10 Minute Bids
Electrical

Residential electrical takeoffs
from your blueprints.

Upload your plan set. We place every outlet, switch and light on a 3D model of the house, group them into circuits and route the cable along the walls. You spend about 10 minutes checking it against your plans, and it's ready to send.

Upload your plans Open it in 3D

Priced per plan setElectrical takeoff, 3D model included

Launch offer: the first 100 sign-ups get their first roofing, siding, flooring or painting estimate for $10.

See-through example house with every electrical device placed and each circuit drawn in its own color Example house · address hidden
207devices placed, room by room
39circuits, on a 200-amp service
5,558 ftof NM cable, routed along the walls
9smoke and CO alarms

Example house: a two-story with front gables, from a real plan set with the address removed. Every number comes off its 3D model.

Read the video transcript

Electrical bid off a set of plans? Let's go. Upload the plans. Within minutes we've read the electrical sheets and you see your price. Every outlet, switch, light and smoke alarm placed in 3D: 207 devices. 39 circuits, color-coded: lighting, outlets, kitchen and bath, heat pumps, appliances.

Home runs to a 200 A panel: 5,558 ft of cable, routed along the walls. Code items the plans forgot show up in red. Wire, boxes and devices, labor by the hour or the day, in a draft bid you can send. Plus a supplier order sheet: save it as a PDF and email it. Every box, wire and device.

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What you get

Every device, circuit and foot of wire.

The takeoff is built from the model, device by device. Here's what it covers, with the numbers from our example house.

In your electrical bid

  • Every device placed: outlets, switches, lights, fans and appliances
  • Circuits by type: lighting, general, small appliance, dedicated
  • Cable by gauge, routed along the walls
  • The cable to buy, with 30% added for waste and routing
  • Service size from an NEC 220 load calculation
  • Smoke and CO alarms, room by room
  • Code gaps, like outlet spacing, flagged for you
  • Rough-in and trim hours
  • A supplier order sheet to save as a PDF and email to your supplier. See a sample or download the PDF

Takeoff and 3D model; priced where we have rates.

Comparing options? What a takeoff from plans costs, every kind

Example house

Two-story with front gables

A real plan set with the address removed. Every number is measured off its 3D model.

Devices80 outlets, 50 lights, 43 switches, 17 appliances, 7 fans, 9 alarms and the panel207
Circuitslighting, HVAC, dedicated, general, small appliance and more39
NM cablerouted along the walls5,558 ft
Cable to buy30% added for waste and routing7,225 ft
14-gauge cable14-2 and 14-3, routed3,911 ft
12-2 cablerouted1,498 ft
ServiceNEC 220 load calculation on 3,284 sf200 A
Smoke and CO alarmsinterconnected9
Laborrough-in 107.5 h, trim 63.5 h171 h
Open the wiring in 3D

These are one house's numbers. Yours come off your own plans.

The modern example house, see-through, with its wiring and devices
A second exampleThe modern house: 205 devices on 35 circuits and 5,740 ft of cable.
How it works

From plan set to electrical bid.

  1. 01

    Upload

    Send your plan set as one PDF. Bid without a site visit; confirm on site before you sign.

  2. 02

    Read

    We read the electrical sheets, floor plans and notes.

  3. 03

    3D model

    We place every device and route every circuit.

  4. 04

    Bid

    Devices, wire and hours go into the bid.

  5. 05

    Your 10-minute check

    You spend about 10 minutes checking it against your plans. Then it's ready to send.

Price

What an electrical bid costs.

For homeowners and electricians, at today's prices from our price list. You see what your plan set costs before you pay.

Electricians · one trade

Devices, circuits and wire, counted.

Upload the plans and get the layout counted and the cable routed. Check it and bid the job.

Priced per plan set3D model included
  • Devices and circuits by type
  • Cable by gauge, routed on the walls
  • Code gaps flagged before you bid
How it adds up
Electrical bidat upload
3D model of the houseBuilt from your plans, with every trade you orderIncluded
Each trade after the firstIn the same order: the 3D model is already builtHalf price
Pages over the page limitOnce per order, for each page past the limita little a page
Upload your plans
Homeowners · whole house

See what your wiring takes.

Know how many outlets, lights and circuits your plans call for before you talk to an electrician.

One flat priceper plan set

One flat price up to a page limit. You see it before you pay.

  • Every device, room by room
  • The service size your house needs
  • A 3D model to walk through
  • Every trade with a price, all off the same 3D model
  • Electrical included
Upload your plans

Every bid is an estimate from your plans. Plans don't show code or inspector changes, the existing service, or devices added during construction. Anything built differently from the drawings won't be in the bid. We recommend a site visit to confirm measurements and conditions before you sign a contract or order materials.

Page count is the number of sheets in the PDF you upload. A trade marked "price coming soon" can be ordered once its price is set.

Questions

Electrical questions.

Can you do an electrical takeoff from blueprints?

Yes. We read the electrical sheets and floor plans, place every device on a 3D model of the house, and group them into circuits. Our example house has 207 devices on 39 circuits.

How is the wire measured?

Cable is routed along the walls on the model, not drawn in straight lines, then totaled by gauge. Our example house routes 5,558 feet of NM cable; with 30% added for waste and routing, that is 7,225 feet to buy.

What if the plans leave something out?

The takeoff checks the layout against the electrical code and flags gaps. On our example house it found three wall stretches too far from an outlet, and a kitchen island with no outlet planned. Anything the plans don't say, like the panel size, is listed for you to confirm.

How do you size the service?

With an NEC 220 load calculation on the living area. Our example house has 3,284 sf of living area, and the optional method (NEC 220.82) fits a 200-amp service.

Is the 3D model extra?

No. Your electrical bid includes the 3D model of the house, and so does every other trade on the same order. You see the total before you pay.

Is this an exact price?

No. It's an estimate built from your plans. Plans don't show code or inspector changes, the existing service, or devices added during construction. Anything built differently from the drawings won't be in the bid. We recommend a site visit to confirm measurements and conditions before you sign a contract or order materials.

Why "10 Minute Bids"?

We read your plans, build the house in 3D and measure each trade off the model. You spend about 10 minutes checking it against your plans, and it's ready to send. That's the 10 minutes in our name. Building the model is our part, and it takes longer, depending on the plan set.

Where we work

Electrical, area by area.

Each area's own design numbers, and what they mean for the bid. Every area

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