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Review summary: Bart needed shop drawings on a tight schedule. The team discussed the project the same day, delivered drawings within a week, and completed minor revisions the following day. He praised their understanding of the scope, quick responses and progress updates.
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Division 06 rough and finish carpentry
BidAccurate provides carpentry estimating services for framing subs, finish carpenters, general contractors, homebuilders, and lumber suppliers across the US. We work from your structural and architectural sets and send back a carpentry takeoff, or a full cost estimate if you want one.
Most misses in a carpentry bid are in rough work that isn't drawn on the floor plan: fire blocking at soffits, backing behind wall-hung fixtures, squash blocks under point loads. We pull those from the details and wall types. Finish trim, stairs, and wood doors get their own lines. Cabinets and other shop-built millwork stay out unless you ask us to carry them.
The list below is what we can carry. What we actually carry depends on your drawings, the bid form, and who's responsible for what. If siding or drywall belongs to another sub on this job, we leave it out and note it.
We read the framing plans against the sections and structural notes, so each member keeps its size, grade, spacing, and location in the takeoff.
Sheet goods get split by thickness, rating, and treatment. A 7/16-inch OSB wall and a 3/4-inch tongue-and-groove subfloor don't belong on the same line.
Trim is measured by profile and material, room by room. You get a buy list and an install count from the same numbers.
Wood doors come off the door schedule and get checked against the plans. Stairs are broken into parts.
On a priced estimate, labor hangs off the quantities: layout, cutting, standing walls, nailing off sheathing, running trim. Exclusions are written out.
Units match how the lumber yard sells it and how your crew puts it in.
Send the plans, specs, addenda, and bid date, along with any lumber quotes or labor rates you already have. We'll look through the set and confirm what we'll take off, how we'll break it out, and when you'll have it.
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Framing plans, wall types, elevations, and finish schedules get read in the same pass. Backing behind a vanity doesn't fall in the gap between the framer and the trim carpenter.
Your estimator starts with member counts, lumber lengths, and trim LF already on the sheet. Bid week goes to calling the yard and checking the number.
Material is broken out by size, grade, and treatment. PT sill plate, SPF studs, and LVL headers are separate lines.
We look for what usually gets left off a carpentry bid: blocking, hangers, adhesive, trim returns, scaffold, and floor protection.
Each line points back to a sheet. The colored markups show what we measured, and the notes list what we assumed or left out.
Send your lumber pricing, crew rates, waste factor, and cost codes. We'll build the estimate on them instead of ours.
A framing bid and a trim bid can come off the same set and still miss each other. We keep rough carpentry, finish carpentry, millwork, and the trades next to them on separate lines, so you can see where your scope stops.
Framing plans, structural details, and any shear wall schedule get checked against the architectural walls, sections, and addenda before we count a stud.
A 2x6 wall at 16 inches on center and a 2x4 wall at 24 are different lines. So are treated and untreated plates.
Framing, sheathing, and trim install are separate activities when we price labor. Change a production rate and the total follows.
Marked plans, sheet references, exclusions, and open questions come with every takeoff.
We can sort by building, floor, wall type, room, or your own cost codes, in Excel or PDF.
Send the revised sheets. We update the framing, sheathing, and trim that changed under a revision scope we agree on first.
Here's how a carpentry estimate gets from your inbox to a finished package.
Architectural and structural sets, specs, addenda, the bid form, and your deadline. Lumber quotes and labor rates help if you want pricing.
Rough only, finish only, or both? We also settle where millwork, siding, and doors stop and how you want waste carried.
Studs, joists, and trusses are counted. Plates, blocking, and trim are run in LF, and sheathing goes by SF or sheet.
If you asked for an estimate, we apply your material prices, crew production, freight, and markups to the quantities.
Sections, details, and schedules get cross-checked. Conflicts and assumptions go in the log.
You get Excel or PDF reports, colored plan markups, and a short scope note.
Send the set and tell us what you need: rough carpentry, finish carpentry, quantities only, or a priced estimate.
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What you get back
Use the takeoff to get lumber and hardware quotes, build crew pricing, check sub coverage, or load quantities into your own estimating software. It's an estimating document. It doesn't replace structural engineering, shop drawings, or field measurements.
Framing members, lumber lengths, sheet counts, and trim LF, grouped by floor, wall type, or however your bid form is set up.
Material, crew labor, equipment, and delivery priced from the inputs we agreed on, plus indirects if you asked for them.
Marked framing and architectural sheets showing every wall, floor, roof plane, and trim run we measured.
Sheet references, exclusions, the waste basis, and questions you may want to send to the architect as RFIs.
Need more than carpentry? These cover the rest of the job, or the cabinets and casework that sit next to your trim.
Carpentry quantities only, with marked-up plans, for the yard or your own pricing.
Your carpentry folded into a full job estimate with the other trades, general conditions, and markups.
Cabinets, casework, and other shop-built woodwork priced as their own package.
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