Upload your plan set. We frame the house in 3D, stick by stick, and put every stud, plate, header, joist and truss on a cut list. You spend about 10 minutes checking it against your plans, and it's ready to send.
Priced per plan setFraming bid, 3D model included
Example house · address hidden
Example house: a two-story with front gables, from a real plan set with the address removed. Every number comes off its 3D model.
Your takeoff is built from the model, not highlighters on a plan. Here's what it covers, with the numbers from our example house.
This bid comes priced from our price list.
Takeoff and 3D model; priced where we have rates.
A real plan set with the address removed. Every number is measured off its 3D model.
| Sticks to buystock lengths, 5% waste | 1,807 |
|---|---|
| Board feet | 16,080 |
| Members in the model | 2,350 |
| Trusses | 93 |
| Jack rafterswhere no truss reaches, 24 in on center | 41 |
| Exterior wall57 runs | 705 ft |
| Wall to sheatheopenings not taken out | 4,115 sf |
| Openings framedeach with a header, kings and jacks | 33 |
| Garage slabconcrete, by others: no floor framing | 1,134 sf |
| Interior wallsestimated from the floor area | 440 ft |
| Crew timea crew of 3, at default rates | 30 days |
These are one house's numbers. Yours come off your own plans.
Send your plan set as one PDF. No site visit needed to bid.
We read the structural sheets: walls, floors and roof framing.
We frame the house piece by piece.
The cut list and lumber order go into your takeoff.
You spend about 10 minutes checking it against your plans. Then it's ready to send.
For owner-builders and framers, at today's prices from our price list. You see what your plan set costs before you pay.
Upload the plans and get every piece counted. Check the takeoff and bid the job.
| Framing takeoff + stick model | at upload |
| 3D model of the houseBuilt from your plans, with every trade you order | Included |
| Pages over the page limitOnce per order, for each page past the limit | a little a page |
See the whole lumber package before you order it or take bids from framers.
One flat price up to a page limit. You see it before you pay.
Every bid is an estimate from your plans. Plans don't show field changes: walls moved on site, extra blocking, or framing an engineer or inspector asks for. 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.
We read the structural sheets for stud size and spacing, plate heights, the floor system and the roof framing. Then we frame the house in 3D, piece by piece, and the cut list comes off that model.
Every stud, plate, header, joist, rafter and truss, as lumber by size and stock length, plus sheathing, hardware and nails. Our example house needs 1,807 sticks, 93 trusses and 41 jack rafters.
The model frames the outside walls, floors and roof. Interior walls are estimated from the floor area and added to the lumber: 440 feet on our example house.
Yes. The lumber is ordered in stock lengths, with the cutting drop and 5% waste on top.
Whatever your plans call for. Our example house is trussed, with 41 jack rafters where no truss reaches.
A concrete slab gets no floor framing. Our example house's garage is a 1,134 sf slab, so the takeoff frames the walls that stand on it, with treated bottom plates and anchor bolts, and leaves the slab to the concrete contractor.
No. It's an estimate built from your plans. Plans don't show field changes: walls moved on site, extra blocking, or framing an engineer or inspector asks for. 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.
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.
Add another trade to the same order, or take the whole house.
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