Insulation estimating software that measures every assembly by R-value.
Upload the plans and get an insulation estimate in minutes — wall, attic, and floor areas measured by assembly and R-value, priced in your numbers.
Measuring wall, attic, and floor areas separately by assembly and matching R-values off the plans is slow, and a wrong area or missed assembly means a bid that can't cover the material.
Why insulation contractors switch to EstimateBy
Everything you need to bid faster and more accurately — and stop paying for the parts you can automate.
Every wall, attic, and floor assembly 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 insulation estimator runs $65,000–$95,000 a year. A takeoff service charges $150–$500 per plan set and takes days. EstimateBy does the same area takeoff in minutes for a flat monthly price — no salary, no per-plan invoice, no waiting.
The tedious part — counting area 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 insulation estimate, start to finish.
Every line pulled off the plans and priced — this is what lands in your dashboard, ready to review and send.
Representative insulation takeoff. Every count and measurement comes straight off the plans.
What the insulation takeoff pulls off your plans
EstimateBy reads your insulation plan set sheet by sheet and takes off wall batts (R-21), attic blown-in (R-49), floor batts (R-30) by the square foot per assembly, plus air sealing at the rim joist and penetrations. 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 insulation bid that used to take hours is done in minutes, and it's right.
Insulation estimating — questions
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 insulated-area 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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