Build Estimate is your reliable provider of accurate and efficient Plumbing Estimating Services targeting General Contractors, Piping, and Plumbing Mechanical Insulation Services to Designers spread across the North American region, Australian Islands, and Africa in line with the Caribbean.

With 15 years of practical knowledge, Build Estimate knows our clients’ unique challenges. Our first aim is to provide reliable and prompt timely estimates so that our customers can make competitive bids. The estimator team of our firm has extensive knowledge of plumbing systems, materials, labor rates, specifications, and parameters that affect costs.

With modern takeoff software for on-screen assessments and including current zip code-based pricing through RSMeans, our cost database, this company is paramount in ensuring accuracy with every estimate.

As plumbers do not necessarily find themselves with the time or knowledge required to carefully study plans and drawings, our estimators are happy to go beyond. In the working environment, we spend more time processing management plans to correct them if needed and ensuring that proposed solutions are possible.

With a proven reputation for delivering outstanding plumbing estimating services in both Private and Government Residential, Commercial, Industrial, and Healthcare Institutional sectors as well as site utility projects, whether large-scale commercial ventures or smaller residential-based projects.

Range of Plumbing Estimating Services

Our plumbing estimating services include large commercial projects and smaller residential applications. We provide knowledge to private and government residential, commercial, industrial, health care, institutional, and site utility projects. The services we offer include:

• Material Takeoffs
• Budget Estimates
• Conceptual Estimates
• Detailed Design Development Estimates
• Bid Estimates
• Bid Reviews

• Bidding Assistance
• Unbiased Third-Party Estimate
• Procurement & Change Orders
• Project Cost Management
• Subcontractor Marketing
• Plumbing Project Lead Generation

Our Deliverables

At Build Estimate, our commitment to the success of your construction project goes beyond mere estimations. Our portfolio includes detailed and easy-to-use products that help streamline and improve your construction projects. Let’s explore the array of services that set us apart:

User-Friendly Excel Spreadsheets: We offer user-friendly Excel spreadsheets for your convenience, which you can easily check and edit to easily manage project specifics. We want to simplify it so your team can work together effectively.

Pipe, Fitting, Fixture, & Equipment Counts: Obtain a detailed account of the elements that make up your project with counts for pipes, fittings, fixtures, and equipment. It disintegrates as the basis for appropriate planning and allocation of resources.

Material Types and Quantities: Include the construction materials and numbers you used. This level of detail provides for specific material control and purchasing strategies.

Detailed Material Takeoffs: This is evident in the accuracy of our material takeoffs. We carefully measure materials to ensure nothing is missed. This accuracy helps in the estimation and cost management of projects.

Material & Labor Costs: Understand the finances associated with your project through comprehensive knowledge of both material and labor costs. This data is valuable for budgeting and financial planning because it enables you to make well-informed choices.

Labor Hours: With a detailed labor hours breakdown disclosed, you get an accurate account of the labor force needed for your project. This information lets you plan time more effectively and manage appropriate project timelines.

Color-Coded Marked-Up Plans: You can visualize your project without hassle using our color-coded marked-up plans. This depiction helps you understand, making communicating and working with your team easier.

Comprehensive Reports: We are dedicated to transparency and provide detailed reports on the different aspects of your project. These reports include labor hours, taxes, overheads, profit percentages, and other miscellaneous costs. This holistic picture helps to make reasoned decisions at all stages of the project life cycle.

Construction project management requires clearance and precision, which we at Build an Estimate pay attention to. Our deliverables are designed to be user-friendly and provide you with both clear intelligence and steps through which it can apply them. While utilizing our easy-to-use Excel spreadsheets or reviewing colored and highlighted marked plans, we aim to provide you with the necessary information for better project performance.

What We Quantify in Plumbing Takeoffs

We use state-of-the-art technology within Build Estimate because of our up-to-date software, such as Planswift, FastPIPE, FastDUCT, FastWRAP AccuBID, and Trimble for careful plumbing takes. We do more than just the normal procedures, delivering a cost analysis that considers standard conditions and hidden costs as well as typical floors and non-typical ones.

Our plumbing takeoffs go beyond the basics, quantifying an extensive array of elements:

• Cold water pipes
• Hot water pipes
• Vent pipes
• Gas pipes
• Sanitary pipes
• Underground pipes
• Elbow, wye, reducers, and tees – pipe fittings.
• Pipe concealment

• Insulations
• Valves
• Hangers
• Struts
• Supports
• Equipment (water heaters, boilers, pumps)
• Drains (floor drains, roof drains)
• Cleanouts (floor cleanouts, wall cleanouts)

The categories of plumbing fixtures such as toilets, sinks, bathtubs and showers

• Faucets
• Strainers

By making sure that every part of the plumbing process is analyzed in detail, we are committed to our meticulous analysis. Build an Estimate is a trust-building tool that aims to provide estimates in the most precise manner possible for your plumbing projects.

Residential Plumbing Estimating

If you are a plumber in the local area or provide a large residential contracting firm, precise estimates are important for client quotes, bids on jobs, and procurement. We specialize in preparing quick and accurate residential plumbing estimates at Build an Estimate.

