piping by diameter and material
- Domestic hot and cold water by diameter and material
- Gas piping by diameter, material and pressure
- Storm and roof drainage with bodies and leaders
- Valves, cleanouts, traps and specialties
- Hangers, supports and seismic restraint
- Pipe insulation by service and thickness
- Water heaters, pumps, mixing valves and tanks
- Backflow prevention and meter assemblies
- Excavation and bedding for underground runs
- Testing, sterilisation and commissioning
Turnaround
24–48 hours on a single-trade package
Who it is for
Plumbing subcontractors, mechanical contractors, home builders and general contractors.
Every plumbing 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 plumbing takeoffs.
Both, and they are reconciled. Where the plan count and the fixture schedule disagree, the discrepancy is reported in the assumptions rather than resolved silently.
Yes, with trenching, bedding, backfill and compaction stated as their own lines. Underground work priced at above-ground rates is one of the more expensive omissions in this trade.
Yes. UK plumbing packages are measured in metric with UK terminology and rates, delivered in GBP, and structured to suit your reporting format.
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 plumbing 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 22 · 24–48 hours on a single-trade package · Unlimited revisions within scope