Plumbing estimating software that counts every fixture and foot of pipe.
Upload your plumbing plans and get a priced estimate in minutes — fixtures counted, supply, DWV, and gas runs measured, all in your rates.
Miss one shower valve or under-measure the DWV and the whole bid is underwater before the first pipe is glued. Rough-in counts and pipe runs are slow to tally by hand and easy to get wrong across a multi-bath set.
Why plumbing contractors switch to EstimateBy
Everything you need to bid faster and more accurately — and stop paying for the parts you can automate.
Every fixture and pipe run 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 plumbing estimator runs $65,000–$95,000 a year. A takeoff service charges $150–$500 per plan set and takes days. EstimateBy does the same fixture takeoff in minutes for a flat monthly price — no salary, no per-plan invoice, no waiting.
The tedious part — counting fixture 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 plumbing 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 plumbing takeoff — exact counts and measurements, done in about 90 seconds.
What the plumbing takeoff pulls off your plans
EstimateBy reads your plumbing plan set sheet by sheet and takes off toilets, lavatories, kitchen sinks, tub/shower combos, shower pans and valves, water heaters, washer boxes, floor drains, hose bibs, dishwasher connections, plus supply (PEX/copper), DWV, sewer lateral, and gas piping by the linear foot. It uses the legend and schedule on each page, counts every symbol, and prices the whole estimate in your own catalog — so a plumbing bid that used to take hours is done in minutes, and it's right.
Plumbing estimating — questions
Both — it counts every fixture and rough-in and measures supply, DWV, sewer, and gas runs by the linear foot off the plans, so material and labor are priced against real lengths.
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 fixture and pipe 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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