Our MEP estimators are your teammates; they exist to save you time, meet goals, and set good margins. We do not overlook any analysis detail, including pipes, fittings, taps, and valves, up to unnecessary accessories like toilets, sinks, showers, and faucets.

Our skills range from various residential plumbing responsibilities, including kitchen and bathroom plumbing, water heaters, gas lines, main sewer lines, water lines, floor drains, laundry systems, garbage disposal ducts, domestic HS air conditioning, swimming pool pipes, and surface trench drainage. The Precision and Efficiency of your household plumbing applications will be improved by Developing the Accuracy or Building an Estimate.

Commercial Plumbing Estimating

With specialized commercial plumbing estimating services from Build Estimate, enter a world of efficiency and accuracy in no time. Our capable team, which addresses the challenges of commercial plumbing projects, describes elements such as pipes, fittings, fixtures, valves, and accessories on several floors.

Our promise to honesty and accuracy encompasses offering current pricing for material, labor, and equipment as specifics at the level of location. It guarantees the smooth implementation of a project without unnecessary surprises, giving you room to operate within your budget.

From complete material takeoffs to bid estimates and third-party evaluations, we provide comprehensive solutions that suit your business needs. Our extensive expertise extends from estimating plumbing systems appropriate for environments such as office buildings, shopping malls, apartment complexes, hospitals, and schools.

Build an Estimate empowers commercial plumbing customers to receive accurate estimates and timely billing services. Our offer comprises various plumbing systems, such as solar hot water heating, sewer lines, gas or waterlines, Commercial HVAC systems, water heaters, drainage, etc.

Industrial Plumbing Estimating

Certified Expertise: Our MEP estimators are certified to offer specialized industrial plumbing projects requiring a complex focus on pipes, fittings, fixtures, valves, and equipment.

Diverse Experience: Take advantage of our expertise in chemical processing, refineries, power plants, and beyond. Our estimates cover a wide range, ranging from industrial gas through steam and condensate to compressed air and utility piping.

Comprehensive Coverage: Our meticulous estimates cover all areas, from hot and chilled water systems to sewers, wastewater, and beyond, including what your project requires for industrial plumbing.

Trusted Partner: Build an Estimate is a reliable ally and provides top-quality industry plumbing estimates that are the epitome of accuracy.

HVAC Piping & Ductwork Estimating

Seamless Solutions: Navigate HVAC projects easily with our user-friendly estimating solutions to fit your requirements.

Project Versatility: From residential projects to commercial ones, no matter how big or complicated they are, our specialist team does them all precisely.

Detailed Quantification: We will rely on you to thoroughly quantify ducts, pipes, grills, fittings, dampers, HVAC equipment, and accessories.

Cost Transparency: Our cost evaluations, including sheet metal pounds, line and square feet, and labor hours, provide increased transparency by revealing all hidden costs.

Expertise in Action: Build an Estimate proficient in ductwork fabrication, HVAC system installations, ventilation, and other features. We are your reliable partner for efficient and wholesome estimating services.

Site Utilities Plumbing Estimating

Specialized Focus: However, our proficiencies are measured in estimating site utility plumbing through its variety, such as stormwater drainage and recycled water systems.

Quantification Mastery: Our estimators scrupulously calculate all items ranging from grease traps to fire lines, allowing for accurate estimates of precast water vaults,double detector check valves, wet tapping, or road boring are also well-estimated precisely. It does not come under the hatches on its remodeling and celebrates its upgrades intermingled cultural refining arch beneath long lopsided.

Project Success: Build an Estimate remains the leading partner for site utilities plumbing estimates and contributes to your project success through accuracy and detail-focus.

Fire Protection Plumbing Estimating

Safety Assurance: Secure your spaces with Build an Estimate’s fire protection plumbing estimating services.

Meticulous Quantification: Our estimators carefully measure everything, including fire and jockey pump setup installation of wet and dry sprinkler systems down to standpipe systems.

Comprehensive Coverage: Finally, in the field of fire protection water storage tanks, underground pipe mains for standpipe systems, VESDA and gaseous detector headers, Barricade nets, wire mesh liners & antifreeze piping are safety options designed, they benefit from our detailed estimates.

Precision Priority: Safety and precision are our primary concerns, so we offer reliable fire protection plumbing estimates.

Why Choose Build Estimate?

Affordable Rates: Competitive pricing for plumbing estimates.

Quick Turnaround: Get estimates within 24 to 48 hours.

Detailed Descriptions: Detailed cost estimates.

Accurate Database: Use an accurate construction cost database.

Guaranteed Confidentiality: Our guarantees encompass the details of your project.

24/7 Support: Enjoy 24/7 live chat and email support.

Save Time, Stay Competitive: Streamline your process, bid higher, and get more bids.

Our Approach to Plumbing Estimating

In Build Estimate, the MEP estimators go through a rigorous process. We analyze project scope and plans, using plumbing takeoff software to get exact material and labor costs. Quantities are exported to planned Excel spreadsheets in line with MasterFormat, Uniformat, or personalized arrangements. Material pricing includes current, location-specific prices from our database, RSMeans, and vendor pricing on demand. The labor costs are reflected by the union and prevailing wages, including standard overtime hours. We incorporate specifics such as general situation, permits, logistics location, and hidden costs. The senior estimators check the deliverables to ensure high-quality results.