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Cement plaster and EIFS
BidAccurate provides stucco estimating services for plastering subcontractors, general contractors, suppliers, and homebuilders across the US. Most of the work is reading elevations and wall sections, then turning them into square feet of plaster and linear feet of trim, sorted the way you buy and build it.
Plenty of stucco jobs mix systems. One building might have three-coat over wood framing upstairs, direct-applied plaster on CMU at grade, and EIFS bands at the parapet. We keep each one separate. Sheathing, flashing, sealants, and paint often belong to someone else, so we mark who carries them before anything gets counted twice.
Which of these apply depends on your drawings and on where your contract stops. WRB, flashing, and paint are the usual gray areas, so we settle them first.
Sorted by substrate and coat count. Plaster over framing, plaster direct to CMU, and one-coat systems each get their own line.
We count these layers only if your contract carries them. If the framer installs the WRB, we leave it out and say so in the notes.
EIFS is a proprietary system with its own layers. We take it off separately from cement plaster and follow the specified product.
Trim and joints are LF items, and a busy elevation has a lot of them. A blended wall rate hides that cost.
For a priced estimate, labor is tied to the task and the access. A three-story wall worked off scaffold doesn't produce like a one-story wall worked from the ground.
Units follow how you order and install. Work that touches other trades is marked as included, excluded, or carried as an allowance.
Send the current plans, specs, and addenda with your bid date, plus any supplier quotes or labor rates you have. We'll confirm what we'll measure and how the report will be laid out.
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We read plans, elevations, sections, and specs together, so every coat, lath type, foam layer, and finish lands on the right system.
We measure the elevations. Your team works on supplier pricing and the final number.
Quantities break out by system, coat, product, texture, and color. When two suppliers quote the same list, you can compare their numbers line for line.
Window returns, parapets, soffits, foam bands, and screeds all get counted. On an elevation with lots of detail, those lines move the bid.
Each measured wall is shaded on the PDF with its sheet reference. Inclusions, exclusions, and assumptions are written down next to it.
Give us manufacturer quotes, crew production, and labor rates and we'll use them, along with your cost codes and bid template.
On a stucco bid the hard questions are at the edges: where the plaster stops, who flashes the windows, whether that foam band is EIFS or plaster. We write the answers into the estimate.
Elevations show the area. Sections and details show what sits behind it. We work from both, along with the finish schedule and specs.
Each system has different layers and is bought differently, so each keeps its own line.
Arches, columns, curved walls, foam shapes, and finish changes are tied back to the sheet they came from.
When we price labor, we list coat sequence, texture, wall height, access, and curing. You can change any of them.
Excel and PDF by building, elevation, system, bid item, or cost code. Or send your template and we'll fill it in.
When revised elevations come in, we update the affected walls, accessories, and costs under the revision scope we agree on.
How a stucco job moves through our team, from your first upload to the package you bid from.
Plans, elevations, sections, details, finish schedule, specs, and addenda. Add the bid form, location, due date, and any pricing you already have.
We settle which systems you carry, whether lath and WRB are yours, and what's excluded, then agree on the report layout.
Wall and soffit SF by system and location comes first. Then LF of screeds, beads, and joints, then openings and penetrations.
On a priced estimate, we apply your material pricing, crew production, labor rates, scaffold, and protection costs.
We check the takeoff against sections, details, and specs. Gaps and conflicts go on the assumption log.
Excel or PDF reports, color-coded elevations, and scope notes, set up for bidding or buying.
Tell us what you carry (plaster, EIFS, lath, foam, accessories) and whether you want quantities only or a priced estimate.
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Stucco deliverables
Use the package to get plaster, lath, foam, and EIFS quotes, build your labor number, check sub coverage, or track addenda. It is an estimating tool. Design documents, code and manufacturer requirements, field verification, and your means and methods still govern the work.
SF of plaster, lath, foam, and mesh, plus LF of trim and joints, grouped by system and elevation.
Crew labor, scaffold, protection, freight, and markup priced from the basis we agreed with you.
Every wall, soffit, and opening we measured is shaded on the PDF so you can check our areas.
Trade boundaries, alternates, finish selections, waste assumptions, and the open questions we found in the drawings.
Stucco borders other scopes. These services cover the takeoff on its own, a full project estimate, or the masonry behind and beside the plaster.
Stucco quantities and marked-up drawings you can price yourself.
Stucco rolled into a full project estimate alongside the other trades.
CMU and veneer takeoffs for jobs where block is the plaster substrate or brick meets stucco on the same wall.
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