Framing estimating software that measures the whole structure in minutes.
Upload the structural set and get a framing estimate back fast — wall linear footage, floor and roof square footage, sheathing, headers, and hardware, priced in your numbers.
A framing takeoff means tracing every wall, tallying plates and studs, and measuring floor, roof, and sheathing across sheet after sheet. It's a full day of quantity survey — and lumber prices move, so a slow bid is a stale bid.
Why framing contractors switch to EstimateBy
Everything you need to bid faster and more accurately — and stop paying for the parts you can automate.
Every wall, floor, and roof area is read straight off the plans, sheet by sheet, against the legend on each page. No skimming, no "close enough" — the count that leaves your desk is the count that's on the drawings.
A full-time framing estimator runs $65,000–$95,000 a year. A takeoff service charges $150–$500 per plan set and takes days. EstimateBy does the same member takeoff in minutes for a flat monthly price — no salary, no per-plan invoice, no waiting.
The tedious part — counting member and pricing every line — is the part that eats your evenings and weekends. Drop the PDF, get a priced estimate back before your coffee's cold, and spend that time bidding more work or actually resting.
Load your own price book once and every takeoff comes back in your material and labor rates with your markup and margin baked in — never generic regional averages that leave money on the table or price you out of the job.
Send a branded proposal in one click, and EstimateBy follows up automatically until the customer views and accepts it online. The estimate that used to sit in your sent folder now closes itself.
Push every completed estimate into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks or 6,000+ apps via webhook — automatically, the moment it's done. No re-keying line items into another system.
A real framing estimate, start to finish.
Every line pulled off the plans and priced — this is what lands in your dashboard, ready to review and send.
Actual line items from a real framing takeoff — exact counts and measurements, done in about 90 seconds.
What the framing takeoff pulls off your plans
EstimateBy reads your framing plan set sheet by sheet and takes off exterior (2x6) and interior (2x4) wall framing by linear foot, floor joists and rim, roof trusses and rafters, subfloor and roof and wall sheathing (OSB) by square foot, LVL/glulam headers and beams, posts and columns, and framing hardware. It uses the legend and schedule on each page, measures every area to the square foot, and prices the whole estimate in your own catalog — so a framing bid that used to take hours is done in minutes, and it's right.
Framing estimating — questions
Yes — it measures 2x6 exterior and 2x4 interior wall framing as separate linear-foot lines, plus floor, roof, and wall sheathing by the square foot, so each assembly prices at its own rate.
It counts and measures directly from the plan sheets using each page's legend and schedule — not a rough guess. On real plan sets it matches a careful hand takeoff, and you review and adjust every line before anything goes to a customer, so you're always in control of the final number.
No. EstimateBy does the lumber and sheathing takeoff and pricing that you'd otherwise pay a salaried estimator or a $150–$500-per-set service to do — for a flat monthly subscription, in minutes instead of days.
Yes. Add your material costs, labor rates, and markup once in your price book and every estimate comes back in your exact numbers with your margin applied.
Yes — completed estimates push automatically into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, and thousands of other tools through webhooks and Zapier, so you're not double-entering anything.
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