What a proper quantity takeoff catches that a quick measure off the plan misses

A quick measure off a plan, a rough scale-up of the obvious elements, feels like enough when time's short. What it misses is usually smaller than the big-ticket items, and adds up to real money by the time the job's on site.

The small quantities that don't look worth measuring

Trims, fixings, sundries, small runs of material that individually look too minor to bother measuring properly. Add several of them up across a job and the total is far from trivial.

The work between trades nobody clearly owns

Making good after another trade, builder's work in connection with services, these fall between clean categories and are exactly what a quick measure skips over because they're awkward to allocate.

A proper takeoff measures all of it, in order

Working through the drawings to NRM2, element by element, means these items get measured rather than assumed, because the method doesn't allow for skipping the awkward bits.

Send your drawings and we'll take off the whole job properly, nothing skipped. See a sample estimate to see the level of detail.

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