Landscape and irrigation takeoff from your plan PDF

What it reads off the drawings

• Plant and material schedules, and the tags and symbols on the planting plan.
• Irrigation schedules, valve schedules and valve tags, and the symbols and pipe linework on the irrigation plan.
• Tree inventory or removal charts and the removal marks on the plan.
• Printed areas and depths: total landscape area, drip area, mulch depth and topsoil depth.
• Schedules pasted in as images or scanned, not only typed text.

What you get back

A list of lines. Each line has the item, the quantity and unit, the count on each sheet, and where on the sheet it was found. A Check these list comes with it: where the readings disagreed, what was not found on the plans, and what a price assumes.

Confirm a line and it is priced, with local material prices where your area has them and the source and date on each price. Add your own labor rates, then export Excel for you and a clean PDF for the customer.

• Plantingeach

  Trees (with one staking kit per tree), shrubs, massed shrubs, grasses and ground covers

• Areassquare feet

  Sod, seed and surfacing like decomposed granite or gravel

• Mulch and topsoilcubic yards

  From the printed areas and depths. Mulch comes as a low to high range

• Existing treeseach

  Trees to remove and trees to protect

• Irrigationeach

  Heads, rotors, sprays and bubblers, valves, controller, backflow, sensors, meter, and one valve box per valve

• Irrigation pipelinear feet

  Pipe, dripline and sleeves, plus a fittings allowance carried on the pipe

• Edginglinear feet

  From the schedule, or measured from the plan when only the line style is given

Sample output

What you check

There is no published accuracy figure for landscape and irrigation takeoff yet. Every line comes to you open for review, and nothing is priced until you confirm it.

• Check where a schedule quantity and the plan tags or symbols disagree. Those lines are flagged.
• Confirm the stated defaults: one staking kit per tree, one valve box per valve, the fittings allowance, and the waste on sod, pipe and edging.
• Pick a mulch quantity inside the range given.

What it does not do

• Control wire, drip fittings, air relief and flush valves and thrust blocks are not drawn as quantities. They ride the fittings allowance or you price them on site.
• Fine grading and soil amendment are not taken off.
• Tree removal and protection are counted but not priced. Plants a store does not carry are priced from a regional estimate and marked Estimate.